Battlefields of Method: Evaluating Norwegian Peace Efforts in Sri Lanka
Publisher: Routledge
Author(s): Jonathan Goodhand, Bart Klem, and Gunnar Sorbo
Date: 2014
Topics: Dispute Resolution/Mediation, Governance, Monitoring and Evaluation, Programming
Countries: Norway, Sri Lanka
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. Then it provides a brief overview of Norway’s peace efforts in Sri Lanka, followed by an exploration of the methodological challenges and how it attempted to deal with them. It then tells the story of how our evaluation evolved in practice, dividing its implementation into three chronological phases. The concluding section draws on authors' experience in Sri Lanka to suggest some broader implications.