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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…
Evaluating Peacebuilding Activities in Settings of Conflict and Fragility
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The high human, economic, political and social costs of violent conflict– coupled with a growing sense that such suffering and devastation could be avoided or…
Fortalecimiento de las capacidades de gestión de los recursos naturales susceptibles de generar conflictos
Briefs & Development
Administrar la tierra y los recursos naturales constituye uno de los desafíos más importantes a los que actualmente se enfrentan los países en desarrollo. La…
Renforcement des capacités pour la gestion harmonieuse et pacifique des ressources naturelles
Briefs & Development
La gestion des terres et des ressources naturelles compte parmi les défis critiques auxquels les pays en développement sont confrontés aujourd’hui. L’exploitation de ressources naturelles…
Strengthening Capacity for Conflict-Sensitive Natural Resource Management
Briefs & Development
The management of land and natural resources is one of the most critical challenges facing developing countries today. The exploitation of high-value natural resources, including…
Using Natural Resources Management as a Peacebuilding Tool: Observations and Lessons from Central Western Mindanao
Briefs & Development
The conflict in Mindanao, Philippines, is widely presented as a religious one, often within a wider Southeast Asian context. Yet many of the underlying disputes…
Ground Truth in Building Human Security
Briefs & Development
This paper describes a world in which indigenous peoples are vulnerable to exploitation and forced eviction when land disputes occur. It shows us the role…
Climate Change Strategies: Afghanistan
Briefs & Development
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has today welcomed a recent national conference during which local road maps for achieving sustainable, inclusive and…
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…