Assessment
Civil Society and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Ambiguities of International Programmes Aimed at Building 'New' Societies
2005
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Security Dialogue
Beatric Pouligny
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…
Challenging the International Peacebuilding Evaluation Discourse with Qualitative Methodologies: Evaluation and Program Planning
2012
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Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex
Tobias Denskus
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…
Land Use and Land Cover Change Detection and Prediction in the Kathmandu District of Nepal Using Remote Sensing and GIS
2020
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Sustainability Journal
Sonam W. Wang, Belay M. Gebru, Munkhnasan Lamchin, Rijan B. Kayastha, and Woo-Kyun Lee
Understanding land use and land cover changes has become a necessity in managing and monitoring natural resources and development especially urban planning. Remote sensing and…
Addressing Climate Security Issues in Central America
2023
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Environmental Change and Security Program (Wilson Center)
Cynthia Brady and Lauren Risi
Since 2017, the Wilson Center and its partners, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), have coordinated…
Blessing or a Burden? The Impact of Peace Services on Peace and Violence in Nepal
2017
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Jeannine Suurmond, Alexandros Lordos, and Prakash M. Sharma
Recent literature highlights the potential of infrastructures for peace for peacebuilding and violence prevention. An increasing number of studies examine cases of infrastructures for peace,…
Beyond the Log Frame: A New Tool for Examining Health and Peacebuilding Initiatives
2008
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Development in Practice
Natalie J. Grove and Anthony B. Zwi
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…
Assessing Context-Specific Peacebuilding Approaches in Contemporary Armed Conflicts: From High-Level Mediation to Middle-Out Linkage in Syria and from Adaptive Mediation to Nationally-Owned Peacebuilding in Mozambique
2020
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Asian Journal of Peacebuilding
Ako Muto and Rui Saraiva
As contemporary armed conflicts become increasingly complex, peacebuilding actors have been unable to prevent or respond effectively to related crises. Considering the policy trends evoked…
Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
2012
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Earthscan from Routledge
David Jensen
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…
Alternative Approaches to Evaluatating Peacebuilding Initiatives
2014
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CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
Isabella Jean and Anita Ernstorfer
This paper reflects on the use of evaluative approaches to peacebuilding and why they are important as alternatives to formal evaluations. The authors provide a…
Advocacy for Development: Effectiveness, Monitoring, and Evaluation
2016
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Wageningen University
Jennifer B Barrett, Margit van Wessel, and Dorothea Hilhorst
Monitoring and evaluation of advocacy for development is an emerging field. Many CSOs, donors and evaluators are now involved with advocacy. Questions of how to…
A Practical Guide to Measuring Women's and Girl's Empowerment in Impact Evaluations
2021
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Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Rachel Glennerster, Claire Walsh, Lucia Diaz-Martin
Impact evaluations can produce useful insights on how to design programs and policies that can increase women’s and girls’ empowerment and help us better understand…
A Perception-Based Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Approach to Foster Effective Co-Management of the Marine Protected Areas in Northwest African
2019
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Ocean and Coastal Management
Djiga Thiao, Lena Westlund, Birane Sambe, Hamet D. Diadhiou, Moustapha Deme, Anna Mbenga, and Mmmadou Diop
In Northwest Africa, the last two decades were characterized by the establishment of many marine protected areas (MPAs) that are considered to be major fisheries…
A Human Security Peace-Building Agenda
2011
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Third World Quarterly
Edward Newman
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…
Financing the Unbanked: How Community Savings Groups Can Create Pathways for Legal Artisanal Gold in Burkina Faso
2023
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IMPACT
Kady Seguin, Victoria Reichel, Raphael Deberdt
This paper explores the connections between financial inclusion, formalization of artisanal miners, and illicit trade. The research demonstrates why financial inclusion is a crucial component…
M&E Insights Episode 5: Lessons from Evaluating Three UNEP Projects (with Emery Brusset) [Video]
2023
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Environmental Law Institute and Environmental Peacebuilding Association
In this video, Emery Brusset shares his experience and learning related to evaluations of three UNEP projects.
This video is the fifth episode in an open…
‘‘Show Me Your Impact’’: Evaluating Transitional Justice in Contested Spaces
2012
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Evaluation and Program Planning
Colleen Duggan
This paper discusses some of the most significant challenges and opportunities for evaluating the effects of programs in support of transitional justice – the field…
Sensibilidade ao Conflito e Construção de Paz Ambiental em Conservação: Lições Aprendidas com a Conservation International
2022
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Conservation International
Nora Moraga-Lewy and Janet Edmond
A Conservation International (CI) vê o conflito e a paz como intrinsecamente ligados ao sucesso de nossa missão. Com base em uma década de experiência…
La Sensibilité aux Conflits et la Consolidation de la Paix Environnementale: Enseignements Tirés de Conservation International
2022
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Conservation International
Nora Moraga-Lewy and Janet Edmond
Conservation International (CI) considere que les conflits et la paix ont un lien fondamental avec la reussite de notre mission. Partant d'une decennie d'experience en…
Sensibilidad ante los Conflictos y Consolidación de la Paz Ambiental en la Conservación: Lecciones Aprendidas de Conservation International
2022
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Conservation International
Nora Moraga-Lewy and Janet Edmond
Conservation International (CI) ve a los conflictos y a la paz como conceptos que están vinculados de manera fundamental al éxito de nuestra misión. Con…
Axed & Burned: How Conflict-Caused Deforestation Impacts Environmental, Socio-Economic and Climate Resilience in Syria
2023
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PAX
Tara Najim, Wim Zwijnenburg, Noor Nahas, and Roberto Jaramillo Vasquez
The war in Syria has now entered its 12th year, leaving a long-lasting humanitarian impact on the country as hundreds of thousands of people have…
Environment and Security in the 21st Century
2023
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Environment & Security
Ashok Swain, Carl Bruch, Tobias Ide, Päivi Lujala, Richard Matthew, and Erika Weinthal
Environment and Security positions itself as an interdisciplinary, international, peer-reviewed journal responding to a broader interest in the topic. It is committed to theoretical and…
Biodiversity, peace and conflict: understandings the connections
2023
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SSRN
Lucy Rist, Cibele Queiroz, and Albert Norström
Trajectories of human conflict have direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem function. These occur across terrestrial, marine and freshwater systems via the well-established…
Joint Statement: Ten-Step Plan to Address the Environmental Impact of War in Ukraine
2023
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Civil Society Groups
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 is causing immense human suffering and loss of life. This war remains equally destructive for the environment,…
Post-Conflict Reconstruction in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq: Agriculture, Cultural Practices and Social Cohesion
2022
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Amal Bourhrous, Shivan Fazil, and Dylan O'Driscoll
The atrocities committed by the Islamic State (IS) between 2014 and 2017 left deep scars on the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq. IS deliberately targeted…
How Nepal Regenerated Its Forests
2023
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Earth Observatory
Emily Cassidy
In the 1970s, Nepal was facing an environmental crisis. Forests in Nepal’s hillsides were being degraded due to livestock grazing and fuelwood harvesting, which led…
Environmental Accountability, Justice and Reconstruction in the Russian War on Ukraine
2023
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Jiyayi Zhou and Ian Anthony
Next month will mark one year since Russia began its full-scale war on Ukraine. This large-scale land invasion has had repercussions across the geopolitical, humanitarian, financial, and…
Conflict Sensitivity & Environmental Peacebuilding in Conservation: Lessons Learned from Conservation International
2022
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Conservation International
Nora Moraga-Lewy and Janet Edmond
First published in English in December 2022, CI’s “Lessons Learned: Conflict Sensitivity & Environmental Peacebuilding in Conservation” report is now available in Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Conservation International (CI) sees conflict and peace…
Building Environmental Peace: The UN Environment Programme as a Knowledge Actor
2022
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Palgrave Macmillan
Natalia Dalmer
By analyzing the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP’s) contribution to peacebuilding, this book aims to show how international bureaucracies develop knowledge and thereby come to matter…
Navigating a Just and Peaceful Transition: Environment of Peace (Part 3)
2022
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Anniek Barnhoorn, Noah Bell, Emilie Broek, Andrea Gadnert, Elise Remling, Jürg A. Staudenmann, Geoffrey Dabelko, Alexis Eberlein, and Daniel Bell-Moran
SIPRI’s Environment of Peace initiative focuses on managing the risks that are created by two interwoven crises: the darkening security horizon and the immense pressures…
Considering the Future of Gender and Peace Operations: Strategic Debates and Operational Challenges
2022
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SIPRI
Gretchen Baldwin
The women, peace and security (WPS) agenda in peace operations has had myriad successes as well as setbacks in implementation. The rise of ‘gender-sensitive’ or…