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Monitoring Ecological Change during Rapid Socio-Economic and Political Transitions: Colombian Ecosystems in the Post-Conflict Era
Briefs & Development
After more than 50-years of armed conflict, Colombia is now transitioning to a more stable social and political climate due to a series of peace…
Toward Sustainable Peace: A New Research Agenda for Post-Conflict Natural Resource Management
Briefs & Development
This forum reflects upon the current state of research on post-conflict natural resource management. It identifies two dominant perspectives on environmental peacebuilding in the literature:…
The 2016 Al-Mishraq Sulphur Plant Fire: Source and Health Risk Area Estimation
Briefs & Development
On October 20, 2016, Daesh (Islamic State) set fire to the sulphur production site Al-Mishraq as the battle of Mosul in northern Iraq became more…
Food Security, Sustaining Peace and Gender Equality: Conceptual Framework and Future Directions
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The main objective of this study is to generate knowledge and make meaningful, evidence-based and actionable recommendations to governments and other stakeholders, particularly international organizations…
The Fifth Column: Understanding the Relationship between Corruption and Conflict
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At the end of the last century, the Western foreign policy consensus was that increases in global wealth, a more interconnected world, and ever greater…
Conflict Minerals: Information on Artisanal Mined Gold and Efforts to Encourage Responsible Sourcing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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The supply chain for artisanal and small-scale mined (ASM) gold—a significant driver of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) economy—involves multiple actors, according to…
Using a Novel Climate-Water Conflict Vulnerability Index to Capture Double Exposures in Lake Chad
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Climate variability is amongst an array of threats facing agricultural livelihoods, with its effects unevenly distributed. With resource conflict being increasingly recognised as one significant…
Land Reform in Afghanistan: Full Impact and Sustainability of $41.2 Million USAID Program is Unknown
Briefs & Development
According to land reform experts, land reform is generally understood to be efforts to correct problems with land distribution and rights to its use. Since…
Wicked Problems: Peacebuilding Evaluation Ethic
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An exchange like this is common in organizations and can be frustrating. The project manager feels like he or she is being asked for data…
The Peacemaking-Peacebuilding-Development Nexus: Marrying South Africa's Peace Democracy and Development Agenda
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South Africa has often been lauded as an influential and pivotal actor in peace and security affairs on the evolving African peace and security architecture.…
Remembering the Red Sea Marine Peace Park
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This chapter aims to share the background of the Marine peace park (MPP) Korea initiative and explores implications and lessons from the experience of the…
Peacebuilding, Civil Society and Aid Conditionality in Cyprus: Evaluating Success Without Sustainability and Impact
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This briefing assesses bicommunal peacebuilding in Cyprus as promoted and funded by foreign donors. This is undertaken by considering policy versus outcome-based conditionality and the…
Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (Pm&E) And Service Delivery in Uganda: A Case of USAID-Safe Program in Gulu District
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This study examined the extent to which Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) enhances service delivery in Uganda. It was carried out on the USAID-SAFE program…
Making the Case for Systematic, Gender-Based Analysis in Sustainable Peace Buidling
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In this article, we address protracted, often recurring violent conflict, arguing that the failure to solve entrenched conflicts and build sustainable peace is due in…
Local Peace Committees in Africa: The Unseen Role in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuidling
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This article seeks to unveil the role of Local Peace Committees (LPCs) in conflict resolution and peacebuilding in Africa. Thus, violence emanating from religious extremism,…
Local Experiences of Liberal Peace: Marketization and Emergent Conflict Dynamics in Sierra Leone
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Over the past 20 years scholars have repeatedly highlighted the complex relationship between conflict, peace and economics. It is today accepted that economic factors at…
Is Peace Building Donor Driven? Inside the Dynamics and Impacts of Funding Peace
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The field of peacebuilding and development has engaged in vital discussions on ethical reflective practice, critical pedagogy, and ongoing concerns (Lederach 1997; Miall et al. 2011) about…
Impact and Outcomes: The Ethical Perils of Distancing in Peacebuilding Grant Solicitation
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This paper explores the moral values that are embedded in peacebuilding funder discourse that affect the focus and locus of peacebuilding projects. The paper analyses…
Evaluation of the Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding Programme
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UN Environment‘s Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding (ECP) programme was launched in 2008. The stated objective of the project is “to strengthen the capacity of fragile…
Factors Affecting Application of Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation System by Nuture Africa
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Donor countries are concerned about development practices in the developing countries where much of the financial and technical investment has been done with little change.…
Decoupling Local Ownership? The Lost Opportunities for Grassroots Women’s Involvement in Liberian Peacebuilding
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Civil society organizations and grassroots groups are often unable to play an active role in postconflict reconstruction and peacebuilding. A possible explanation for the observed…
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
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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…
Leveraging Co-benefits between Gender Equality and Climate Action for Sustainable Development: Mainstreaming Gender Considerations in Climate Change Projects
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In September 2015, world leaders from 193 nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the United Nations General Assembly. While some have hailed…
Mapping Resource Conflicts with Probabilistic Network Models
Briefs & Development
Resource conflict management is an increasingly interesting topic for both scientific advancement and policy analysis. This study provides decision makers with a data-driven tool as a…
Practical Guide: Mining and Communities
Briefs & Development
Working in partnership with Kabinet Cisse (Guinea-based consultant) and more than a dozen authors, especially those affiliated with Insuco, Lien De Brouckere was the lead…