Programming
Using Natural Resources Management as a Peacebuilding Tool: Observations and Lessons from Central Western Mindanao
2012
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Journal of Peacebuilding and Development
Darren Evans
The conflict in Mindanao, Philippines, is widely presented as a religious one, often within a wider Southeast Asian context. Yet many of the underlying disputes…
Promoting Conflict Sensitivity in Transboundary Protected Areas: A Role for Peace and Conflict Impact Assessments
2010
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IISD
Anne Hammill & Alec Crawford
Conflict is detrimental to conservation, while conservation is, in many respects, inherently conflictual. How can we reconcile the goals of peace and biodiversity conservation? One…
Environmental Guidebook on Military Operations
2008
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DoD Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health Network and Information Exchange (DENIX)
Hanna Uusitalo, Antti Kivipelto, Sara Kajander, Ava Sovijärvi, Carl-Gustav Ebbhagen, Svante Olsson, Annica Waleij, Birgitta Liljedahl, Åsa Scott Andersson, Timothy Bosetti, homas Schultheis, Susan Clark-Sestak & William Nicholls
This guidebook was developed by a multinational working group consisting of representatives from the defense organizations of Finland, Sweden, and the United States. It reflects…
The Trampled Grass: Mitigating the Impacts of Armed Conflict on the Environment
2001
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Grammarians, Inc.
James Shambaugh, Judy Oglethorpe & Rebecca Ham
The Biodiversity Support Program's Armed Conflict and the Environment Project ran from 1998 to 2001 to identify and raise awareness about the negative impacts of…
A Closer Look at Oil, Diamonds, and Civil War
2006
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Annual Review of Political Science
Michael Ross
Studies of natural resource wealth and civil war have been hampered by measurement error, endogeneity, lack of robustness, and uncertainty about causal mechanisms. This paper…
Resource Scarcity and the Prevention of Violent Conflicts
2009
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The Peace and Conflict Review
Renée Gendron and Evan Hoffman
This article argues that resource scarcity creates multiple impacts on conflicts. It can increase the chances that a nonviolent conflict will become violent and it…
Targeted Scenario Analysis: A New Approach to Capturing and Presenting Ecosystem Service Values for Decision Makers
2013
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United Nations Development Program
This guidebook provides a step-by-step introduction to Targeted Scenario Analysis (TSA), an innovative analytical approach, developed by UNDP that captures and presents the value of…
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…
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…
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…
The Power of Real-World Qualitative Assessments for Addressing Climate Security Risks
2023
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Climate Diplomacy
Hector Morales-Munoz
Qualitative research can uncover hidden drivers and connectors, reveal unintended consequences, and generate contextualised and actionable knowledge by delving into the lived experiences, perceptions, values,…
Zimbabwe’s Land Reform Program: Underinvestment in Post-Conflict Transformation
2004
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World Development
Bill H. Kinsey
In Zimbabwe’s current crisis, it is easy to overlook the fact that the country had a resettlement program for two decades before the large-scale, politically…
The Political Economy of Land Law and Policy Reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo: An Institutional Bricolage Approach
2019
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Canadian Journal of Development Studies
Christopher D. Huggins and Christol Paluku
This article provides an overview of the contemporary land reform process in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and presents strategies used by local non-governmental organizations…
Wicked Problems: Peacebuilding Evaluation Ethic
2016
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Peacebuilding Evaluation Consortium
Reina Neufeldt
An exchange like this is common in organizations and can be frustrating. The project manager feels like he or she is being asked for data…
Wicked Problems in Peacebuilding and Statebuilding: Making Progress in Measuring Progress Through the New Deal
2013
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Global Governance
Erin McCandless
Peacebuilding and its relatively new partner in international policy discourse and practice—statebuilding—are moving in increasingly larger circles with the recognition that business cannot be done…
What Works in Practice? Responding to Complexity in International Development Monitoring and Evaluation
2019
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George Washington University
Kathryn Hendren
The integration of complexity into study and practice of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) has been accompanied by increased demands on M&E teams. Practitioners must now meet accountability…
What Do We Need to Know to Plan and Evaluate Social Programs and Services?: The Methods of Social Research on Community Needs and Resources
2014
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International Multidisciplinary Conference
Jae-Sung Choi, Chung-Kwon Lee, Myoung-Il Kim, Hye-Jin Kim, and Jung-Woo Kim
Human trafficking is a serious problem faced by many countries in the world. Several studies have highlighted the so called “pushing” and “pulling” factors that…
What Are The Opportunities to Promote Gender Equity in Conflict-Affected and Fragile States? Insights from a Review of Evidence
2011
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Gender & Development
Helen O'Connell
This article draws on a study which reviewed current evidence and lessons on how gender equality can be effectively strengthened in the context of conflict-affected…
Using Transformative Models of Adult Literacy in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Processes at Community Level: Examples from Guinea, Sierra Leone and Sudan
2005
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Compare - A Journal of Comparative and International Education
Juliet McCaffery
This paper draws on the experience in Guinea, Sierra Leone and South Sudan, to explore how the methodology and modalities of community based participatory literacy…
Using Evaluation as a Learning Process in Post-Conflict Somalia
2019
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Journal of Somali Studies
Ibrahim A. Noor
The purpose of this study is to describe the nature of institutional evaluation in non-governmental social programs in Somalia. A large number of agencies that…
Using Big Data and Geospatial Approaches in Evaluating Environmental Interventions
2021
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Evaluating Environment in International Development
Anupam Anand and Geeta Batra
Remote sensing and geospatial methods are useful, innovative tools for measuring environmental impact. They provide reliable and cost-effective baseline information, help detect changes over time,…
Unexceptional: Assessing Conflict Trends and Peacebuilding Opportunities in the United States
2018
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Liz Hume
Americans have long believed that the United States is exceptional among nations, but there are signs that conflict dynamics are threatening the stability of US…
Understanding Theory of Change in International Development
2012
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The Asia Foundation
Danielle Stein and Craig Valters
This is a review of the concepts and common debates within ‘Theory of Change’ (ToC) material, resulting from a search and detailed analysis of available…
Trends in ICT for Relief and Development: from Mobile Data Collection to Data Driven Decision Making
2015
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2015 IEEE Canada International Humanitarian Technology Conference (IHTC2015)
Barol Bothwell and Stephen Hellen
At CRS we employ information and communications technology for development (ICT4D) across the gamut of our programming-from our signature activities in emergency response, agriculture and…
Transparency and Accountability in the Extractives Sector: A Synthesis of What Works and What Does Not
2019
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International Initiative for Impact Evaluatio
Francis Rathinam, Priyanka Cardoz, Zeba Siddiqui, and Marie Gaarder
While there are a number of transparency and accountability initiatives in the natural resources governance sector, evidence on the impact of these initiative remains sparse.…
Towards Conflict Transformation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with Specific Reference to the Model of Kumar Rupesinghe
2000
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Strategic Review for Southern Africa
Hussein Solomon and Kwezi Mngqibisa
The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to claim the lives of ordinary citizens. This is despite the efforts of the international…
Third-generation PCIA: Introducing the Aid for Peace Approach
2005
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Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management
Thania Paffenholz
How can the Aid for Peace approach help to address the questions surrounding the debate on Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA)? The Aid for…
Thinking Creatively About Methodological Issues in Conflict-Affected Societies
2013
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Sylvester B. Maphosa
Conducting interviews and collecting data with which to evaluate peacebuilding programming may be problematic in many conflict-affected societies. However, many researchers do not document their…