Use Do No Harm / Conflict Sensitivity in a realistic civil-affairs moment.
At 1430, a quick-impact project will hire 40 laborers. The fastest list comes from one neighborhood chief. It would also make every rival neighborhood see the project as captured. Do No Harm and conflict sensitivity ask how assistance interacts with dividers and connectors in a conflict system. The framework works because aid is never neutral in perception: where it is delivered, who controls the list, who gets hired, and what language is used can shift incentives and legitimacy. Civil-affairs teams use it to avoid making a technically successful project politically damaging. Field example: Amina maps dividers and connectors. She changes…
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