Download or read book Conflict Sensitive Approaches to Development - Integrating Humanitarian Assistance, Development and Peacebuilding written by Richard Smith and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An integrated framework for conflict sensitive programming that informs a conflict systems response to crisis and post-crisis contexts. The framework is contained within a graphic model that can be used to assist groups of aid and development workers in conceptualising, planning and monitoring how a value based and principled approach to humanitarian assistance could contribute to longer-term social transformation goals. This paper presents a discussion of the development paradigm that informs this conflict sensitive approach and that places humanitarian assistance, development and peacebuilding processes within a nested systems response towards a long-term social transformation agenda. A brief example of the circumstances within which the framework can be applied in practice adds an additional set of insights into the potential value and use of the tool. Finally the paper critically discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the framework and explores the opportunities and challenges of its application in different contexts.