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  • Strengthening Locally-Led Peacebuilding: From Policy to Action 
    Hume, Liz; Mitchell, Leslie (Alliance for Peacebuilding, 2021-12)
    Locally-led peacebuilding (LLPB) is critical to preventing and managing violent conflict and building sustainable peace in conflict-affected and fragile states. This policy brief outlines the importance of LLPB programming ...
  • A Summary of Lessons Learned: Studies and Evaluations 
    United Nations (United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, 2020)
    The United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, in order to strengthen its accountability and organizational learning, commissions several evaluative exercises—lessons learned studies and evaluations—every ...
  • Supporting Social Accountability in the Middle East and North Africa : Lessons from Transitions 
    Grandvoinnet, Helene; Felicio, Mariana; Thindwa, Jeff; Bousquet, Frank (World Bank, 2012-01)
    Social accountability is increasingly recognized as a way to make governance reforms and development efforts more effective in responding to the needs of citizens. Supporting initiatives that strengthen social accountability ...
  • Ten Steps to a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System : A Handbook for Development Practitioners 
    Kusek, Jody Zall; Rist, Ray C. (World Bank, 2004)
    An effective state is essential to achieving socio-economic and sustainable development. With the advent of globalization, there are growing pressures on governments and organizations around the world to be more responsive ...
  • Together We Can: Supporting Local Peace Efforts in Magwi County 
    Broers, Adalei; Juma, Amzah (Search for Common Ground, 2015-10)
    This report offers approaches to conducting conflict mapping exercises and engages local partners and local communities to resolve conflict and to intervene in case of an event to reduce tensions. The report focuses on ...
  • Towards full spectrum conflict prevention: the international peace and prosperity project in Guinea-Bissau 
    Hoffman, Evan (Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 2013)
    The author analyzes the results of a pilot project (2004 – 2009) focused on conflict prevention and early warning in Guinea Bissau by the Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiation. Guinea Bissau was considered ...
  • Transitional Justice and Reconciliation: Theory and Practice 
    Fischer, Martina (Berghof Foundation, 2011-01)
    This article explores the concept of transitional justice and its role in debates on democratization, nation-building and state reconstruction and its relation to reconciliation, both of which have become increasingly ...
  • Translating Mediation Guidance into Practice: Commentary on the UN Guidance for Effective Mediation by the Mediation Support Network 
    Alvarez, Miguel; Avasiloae, Sabina; Cristescu, Roxana; Dziatkowiec, Paul; Hellmueller, Sara; Kirchhoff, Lars; Kraus, Anne Isabel; Mason, Simon; Mutisi, Martha; Stock, Nathan; Unger, Barbara; Yousuf, Zahbia (Mediation Support Network, 2012)
    This is a short monograph that summarizes a series of meetings of the Mediation Support Network (MSN), a network of primarily non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that support mediation in peace negotiations. Specifically, ...
  • Transnational NGOs and Local Struggles 
    Paczynska, Agnieszka (Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, 2006-09-18)
  • Ukraine and Recovery and Peacebuilding Assessment: Analysis of Crisis Impacts and Needs in Eastern Ukraine 
    European Union; United Nations; The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank, 2015-03)
    This study was launched jointly by the European Union, United Nations and World Bank in response to the conflict that erupted in the eastern Ukrainian oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk—known as the Donbas—where pro-Russian ...
  • United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order 
    de Coning, Cedric; Mateja, Peter (Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2019)
    This open access volume explores how UN peace operations are adapting to four trends in the changing global order: (1) the rebalancing of relations between states of the global North and the global South; (2) the rise of ...
  • Untangling Conflict: Local Peace Agreements in Contemporary Armed Violence 
    Pospisil, Jan; Wise, Laura; Bell, Christine (Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, 2020)
    This article seeks to understand the proliferation of local and sub-national peace agreements negotiated and signed in recent years. While such agreements are not a new phenomenon, local negotiations in violent conflict ...
  • The Value of Dialogue in the Georgian-South Ossetian Context 
    Allen, Susan H.; Kalandarisvhili, Nino; Tadevosyan, Margarita (George Mason University, 2021)
    In this collection, we’ve gathered articles that present a wide range of approaches to considering the value of dialogue. The articles also present diverse views on how dialogue fits into the social, political, and economic ...
  • The War Against Terrorism: The Quest for Justice and Peace 
    Clements, Kevin P (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 2002-12)
    “If I have a text for tonight it comes from that American exponent of nonviolence, Martin Luther King Jr. It was he who said: ‘Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.’ The challenge facing all of us tonight ...
  • What Makes or Breaks National Dialogues? 
    Paffenholz, Tania; Zachariassen, Anne; Helfer, Cindy (Inclusive Peace & Transition Initiative, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, 2017-10)
    The international mediation and peacebuilding community continues to struggle to fully comprehend the functioning, relevance, and effectiveness of national dialogues for managing political transitions and building sustainable ...
  • Whither Ripeness Theory? 
    Pruitt, Dean G. (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 2005)
    Ripeness theory, in its most common version, concerns the psychological states that encourage parties who are involved in severe conflict to move into negotiation—either bilateral or mediated. This monograph first summarizes ...
  • Why Does Timor-Leste Remain Fragile? 
    Daimon-Sato, Takashi (Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, 2021)
    This article focuses on the concept of “fragility,” which gained prominence in literature on conflict-driven countries and serves as an analytical tool for policy analysis. Using this concept, this article provides a ...
  • Why Tire Repair Workshops Are the Target of a Wave of Violence in Guanajuato, Mexico 
    Michael Carvallo, Tomás Andres (Small Wars Journal, 2023-01-19)
    Since 2018, the state of Guanajuato has been the most violent state in Mexico due to an intense conflict between criminal groups. This article analyzesan under-examined facet of the Cártel Santa Rosa de Lima (CSRL), and ...
  • A Willingness to Talk 
    Mitchell, Christopher (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 1990-10-29)
    “Moves intended to initiate de-escalation and begin a peace process are often difficult to make and even more difficult to identify unambiguously. Two examples from recent Anglo-Argentine relations provide a basis for ...
  • Witnessing in Mediation: Toward an Aesthetic Ethics of Practice 
    Cobb, Sarah (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 2004)
    This paper attempts to provide a normative basis for mediation that will hopefully complicate our ethical understanding of this practice. Specifically, I will elaborate a critique of ‘recognition,’ following Oliver (2000), ...

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