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Peacebuilding and Development Trainings: What's Not Working and What We Should Be Doing Instead
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Peacebuilding and development are two sides of the same coin yet integrating the two processes remains an ongoing challenge. One tool for achieving such integration…
Peace & Sustainability: An Evaluation of the United Nations' Peacebuilding Missions in Afghanistan
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This study is an evaluation of the peacebuilding missions in Afghanistan, made by the United Nations, in relation to policies of sustainable development. The theoretical…
Mapping the Field of International Peace Education Programs and Exploring Their Networked Impact on Peacebuilding
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Conventional wisdom holds that international education builds cross-cultural capacity, and evaluations of peacebuilding interventions point to significant impacts. Yet, little scholarship links these fields or…
Disaster Risk Reduction and Protracted Violent Conflict
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This report is part of the project ‘When disasters and conflict collide: uncovering the truth’, a collaboration between the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation…
Designing Peacebuilding and Conflict Management Training in Nigeria: National Peace Academy Experience
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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…
Collaborative Governance and Conflict Management: Lessons Learned and Good Practices from a Case Study in the Amazon Basin
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Given the linkages between natural resources and social conflicts, evidence increasingly shows that successful natural resource management requires conflict mitigation and prevention. However, there may…
Adaptive Co-Management and Conflict Resolution for Rewilding across Development Contexts
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Achieving Organisational Learning in Natural Resource Management
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The reality of public sector natural resource management (NRM) agencies today is one of progressively tightening budgets (Mcllroy 2017) and simultaneous requirements to be more…
A Perception-Based Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Approach to Foster Effective Co-Management of the Marine Protected Areas in Northwest African
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In Northwest Africa, the last two decades were characterized by the establishment of many marine protected areas (MPAs) that are considered to be major fisheries…
Enhancing the Efficiacy of Religious Peacebuilding Practice: An Exploratory Evidence-Based Framework for Assessing Dominant Risks in Religious Peacebuilding
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The ‘risk assessment’ in peacebuilding has become a standard, if sometimes slightly formulaic and performative, element of project design and written proposals. Largely driven by…
Management Effectiveness and Conservation Prioritizing the Protected Areas Using RAPPAM Methodology (Case Study: Khuzestan Province)
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In the world today, where the industrialization of countries is still on the increase, protecting habitats and wildlife will be possible only in protected areas.…
Terminal Evaluation of the UNEP/GEF Project "Strengthening Law Enforcement Capabilities to Combat Wildlife Crime for Conservation and Sustainable Use of Species in South Africa: (Target - Rhinoceros)" GEF ID 4937
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This report is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP-GEF funded project implemented between 2014 and 2019. The project’s overall objective was to improve the effectiveness…
Evaluating Transdisciplinary Approaches
Briefs & Development
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…
A participatory approach to peacebuilding evaluation in Seke district, Zimbabwe
Briefs & Development
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
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Conference Report for the First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding
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From October 23-25, 2019, more than 250 scholars, practitioners, decisionmakers, and students from 40 countries came together for the First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding.…
A Casualty of Peace? Lessons on De-Militarizing Conservation in the Cordillera del Condor Corridor (Chapter in "Collateral Values of Natural Capital")
Briefs & Development
The resolution in 1998 of the armed conflict between Peru and Ecuador through environmental peace-building negotiations, creating a transboundary conservation area, have been heralded as…
Addressing Climate-Fragility Risks: Linking Peacebuilding, Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Livelihoods (Monitoring and Evaluation)
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This M&E note supports the monitoring and evaluation of strategies, policies and projects that seek to increase resilience by linking climate change adaptation, peacebuilding, and…
Spatial and Political Factors in Forest Resource Conflicts: The Eastern Mau Forest Case 1992–2014
Briefs & Development
This paper examines conflicts and forest resource politics in Eastern Mau, which is part of the Mau forest complex in Kenya. Conflict hotspots are mapped…
War-Induced Collapse and Asymmetric Recovery of Large-Mammal Populations in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
Briefs & Development
How do large-mammal communities reassemble after being pushed to the brink of extinction? Few data are available to answer this question, as it is rarely…
Disaster Risk Reduction in Conflict Contexts: The State of the Evidence
Briefs & Development
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…
Environmental Decision-Making within a Recovering War Zone: The Republic of Iraq (chapter in "Global Case Studies of Collaboration and Transformation")
Briefs & Development
Iraq faces numerous environmental problems including severe pollution, intertwined with a host of other issues, principally because of decades of war, international sanctions, and general…
Beyond Revenues: Measuring and Valuing Environmental and Social Impacts in Extractive Sector Governance
Briefs & Development
Oil, gas and mining projects can generate substantial revenues for host countries. At the same time, extractive activities generate a range of other positive and…
New Method for Environmental Monitoring in Armed Conflict Zones: A Case Study of Syria
Briefs & Development
Today, armed conflict affects some twenty countries, covering an area making up 11% of the surface area of the Earth. Any degradation of nature in…
Mining the Disclosures 2019
Briefs & Development
For the sixth consecutive year, Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN) is analyzing corporate compliance under Special Disclosure Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act (otherwise known as…
Evaluation of Environmental Peacebuilding Projects in the Middle East - Towards a Framework that Captures Real Impacts
Briefs & Development
This research was conducted in order to close the knowledge gap relating to suitable evaluation methodologies for Environmental Peacebuilding approaches. While the field of environmental peacebuilding continuously…
Guidelines for Conflict-Sensitive Adaptation to Climate Change
Briefs & Development
Climate change increases the frequency and severity of natural disasters, and reduces access to and the availability of resources – environmental changes that have serious…
Civilian Science: The Potential of Participatory Environmental Monitoring in Areas Affected by Armed Conflicts
Briefs & Development
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…
Environmental Conflict and Cooperation
Briefs & Development
Environmental Conflict and Cooperation explores the evolution of environmental conflict as a field of research and the study of cooperation as an alternative to war. Over…
Education and Environmental Peacebuilding: Insights from Three Projects in Israel and Palestine
Briefs & Development
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.…
In Defense of Land Rights: A Monitoring Report on Land Conflicts in Six Asian Countries
Briefs & Development
Private sector investments in agriculture have been increasing in Asia. This increase in agricultural investments has contributed to intensified competition for agricultural lands. Forest communities…