Third Generation PCIA: Introducing the Aid for Peace Approach

This article presents the newly developed Aid for Peace approach. The Aid for Peace approach builds on the debate of “Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment” and presents a further development of this debate. The Aid for Peace approach is a multi-purpose and multi-level process that facilitates the planning, assessment and evaluation of peace as well as aid interventions in situations of latent conflict, manifest violent conflict, or in the aftermath of violent conflict and war. The essence of the Aid for Peace approach is a basic model that focuses on the needs for peacebuilding in a given country or area, tailors the intervention’s objectives and activities to these needs through identifying their peacebuilding relevance and developing peace and conflict resultchains and indicators for monitoring. From the basic model, separate modules have been developed for planning, assessment and evaluation purposes focussing on peace or aid interventions.