Analysis: Myanmar’s Rakhine State - where aid can do harm

By Dana MacLean SHARE HIGHLIGHTS Camps could worsen sectarian tension Aid workers encourage IDP returns “Conflict-sensitive” aid approach needed Reconciliation - an overlooked key priority BANGKOK, 3 July 2013 (IRIN) - The aid community should proceed carefully to avoid enflaming sectarian tensions in Myanmar’s Rakhine State more than a year after the first wave of inter-communal violence. “The biggest challenge faced by humanitarian aid groups to operate in contexts of sectarian violence is to be perceived as delivering aid in a biased manner,” said Jeremie Labbe, a senior policy analyst of humanitarian affairs at the UN International Peace Institute (IPI)...