What 74 submitters told the inquiry
The pipeline sorted the submitters into 7 topics and wrote a claim and a description for each. This page shows those claims with the figures behind them. Every number is computed when the page loads.
- 01Conflict SafeguardsAssess Aid And Investment Throughout Delivery70 submitters
- 02Prevention FundingCombine Patient Support With Rapid Response61 submitters
- 03Prevention ProgrammingTarget Dedicated Efforts Where Australia Contributes50 submitters
- 04Prevention MandateAvoid Blanket Objectives Across Aid Programs49 submitters
- 05Conflict PreventionAddress Grievances Through Inclusive Development26 submitters
- 06Aid AllocationRebalance Institutions And Immediate Violence Responses5 submitters
- 07Local LeadershipFund Community And Women-Led Recovery3 submitters
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Conflict Safeguards
Assess Aid And Investment Throughout Delivery
Conflict prevention should be an explicit, sustained development objective, while acknowledging disagreement over aid’s primary purpose and rejecting peace understood as suppressing grievances. The cluster supports clearer responsibility and rebuilt expertise without presuming that major restructuring is necessary, and cautions against military or geopolitical subordination. Relative to neighbouring governance and funding arguments, its distinctive operational demand is that both aid and investment assess conflict risks and avoid worsening conflict throughout delivery.
- Positions
- 80% supportive · 2 contesting · 12 unclear
- Sector
- Civil Society 58% · Individual 16% · Academia 10% +3
- Most-cited
- +4
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Prevention Funding
Combine Patient Support With Rapid Response
Deliberate conflict prevention requires clear leadership, coordination and specialist capability, while recognising the limits of aid’s role in addressing violence within and between states. The cluster advocates coordination between security and development without subordinating civilian objectives. Its distinctive practical emphasis is combining patient funding with rapid response options, while making budget trade-offs explicit; this foregrounds the timing and responsiveness of prevention support rather than portfolio allocation, investment safeguards or universal program mandates.
- Positions
- 93% supportive · 1 contesting · 3 unclear
- Sector
- Civil Society 55% · Individual 15% · Academia 12% +3
- Most-cited
- +3
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Prevention Programming
Target Dedicated Efforts Where Australia Contributes
Development assistance should pursue conflict prevention deliberately rather than assume that aid automatically produces peace. The cluster calls for clear government responsibilities, practical capability and predictable, flexible funding, while protecting developmental and humanitarian purposes within coordinated security policy. Its distinguishing argument is to separate aid-wide safeguards from dedicated prevention programs and prioritise efforts where Australia can contribute, with budget trade-offs made explicit. This is more focused on selective prevention programming than on universal program objectives or delivery safeguards alone.
- Positions
- 92% supportive · 3 contesting · 1 unclear
- Sector
- Civil Society 59% · Individual 14% · Academia 12% +3
- Most-cited
- +8
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Prevention Mandate
Avoid Blanket Objectives Across Aid Programs
Development should play a stronger role in preventing violence, but this does not settle whether prevention should define aid’s purpose or become an objective of every program. The cluster calls for clear cross-government leadership, specialist capability and sustained funding, while explicitly weighing costs to other aid priorities and maintaining aid’s independence from military or geopolitical objectives. Its distinguishing concern is the boundary of the prevention mandate: safeguards against harm should not be conflated with requiring all programs to pursue prevention.
- Positions
- 84% supportive · 8 contesting · 0 unclear
- Sector
- Civil Society 60% · Academia 13% · Individual 13% +3
- Most-cited
- +3
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Conflict Prevention
Address Grievances Through Inclusive Development
Conflict prevention should be a core purpose of development assistance alongside diplomacy and defence, addressing violence within countries as well as conflict between states. The proposed approach combines sustained, locally informed work on underlying grievances with inclusive politics, affected people’s rights and readiness to defuse tensions and protect civilians. Its distinctive emphasis is the substantive pathway from development to peace, rather than the institutional responsibilities, funding trade-offs or safeguards stressed in neighbouring clusters.
- Positions
- 96% supportive · 0 contesting · 1 unclear
- Sector
- Civil Society 58% · Government 15% · Academia 12% +2
- Most-cited
- +2
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Aid Allocation
Rebalance Institutions And Immediate Violence Responses
Australia should reassess how peace-related aid balances long-term institution-building with direct prevention and responses to immediate violence. This cluster scrutinises country allocations, declining support in highly fragile settings and the implications of donor cuts for regional priorities and dependence on Australia. It also includes Hyslop’s proposal for a national conflict prevention strategy linking aid with wider foreign policy. Unlike the broader calls to strengthen prevention capability, its distinctive starting point is the existing aid portfolio and whether resources match conflict risks.
- Positions
- 60% supportive · 0 contesting · 2 unclear
- Sector
- Individual 60% · Civil Society 40%
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Local Leadership
Fund Community And Women-Led Recovery
Humanitarian assistance and peacebuilding should centre local decision-making, with flexible, multi-year funding for community and women-led organisations. The cluster links women’s leadership and income opportunities to recovery, while calling for attention to organisational safety, sustained government engagement and assessment of whether assistance meets people’s needs despite crisis-data gaps. Unlike the clusters focused on government prevention architecture or aid’s strategic purpose, its organising concern is who leads, receives support and shapes assistance locally.
- Positions
- 100% supportive · 0 contesting · 0 unclear
- Sector
- Civil Society 100%
- Most-cited