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Conflict Transformation and Civil Society: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh
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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…
Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation
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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…
Avoiding Perplexity: Complexity-Oriented Monitoring and Evaluation for UN Peace Operations
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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…
Aid to the Enemy: Linking Development and Peacebuilding on the Korean Peninsula
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This article discusses the link between development and peacebuilding to analyze South Korean aid activities in North Korea in the context of the Korean conflict,…
Advocacy for Development: Effectiveness, Monitoring, and Evaluation
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Monitoring and evaluation of advocacy for development is an emerging field. Many CSOs, donors and evaluators are now involved with advocacy. Questions of how to…
Monitoring and Evaluation in Peacebuilding: Reclaiming the Lost Opportunities for Improving Peacebuilding in Practice
Briefs & Development
Pravina Makan-Lakha shares the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes’ (ACCORD) experiences and challenges with developing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) within its role…
Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation: Learning From Methods in International Development
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This article reviews evaluation methods used in the field of international development to draw lessons for the specific challenges of evaluating climate change adaptation. The…
Community Governance and Peacebuilding in Nepal
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This study is based on an institutional analysis of twenty-six grass-roots level organizations which is examined by organizational surveys and three focus group discussions. Findings…
Application of the Result Based Monitoring and Evaluation System by Development Organizations in North Rift Region of Kenya
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Today, many development organizations are using Result Based Monitoring and Evaluation (RBME) system to showcase their impact in peoples’ lives. The RBME is a systematic…
"We Have No Voice for That": Land Rights, Power, and Gender in Rural Sierra Leone
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Much attention has recently focused on the lease of land throughout the global south to nations and corporations in the global north. It is argued…
Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
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Water-management issues cut across all sectors of governance and have a critical bearing on many post-conflict challenges. The imperative of adequate water supply, and the…
Promoting Climate-Resilient Peacebuilding in Fragile States
Briefs & Development
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.…
Nexus Meets Crisis: A Review of Conflict, Natural Resources and the Humanitarian Response in Darfur with Reference to the Water Energy Food Nexus
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Darfur has been widely used as a case study by both those arguing for causality between environmental scarcity and war and those disputing it. This…
Weather Shocks and Violence against Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
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This study uses variation in rainfall to study how extreme shocks to income affect intimate partner violence in Sub-Saharan Africa. It finds that women experiencing…
Can You Use Big Data to Track an Elephant Poacher? [Interactive Map]
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Using the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) Project, which monitors local media around the world (and live-translates it from 65 languages, along…
What Do We Need to Know to Plan and Evaluate Social Programs and Services?: The Methods of Social Research on Community Needs and Resources
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Human trafficking is a serious problem faced by many countries in the world. Several studies have highlighted the so called “pushing” and “pulling” factors that…
The Role of Education in Peacebuilding: An Analysis of Five Change Theories in Sierra Leone
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This paper raises a number of critical questions regarding the contribution of education to peacebuilding. Despite recent calls for greater collaboration between the two fields,…
The Ethical Tipping Points of Evaluators in Conflict Zones
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What is different about the conduct of evaluations in conflict zones compared to nonconflict zones—and how do these differences affect (if at all) the ethical…
Progress Report on Supporting Local Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
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A Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord signed in December 1997 ended the decades-long insurgency, allowing for the recognition of the rights of the peoples…
Post-Crisis Zimbabwe's Innovative Financing Mechanisms in the Social Sectors: A Practical Approach to Implementing the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States
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By focusing on working with line ministries in non-contested sectors to determine local priorities rather than following global prescriptions, pooling funds to achieve scale rather…
Pcia Theory in Field Practice: World Vision's Pursuit of Peace Impact and Programming Quality Across Sectors
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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,…
Monitoring and Evaluation of a Participative Planning Process for the Integrated Management of Natural Resources in the uThukela District Municipality (South Africa)
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This paper intends to monitor the changes in perceptions and behaviour of stakeholders induced by the Afromaison participatory process, which is aimed particularly at helping…
From Conflict to Collaboration in Natural Resource Management: A Handbook and Toolkit for Practitioners Working in Aquatic Resource Systems
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The approaches and tools described here are tailored toward local and communitybased conflicts, such as those between different communities, between communities and government agencies, or…
Mainstreaming Failure or a Small Measure of Success? Observations from a Large-Scale PCIA in Post-War Sri Lanka
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In May 2009, controversies emerged over Sri Lanka’s human rights record in the last stages of the 27-year civil war between the Government of Sri…
ICTs for Monitoring & Evaluation of Peacebuilding Programmes
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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…
How Can Research Contribute to Peacebuilding?
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How do we know whether or not research contributes to peacebuilding? And, what kind of positive or negative impacts may research have? These two questions…
Theory of Change Approach to Climate Change Adaptation Programming
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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…
Battlefields of Method: Evaluating Norwegian Peace Efforts in Sri Lanka
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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.…
An Exploration of the Limitations of Bureaucratic Organizations in Implementing Contemporary Peacebuidling
Briefs & Development
This article seeks to unpack the implications of contemporary peacebuilding for bureaucratic organizational forms. It argues that if the contemporary peacebuilding literature is taken as…
Alternative Approaches to Evaluatating Peacebuilding Initiatives
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This paper reflects on the use of evaluative approaches to peacebuilding and why they are important as alternatives to formal evaluations. The authors provide a…