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Panel:
New Challenges in Linking Peacebuilding and Development
Paper:
Assessing the role of aid in peacebuilding:
From single tools towards a holistic approach to planning,
assessment and evaluation
in areas of violent conflict
Authors: Thania Paffenholz and Luc Reychler
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Paper presented at the 46
th
International Studies Association convention
1-5 March 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Abstract:
This paper presents the newly developed approach “Planning and Assessment (P
&
A) for
conflict zones”. The P&A approach is a multi-purpose and -level approach that facilitates the
planning, assessment and evaluation of peace as well as aid interventions taking place in
situations of latent, manifest violent conflict or in the aftermath of a violent conflict or war.
The essence of the P&A approach is a basic model that focuses on the needs for
peacebuilding in a given country or area, tailors the intervention’s objectives and activities
towards these needs through identifying the peacebuilding relevance and developing peace
and conflict result chains and indicators for monitoring. The basic model provides separate
modules for planning, assessment and evaluation purposes focussing separately on peace and
aid interventions.