Aid for peace

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Armed conflict poses a significant challenge for foreign policy, jeopardizing development and humanitarian efforts. This guidebook serves as a vital resource, offering both conceptual insights and practical support for practitioners and academics. It outlines a planning and evaluation process aimed at enhancing the design of development, humanitarian, and peacebuilding interventions in conflict-prone areas. Drawing on the latest theories and practices in peacebuilding, it introduces the "Aid for Peace" Approach, guiding users through a systematic, step-by-step process. Readers will learn to analyze and anticipate conflict dynamics and peacebuilding needs, plan new interventions, and evaluate existing ones. The book emphasizes mapping interventions and assessing their relevance to peacebuilding, as well as evaluating the impact of these interventions on peace and conflict by clarifying hypotheses of change. Additionally, it encourages integrating conflict and peace perspectives into standard planning and evaluation procedures and organizational structures. By combining strategic and process-oriented approaches, it helps users develop a vision for effective peacebuilding, ultimately contributing to conflict transformation and social change. This resource is designed for a diverse audience, facilitating the creation of suitable policies, projects, or programs for engagement in conflict zones.