Conflict sensitivity/Do No Harm (DNH) through an everyday peace lens

Analysing a Rohingya-Rakhine program in Myanmar

Bibliographic Data

ID3885604
AuthorsAnthony Ware (0000-0002-3203-5908, Deakin University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume33
Issue5
Pages548-559
Publication date2023-07-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopment in Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09614524.2023.2170330
OpenAlexW4318946835
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited23

This paper examines conflict-sensitivity/DNH through the lens of everyday peace. It draws on data from a local non-government organisation program working on development and peacebuilding between Rohingya Muslim and Rakhine Buddhist communities in Rakhine State, Myanmar. That program is framed around the everyday peace concept, the social practices commonly adopted by ordinary people as they seek to get on with daily life in ways that minimise risk, and perhaps work to deepen inter-communal relationships. Everyday peace thus has obvious overlaps with the DNH concept of “local capacities for peace” (LCPs). This paper analyses this program to make several contributions to the understanding of conflict-sensitivity from this framework, including expanded conceptions of LCPs and new warnings of potential harm inherent in what are often perceived as LCPs, unless power imbalances are concurrently addressed. These findings aim to improve conflict-sensitivity/DNH practice

Buddhism · Development economics · Economics · Environmental ethics · Everyday life · Harm · Peacebuilding · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Cambodian History and Society · History · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security

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