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Civilian Science: The Potential of Participatory Environmental Monitoring in Areas Affected by Armed Conflicts
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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
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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
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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
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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…
Tackling Global Challenges to Equality and Inclusion through the Gender-Responsive Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Spotlight on SDGs 10, 13 and 16
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development carries huge transformative potential. Its vision of putting people and planet first, focusing on sustaining peace, putting gender equality…
State of the Siverskyi Donets Basin and Related Risks Under Military Operations: Technical Report
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The report, available in English and Ukrainian, includes overview of working materials in the field of protection and use of water resources in the Siverskyi Donets…
Gender and Climate Change: Do Female Parliamentarians Make Difference?
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This paper investigates whether female political representation in national parliaments influences climate change policy outcomes. Based on data from a large sample of countries, we…
Exploring Community Resilience and Early Warning Solution for Flash Floods, Debris Flow and Landslides in Conflict Prone Villages of Badakhshan, Afghanistan
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There is a visible paradigm shift in disaster research from hazard and vulnerability assessment to developing framework for community resilience. Further, there is growing recognization…
How the End of Armed Conflicts Influence Forest Cover and Subsequently Ecosystem Services Provision? An Analysis of Four Case Studies in Biodiversity Hotspots
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Ecosystem Services are commonly understood as the goods and services people obtain from nature, such as carbon sequestration, provision of food and fibres, pollination, etc.…
Unexceptional: Assessing Conflict Trends and Peacebuilding Opportunities in the United States
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Americans have long believed that the United States is exceptional among nations, but there are signs that conflict dynamics are threatening the stability of US…
The Dual Track of Democracy Promotion in Post-War Peacebuilding in Cambodia: The Gap Between Institutional Development and Civil Society Mobilisation
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Through consideration of the promotion of democracy in post-war reconstruction in the country, this article aims to explain why anti-government protests in Cambodia have recently…
Stakeholder Participation in Freshwater Monitoring and Evaluation Programs: Applying Thresholds of Potential Concern Within Environmental Flows
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The complex nature of freshwater systems provides challenges for incorporating evidence-based techniques into management. This paper investigates the potential of participatory evidence-based techniques to involve…
Reclaiming Everyday Peace: Local Voices in Measurement and Evaluation After War
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Participatory Monitoring and Evluation, Power Dynamics, and Stakholder Participation: Analysing Dynamics of Participation Between World Vision and Its Stakeholders in The Husalushaka Area Development Programme PM&E
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Participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) is a concept meant to ensure the extensive involvement of project beneficiaries in all stages of the project or programme…
Disaster Risk Reduction Amidst Armed Conflict: Informal Institutions, Rebel Groups, and Wartime Political Orders
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Extant research has explored the effect of natural hazards on the risk of armed conflict, but very few studies have examined how conflict dynamics affect…
Conflict Sensitivity and Conservation: Evaluating Design, Implementation & Practice
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This dissertation investigates the use of a conflict sensitivity framework in supporting environmental conservation work. Employing an action research methodology, it consists of a multi-phase…
Every Practitioner a “Knowledge Worker”: Promoting Evaluative Thinking to Enhance Learning and Adaptive Management in International Development
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International community development involves complex, dynamic processes. Evaluation capacity building (ECB) designed to promote evaluative thinking among community development practitioners can foster more complexity-aware monitoring…
Comparable and Yet Context-Sensitive? Improving Evaluation in Violently Divided Societies Through Methodology
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This article shows that the current stalemate in peacebuilding evaluation is due to disagreements between donor agencies, practitioners and scholar-practitioners about the necessity, appropriate level…
Challenges of Local Ownership: Understanding the Outcomes of the International Community’s ‘Light Footprint’ Approach to the Nepal Peace Process
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This article investigates whether a ‘light footprint’ approach to peacekeeping and peacebuilding by the international community more effectively addresses local drivers of conflict than the…
Greening Peacekeeping: The Environmental Impact of UN Peace Operations
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The 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti, triggered by the UN mission there, killed more than 9,000 people and affected nearly 807,000. This disastrous case drew…
How Theories of Change Can Improve Education Programming and evaluation in Conflict-Affected Contexts
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Theories of change (ToCs) are underutilized in programming and evaluation and seldom analyzed with regard to the challenges and opportunities they present, especially in conflict-affected…
Monitoring and Evaluation of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Programs in Humanitarian Settings: A Scoping Review of Terminology and Focus
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Monitoring and evaluation of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programs is critical to facilitating learning and providing accountability to stakeholders. As part of an…
Measuring Unintended Effects in Peacebuilding: What the Field of International Cooperation Can Learn From Innovative Approaches Shaped by Complex Contexts
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Capturing unintended impacts has been a persistent struggle in all fields of international development, and the field of peacebuilding is no exception. However, because peacebuilding…
The Use of ICTs in Conflict and Peacbuilding: A Feminist Analysis
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The past five years have seen a rapid increase in international attention on and donor funding for the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)…
Survey Report on Elephant Movement, Human-Elephant Conflict Situation, and Possible Intervention Sites in and around Kutupalong Camp, Cox's Bazaar
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IUCN Bangladesh, with support from UNHCR, started a project entitled ‘Biodiversity Conflict Mitigation around the Refugee Camp of Cox’s Bazar District’ with a view to…
Environmental Peacebuilding in South Asia: Establishing Consensus on Hydroelectric Projects in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) Basin
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Multilateral cooperation on hydroelectric dams in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin has been suggested by a number of academic studies as an economically viable and environmentally…
Conflict Minerals in the Corporate Supply Chain: Is Transparency the Solution to Human Rights Violations in the Tantalum, Tin, Tungsten and Gold Supply Chains?
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The European Union has recently enacted the Conflict Minerals Regulation, introducing new transparency requirements for importers of tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold from conflict-affected regions.…
Making Cities in Conflict Areas More Resilient: A Conceptual Iteration: Using the Climate Resilience and Security Monitor for Policies in Practice
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By 2050, the UN estimates that 70 percent of the global population will be living in urban areas. Therefore, understanding and anticipating the ability of…
Gender Equality and Empowerment Benchmark: Initial Scoping Research Report
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The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) seeks to generate a movement around increasing the private sector’s impact towards a sustainable future for all. In 2015, the…
Turning Promises Into Action: Gender Equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
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“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…