The Basics
I describe all activities intended to encourage and promote peaceful relations and overcoming violence, involving long-term processes that seek to positively alter structural contradictions and encourage overall constructive changes in attitudes.
What is Peacebuilding?
I describe a condition in which risks exceed the capacities of states, societies or communities to manage them across several interconnected dimensions.
What is Fragility?
I describe a complex process of constructively changing relationships, attitudes, behaviours, interests and discourses in violence-prone conflict settings.
What is Conflict Transformation?
I require aid actors to make no discrimination as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions while relieving the suffering of individuals, being guided solely by their needs, and giving priority to the most urgent cases of distress.
What is Impartiality?
My immediate purpose is to save lives, alleviate suffering and preserve human dignity in a crisis.
What is Humanitarian Assistance?
I describe a subset of a population whose physical security, basic rights, dignity, living conditions or livelihoods are threatened or have been disrupted, AND whose current level of access to basic services, goods and social protection is inadequate.
Who are People in Need (PiN)?
I describe a situation in which displaced people can exercise their rights without discrimination and no longer have needs specifically linked to displacement.
What is a Durable Solution?
I require that aid actors do not to take sides in hostilities nor engage in controversies of a political, racial, religious or ideological nature.
What is Neutrality?
I am the partnership between countries and other partners to achieve human and economic development objectives.
What is Development Cooperation?
My framework asks aid actors to consider two main types of people in their work: those who can significantly influence a conflict's wider dynamics and those relevant to broader participation in contributing to change.
What is "Key People, More People"?
I denote efforts to ensure the safety, dignity and rights of people affected by crises, including preventing and addressing violence, coercion, abuse and deliberate deprivation.
What is Protection?
I am the central promise of the 2030 Agenda, requiring action against exclusion, discrimination and inequalities that also serves the most vulnerable communities and people.
What is Leave No One Behind?
I link three distinct professional approaches to address immediate needs, structural vulnerabilities and the causes of conflict more coherently.
What is the HDP Nexus?
I am the ability of people to absorb and recover from shocks, whilst positively adapting and transforming their structures and means for living in the face of long-term stresses, change and uncertainty.
What is Resilience?
I am back-and-forth communication designed to reach an agreement between parties that have interests in common and interests that conflict each other. Adding an adjective before my name, my main purpose is to secure access to people in need and facilitate principled action.
What is (Humanitarian) Negotiation?
I distinguish between people entitled to claim rights and those responsible for respecting, protecting and fulfilling them.
What is a Human Rights-based Approach (HRBA)?