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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
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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…
Global Governance
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This paper explores methodological approaches that can be used to monitor and evaluate climate change adaptation initiatives at the projects and programme levels. It examines…
UN Peace Operations and International Policing: Negotiating Complexity, Assessing Impact, and Learning to Learn
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This book addresses the important question of how the United Nations (UN) should monitor and evaluate the impact of police in its peace operations. UN…
Southern African Development Community Transfrontier Conservation Guidelines: The Establishment and Development of TFCA Initiatives Between SADC Member States
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Transfrontier Conservation and the establishment and development of Transfrontier Conservation Areas are recognised as a mechanism that is appropriate for delivery on a number of…
Needs Before Tools: Using Technology in Environmental Conflict Resolution
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Environmental conflict resolution practitioners have become increasingly interested in using information technology to work collaboratively across sectors. Discussions to date, however, have focused on specific…
Climate Change and Conflict: Making Sense of Disparate Findings
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This introduction to the special issues starts with a general overview of the literature. The relationship between climate, climate change, and conflict has been empirically…
Transboundary Conservation and Militarized Interstate Disputes
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Advocates of transboundary conservation argue that borderlands can be a source of cooperation between neighboring states that previously engaged in conflict. It has been stated that, by…
External Evaluation - "Good Water Neighbours Project" - Concluding Report of Years 2012-2014
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The Good Water Neighbor (GWN) project is the flagship project of EcoPeace/Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) since 2001. FoEME's main objective is to…
Protecting Groundwater
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Groundwater is the world’s most important source of freshwater, constituting 97% of the Earth’s freshwater reserves. However, in the Mediterranean Region, groundwater quality along the…
Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment of the Palestinian–Israeli Water Situation
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This paper examines and discusses the prolonged Palestinian–Israeli water conflict, taking into consideration recent formal and informal water negotiations and emphasising the future of water-based…
Building for the Longterm: Avoiding the Resource Curse in Afghanistan
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Afghanistan’s natural resources offer both hope and risk. Many people look to mining and oil to drive development as the international presence winds down. But…
Contestation and Reconstruction: Natural Capital and Post-Conflict Development in Borderland Regions
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Though often remote and underdeveloped, borderlands are contested territories. The incorporation of borderlands into the post-conflict state highlights many important land-related paradigms, including the conversion…
Political Violence, Land Reform and Child Health: Results from Zimbabwe
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The article examines the impact of politically-motivated violence in Zimbabwe following the 2000 referendum and the accompanying it controversial land reform on children's health, measured…
Integrating Climate Change into Peacebuilding
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Peacebuilding countries are concentrated in areas of heightened vulnerability to climate change impacts, and almost certainly lack the capacity to manage these impacts. In spite…
Afghanistan: Western Basin Water Resources
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The Western Basin Water Resource Management and Irrigated Agriculture Development Project is a ‘sector’ project under the Natural Resources Sector in Afghanistan. The project was based…