Environmental Peacebuilding Association

Assessment

The Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam and Its Consequences

2023 | Water International
Viktor Vyshnevskyi, Serhii Shevchuk, Viktor Komorin, Yurii Oleynik, and Peter Gleick

The Kakhovka hydropower plant on the Dnipro River in Ukraine, its spillway dam and adjoining structures were completely destroyed in the early morning of 6…

Conceptualizing Community-Based Environmental Peacebuilding in Cesar, Colombia

2023 | Human Ecology
Samyra Hachmann, Katharina Löhr, Héctor Morales-Muñoz, Luca Eufemia, Stefan Sieber, and Michelle Bonatti

In conflict studies, environmental peacebuilding (EPB) has become an established concept to explain how environmental cooperation among opposing parties provides a platform for peacebuilding. EPB…

An Overview of the African Peacebuilding Network's Contribution to African Peacebuilding Literature

2023 | African Peacebuilding Network
Godwin Onuoha

This working paper surveys, documents, and analyzes the contributions of APN scholars to the knowledge and practice of peacebuilding in Africa against the background of…

Using US Natural Resource Damage Assessment to Understand the Environmental Consequences of the War in Ukraine

2022 | Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
Richard J. Wenning and Theodore D. Tomasi

Military conflict has led to large-scale environmental changes throughout recorded human history. Pollution from war contaminates surface water and soil, releases large volumes of greenhouse…

The Power of Real-World Qualitative Assessments for Addressing Climate Security Risks

2023 | Climate Diplomacy
Hector Morales-Munoz

Qualitative research can uncover hidden drivers and connectors, reveal unintended consequences, and generate contextualised and actionable knowledge by delving into the lived experiences, perceptions, values,…

M&E Insights Episode 6: M&E in Conflict-Affected Artisanal Mining Communities (w/ Victoria Reichel) [Video]

2023 | Environmental Law Institute and Environmental Peacebuilding Association

In this video, Victoria Reichel shares her experience and learning related to Monitoring and Evaluating Financing, Gender, and Security Dynamics in Conflict-affected Artisanal Mining Communities –…

Partial Analysis of Flooded Territory Following the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Station Explosion: Conclusions and Results

2023 | UNDP

This report presents the results of the analysis conducted on the flooded territories of the settlements of Korsunka, Kozachi Lageri, Nova Kakhovka, and Rayske following…

A Policy Mix Approach for Assessing Rural Household Resilience to Climate Shocks: Insights from Northeast Brazil

2022 | International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
Carolina Milhorance, Jean-François Le Coq, Eric Sabourin, Nadine Andrieu, Patrícia Mesquita, and Louise Cavalcante

Climate change adaptation is a cross-cutting policy issue that accounts for a diversity of policy approaches, tools, and goals. Unclear conceptualization and the absence of…

Ukrainians Are Accusing Russia of Ecocide: What Does That Mean?

2023 | Foreign Policy Magazine
Clara Gutman-Argemi, Ashley Ahn, and Brawley Benson

The rupture of a major dam in southern Ukraine has displaced the Dnipro River, killed an unknown number of people, and left many Ukrainians homeless.…

The Effects of Armed Conflict on Forest Cover Changes Across Temporal and Spatial Scales in the Colombian Amazon

2021 | Regional Environmental Change
Oscar V. Bautista-Cespedes, Louise Willemen, Augusto Castro-Nunez, and Thomas A. Groen

The Amazon rainforest covers roughly 40% of Colombia’s territory and has important global ecological functions. For more than 50 years, an internal war in the…

Wicked Problems in Peacebuilding and Statebuilding: Making Progress in Measuring Progress Through the New Deal

2013 | Global Governance
Erin McCandless

Peacebuilding and its relatively new partner in international policy discourse and practice—statebuilding—are moving in increasingly larger circles with the recognition that business cannot be done…

What Do We Need to Know to Plan and Evaluate Social Programs and Services?: The Methods of Social Research on Community Needs and Resources

2014 | International Multidisciplinary Conference
Jae-Sung Choi, Chung-Kwon Lee, Myoung-Il Kim, Hye-Jin Kim, and Jung-Woo Kim

Human trafficking is a serious problem faced by many countries in the world. Several studies have highlighted the so called “pushing” and “pulling” factors that…

Using Big Data and Geospatial Approaches in Evaluating Environmental Interventions

2021 | Evaluating Environment in International Development
Anupam Anand and Geeta Batra

Remote sensing and geospatial methods are useful, innovative tools for measuring environmental impact. They provide reliable and cost-effective baseline information, help detect changes over time,…

Unexceptional: Assessing Conflict Trends and Peacebuilding Opportunities in the United States

2018 | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Liz Hume

Americans have long believed that the United States is exceptional among nations, but there are signs that conflict dynamics are threatening the stability of US…

Understanding Theory of Change in International Development

2012 | The Asia Foundation
Danielle Stein and Craig Valters

This is a review of the concepts and common debates within ‘Theory of Change’ (ToC) material, resulting from a search and detailed analysis of available…

Transparency and Accountability in the Extractives Sector: A Synthesis of What Works and What Does Not

2019 | International Initiative for Impact Evaluatio
Francis Rathinam, Priyanka Cardoz, Zeba Siddiqui, and Marie Gaarder

While there are a number of transparency and accountability initiatives in the natural resources governance sector, evidence on the impact of these initiative remains sparse.…

Thinking Creatively About Methodological Issues in Conflict-Affected Societies

2013 | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Sylvester B. Maphosa

Conducting interviews and collecting data with which to evaluate peacebuilding programming may be problematic in many conflict-affected societies. However, many researchers do not document their…

The Role of the External in Local Peacebuilding: Enabling Action -- Managing Risk

2013 | Global Governance
Jannie Lilja and Kristine Hoglund

Local peacebuilding has been embraced in principle by many donors, but the practice of external support to local initiatives needs further systematic study. While previous…

The Peacemaking-Peacebuilding-Development Nexus: Marrying South Africa's Peace Democracy and Development Agenda

2016 | Strategic Review for Southern Africa
Faith Mabera

South Africa has often been lauded as an influential and pivotal actor in peace and security affairs on the evolving African peace and security architecture.…

The Flow of Management Practices: An Analysis of NGO Monitoring and Evaluation Dynamics

2013 | Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
Jeffrery H Marshall and David Suarez

Which characteristics of NGOs are associated with the adoption of modern management practices and to what extent have those practices become standardized? Based on a…

The Evaluation of Peacebuilding Initiatives: Putting Learning into Practice

2010 | Strategies of Peace
Hal Culbertson

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…

Systems for Assessing the Effectiveness of Management in Protected Areas

2003 | BioScience
Marc Hockings

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…

Social Dialogue: A Tool of Social Reintegration and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Nepal

2019 | Asian Journal of Peacebuilding
Chiranjibi Bhandari

Successfully reintegrating former rebels into civil society is a crucial task in post conflict countries. In the aftermath of a decade-long conflict (1996-2006) in Nepal,…

Seeing Like the International Community: How Peacebuilding Failed (and Survived) in Tajikistan

2008 | Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
John Heathershaw

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…

Reclaiming Everyday Peace: Local Voices in Measurement and Evaluation After War

2018 | Cambridge University Press
Pamina Firchow

Putting Peace Back Into the Peace Corps: Restoring International Volunteering for Development as a Peacebuilding Modality

2020 | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Joshua M. Inton-Campbell

International volunteering for development is neglected as a peacebuilding model, despite its origins in the early 20th-century pacifist movement. In part, this is due to…