The Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus and Conflict Sensitivity

Practitioners working in fragile and conflict-affected contexts increasingly recognise that humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding interventions can unintentionally reinforce conflict dynamics if they are not, as a minimum requirement, designed and implemented to Do No Harm, applying a conflict-sensitive lens. At the same time, within the HDP Nexus approach, collaboration across the 3 pillars and sectors requires navigating different mandates and operational approaches, while also asking how interventions can Do More Good: by strengthening exisiting or potential local capacities to address underlying drivers of conflict and long-standing grievances, strengthening social cohesion, improving trust between individuals, populations, communities and institutions, and contributing to pathways towards sustainable peace.

This course addresses this gap by introducing a dual lens:

- Working IN conflict: applying conflict sensitivity and Do No Harm to ensure interventions do not exacerbate tensions, exclusion, or conflict dynamics.
- Working ON conflict: moving beyond Do No Harm toward Do More Good by identifying practical entry points for adapting humanitarian and development action, and collaboration along each of the Nexus pillars.

Participants will gain hands-on, practical tools to analyse conflict dynamics, strengthen programme design, and identify Nexus-supportive collaboration opportunities in their own contexts that reinforce resilience, social cohesion, as well as sustainable outcomes. Furthermore, they will critically reflect on how mandates, positionality and power dynamics shape project decisions, collaboration and understandings of peace.

By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

- understand the mandates, rationales and operational approaches in the HDP Nexus and how humanitarian, development, and peace actors each can contribute to sustainable peace.
- conduct the basic elements of a conflict and peace analysis and reflect on considerations for a joined-up and collaborative analysis and planning process;
- apply a conflict-sensitive Do-No-Harm lens to programme design and planning, monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) processes, identifying risks that may reinforce conflict dynamics and adapting interventions toward peace-responsive, socially cohesive goals that contribute to collective outcomes;
- identify practical entry points for Nexus-supportive collaboration across humanitarian, development, and peace actors and for strengthening the peace dimension within the Nexus.

The training is designed for:

- Practitioners working in humanitarian, development, or peacebuilding contexts
- Programme managers, advisors, and technical specialists
- Staff working in fragile and conflict-affected settings
- Individuals seeking to strengthen their ability to integrate conflict sensitivity and peace-responsive approaches into their work

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