Project Outputs

Australia – Canada Consortium on Health and Conflict: Preventing Violence, Recovery and Building the Peace

Health and Peacebuilding Filter

The Filter is designed to provide rapid assessment of peacebuilding and conflict prevention components of health initiatives in conflict-affected societies. The Filter helps to assess the positive contribution being made by a project but also helps identify project limitations with respect to a range of factors, including: cultural sensitivity, conflict sensitivity, social justice, social cohesion and good governance. The Filter provides a framework for considering these issues in relation to project design and delivery and stimulates the user to consider how project activities might be more carefully designed and delivered in conflict-prone settings. It provides a simple format for identifying areas of the project requiring further attention.

Health and Peacebuilding Filter
Health and Peacebuilding Companion Manual
Health and Peacebuilding Pocket Card
Beyond the Logframe: A new tool for examining health and peacebuilding initiatives

Paper set I: Health and Peace-building: Securing the Future

The first issues paper sets the scene for contemplating the relationship between health in prevention, humanitarian crises and development, specifically focusing on the long-term health and social impacts of violence.

Paper set II: The Challenge of Human Resources in Conflict-Prone Situations

The second issues paper discusses the role health workers may play in pre-conflict setting and outlines four key areas in managing and developing human resources in a conflict-prone environment.

Health and Conflict Cube

The Health and Conflict Cube presents a broad 3-dimensional framework for a combined conflict vulnerability analyses and health assessment, providing a context for health planning from a peace-building perspective. The model addresses the multiple dimensions within the health sphere, the various stages within the conflict cycles and the range of actors involved. The Cube is of value in exploring the relationships and influences of each actor, timeframe and influences on health outcomes, as well as identifying the intersection between different aspects of assessment, analysis and proposed interventions The three axes on the Cube are as follows:

Actors: This dimension indicates the need to consider all the actors that might be involved in order to ensure inclusiveness, participation, ownership and cooperation. Tensions often arise or are perpetuated if one or more of these key sectors are excluded.

Timeframe: Countries in states of chronic conflict rarely fall simply into the categories of conflict or post-conflict, with upheavals often being episodic and recurrent and with low-grade conflict still being evident in periods of relative peace. Identification of these phases alerts planners to which elements need to be considered at any one time. Most often, aspects of all four ‘phases’ coexist.

Influences on health outcomes: Health outcomes reflect core health indices and disease patterns within a context of human security, and the broader political, social and economic framework. Environmental factors and availability of resources (including human, social, cultural and material) need to be considered.

Health and Conflict Cube link

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Contact Information

Please direct any enquiries or comments to:

Ms. Anne Bunde-Birouste
Project Coordinator,
Health and Conflict Project
Senior Lecturer,
School of Public Health
and Community Medicine
University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia
T +61 (2) 9385-2591
F +61 (2) 9385-1526
E ab.birouste@unsw.edu.au

Prof. Anthony Zwi
Project Leader,
Health and Conflict Project
Professor & Associate Dean
(International)
School of Public Health
and Community Medicine
University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia
T +61 (2) 9385-2445
F +61 (2) 9313-6185
E a.zwi@unsw.edu.au

This project acknowledges AusAID’s significant financial contribution and expertise.