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The world-wide increase in intrastate violent conflicts and recent
incidents of genocide and ethnic cleansing caused development policy to
pay more attention to the theme of conflict management. The purpose of
conflict analysis in a developmental policy context is:
- To better understand why there is a conflict (historical
and structural circumstances), and why this conflict is expressed
violently.
- To better understand how stakeholders deal with conflicts.
- To inform the actors concerned how to respond sensitively
to a conflict situation, thereby contributing to reducing or
eliminating the likelihood of violent conflict.
Conflict analysis is a method for developing, in a systematic way, a
multidimensional understanding of the causes and dynamics of conflict,
as well as the opportunities for peace. In addition to the analysis of
root causes, it focuses on the actors and their relationships. It
captures the dynamic character of conflicts by observation from
multiple perspectives, and takes into consideration the past, present
and future. It combines methods from the social sciences, as well as
methods from a systemic development approach.
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