Practitioners in the field of humanitarian aid increasingly acknowledge that conventional approaches to conflict intervention have not produced satisfactory results—despite, in some cases, the expenditure of vast sums of money. There are numerous reasons for this failure, but the most salient one is that programs that rely on grand planning and rigid implementation work only under very specific conditions, almost none of which apply to conflict zones. By definition, conflict intervention takes…

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