Monitoring
Social Dialogue: A Tool of Social Reintegration and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Nepal
2019
|
Asian Journal of Peacebuilding
Chiranjibi Bhandari
Successfully reintegrating former rebels into civil society is a crucial task in post conflict countries. In the aftermath of a decade-long conflict (1996-2006) in Nepal,…
Putting Peace Back Into the Peace Corps: Restoring International Volunteering for Development as a Peacebuilding Modality
2020
|
Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Joshua M. Inton-Campbell
International volunteering for development is neglected as a peacebuilding model, despite its origins in the early 20th-century pacifist movement. In part, this is due to…
Practical Approaches to Theories of Change in Conflict, Security, and Justice Programmes
2013
|
UKAID
Vanessa Corlazzoli and Jonathan White
The goal of this document is to improve the effectiveness of DFID programmes and the measurement of their impacts by providing DFID Advisers with the…
Pioneers of Peace, Implementers of Humanitarianism: Learning from the Ambivalence of Peacebuilders
2020
|
Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
Lise Philipsen
This article nuances the popular explanation that peace interventions fail because of a culture of peacebuilders unwilling to engage with the local. As a foundational…
PeacePlayers International: A Case Study on the Use of Sport as a Tool for Conflict Transformation
2011
|
The SAIS Review of International Affairs
Brendan Tuohey and Brian Cognato
Since 2001, PeacePlayers International has helped over 50,000 young people overcome deep ethnic, religious or social divides in their communities through basketball. The authors describe…
Peacebuilding, Civil Society and Aid Conditionality in Cyprus: Evaluating Success Without Sustainability and Impact
2016
|
Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
M. K. Flynn
This briefing assesses bicommunal peacebuilding in Cyprus as promoted and funded by foreign donors. This is undertaken by considering policy versus outcome-based conditionality and the…
Peacebuilding Through a Gender Lens and the Challenges of Implementation in Rwanda and Côte d'Ivoire
2009
|
Security Studies: Feminist Contributions
Heidi Hudson
With the hypothesis in mind that discrimination against women increases the likelihood that a state will experience internal conflict, this article contends that considering gender…
Peacebuilding and Development Trainings: What's Not Working and What We Should Be Doing Instead
2019
|
Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Elizabeth McClintock and Aline Brachet
Peacebuilding and development are two sides of the same coin yet integrating the two processes remains an ongoing challenge. One tool for achieving such integration…
Peace With Strings Attached: Exploring Reflections of Structure and Agency in Northern Ireland Peacebuilding Funding
2013
|
Peacebuilding
Patlee Creary and Sean Bryne
This article examines Northern Ireland's peacebuilding process by analysing perspectives about economic assistance to determine if the peacebuilding process contributed to the reification of structure…
Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA): Lessons from Pakistan
2011
|
The Peace and Conflict Review
Zahid S. Ahmed
In the early 1990s, on the basis of prior experiences of International Development Agencies (IDAs) in conflict zones, a need was identified to explore, understand…
Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) in Community Development: A Case Study from Mozambique
2010
|
Evaluation
Lisa Bornstein
Peace and conflict impact assessment (PCIA) is a tool that potentially can improve the quality of development work in conflict zones. PCIA’s conceptual strengths and…
Pcia Theory in Field Practice: World Vision's Pursuit of Peace Impact and Programming Quality Across Sectors
2014
|
Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Valarie V Kamatsiko
This article provides a critical reflection of World Vision’s field practice with Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) related frameworks drawing from experiences in Kenya,…
Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of Multi-Stakeholder Platforms in Integrated Landscape Initiatives
2017
|
Environmental Management
Koen Kusters, Louise Buck, Maartje de Graaf, Peter Minang, Cora van Oosten, and Roderick Zagt
Integrated landscape initiatives typically aim to strengthen landscape governance by developing and facilitating multi-stakeholder platforms. These are institutional coordination mechanisms that enable discussions, negotiations, and…
Participatory Monitoring and Evluation, Power Dynamics, and Stakholder Participation: Analysing Dynamics of Participation Between World Vision and Its Stakeholders in The Husalushaka Area Development Programme PM&E
2018
|
University of Pretoria
Vongaishe T. Mujuru
Participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) is a concept meant to ensure the extensive involvement of project beneficiaries in all stages of the project or programme…
Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (Pm&E) And Service Delivery in Uganda: A Case of USAID-Safe Program in Gulu District
2016
|
Uganda Management Institute
Ronny Kajaga, Innocent Nuwagaba, and George Mugerwa
This study examined the extent to which Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) enhances service delivery in Uganda. It was carried out on the USAID-SAFE program…
Negotiating in a Coordination Network of Citizen Peacebuilding Initiatives in the Georgian-Abkhaz Peace Process
2006
|
International Negotiation (Hague, Netherlands)
Sus A. Nan and Paula Garb
This article analyzes a set of negotiations within a coordination network. These negotiations surrounded the establishment and development of a coordination network of citizen peacebuilding…
Mitigating the Environmental Impacts of Post-Conflict Assistance: Assessing USAID's Approach
2012
|
Earthscan from Routledge
Charles Kelly
When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly…
Landmines and Livelihoods in Afghanistan: Evaluating the Benefits of Mine Action
2013
|
Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Ted Paterson, Barry Pound, and Abdul Q. Ziaee
Mine action started in Afghanistan and, globally, has grown into a billion-dollar endeavour. On most measures, Afghanistan remains the world’s largest mine action programme, which…
From Conflict to Collaboration in Natural Resource Management: A Handbook and Toolkit for Practitioners Working in Aquatic Resource Systems
2014
|
Collaborating for Peace
Lukas Ruettinger, Arne Janßen, Christopher Knupp, and Laura Griestop
The approaches and tools described here are tailored toward local and communitybased conflicts, such as those between different communities, between communities and government agencies, or…
Food Security in Protracted Crises: Building More Effective Policy Frameworks
2005
|
Disasters
Margarita Flores, Yasmeen Khwaja, and Philip White
This paper considers the principal elements that underpin policy frameworks for supporting food security in protracted crisis contexts. It argues that maintaining the food entitlements…
Mind the Gap: The Importance of Local Institutional Development in Peace-Building-Funded Security Interventions
2013
|
Conflict, Security, and Development
Sari Graben and Ann Fitz-Gerald
In this paper, the authors analyse current spending priorities of the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF)-funded security sector reform (SSR) programmes. They conclude that these spending priorities…
Looking Back, Moving Forward: International Approaches to Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
2012
|
Journal of Women, Politics & Policy
Lesley Pruitt
Based on a review of existing literature, this article provides an initial analysis of obstacles to addressing impunity for widespread conflict-related sexual violence. First, a…
Local Level Challenges to Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
2003
|
International Peacekeeping
Carrie Manning
Laying the basis for a sustainable political order in the aftermath of civil war requires a broader perspective on the state than the one commonly…
Local Experiences of Liberal Peace: Marketization and Emergent Conflict Dynamics in Sierra Leone
2016
|
Journal of Peace Research
Gearoid Millar
Over the past 20 years scholars have repeatedly highlighted the complex relationship between conflict, peace and economics. It is today accepted that economic factors at…
Learning from Change: Issues and Experiences in Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
2000
|
Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd.
Marisol Estrella, Jutta Blauert, Dindo Campilan, John Gaventa,Julian Gonsalves, Irene Guijt, Deb Johnson, and Roger Ricafort
This book is a collection of experiences in participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) from around the world. It allows different ‘voices’ to tell their story from…
Land in the New Urban Agenda: Opportunities, Challenges, and Way Forward
2017
|
World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty
Bahram Ghazi, Danilo Antonio, Katia Araujo, Oumar Sylla, Rebecca Ochong, and Susana R. Williams
Land governance underpins all key aspects of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) which was adopted at the closing plenary of the Habitat III, the United…
Improving Peacebuilding Evaluation: A Whole-of-Field Approach
2011
|
United States Institute of Peace
Andrew Blum
In May 2010, the Alliance for Peacebuilding in collaboration with the United States Institute of Peace launched the Peacebuilding Evaluation Project. Over the course of…
Impact Assessment, Not Evaluation: Defining a Limited Role for Positivism in the Study of Transitional Justice
2010
|
International Journal of Transitional Justice
Geoff Dancy
Discussions of impact assessment and evaluation are the newest installment in the brief history of the field of transitional justice. Noticeably, a positivist logic of…
Human Rights Education in Peacebuilding: A Look at How Far the Practice Has Come and Where it Needs to Head
2010
|
Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law
Tracey Holland
The world’s peace-building and development organizations increasingly are incorporating human-rights frameworks into the myriad of activities now under their purview. Slower to develop, however, are…
Help or Hinrance? Results-Orientation in Conflict-Affected Situations
2013
|
Swiss Peace
Stefan Bachtold, Roland Dittli, and Sylvia Servaes
Results-orientation, impact assessment, and value for money have been creating a growing buzz in the fields of international cooperation and peacebuilding for the last few…