Conflict Prevention
Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA): Lessons from Pakistan
2011
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The Peace and Conflict Review
Zahid S. Ahmed
In the early 1990s, on the basis of prior experiences of International Development Agencies (IDAs) in conflict zones, a need was identified to explore, understand…
Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) in Community Development: A Case Study from Mozambique
2010
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Evaluation
Lisa Bornstein
Peace and conflict impact assessment (PCIA) is a tool that potentially can improve the quality of development work in conflict zones. PCIA’s conceptual strengths and…
Pcia Theory in Field Practice: World Vision's Pursuit of Peace Impact and Programming Quality Across Sectors
2014
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Valarie V Kamatsiko
This article provides a critical reflection of World Vision’s field practice with Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) related frameworks drawing from experiences in Kenya,…
Landmines and Livelihoods in Afghanistan: Evaluating the Benefits of Mine Action
2013
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Ted Paterson, Barry Pound, and Abdul Q. Ziaee
Mine action started in Afghanistan and, globally, has grown into a billion-dollar endeavour. On most measures, Afghanistan remains the world’s largest mine action programme, which…
Local Peace Committees in Africa: The Unseen Role in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuidling
2016
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The Journal of Pan African Studies
Abdul K Issifu
This article seeks to unveil the role of Local Peace Committees (LPCs) in conflict resolution and peacebuilding in Africa. Thus, violence emanating from religious extremism,…
Local Level Challenges to Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
2003
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International Peacekeeping
Carrie Manning
Laying the basis for a sustainable political order in the aftermath of civil war requires a broader perspective on the state than the one commonly…
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…
Gaps in Knowledge About Local Peacebuilding: A Study in Deficiency from Jos, Nigeria
2020
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Third World Quarterly
Reina C. Neufeldt, Mary L. Klassen, John Danboyi, Jessica Dyck, and Mugu Z. Bako
The emphasis on local or hybrid efforts in peacebuilding literature brings front and centre the importance of being rooted within a particular context, with leadership…
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…
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…
Conflict Transformation and Civil Society: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh
2016
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Europe-Asia Studies
Vincenc Kopecek, Tomas Hoch, and Vladimir Baar
If Armenian and Azerbaijani negotiators ever agree on the future status of Nagorno-Karabakh, it will not necessarily resolve the long-running conflict, because any peace treaty…
Civil Society Organizations and Evaluation: Lessons from Africa
2007
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European Evaluation Soiety
Scott G. Chaplowe, Ruth B. Engo-Tjega
The past two decades have seen a drastic increase in the role and expectations of civil society organizations (CSOs) in international development, placing greater demands…
Civil Society and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Ambiguities of International Programmes Aimed at Building 'New' Societies
2005
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Security Dialogue
Beatric Pouligny
This article offers a critical analysis of aid programmes aimed at supporting local civil societies in post-conflict peacebuilding (PCPB). Such programmes are often seen to…
Challenging the International Peacebuilding Evaluation Discourse with Qualitative Methodologies: Evaluation and Program Planning
2012
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Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex
Tobias Denskus
Monitoring and evaluating international peacebuilding efforts have become more sophisticated over the past years, but still relies on managerial approaches that often do not capture…
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…
Aids, Minds, and Hearts: The Impact of Aid in Conflict Zones
2013
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Conflict Management and Peace Science
Jan R. Böhnke and Christoph Zürcher
It is widely assumed that development aid can help to stabilize regions in or after conflict. However, we lack empirical evidence for this assumption, and…
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…
Measuring Climate Security: Related Security Threats?
2021
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CGIAR Focus Climate Security
Ignacio M. Lopez, Giulia Caroli, Grazia Pacillo, and Peter Läderach
It is widely recognized that climate change has the potential to affect the social, economic, and political processes that can lead to instability, insecurity, and…
Evaluation in Conflict Zones: Methodological and Ethical Challenges
2013
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Kenneth Busy and Colleen Duggan
This article explores the methodological and ethical challenges particular to the conduct and use of evaluations in conflict zones. It does this through examining the…
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…
Development and Peacebuilding: Disparities, Similarities, and Overlapping Spaces
2017
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The Practice of International Development
Carl Stauffer
The nexus between development and peacebuilding has been highly contested, yet to conflate these two fields of practice is disingenuous. Building on a case study…
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…
A participatory approach to peacebuilding evaluation in Seke district, Zimbabwe
2019
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International Journal of Action Research
Norman Chivasa
Mainstream monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of peacebuilding tends to be mainly practitioner-oriented, while under-reporting initiatives by ordinary people who develop an interest to learn from
their…
Nick Parker Talks to BBC about Unexpected Impacts of U.S. Conflict Minerals Legislation [Audio]
2017
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BBC World Newsday
Dominic Parker
Dominic Parker, assistant professor of agricultural and applied economics, is interviewed twice on BBC World News’ Newsday program. The topic of conversation is Parker’s research…
USAID's Women, Peace, and Security: Implementation Plan
2020
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Unites States Agency for International Development
USAID developed this Implementation Plan to support the United States Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS Strategy) through concrete, effective, and coordinated action across our…
Geocollaboration in Environmental Inspection Activities in the Environmental Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State – Brazil
2020
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Boletim do Observatório Ambiental Alberto Ribeiro Lamego
Eduardo Frederico Cabral de Oliveira, José Augusto Silva, José Francisco Oliveira Júnior, and Jader Lugon Junior
The cost of geotechnologies are becoming more accessible. The capacity to generate real-time maps with ubiquitous access and applications based on geocollaborative platforms developed for…
The Dark Side of Environmental Peacebuilding
2020
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World Development
Tobias Ide
Environmental peacebuilding refers to efforts aimed at building more peaceful relations through environmental cooperation, natural resource management, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. It…
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.…
Turning Promises Into Action: Gender Equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
2018
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UN Women
“Turning promises into action: Gender equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, UN Women’s new flagship report, provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of…