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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 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…
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…
The Role of an International Facilitating Service for Conflict Resolution
2006
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International Negotiation (Hague, Netherlands)
Herbert Kelman
The large numbers of deadly conflicts between ethnic and other identity groups around the world call for more extensive and systematic applications of interactive problem-solving…
The Flow of Management Practices: An Analysis of NGO Monitoring and Evaluation Dynamics
2013
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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
Jeffrery H Marshall and David Suarez
Which characteristics of NGOs are associated with the adoption of modern management practices and to what extent have those practices become standardized? Based on a…
Systems for Assessing the Effectiveness of Management in Protected Areas
2003
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BioScience
Marc Hockings
Since the mid-1990s, numerous methodologies have been developed to assess the management effectiveness of protected areas, many tailored to particular regions or habitats. Recognizing the…
Restoration of Damaged Land in Soceities Recovering from Conflict: The Case of Lebanon
2012
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Routledge
Aida Tamer-Chammas
Societies emerging from armed conflict face multiple social, political, and economic challenges. Natural resource management has been hailed as a tool for post-conflict peacebuilding because…
Progress Report on Supporting Local Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
2014
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UNDP
Henrik F. Larsen
A Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord signed in December 1997 ended the decades-long insurgency, allowing for the recognition of the rights of the peoples…
Peace Parks and Jaguar Trails: Transboundary COnservation in a Globalizing World
2008
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GeoJournal
Brian King and Sharon Wilcox
An increasingly utilized strategy for expanding conservation in the developing world has been the promotion of protected areas that supersede national borders. Alternatively known as…
Seeing Like the International Community: How Peacebuilding Failed (and Survived) in Tajikistan
2008
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Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
John Heathershaw
The international community claims transformative power over post-conflict spaces via the concept of peacebuilding. International actors discursively make space for themselves in settings such as…
Risk-Averse to Risk-Willing: Learning from the 2011 Somalia Cash Response
2012
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Global Food Security
Degan Ali and Kirsten Gelsdorf
In 2011 the humanitarian community faced a difficult question. Could large-scale cash transfers provide an effective alternative to food aid delivery in South Central Somalia…
Post-Crisis Zimbabwe's Innovative Financing Mechanisms in the Social Sectors: A Practical Approach to Implementing the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States
2014
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International Health and Human Rights
Peter Salama, Wei Ha, Joel Negin, Samson Muradzikwa
By focusing on working with line ministries in non-contested sectors to determine local priorities rather than following global prescriptions, pooling funds to achieve scale rather…
Pioneers of Peace, Implementers of Humanitarianism: Learning from the Ambivalence of Peacebuilders
2020
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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…
Peace With Strings Attached: Exploring Reflections of Structure and Agency in Northern Ireland Peacebuilding Funding
2013
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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 & Sustainability: An Evaluation of the United Nations' Peacebuilding Missions in Afghanistan
2019
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Lund University
Natalie Varady
This study is an evaluation of the peacebuilding missions in Afghanistan, made by the United Nations, in relation to policies of sustainable development. The theoretical…
Land and Conflict: A Toolkit for Intervention
2005
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USAID
David Bledsoe and Michael Brown
The purpose of this toolkit is to provide a practical introduction to the relationship between land and violent conflict. The relationship is stark, whether we…
Making the Case for Systematic, Gender-Based Analysis in Sustainable Peace Buidling
2016
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Conflict Resolution Quarterly
Dennis Sandole and Ingrid Staroste
In this article, we address protracted, often recurring violent conflict, arguing that the failure to solve entrenched conflicts and build sustainable peace is due in…
Mainstreaming Failure or a Small Measure of Success? Observations from a Large-Scale PCIA in Post-War Sri Lanka
2014
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Simona Achitei
In May 2009, controversies emerged over Sri Lanka’s human rights record in the last stages of the 27-year civil war between the Government of Sri…
Levels of Conflict Over WIldlife: Understanding and Addressing the Right Problem
2020
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Conservation Science and Practice
Alexandra Zimmermann, Brian McQuinn, and David W. Macdonald
Human–wildlife conflicts are complex and defy simple explanations and solu-tions. The fields of conflict analysis and peacebuilding offer insights into theintensity, intractability, and possible approaches…
Learning from Change: Issues and Experiences in Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
2000
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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 and natural disasters: guidance for practitioners
2010
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United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Daniel Fitzpatrick
The Guidelines provide a holistic approach to addressing land issues from the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster through early recovery and reconstruction phases. It…
International Peacebuilding Goes Local: Analysing Lederach's Conflict Transformation Theory and its Ambivalent Encounter with 20 Years of Practice
2012
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Peacebuilding
Thania Paffenholz
This article examines how peacebuilding theory has influenced the shift from the international to the ‘local’ in the practice of international peacebuilding and analyses the…
Human Rights Education in Peacebuilding: A Look at How Far the Practice Has Come and Where it Needs to Head
2010
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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…
How Can Research Contribute to Peacebuilding?
2014
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University of York
Kenneth Bush and Colleen Duggan
How do we know whether or not research contributes to peacebuilding? And, what kind of positive or negative impacts may research have? These two questions…
Generations for Peace Programmes in Kaduna, Nigeria: Monitoring and Evaluation Capability and Programme Impact
2012
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Generations for Peace Institute
Sairah Yusuf
This focus stems from two considerations: first, the state of the Sport for Peace and Development (SPD) field, where a number of recent works have…
Gender Empowerment and United Nations Peacebuilding
2009
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Journal of Peace Research
Theodora-Ismene Gizelis
Previous studies have suggested that societies where women have higher social and economic status and greater political representation are less likely to become involved in…
Evaluation of the Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding Programme
2016
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United Nations Environment Programme
Emery Brusset
UN Environment‘s Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding (ECP) programme was launched in 2008. The stated objective of the project is “to strengthen the capacity of fragile…
Disaster Risk Reduction Amidst Armed Conflict: Informal Institutions, Rebel Groups, and Wartime Political Orders
2018
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Disasters
Colin Walsh
Extant research has explored the effect of natural hazards on the risk of armed conflict, but very few studies have examined how conflict dynamics affect…
Conservation Geographies in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Politics of National Parks, Community Conservation and Peace Parks
2010
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Geography Compass
Brian King
Sub-Saharan Africa has been the location of intense conservation planning since the colonial era. Under the auspices of wilderness protection, colonial authorities established national parks…