Workshop Report – Post-conflict seminar, 2007

21/06/2007

In a world too often characterized by armed conflict, environmental crises and potentially destabilizing fragilities, it is essential to better combine the management of these situations, humanitarian assistance and development operations. Faced with this challenge, neither development agencies, humanitarian actors nor political decision-makers can intervene independently of each other, unless they reduce the effectiveness of each other and do not build the necessary synergies. "Developers", "emergency workers" and "politicians" each have specific missions and fields of action, duties and limits. Without denying differences in mandates and cultures, the plurality of agendas and possible differences of opinion, it is essential to better articulate the interventions of each other and promote their complementarities, which implies, first and foremost, a better knowledge of each other.