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Terminal Evaluation of the UNEP/GEF Project "Strengthening Law Enforcement Capabilities to Combat Wildlife Crime for Conservation and Sustainable Use of Species in South Africa: (Target - Rhinoceros)" GEF ID 4937
2019
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UNEP Evaluation Office
Dave Balfour
This report is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP-GEF funded project implemented between 2014 and 2019. The project’s overall objective was to improve the effectiveness…
The Institutional Paradox of Community Based Wildlife Management
2004
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Project for Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
Richard Hasler
Over ten years of social and ecological monitoring and evaluation, planning effort, policy change, legislative reform, donor support and pilot design have taken place for…
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…
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…
Is "Good Enough" Peacebuilding Good Enough? The Potential and Pitfalls of the Local Turn in Peacebuilding in Timor-Leste
2017
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The Pacific Review
Joanne Wallis
There is a palpable sense of humility within the United Nations and other international institutions regarding peacebuilding. Rather than seeking to implement the liberal peace,…
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…
A Casualty of Peace? Lessons on De-Militarizing Conservation in the Cordillera del Condor Corridor (Chapter in "Collateral Values of Natural Capital")
2019
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Springer
Saleem H. Ali
The resolution in 1998 of the armed conflict between Peru and Ecuador through environmental peace-building negotiations, creating a transboundary conservation area, have been heralded as…
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…
Disaster Risk Reduction in Conflict Contexts: The State of the Evidence
2019
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German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, and Overseas Development Institute
Katie Peters, Kerrie Holloway, and Laura E.R. Peters
This working paper reviews the state of the evidence on disaster risk reduction (DRR) in conflict-affected contexts. It is intended to stimulate a more explicitly…
Guidelines for Conflict-Sensitive Adaptation to Climate Change
2019
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adelphi
Dennis Tänzler and Nikolas Scherer
Climate change increases the frequency and severity of natural disasters, and reduces access to and the availability of resources – environmental changes that have serious…
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…
Education and Environmental Peacebuilding: Insights from Three Projects in Israel and Palestine
2019
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Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Tobias Ide and Amit Tubi
Environmental peacebuilding has attracted great scholarly and political interest in recent years, but little knowledge is available on the interface of education and environmental peacebuilding.…
Natural Resource Federalism: Considerations for Myanmar
2018
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Natural Resource Governance Institute
Andrew Bauer, Natalie Kirk, Sebastian Sahla, Khin Saw Htay, Ko Ko Lwin, and Paul Shortell
The management of non-renewable natural resources—oil, natural gas, minerals and gemstones—is a complex job. Governments must draft and implement laws and regulations on an array…
Conflict Minerals Disclosure Requirements and Corporate Social Responsibility: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
2018
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CPA Journal
Fatima Alali and Sophia I-Ling Wang
Among the many topics of concern for companies and investors interested in social responsibility is the use of minerals sourced from war zones and countries…
"We Have No Voice for That": Land Rights, Power, and Gender in Rural Sierra Leone
2015
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Journal of Human Rights
Gearoid Millar
Much attention has recently focused on the lease of land throughout the global south to nations and corporations in the global north. It is argued…
Promoting Climate-Resilient Peacebuilding in Fragile States
2015
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International Institute for Sustainable Development
Alec Crawford, Angie Dazé, Anne Hammill, Jo-Ellen Parry, and Alicia Natalia Zamudio
Efforts to help fragile states move onto a path toward stability and sustainability continue to face enormous challenges. Climate change is one of these challenges.…
Integrating Climate Change into Peacebuilding
2014
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Climatic Change
Richard Matthew
Peacebuilding countries are concentrated in areas of heightened vulnerability to climate change impacts, and almost certainly lack the capacity to manage these impacts. In spite…
Food Insecurity and Conflict Dynamics: Causal Linkages and Complex Feedbacks
2013
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International Journal of Security and Development
Cullen S. Hendrix and Henk-Jan Brinkman
This paper addresses two related topics: 1) the circular link between food insecurity and conflict, with particular emphasis on the Sahel, and 2) the potential…
Conflict-Sensitive Conservation: Field Report from Queen Elizabeth National Park
2009
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IISD
Rob Craig
The Conserving the Peace project is being implemented by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) with financial support from the MacArthur Foundation, and with…
Gorillas in the Midst: Assessing the Peace and Conflict Impacts of International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP) Activities
2008
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IISD
Anne Hammill & Alec Crawford
Conservation work in conflict zones and across international borders has impacts on more than just wildlife populations and their habitats; it can also have a…
Healing the Rift: Peace Building in and around Protected Areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Albertine Rift
2010
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Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) & International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Kujirakwinja, D., Shamavu, P., Hammill, A., Crawford, A., Bamba, A., and Plumptre, AJ.
All conservation managers have to manage conflict in their work. Whether it is dealing with a farmer who has lost a cow to a wolf…
Extractive Industries and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: The Role of Social Accountability
2013
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United States Institute of Peace
Sadaf Lakhani
Recent estimates of deposits in Afghanistan indicate that mineral extraction could contribute to the economic growth the country needs to sustain its efforts in peacebuilding…
Assessing the Influence of Landscape Conservation and Protected Areas on Social Wellbeing Using Random Forest Machine Learning
2024
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Nature
Joshua Fisher, Summer Allen, Greg Yetman, and Linda Pistolesi
The urgency of interconnected social-ecological dilemmas such as rapid biodiversity loss, habitat loss and fragmentation, and the escalating climate crisis have led to increased calls…
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…
The Politics of Supply Chain Regulations: Towards Foreign Corporate Accountability in the Area of Human Rights and the Environment?
2023
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Regulation & Governance
Maria-Therese Gustafsson and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
In recent years, binding regulations in the “home states” of corporations have emerged mainly in the Global North with the aim of holding corporations accountable…
Conflict-Sensitive Conservation: Lessons from the Global Environment Facility (OPEN ACCESS)
2023
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Taylor & Francis
Carl Bruch, Geeta Batra, Anupam Anand, 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,…
The Community of Practice on Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace: An Evaluation
2023
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Geneva Peacebuilding Platform
Amanda Woomer and Annika Erickson-Pearson
The Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace (ECCP) is a community of practice (CoP or community) that aims to strengthen networking and community building on environmental…
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…