This conceptual framework outlines the conceptual basis for ISSD Africa Action Learning Project (ALP) 4 and aims to take a step towards building a shared language between Humanitarian, Development and Peace (HDP) actors working on seed governance in Fragile and Conflict Affected Situations (FCAS) in Africa. It is intended to inform future case-driven exploratory research on how seed sector governance can contribute to peace in FCAS.
This conceptual framework can be used in the following manner:
- To understand the conceptual frame of thinking within ALP4 – what is meant by a contribution to peace in the context of seed governance in FCAS and how this could be operationalized in practice.
- To be used by action researchers within ALP4, who can use this framework in order to inform case selection for future exploratory case-based research and to identify examples of theoretical approaches to inquiry.
This conceptual framework explores the role of seed governance in FCAS, specifically in Africa, and its potential to contribute to peace through the lens of the Humanitarian Development Peace Nexus. Building on concepts from literature on peace, peacebuilding, and (seed) governance, as well as expert consultations, the paper investigates how seed governance in FCAS – encompassing policies, institutions, practices, and power relations – could conceptually contribute to peace under certain conditions.