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International Policy Context for Conflict Sensitive Services and Programming. Why and How Conflict Became a Development Issue -- The changing security and policy environment for development practitioners. “Phase One” – Post Cold War. Post-Cold War conflicts, thus post-conflict reconstruction
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International Policy Context for Conflict Sensitive Services and Programming Why and How Conflict Became a Development Issue -- Thechanging security and policy environment for development practitioners
“Phase One” – Post Cold War • Post-Cold War conflicts, thus post-conflict reconstruction • Rwanda • From reconstruction to peacebuilding and state-building – the full toolbox • From post-conflict to prevention • Early warning systems – e.g., CEWARN, EAWARN • Culture of prevention
Phase Two – Post 9/11 • Afghanistan and “failed states,” “ungoverned areas” • Civil-military relations • “Integrated strategies” around the “3-Ds” • Development as anti-extremism • Africom
Practices, Policies and Processes • “On” versus ”in” or “around” conflicts • Donors give support peace processes • Training and manuals in conflict analysis, “PCIA,” “Do No Harm,” conflict-sensitive M&E, etc. • Conflict units in development agencies • “Whole of government” discourse • Cross-agency mechanisms – S/CRS, UN PBC
Issues Integration of security and development inevitable? But on whose terms: • Securitization of development? • Softer foreign policies? • Implications for local ownership?