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Land in Return, Reintegration, and Recovery Processes: Some Lessons From The Great Lakes Region of Africa
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The chapter describes some of the political challenges involved in managing the transition from emergency activities to longer-term 'developmental' policies in Rwanda and Burundi. In…
Gender Empowerment and United Nations Peacebuilding
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Previous studies have suggested that societies where women have higher social and economic status and greater political representation are less likely to become involved in…
Conflict-in-Transformation: Ethics, Phenomenology and the Critique of the ‘Liberalizing’ Peace
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Conflict transformation, and the ‘liberalizing peace’ paradigm of which it is a part, applies a specific ethos of transformation to the project of peacebuilding. This…
Environment and Peacebuilding in War-torn Societies: Lessons from the UN Environment Programme's Experience with Postconflict Assessment
Briefs & Development
Environmental challenges create high-stakes choices in war-torn societies. Handled well, they may create a solid foundation for peace and sustainable development; handled poorly, they risk…
Warfare in Biodiversity Hotspots
Briefs & Development
Conservation efforts are only as sustainable as the social and political context within which they take place. The weakening or collapse of sociopolitical frameworks during wartime…
Conflict-Sensitive Conservation: Field Report from Queen Elizabeth National Park
Briefs & Development
The Conserving the Peace project is being implemented by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) with financial support from the MacArthur Foundation, and with…
Resource Scarcity and the Prevention of Violent Conflicts
Briefs & Development
This article argues that resource scarcity creates multiple impacts on conflicts. It can increase the chances that a nonviolent conflict will become violent and it…
Renewable Natural Resources: Practical Lessons for Conflict Sensitive Development
Briefs & Development
This paper explores how a “conflict and violence sensitive” framework in project assessment, design and implementation facilitates early identification and mitigation of negative consequences of…
Peace Parks and Jaguar Trails: Transboundary COnservation in a Globalizing World
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An increasingly utilized strategy for expanding conservation in the developing world has been the promotion of protected areas that supersede national borders. Alternatively known as…
Seeing Like the International Community: How Peacebuilding Failed (and Survived) in Tajikistan
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The international community claims transformative power over post-conflict spaces via the concept of peacebuilding. International actors discursively make space for themselves in settings such as…
Beyond the Log Frame: A New Tool for Examining Health and Peacebuilding Initiatives
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How do we move from identifying ethical principles to enhancing development practice? How can donors and NGOs move beyond the reporting of technical outputs to…
Encouraging Effective Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities: Towards DAC Guidance
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This report outlines an approach for developing guidance on evaluating conflict prevention and peacebuilding activities. It draws on a broad document review and interviews with…
Gorillas in the Midst: Assessing the Peace and Conflict Impacts of International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP) Activities
Briefs & Development
Conservation work in conflict zones and across international borders has impacts on more than just wildlife populations and their habitats; it can also have a…
Environmental Guidebook on Military Operations
Toolkits & Guidance
This guidebook was developed by a multinational working group consisting of representatives from the defense organizations of Finland, Sweden, and the United States. It reflects…
Participatory Evaluation of Collaborative and Integrated Water Management: Insights from the Field
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The Maitland Watershed Partnerships (MWPs) is a multi-stakeholder forum established in 1999 in an agricultural watershed in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. This paper presents 10 lessons…
Civil Society Organizations and Evaluation: Lessons from Africa
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The past two decades have seen a drastic increase in the role and expectations of civil society organizations (CSOs) in international development, placing greater demands…
The Role of an International Facilitating Service for Conflict Resolution
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The large numbers of deadly conflicts between ethnic and other identity groups around the world call for more extensive and systematic applications of interactive problem-solving…
Negotiating in a Coordination Network of Citizen Peacebuilding Initiatives in the Georgian-Abkhaz Peace Process
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This article analyzes a set of negotiations within a coordination network. These negotiations surrounded the establishment and development of a coordination network of citizen peacebuilding…
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for Development in Peace-Precarious Situations
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Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) supports evidence-based decision-making in program management through rigorous approaches to collecting and using quality data on program performance, results, and impact.…
A Closer Look at Oil, Diamonds, and Civil War
Briefs & Development
Studies of natural resource wealth and civil war have been hampered by measurement error, endogeneity, lack of robustness, and uncertainty about causal mechanisms. This paper…
Contesting Resources: Rent Seeking, Conflict and the Natural Resource Curse
Briefs & Development
A growing empirical literature links natural resource abundance and "pointiness" to impeded economic growth and civil strife. We develop rent seeking and conflict models that…
Using Transformative Models of Adult Literacy in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Processes at Community Level: Examples from Guinea, Sierra Leone and Sudan
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This paper draws on the experience in Guinea, Sierra Leone and South Sudan, to explore how the methodology and modalities of community based participatory literacy…
Third-generation PCIA: Introducing the Aid for Peace Approach
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How can the Aid for Peace approach help to address the questions surrounding the debate on Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA)? The Aid for…
Land and Conflict: A Toolkit for Intervention
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The purpose of this toolkit is to provide a practical introduction to the relationship between land and violent conflict. The relationship is stark, whether we…
Food Security in Protracted Crises: Building More Effective Policy Frameworks
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This paper considers the principal elements that underpin policy frameworks for supporting food security in protracted crisis contexts. It argues that maintaining the food entitlements…
Envisioning Success: Building Blocks for Strategic and Comprehensive Peacebuilding Impact Evaluation
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Linking peacebuilding and development is an emerging area of specialisation. Changes in the political, social, and economic contexts, the intangible dimensions of attitudinal and relational…
Civil Society and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Ambiguities of International Programmes Aimed at Building 'New' Societies
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This article offers a critical analysis of aid programmes aimed at supporting local civil societies in post-conflict peacebuilding (PCPB). Such programmes are often seen to…
Peace Parks in Southern Africa: Bringers of an African Renaissance?
Briefs & Development
The pursuit of an African Renaissance has become an important aspect of regional cooperation between South Africa and its neighbours. Transfrontier conservation areas, or ‘Peace…
Peacebuilding and Development: Integrated Approaches to Evaluation
Briefs & Development
Awareness is growing in both the peacebuilding and development communities about the need to better understand the influence and impact of their programmes and policies…
Zimbabwe’s Land Reform Program: Underinvestment in Post-Conflict Transformation
Briefs & Development
In Zimbabwe’s current crisis, it is easy to overlook the fact that the country had a resettlement program for two decades before the large-scale, politically…