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Resource Conflict, Collective Action, and Resilience: An Analytical Framework
Briefs & Development
Where access to renewable natural resources essential to rural livelihoods is highly contested, improving cooperation in resource management is an important element in strategies for…
The Impact of Transfrontier Conservation Areas on Regional Integration
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Transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) have been established or are under discussion in various locations within Southern Africa. The aim is to have 18 TFCAs in…
Evaluation and Monitoring of Long-Term Peace and Enviornmental Education Program in a Region of Intractable Conflict
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Managing long-term peace and environmental education programs toward positive encounters and peace building in a region of intractable conflict requires constant evaluation and monitoring of…
Humanitarian Assistance and Peacebuilding
Briefs & Development
This chapter explores the integration of humanitarian assistance and peacebuilding in conflict and immediate postconflict settings. It begins with a brief overview of international humanitarian…
Monitoring and evaluation of peacebuilding: the role of new media
Briefs & Development
This research paper compiles and elaborates on key challenges, opportunities and lessons for the use of new media monitoring and evaluating peacebuilding activities. It draws…
Socio-Economic Analysis of Natural Resources in Mindanao
Briefs & Development
The study is aimed at investigating the solution to sub-national conflicts. We focus on one of the root causes of sub-national conflicts, which is the…
Food Insecurity and Conflict Dynamics: Causal Linkages and Complex Feedbacks
Briefs & Development
This paper addresses two related topics: 1) the circular link between food insecurity and conflict, with particular emphasis on the Sahel, and 2) the potential…
Atlantic Council on South Asia Instability [Video]
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We are focusing today on Iran and its eastern neughbors, specifically Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. While Iran is often considered a Middle Eastern country, in…
Extractive Industries and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: The Role of Social Accountability
Country Assessments
Recent estimates of deposits in Afghanistan indicate that mineral extraction could contribute to the economic growth the country needs to sustain its efforts in peacebuilding…
Conservation in a Wicked Complex World: Challenges and Solutions
Toolkits & Guidance
Most conservation challenges are complex and possess all the characteristics of so called “wicked” problems. Despite widespread recognition of this complexity conservationists possess a legacy…
Reconnaissance Investigation of the Rough Diamond Resource Potential and Production Capacity of Côte d’Ivoire
Country Assessments
This report presents the results of a multiyear effort to monitor the diamond mining activities of Côte d’Ivoire’s two main diamond mining areas, Séguéla and…
Targeted Scenario Analysis: A New Approach to Capturing and Presenting Ecosystem Service Values for Decision Makers
Toolkits & Guidance
This guidebook provides a step-by-step introduction to Targeted Scenario Analysis (TSA), an innovative analytical approach, developed by UNDP that captures and presents the value of…
Understanding Theory of Change in International Development
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This is a review of the concepts and common debates within ‘Theory of Change’ (ToC) material, resulting from a search and detailed analysis of available…
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…
Peace Operation Success: The Evaluation Framework
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This article outlines and summarizes the Diehl and Druckman evaluation framework that is used in the case studies that follow. An overview of the decision…
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…
Challenging the International Peacebuilding Evaluation Discourse with Qualitative Methodologies: Evaluation and Program Planning
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Monitoring and evaluating international peacebuilding efforts have become more sophisticated over the past years, but still relies on managerial approaches that often do not capture…
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…
Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
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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…
Analysis of Impacts of Armed Conflict on the Eastern Afromontane Forest Region on the South Sudan -- Uganda Border Using Multitemporal Landsat Imgery
Country Assessments
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
Briefs & Development
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…