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Restoration of Damaged Land in Soceities Recovering from Conflict: The Case of Lebanon
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Societies emerging from armed conflict face multiple social, political, and economic challenges. Natural resource management has been hailed as a tool for post-conflict peacebuilding because…
Risk-Averse to Risk-Willing: Learning from the 2011 Somalia Cash Response
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In 2011 the humanitarian community faced a difficult question. Could large-scale cash transfers provide an effective alternative to food aid delivery in South Central Somalia…
Mitigating the Environmental Impacts of Post-Conflict Assistance: Assessing USAID's Approach
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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…
Looking Back, Moving Forward: International Approaches to Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
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Based on a review of existing literature, this article provides an initial analysis of obstacles to addressing impunity for widespread conflict-related sexual violence. First, a…
International Peacebuilding Goes Local: Analysing Lederach's Conflict Transformation Theory and its Ambivalent Encounter with 20 Years of Practice
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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…
Generations for Peace Programmes in Kaduna, Nigeria: Monitoring and Evaluation Capability and Programme Impact
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This focus stems from two considerations: first, the state of the Sport for Peace and Development (SPD) field, where a number of recent works have…
Examining the Role of WASH Services Within Peace- and Statebuilding Processes
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This synthesis report presents the findings of a one-year research project funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and implemented by Tearfund and ODI,…
Evaluation Report on Supporting Systemic and Participatory Mediation Approaches Within Local Peace Committees Implemented by CSSP and CPRP in Dhading and Rautahat in 2012
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The CSSP, Germany and CPRP, Nepal designed “Supporting systemic and participatory mediation approaches within Local Peace Committees” project which has been implemented in Dhading and…
Evaluating Peace Operations: The Case of Cambodia
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This article applies Diehl and Druckman’s evaluative framework to the case of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC, 1992-1993), finding it to be…
Enhancing Resilience to Food Security Shocks
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This paper identifies the key elements and processes involved in resilience building in various contexts but draws extensively from literature and programming experienced based in…
Beyond Local Ownership in the Architecture of International Peace
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‘Local ownership' and ‘participation’ have become buzzwords for international intervention, whether military, humanitarian or developmental, by the UN, World Bank, agencies or non-governmental organizations. This…
Analysis of Impacts of Armed Conflict on the Eastern Afromontane Forest Region on the South Sudan -- Uganda Border Using Multitemporal Landsat Imgery
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The impacts of armed conflict on ecosystems are complex and difficult to assess due to restricted access to affected areas during wartime making satellite remote…
An Inescapable Curse? Resource Management, Violent Conflict, and Peacebuilding in the Niger Delta
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For most post-conflict countries, the transition to peace is daunting. In countries with high-value natural resources – including oil, gas, diamonds, other minerals, and timber…
‘‘Show Me Your Impact’’: Evaluating Transitional Justice in Contested Spaces
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This paper discusses some of the most significant challenges and opportunities for evaluating the effects of programs in support of transitional justice – the field…
Evaluating Peacebuilding Activities in Settings of Conflict and Fragility
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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…
Mainstreaming the Environment into Postwar Recovery: The Case for 'Ecological Development'
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In the past decade there has been an increased realization of the shared geography between biodiversity and conflict, with recent research finding that over 80 percent…
What Are The Opportunities to Promote Gender Equity in Conflict-Affected and Fragile States? Insights from a Review of Evidence
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This article draws on a study which reviewed current evidence and lessons on how gender equality can be effectively strengthened in the context of conflict-affected…
PeacePlayers International: A Case Study on the Use of Sport as a Tool for Conflict Transformation
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Since 2001, PeacePlayers International has helped over 50,000 young people overcome deep ethnic, religious or social divides in their communities through basketball. The authors describe…
Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA): Lessons from Pakistan
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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…
Lessons Learned From Environmental Management of the Iraqi Marshlands in the Post-Conflict Period
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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…
Improving Peacebuilding Evaluation: A Whole-of-Field Approach
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In May 2010, the Alliance for Peacebuilding in collaboration with the United States Institute of Peace launched the Peacebuilding Evaluation Project. Over the course of…
Evaluating Peacebuilding: Not Yet All It Could Be
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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…
A Human Security Peace-Building Agenda
Briefs & Development
International peacebuilding in post-conflict societies has helped to bring armed conflicts to an end and reduced the recurrence of war. According to some scholars, peacebuilding…
The Evaluation of Peacebuilding Initiatives: Putting Learning into Practice
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An appropriate evaluation of peacebuilding initiatives is a pressing concern for improving and legitimizing peacebuilding efforts. Culbertson provides a helpful comparison of accountability-based and learning-based…
Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) in Community Development: A Case Study from Mozambique
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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…
Land and natural disasters: guidance for practitioners
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The Guidelines provide a holistic approach to addressing land issues from the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster through early recovery and reconstruction phases. It…
Human Rights Education in Peacebuilding: A Look at How Far the Practice Has Come and Where it Needs to Head
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The world’s peace-building and development organizations increasingly are incorporating human-rights frameworks into the myriad of activities now under their purview. Slower to develop, however, are…
Conservation Geographies in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Politics of National Parks, Community Conservation and Peace Parks
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Sub-Saharan Africa has been the location of intense conservation planning since the colonial era. Under the auspices of wilderness protection, colonial authorities established national parks…
Evaluation of Peacebuilding Initiatives: Putting Learning into Practice
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An appropriate evaluation of peacebuilding initiatives is a pressing concern for improving and legitimizing peacebuilding efforts. Culbertson provides a helpful comparison of accountability-based and learning-based…
At the Heart of REDD+: A Role for Local People in Monitoring Forests?
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Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD+) is a policy mechanism now agreed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…