Monitoring
A Path Least Taken: Economic and Social Rights and the Prospects of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding in Africa
2003
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Journal of African Law
Shedrack C. Agbakwa
A critical appraisal of the dominant conflict prevention and peacebuilding strategies usually deployed in Africa and elsewhere reveals its narrow vision. Despite UDHR's enunciation of…
Local Indicators for Climate Security Risk Assessment: Learning from Uganda How to Strengthen Climate Action and Peacebuilding
2022
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Center for Conflict Resolution Uganda
Akiteng Marion
In the Kaabong district in the North of Uganda, climate change amplifies conflict drivers that can lead to increased social or violent conflict. Kaabong is a semi-arid…
Enhancing the Efficiacy of Religious Peacebuilding Practice: An Exploratory Evidence-Based Framework for Assessing Dominant Risks in Religious Peacebuilding
2019
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Centre of Religion, Reconciliation, and Peace
Mark Owen and Anna King
The ‘risk assessment’ in peacebuilding has become a standard, if sometimes slightly formulaic and performative, element of project design and written proposals. Largely driven by…
Encouraging Effective Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities: Towards DAC Guidance
2008
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Organisation for Economic Co-Operation's Development Assistance Committee
This report outlines an approach for developing guidance on evaluating conflict prevention and peacebuilding activities. It draws on a broad document review and interviews with…
Southern African Development Community Transfrontier Conservation Guidelines: The Establishment and Development of TFCA Initiatives Between SADC Member States
2014
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South Africa Development Community
Kevin Zunckel
Transfrontier Conservation and the establishment and development of Transfrontier Conservation Areas are recognised as a mechanism that is appropriate for delivery on a number of…
Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators for GEF International Waters Projects
2002
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GEF Corporate Monitoring and Evaluation Team
Alfred Duda
Effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is increasingly recognized as an indispensable tool in project and program management. If done well, an M&E plan and the…
Multi-County Cooperation Around Shared Waters: Role of Monitoring and Evaluation
2004
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Global Environmental Change
Juha I. Uitto
Sustainable development of freshwater resources shared by two or more countries and reducing the risk of conflict between the riparians requires the development of effective…
Development and Peacebuilding: Disparities, Similarities, and Overlapping Spaces
2017
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The Practice of International Development
Carl Stauffer
The nexus between development and peacebuilding has been highly contested, yet to conflate these two fields of practice is disingenuous. Building on a case study…
Evaluation and Monitoring of Long-Term Peace and Enviornmental Education Program in a Region of Intractable Conflict
2013
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Empowering Sustainability International Journal
Gonan Sagy and Vera Saulino
Managing long-term peace and environmental education programs toward positive encounters and peace building in a region of intractable conflict requires constant evaluation and monitoring of…
Looking Back When Looking Forward: Peacebuilding Policy Approaches and Processes in Africa
2010
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Walter Lotze and Cedric De Coning
The United Nations, through the creation of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) and the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), has attempted to institutionalise sustained attention to and the…
Evaluating Peacebuilding Activities in Settings of Conflict and Fragility
2012
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Organisation for Economic Co-Operation's Development Assistance Committee
OECD
The high human, economic, political and social costs of violent conflict– coupled with a growing sense that such suffering and devastation could be avoided or…
Measuring Unintended Effects in Peacebuilding: What the Field of International Cooperation Can Learn From Innovative Approaches Shaped by Complex Contexts
2018
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Evaluation and Program Planning
Adrienne Lemon and Melanie Pinet
Capturing unintended impacts has been a persistent struggle in all fields of international development, and the field of peacebuilding is no exception. However, because peacebuilding…
Monitoring and Evaluation in Peacebuilding: Reclaiming the Lost Opportunities for Improving Peacebuilding in Practice
2016
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Palgrave Macmillan UK
Pravina Makan-Lakha
Pravina Makan-Lakha shares the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes’ (ACCORD) experiences and challenges with developing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) within its role…
Analysis of a Biorefinery with Multiple Raw Materials in the Context of Post-conflict Zones in Colombia: Plantain and Avocado Integration in the Montes de María
2021
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales
S. Piedrahita-Rodríguez, P. Peroza Piñeres, and C.A. Cardona-Alzate
This work addresses the techno-economic analysis for a multi-feedstock biorefinery system using plantain and avocado residues as raw materials. The experimental procedures were performed to…
Environmental Peacebuilding in South Asia: Establishing Consensus on Hydroelectric Projects in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) Basin
2018
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Geoforum
Mirza Sadaqat Huda and Saleem H. Ali
Multilateral cooperation on hydroelectric dams in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin has been suggested by a number of academic studies as an economically viable and environmentally…
Conflict in Abundance and Peacebuilding in Scarcity: Challenges and Opportunities in Addressing Climate Change and Conflict
2020
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World Development
Daniel Abrahams
Over the past decade, academic and policy communities have given significant attention to the potential connections between climate change and conflict (climate-conflict). While the degree…
Civilian Science: The Potential of Participatory Environmental Monitoring in Areas Affected by Armed Conflicts
2019
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Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Doug Weir, Dan McQuillian, and Robert A. Francis
Legal and policy initiatives to address the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts and their impact on people, ecosystems and sustainable development are highly dependent on…
Transboundary Conservation and Militarized Interstate Disputes
2014
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Political Geography
Karina Barquet, Paivi Lujala, and Jan Ketil Rød
Advocates of transboundary conservation argue that borderlands can be a source of cooperation between neighboring states that previously engaged in conflict. It has been stated that, by…
Environmental Cooperation as the Instrument of Conflict Transformation in East Asia
2018
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Journal of Comparative Politics
Cabada Ladislav and Sarka Waisova
East Asia is an area with high number of political militarized conflicts, but also with high biodiversity and fast environmental degradation. A decade ago there…
Ground for Peace: Land Restoration for International Peace and Security
2024
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United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Beatrice Mosello, Mary Elizabeth Potts, Hector Morales Munoz, Sandor Msdar, and Oli Brown
For more than three billion people, land is core to their survival, wellbeing, and dignity. However, with between 20–40% of total global land area degraded…
Climate Security in South Sudan: A Conversation with Ratia Tekenet [Audio]
2024
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New Security Beat
Wilson Center
In today’s episode of New Security Broadcast, ECSP Director Lauren Risi interviews Ratia Tekenet, a Climate Security Expert with the UN Mission in South Sudan…
Conflict Mitigation as a Means of Climate Change Adaptation: Lessons for Policy and Development Practice
2024
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Environment and Security
Daniel Abrahams and Kayly Ober
In this article, the authors examine the ways conflict can drive climate change vulnerability and, in turn, argue that conflict mitigation can act as a…
The Youth Review: Environmental Peacebuilding, Conservation, and Nonprofit Cooperation [Video]
2024
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Environmental Law Institute
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the…
A Polluting War: Risk, Experts, and the Politics of Monitoring Wartime Environmental Harm in Eastern Ukraine
2024
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Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
Freek van der Vet
War always harms the environment. As the fog of war produces unreliable data, it also obstructs our capacity to monitor those harms. While some call…
Peace, Conflict, and National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Alec Crawford, Anne Hammill, and Anne Tadgell
For states experiencing conflict, climate change adaptation is rarely, if ever, an immediate priority: issues such as national defence, the prevention of further loss of…
Using Machine Learning and Remote Sensing to Track Land Use/Land Cover Changes Due to Armed Conflict
2023
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Science of The Total Environment
Saeed Mhanna, Landon J.S. Halloran, François Zwahlen, Ahmed Haj Asaad, and Philip Brunner
Armed conflicts have detrimental impacts on the environment, including land systems. The prevailing understanding of the relation between Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) and armed conflict…
M&E Insights Episode 2: Transboundary Cooperation on Water in Fragile Contexts (with Eric Abitbol)
2023
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Environmental Law Institute and Environmental Peacebuilding Association
This video was produced by the Environmental Law Institute and Environmental Peacebuilding Association with support from the United States Institute of Peace. The opinions, findings,…
M&E Insights Episode 1: Theories of Change (with Hector Morales Muñoz)
2023
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Environmental Law Institute and Environmental Peacebuilding Association
This video was produced by the Environmental Law Institute and Environmental Peacebuilding Association with support from the United States Institute of Peace. The opinions, findings,…
New Tools for Monitoring and Evaluation M&E of Environmental Peacebuilding [Video]
2023
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Alliance for Peacebuilding
Carl Bruch, Amanda Woomer, Daniel Abrahams, Tracy Hart, and Geeta Batra
This session highlights two resources to help practitioners navigate the particular set of challenges faced when performing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) at the intersection of…
Conflict-Sensitive Conservation: Lessons from the Global Environment Facility
2023
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Routledge
Carl Bruch, Geeta Batra, and Anupam Anand, with Shehla Chowdhury and Sierra Killian
This book provides an empirically formulated foundation for conflict-sensitive conservation, a field in which the existing literature relies primarily on anecdotal evidence.
Seeking to better understand…