After a social problem has been identified, researched, and understood, a response is initiated.   The response is an intervention project that is well informed and thoughtfully designed.

Imbedded into every intervention project are intricate relationships between the project, people, public and private agencies, and society.  Therefore, an intervention must be sensitized to the kind of conflicts it will face.  Once it has been sensitized to the underlying causes of conflict, the intervention can actually contribute to the prevention and reduction of emerging conflict situations as well as deal with the social problem it was initially designed to address.

The intervention project is well informed and thoughtfully designed because the people who designed and applied it conducted a conflict analysis and incorporated conflict sensitivity into their project’s design, from the planning stage to the implementation stage and up to the evaluation and monitoring stages.