Evaluation
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…
Renewable Natural Resources: Practical Lessons for Conflict Sensitive Development
2009
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World Bank
Sandra Ruckstuhl
This paper explores how a “conflict and violence sensitive” framework in project assessment, design and implementation facilitates early identification and mitigation of negative consequences of…
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…
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…
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…
Climate Change Actions in Conflict Affected Contexts: Insights from Myanmar after the Military Coup
2023
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Danish Institute for International Studies
Maria Kyed and Justine Chambers
Violent conflict and state oppression in Myanmar demonstrates the importance of placing conflict analysis and people-centred approaches at the centre of international programming on climate…
Braiding Knowledge Systems as Environmental Peacebuildinng: A Four-Dimensional Analysis for Co-Applying Idigenous and Non-Indigenous Worldviews in Great Lakes Water Governance
2022
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International Christian University
Natalija Vojno
Environmental peacebuilding has evolved since Conca and Dabelko’s seminal work on peacemaking to now include preventative interventions as well as those that occur post-conflict. In…
An Overview of the African Peacebuilding Network's Contribution to African Peacebuilding Literature
2023
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African Peacebuilding Network
Godwin Onuoha
This working paper surveys, documents, and analyzes the contributions of APN scholars to the knowledge and practice of peacebuilding in Africa against the background of…
M&E Insights Episode 6: M&E in Conflict-Affected Artisanal Mining Communities (w/ Victoria Reichel) [Video]
2023
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Environmental Law Institute and Environmental Peacebuilding Association
In this video, Victoria Reichel shares her experience and learning related to Monitoring and Evaluating Financing, Gender, and Security Dynamics in Conflict-affected Artisanal Mining Communities –…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
Theories of Change in Sustainability Science
2019
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Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
Christoph Oberlack, Thomas Breu, Markus Giger, Nicole Harari, Karl Herweg, Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel, Peter Messerli, Stephanie Moser, Cordula Ott, Isabelle Providoli, Theresa Tribaldos, Anne Zimmerman, Flurina Schneider
Science-based initiatives generate particular changes towards sustainable development. But why and how does this work? Theories of change (ToCs) can help in understanding the theoretical…
The Role of the External in Local Peacebuilding: Enabling Action -- Managing Risk
2013
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Global Governance
Jannie Lilja and Kristine Hoglund
Local peacebuilding has been embraced in principle by many donors, but the practice of external support to local initiatives needs further systematic study. While previous…