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Title: Conflict Prevention and UNDG


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Conflict Prevention and UNDG
  • TOT 2006
  • Conflict sensitive development

2
Development and Conflict
  • Violent conflict erodes development gains
  • Development may help prevent the emergence or
    recurrence of violent conflict
  • Development may inadvertently contribute
  • to reinforce or exacerbate conflict dynamics

3
Development and conflict (ctd)
  • Conflict and its management are an inextricable
    part of the development process
  • Not about preventing conflict per se, but the
    emergence/recurrence of violent conflict
  • Applicable to all stages of conflict including
    in terms of the prevention of the recurrence of
    violent conflict in post-conflict situations
  • E.g. 50 of countries will relapse into violence
    within 10 years of emerging from conflict.

4
Conflict Prevention UN
  • Need for a comprehensive approach encompassing
    short-term and long-term political, diplomatic,
    humanitarian, human rights, developmental,
    institutional and other measures to address
    prevention
  • Conflict prevention must have national
    ownership. The primary responsibility for
    conflict prevention rests with national
    Governments, with civil society playing an
    important role.
  • Development work should be viewed through a
    conflict prevention lens (untapped potential).
    Long-term prevention addressing the structural
    causes of conflict is a key focus of this work.
  • Clear need for introducing a conflict prevention
    element into the United Nations systems
    multifaceted development programmes and
    activities so that they contribute to the
    prevention of conflict by design and not by
    default.
  • Brahimi Report (00) UN Security Council
    Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security
    (00) SG Report on the prevention of armed
    conflict (01) UNDP Executive Board Paper on CPC
    (01) GA Resolution on the prevention of armed
    conflict (03) RR Global Meeting Conclusions
    (03) High level Panel on Threats, Challenges and
    Change (04), SG Report on Larger Freedom (05)
    Summit Outcome Document (05)

5
Conflict Prevention UNDG
  • Increasing priority within UNDG
  • Inter-Agency Framework to integrate Conflict
    Prevention into CCA/UNDAF (Nov. 2004)
  • Turin Lessons Learned Workshop in May 2005 with
    13 countries represented
  • HLPR and UN Reform in Peacebuilding
  • PCNAs
  • 2006 Work Programme

6
UNDG Added Value
  • Long-term presence on the ground (before, during
    and after crisis)
  • An historical perspective in-depth
    understanding of contexts
  • A long-term relationship with national actors
  • Highly compatible with agency mandates
  • RC function, Coordination of the UN system,
    integration with peace-keeping.
  • International partners

7
Conflict Prevention
Strengthening mechanisms processes, as well as
the capacity of actors and institutions, for
constructive conflict management.
Addressing the causes of violent conflict (in
particular, structural factors) through
development strategy and programming.
8
Conflict sensitive programming
  • A way to think differently about the work we do
    based on an awareness of the linkages between
    conflict and development
  • High levels of ownership and participation
  • A framework to inform decisions at the strategic
    and program levels and to provide integrated
    safeguards against unintentional harm
  • An approach to systematically support the design,
    and implementation of development frameworks and
    programs, in order to ensure that the potential
    for violent conflict is not exacerbated, and that
    increasingly development actively contributes to
    conflict prevention and peace-building
  • Conflict analysis, or a good understanding of the
    context in which specific development
    interventions are situated, is the foundation of
    conflict sensitive approaches.

9
  • Conflict analysis a key element to
    integrate a conflict prevention lens into
    development planning frameworks and programming
  • Common Inter-Agency Framework for Conflict
    Analysis in Transition

10
Key Characteristics
  • To shift the attention away from agency mandate
    and programmatic area and to focus on the context
    as the entry point for the design and
    implementation of responses
  • To help deconstruct complex and dynamic
    realities
  • To develop a common diagnostic (e.g. UNCT,
    government, local actors, donors, etc) and
    platform for an integrated and coherent approach.

11
Background to the tool
  • CDA Pilot phase (October 2001- end of 2002)
    assessing how appropriate conflict analysis may
    be in supporting more effective development
    strategies and programming for UNDP Country
    Offices
  • Initial strategic conflict assessments
    (Guatemala, Nepal, Nigeria, Tajikistan and
    Guinea-Bissau)
  • Testing phase (2003) CPR practice workshops in
    Sarajevo/Manila workshops in New York and
    Geneva, with UNDP staff and Framework Team
    members
  • Further applications of the CDA for 2004/05 at
    the request of UNDP country offices Indonesia,
    Solomon Islands, Bougainville/PNG, West Africa,
    North Caucasus, Fiji, Syria, Colombia, Burundi,
    etc.

12
Framework
  • Analysis of Conflict
  • Survey of Causes
  • Actor Analysis
  • Capacities for Peace Analysis
  • Dynamics/
  • Scenarios
  • Analysis of
  • Ongoing Responses
  • Mapping of current responses
  • Development and conflict working in/on/around
    conflict
  • Development and formal peace processes
  • Identification of
  • Ways Forward
  • Strategic conclusions
  • Implications for policy, programming, and
    advocacy strategies

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Causes of Conflict
ICEBERG
  • Proximate Causes
  • Factors likely to contribute to a climate
    conducive to violent conflict or its further
    escalation, sometimes the manifestations of
    deeper issues or issues emerging as a consequence
    or legacy of crisis.
  • Structural Causes
  • Pervasive and long standing factors that become
    built into the policies, structures and culture
    of a society and may create the preconditions for
    violent conflict.

14
Actors and Capacities for Peace
  • Actors
  • Individuals, groups and institutions engaged in,
    as well as being affected by conflict.
  • Capacities for Peace
  • Structures, mechanisms, processes and
    institutions that exist in society in order to
    peacefully and constructively manage conflict

15
Matrix of Conflict Causes
16
Actor Capacity for Peace Analysis
17
Entry Points
  • Consensus building on conflict prevention within
    UNCT Yemen, Burundi
  • NHDR Colombia, Burundi (ongoing) HDRO Draft
    Guidance note on the integration of conflict
    prevention into NHDR
  • Joint Strategy Development Nigeria Solomon
    Islands Fiji (ongoing)
  • Post-conflict Needs assessment Sudan/Somalia
    (forthcoming) WB/UN Guidelines on post conflict
    needs assessment

18
Entry Points
  • CCA/UNDAF Philippines UNDG Guidance note on the
    integration of conflict prevention into CCA/UNDAF
  • PRSP conflict sensitized CCA as the UN
    contribution to the process World Bank project
    PRSP in conflict situations.
  • Country Program Formulation Burundi
  • Program Formulation and/or Review Nepal,
    Bougainville, Indonesia.
  • PKO draw-down/peace consolidation in Sierra Leone

19
Practical Challenges
  • Process vs. Product
  • Adapting and adjusting the conflict analysis
    framework to the contexts in which it is applied
  • Sensitivity of conflict prevention in some
    contexts and how to achieve buy-in for conflict
    analysis process in post-conflict environment
    where conflict is regarded as a phenomenon of the
    past
  • Ensuring strong linkages between analysis and
    planning /programming tools at the design
    stage! Timeliness? Entry Points?
  • Sustained process of conflict analysis not a
    one-off exercise!

20
Practical Challenges
  • Data collection and gathering how to deal with
    perception and bias?
  • Linked to wider sensitisation and capacity
    development efforts on conflict sensitive
    programming (national stakeholders)
  • Getting UNCT commitment and buy-in

21
National ownership
  • Making strategic use of partnerships with key
    actors and institutions on the ground (look for
    champions)
  • Assessing whether immediate entry points for
    conflict prevention can be found at the local
    level, as compared to the national level
  • Building on existing programs and initiatives (UN
    or others) and working with partners who have
    credibility and trust on the ground
  • Using opportunities to expose national
    counterparts to other nationally-led conflict
    prevention programs and strategies
  • Using alternative concepts and language to those
    of conflict prevention, to develop more
    appropriate approaches

22
Next Steps and Resources
  • Disseminate UNDG CP Framework more widely
  • Develop Rosters for UNCT support
  • Develop standard Training Module (end 2005)
  • Expand list-serve
  • UNDG website under Coordination for Transition
  • Ask UNDG/CPC Cluster
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