Challenges
Evaluating Peacebuilding Activities in Settings of Conflict and Fragility
2012
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Organisation for Economic Co-Operation's Development Assistance Committee
OECD
The high human, economic, political and social costs of violent conflict– coupled with a growing sense that such suffering and devastation could be avoided or…
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…
Evaluating Transdisciplinary Approaches
2019
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Belmont Forum at the National Science Foundation2019
Emily Nastase, Heath Kelsey, Bill Dennison, Max Hermanson, Katie M. Laumann, and Sky Swanson
Transdisciplinary (TD) approaches to research and innovation can transform policy, perspectives, and behavior to directly address or build capacity towards meeting global challenges. The number…
Monitoring and evaluation of peacebuilding: the role of new media
2013
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Geneva Peacebuilding Platform
Sarah Költzow
This research paper compiles and elaborates on key challenges, opportunities and lessons for the use of new media monitoring and evaluating peacebuilding activities. It draws…
The (Im)possibilities of Disaster Risk Reduction in the Context of High-Intensity Conflict: The Case of Afghanistan
2020
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Environmental Hazards
Rodrigo Mena and Dorothea Hilhorst
Conflict aggravates disaster risk and impact through increased vulnerability and weakened response capacities. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and disaster governance are needed – but often…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…