Challenges
Mitigating the Environmental Impacts of Post-Conflict Assistance: Assessing USAID's Approach
2012
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Earthscan from Routledge
Charles Kelly
When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly…
Local Experiences of Liberal Peace: Marketization and Emergent Conflict Dynamics in Sierra Leone
2016
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Journal of Peace Research
Gearoid Millar
Over the past 20 years scholars have repeatedly highlighted the complex relationship between conflict, peace and economics. It is today accepted that economic factors at…
Lessons Learned From Environmental Management of the Iraqi Marshlands in the Post-Conflict Period
2011
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Water International
Chizuru Aoki, Ali Al-Lami, and Sivapragasam Kugaprasatham
As part of the United Nations assistance for the reconstruction of Iraq, the United Nations Environment Programme implemented a large-scale initiative in the Iraqi marshlands…
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…
ICTs for Monitoring & Evaluation of Peacebuilding Programmes
2014
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Search for Common Ground
Vanessa Corlazzoli and J. White
This document is one of a series of Practice Products developed under the Conflict, Crime, and Violence Results Initiative (CCVRI). The full set of products…
Theory of Change Approach to Climate Change Adaptation Programming
2014
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UKCIP
Dennis Bours, Colleen McGinn, and Patrick Pringle
In this Guidance Note, we describe the Theory of Change approach and explain why it is a good fit for climate change adaptation programming. We…
Disaster Risk Reduction and Protracted Violent Conflict
2019
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German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Rodrigo Mena, Dorothea Hilhorst, and Katie Peters
This report is part of the project ‘When disasters and conflict collide: uncovering the truth’, a collaboration between the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation…
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…
Evaluating Peacebuilding: Not Yet All It Could Be
2011
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Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management
Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church
This chapter explores the state of the art of evaluation in peacebuilding. After reviewing recent developments (section 2) and current practice (section 3), it proposes…
Envisioning Success: Building Blocks for Strategic and Comprehensive Peacebuilding Impact Evaluation
2005
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Larissa A. Fast and Reina C. Neufeldt
Linking peacebuilding and development is an emerging area of specialisation. Changes in the political, social, and economic contexts, the intangible dimensions of attitudinal and relational…
Does Peacebuilding Build Peace? Liberal (Mis)Steps in the Peace Process
1999
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Security Dialogue
Charles-Phillipe David
Developing a Prototype Handbook for Monitoring and Evaluating Department of Defense Humanitarian Assistance Projects
2011
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Center for Military Health Policy Research
Marla C. Haims, Melinda Moore, Harold D. Green, and Cynthia Clapp-Wincek
This product is part of the RAND Corporation technical report series. Reports may include research findings on a specific topic that is limited in scope;…
Designing Peacebuilding and Conflict Management Training in Nigeria: National Peace Academy Experience
2019
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Bosede Awodola
Peacebuilding and conflict management capacity building through training has become a trend and is also considered a mechanism to help in rebuilding and stabilising post-conflict…
Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation
2016
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Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation
Emery Brusset, Cedric de Coning, and Bryn Hughes
This book covers the design, evaluation, and learning for international interventions aiming to promote peace. More specifically, it reconceptualises this space by critically analysing mainstream…
Community Defined Measures of Success and Inclusive Research in Peacebuilding
2018
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Proceedings of the African Futures Conference
Ella Duncan and Carlotta Fassiotti
Participatory research is a tool for community inclusion in peace and development programs. Participation is a popularly promoted concept, but rarely implemented in research. Search…
Building the Peace: Preliminary Lessons from El Salvador
1993
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Journal of International Affairs Editorial Board
David Holiday and WIlliam Stanley
When the peace agreement ending 12 years of civil war in E1 Salvador was signed at Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City in January 1992, it…
Blessing or a Burden? The Impact of Peace Services on Peace and Violence in Nepal
2017
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Jeannine Suurmond, Alexandros Lordos, and Prakash M. Sharma
Recent literature highlights the potential of infrastructures for peace for peacebuilding and violence prevention. An increasing number of studies examine cases of infrastructures for peace,…
Battlefields of Method: Evaluating Norwegian Peace Efforts in Sri Lanka
2014
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Routledge
Jonathan Goodhand, Bart Klem, and Gunnar Sorbo
The chapter starts with a discussion of the research literature on peace processes and its relevance to the design and practice of evaluating such efforts.…
Avoiding Perplexity: Complexity-Oriented Monitoring and Evaluation for UN Peace Operations
2016
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Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation
Charles Hunt
This chapter explores the potential of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) informed by Complexity theory for UN peace operations. An emphasis on policing recognises that UN…
Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
2012
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Earthscan from Routledge
David Jensen
When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly…
Analogue Crisis, Digital Renewal? Current Dilemmas of Peacebuilding
2020
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Globalizations
Oliver P. Richmond and Ioannis Tellidis
The international architecture of peacebuilding and statebuilding, with the United Nations’ efforts central among them, is currently responding to a shift from ‘analogue’ to ‘digital’…
Adaptive Co-Management and Conflict Resolution for Rewilding across Development Contexts
2019
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Rewilding
James R.A. Butler, Juliette C. Young, and Mariella Marzano
A Practical Guide to Measuring Women's and Girl's Empowerment in Impact Evaluations
2021
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Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Rachel Glennerster, Claire Walsh, Lucia Diaz-Martin
Impact evaluations can produce useful insights on how to design programs and policies that can increase women’s and girls’ empowerment and help us better understand…
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…
‘‘Show Me Your Impact’’: Evaluating Transitional Justice in Contested Spaces
2012
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Evaluation and Program Planning
Colleen Duggan
This paper discusses some of the most significant challenges and opportunities for evaluating the effects of programs in support of transitional justice – the field…
Global Governance
2014
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OECD Publishing
Ayesha Dinshaw, Susannah Fisher, Heather McGray, Neha Rai, and Johan Schaar
This paper explores methodological approaches that can be used to monitor and evaluate climate change adaptation initiatives at the projects and programme levels. It examines…
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…
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…
Assessing Impacts of Environmental Peacebuilding In Caquetá, Colombia: a Multistakeholder Perspective
2021
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International Affairs, Chatham House
Hector Morales-Muñoz, Katharina Löhr, Michelle Bonatti, Luca Eufemia and Stefan Sieber
A major challenge in the field of environmental peacebuilding is showing the impact of its initiatives. Questions emerge, such as what kind of postwar peacebuilding…
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…