Peacebuilding with a Splash: Examining the Integration of Dutch Water, Sanitation, and Health Aid
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2024-07-09
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This thesis researches the integration of Dutch water, sanitation, and health (WASH) aid with
peacebuilding. This is important because as long as we only understand that WASH plays a
unique role within peacebuilding (Weinthal et al., 2011) and not how it can live up to that
role (Allouche, 2014; Kooy et al., 2015; Krampe & Gignoux, 2018), we are stuck with water
as a cause degree conflict rather than a force for peace. Therefore, we address three key
questions: firstly, to what extent do Dutch WASH programmes take place in conflict-affected
settings; secondly, to what degree are they integrated; and thirdly, through which paradigms
are they integrated. A Mixed Methods methodology is employed containing exploratory data analysis and content analysis. Our findings indicate that most of the Dutch WASH aid is not integrated with peacebuilding. This is understandable given that over 70 percent of the WASH
aid is not provided to conflict-affected settings. Less than half of the sample of conflict-affected
WASH programs are fully integrated with peacebuilding, we had expected more integration.
The fully integrated programs demonstrate a symbiosis of the Do No Harm, Conflict Prevention, and Broad Human Security paradigms, while the rest showcase the Axiomatic
paradigm. A secondary theoretical prediction was that integration could vary across contexts due to a clash of interest between “progressive donorship” and Dutch donor interests. This might explain some of the variation in level of integration across contexts and calls for further
research deepening and expanding our understanding of the WASH-peacebuilding integration
phenomenon.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen