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Mainstreaming the Environment into Postwar Recovery: The Case for 'Ecological Development'
Briefs & Development
In the past decade there has been an increased realization of the shared geography between biodiversity and conflict, with recent research finding that over 80 percent…
What Are The Opportunities to Promote Gender Equity in Conflict-Affected and Fragile States? Insights from a Review of Evidence
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This article draws on a study which reviewed current evidence and lessons on how gender equality can be effectively strengthened in the context of conflict-affected…
PeacePlayers International: A Case Study on the Use of Sport as a Tool for Conflict Transformation
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Since 2001, PeacePlayers International has helped over 50,000 young people overcome deep ethnic, religious or social divides in their communities through basketball. The authors describe…
Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA): Lessons from Pakistan
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In the early 1990s, on the basis of prior experiences of International Development Agencies (IDAs) in conflict zones, a need was identified to explore, understand…
Measuring Peacebuilding: Challenges, Tools, Actions
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How can the effectiveness of peacebuilding operations in countries marked by conflict be better measured? This policy brief examines the steps needed to improve the…
Lessons Learned From Environmental Management of the Iraqi Marshlands in the Post-Conflict Period
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As part of the United Nations assistance for the reconstruction of Iraq, the United Nations Environment Programme implemented a large-scale initiative in the Iraqi marshlands…
Improving Peacebuilding Evaluation: A Whole-of-Field Approach
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In May 2010, the Alliance for Peacebuilding in collaboration with the United States Institute of Peace launched the Peacebuilding Evaluation Project. Over the course of…
Evaluating Peacebuilding: Not Yet All It Could Be
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This chapter explores the state of the art of evaluation in peacebuilding. After reviewing recent developments (section 2) and current practice (section 3), it proposes…
Developing a Prototype Handbook for Monitoring and Evaluating Department of Defense Humanitarian Assistance Projects
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This product is part of the RAND Corporation technical report series. Reports may include research findings on a specific topic that is limited in scope;…
A Human Security Peace-Building Agenda
Briefs & Development
International peacebuilding in post-conflict societies has helped to bring armed conflicts to an end and reduced the recurrence of war. According to some scholars, peacebuilding…
USAID/Philippines Success Story of the Environmental Governance (EcoGov) Project (Final Evaluation Report)
Country Assessments
The Philippines Environmental Governance Project Phase 2 Project (EcoGov) is an initiative of the Government of the Philippines, implemented in partnership with the Department of…
The Evaluation of Peacebuilding Initiatives: Putting Learning into Practice
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An appropriate evaluation of peacebuilding initiatives is a pressing concern for improving and legitimizing peacebuilding efforts. Culbertson provides a helpful comparison of accountability-based and learning-based…
Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) in Community Development: A Case Study from Mozambique
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Peace and conflict impact assessment (PCIA) is a tool that potentially can improve the quality of development work in conflict zones. PCIA’s conceptual strengths and…
Land and natural disasters: guidance for practitioners
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The Guidelines provide a holistic approach to addressing land issues from the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster through early recovery and reconstruction phases. It…
Impact Assessment, Not Evaluation: Defining a Limited Role for Positivism in the Study of Transitional Justice
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Discussions of impact assessment and evaluation are the newest installment in the brief history of the field of transitional justice. Noticeably, a positivist logic of…
Human Rights Education in Peacebuilding: A Look at How Far the Practice Has Come and Where it Needs to Head
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The world’s peace-building and development organizations increasingly are incorporating human-rights frameworks into the myriad of activities now under their purview. Slower to develop, however, are…
Conservation Geographies in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Politics of National Parks, Community Conservation and Peace Parks
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Sub-Saharan Africa has been the location of intense conservation planning since the colonial era. Under the auspices of wilderness protection, colonial authorities established national parks…
Evaluation of Peacebuilding Initiatives: Putting Learning into Practice
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An appropriate evaluation of peacebuilding initiatives is a pressing concern for improving and legitimizing peacebuilding efforts. Culbertson provides a helpful comparison of accountability-based and learning-based…
At the Heart of REDD+: A Role for Local People in Monitoring Forests?
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Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD+) is a policy mechanism now agreed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…
Protected Area Management Effectiveness Assessments in Europe: A Review of Application, Methods, and Results
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The European Study on protected are a management effectiveness (PAME) evaluation was conducted between May 2009 and March 2010. Its main purpose was to provide…
A Global Analysis of Protected Area Management Effectivenes
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We compiled details of over 8000 assessments of protected area management effectiveness across the world and developed a method for analyzing results across diverse assessment…
Looking Back When Looking Forward: Peacebuilding Policy Approaches and Processes in Africa
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The United Nations, through the creation of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) and the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), has attempted to institutionalise sustained attention to and the…
Evaluating Development Interventions in Peace-Precarious Situations
Briefs & Development
International development assistance tackles sociopolitical and socioeconomic problems, typically with formal host government and population buy-in (or acquiescence), in settings with complex interrelated challenges. A…
Participatory Research Methodologies: Development and Post-Conflict Disaster/Conflict Reconstruction
Briefs & Development
Participatory research methodologies have been used since the 1970s as a tool to garner accurate information about communities in which development practitioners operate. Their usefulness…
In Search of Protection and Livelihoods: Socio-economic and Environmental Impacts of Dadaab Refugee Camps on Host Communities
Briefs & Development
The Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya’s North Eastern Province comprises the three camps of Dagahaley, Hagadera and Ifo, which officially accommodate around 270.000 predominantly Somali…
Improving Natural Resource Governance: A Key to Ensuring Peace and Stability in Mindanao, Philippines
Briefs & Development
Following decades of conflict, in 1996 the Moro National Liberation Front signed a peace agreement with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP);…
Promoting Conflict Sensitivity in Transboundary Protected Areas: A Role for Peace and Conflict Impact Assessments
Briefs & Development
Conflict is detrimental to conservation, while conservation is, in many respects, inherently conflictual. How can we reconcile the goals of peace and biodiversity conservation? One…
Healing the Rift: Peace Building in and around Protected Areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Albertine Rift
Briefs & Development
All conservation managers have to manage conflict in their work. Whether it is dealing with a farmer who has lost a cow to a wolf…
The EU Peace II Fund and the International Fund for Ireland: Nurturing Cross-Community Contact and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland
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Economic aid is one component of peacebuilding that has been given increasing prominence in its ability to build both sustainable peace and development. This article…
Peacebuilding Through a Gender Lens and the Challenges of Implementation in Rwanda and Côte d'Ivoire
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With the hypothesis in mind that discrimination against women increases the likelihood that a state will experience internal conflict, this article contends that considering gender…