Conflict sensitive approaches to development, humanitarian assistance and peace building

2.5 Summary

**Box 6: Key questions for conflict analysis**
Profile What is the political, economic, and socio-cultural context? What are emergent political, economic and social issues? What conflict prone/affected areas can be situated within the context? Is there a history of conflict? Causes What are the structural causes of conflict? What issues can be considered as proximate causes of conflict? What triggers could contribute to the outbreak/ further escalation of conflict? What new factors contribute to prolonging conflict dynamics? What factors can contribute to peace? Actors Who are the main actors? What are their interests, goals, positions, capacities and relationships? What capacities for peace can be identified? What actors can be identified as spoilers? Why? Are they inadvertent or intentional spoilers? Dynamics What are current conflict trends? What are windows of opportunity? What scenarios can be developed from the analysis of the conflict profile, causes and actors?