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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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…
The Institutional Paradox of Community Based Wildlife Management
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Over ten years of social and ecological monitoring and evaluation, planning effort, policy change, legislative reform, donor support and pilot design have taken place for…
Multi-County Cooperation Around Shared Waters: Role of Monitoring and Evaluation
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Sustainable development of freshwater resources shared by two or more countries and reducing the risk of conflict between the riparians requires the development of effective…
Conflict Timber: Dimensions of the Problem in Asia and Africa
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Conflict timber—conflict financed or sustained through the harvest and sale of timber (Type 1), or conflict emerging as a result of competition over timber or…
Systems for Assessing the Effectiveness of Management in Protected Areas
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Since the mid-1990s, numerous methodologies have been developed to assess the management effectiveness of protected areas, many tailored to particular regions or habitats. Recognizing the…
Local Level Challenges to Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
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Laying the basis for a sustainable political order in the aftermath of civil war requires a broader perspective on the state than the one commonly…
A Path Least Taken: Economic and Social Rights and the Prospects of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding in Africa
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A critical appraisal of the dominant conflict prevention and peacebuilding strategies usually deployed in Africa and elsewhere reveals its narrow vision. Despite UDHR's enunciation of…
Rapid Assessment of Protected Area Management Effectiveness in Four Countries
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Assessing the management effectiveness of a protected area system can enable policymakers to develop strategic, systemwide responses to pervasive management problems. The World Wide Fund…
Conserving Forest Biodiversity in Times of Violent Conflict
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Forests are often frontiers, and like all frontiers, they are sites of dynamic social, ecological, political and economic changes. Such dynamism involves constantly changing advantages…
Evaluation as Peacebuilding?: Transformative Values, Processes, and Outcomes
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An evaluation approach that is collaborative and elicitive may well serve as a catalyst for transforming relationships of power, standing in stark contrast to more…
Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators for GEF International Waters Projects
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Effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is increasingly recognized as an indispensable tool in project and program management. If done well, an M&E plan and the…
The Trampled Grass: Mitigating the Impacts of Armed Conflict on the Environment
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The Biodiversity Support Program's Armed Conflict and the Environment Project ran from 1998 to 2001 to identify and raise awareness about the negative impacts of…
Towards Conflict Transformation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with Specific Reference to the Model of Kumar Rupesinghe
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The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to claim the lives of ordinary citizens. This is despite the efforts of the international…
Learning from Change: Issues and Experiences in Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
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This book is a collection of experiences in participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) from around the world. It allows different ‘voices’ to tell their story from…
Does Peacebuilding Build Peace? Liberal (Mis)Steps in the Peace Process
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Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation for Natural Resource Management and Research
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Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) have long been important for funding agencies to assess actual change against stated objectives, and thus to judge whether development assistance…
Evaluating Management of Protected Areas: Integrating Planning and Evaluation
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An approach to evaluating the effectiveness of management of protected areas is proposed. This approach has been used in developing an evaluation strategy for the…