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Evaluation as Peacebuilding?: Transformative Values, Processes, and Outcomes

2002 | Contemporary Justice Review
Harry Mika

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…

Evaluating Peace Operations: The Case of Cambodia

2012 | Journal of International Peacebuilding
Jeni Whalan

This article applies Diehl and Druckman’s evaluative framework to the case of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC, 1992-1993), finding it to be…

Decoupling Local Ownership? The Lost Opportunities for Grassroots Women’s Involvement in Liberian Peacebuilding

2016 | Cooperation and Conflict
Theodora-Ismene Gizelis and Jonathan Joseph

Civil society organizations and grassroots groups are often unable to play an active role in postconflict reconstruction and peacebuilding. A possible explanation for the observed…

Contested Boundaries: NGOs and Civil–military Relations in Afghanistan

2013 | Central Asian Survey
Jonathan Goodhand

In recent years there has been a growing focus in academic and policy circles on the changing roles of military and civilian actors in the…

Comparable and Yet Context-Sensitive? Improving Evaluation in Violently Divided Societies Through Methodology

2018 | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Daniel E. Esser and Emily E. Vanderkamp

This article shows that the current stalemate in peacebuilding evaluation is due to disagreements between donor agencies, practitioners and scholar-practitioners about the necessity, appropriate level…

Community Defined Measures of Success and Inclusive Research in Peacebuilding

2018 | Proceedings of the African Futures Conference
Ella Duncan and Carlotta Fassiotti

Participatory research is a tool for community inclusion in peace and development programs. Participation is a popularly promoted concept, but rarely implemented in research. Search…

Rebuilding Ukraine Principles for a Green Post-War Reconstruction

2023 | adelphi
Iryna Holovko and Constanze Haug

Ukraine is currently fighting an existential war, suffering immense human, economic and environmental loss. While it might seem premature to plan post-war rebuilding efforts and…

International Water Law and Hydropolitics: An Enquiry Into the Water Conflict Between India and Nepal

2023 | Water International
Harsh Vasani

Despite an open border, shared culture, religious ties and strong people-to-people connectivity, governance of transboundary water resources has often led to diplomatic conflicts between India…

Aid to the Enemy: Linking Development and Peacebuilding on the Korean Peninsula

2016 | The Pacific Review
Dong J. Kim

This article discusses the link between development and peacebuilding to analyze South Korean aid activities in North Korea in the context of the Korean conflict,…

Addressing Climate Security Risks in Central America

2023 | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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…

M&E Insights Episode 2: Transboundary Cooperation on Water in Fragile Contexts (with Eric Abitbol) [Video]

2023 | Environmental Law Institute and Environmental Peacebuilding Association

In this video, Eric Abitbol shares his experience and learning related to evaluating transboundary water cooperation in fragile settings.

This video is the second episode in…

MENA Climate Week 2022: Tackling Climate Change in MENA by Improving Regional Cooperation

2022 | Brussels International Center
Clémentine Lienard

For the first time in history, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will hold a regional climate week in the Middle East…

Transboundary Cooperation in the Post-Cold War Era: Spatial Patterns and the Role of Proximity

2022 | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Ziming Yan, Xiaojuan Qiu, Debin Du, and Seamus Grimes

Transboundary water cooperation (TWC) is an important theme of international cooperation. We conducted macro-level research on TWC from the perspective of inter-country relations and constructed…

Conflict Prevention, Climate Change, and Why Ghana Matters Now

2023 | Center for Strategic and International Studies
Anastasia Strouboulis, Erol Yayboke, and Abigail Edwards

Situated in coastal West Africa, Ghana is a country of more than 32 million people, well-known for its competitive elections and peaceful transition of political leadership. In…

Confict and Cooperation in Aras International Rivers Basin: Status, Trend, and Future

2023 | Sustainable Water Resources Management
Mohammadreza Hajihoseini, Saeid Morid, Samad Emamgholizadeh, Bahram Amirahmadian, Emad Mahjoobi, and Houshang Gholami

The transboundary Aras River basin is shared by Turkey, Armenia, Iran, and Azerbaijan. The water resources of the basin have been the basis for major…

Hydrodiplomacy and the Food, Water and Energy Nexus: A Holistic Approach for Transboundary Cooperation & Peace

2023 | Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy
Fadi G. Comair

The rapid social and economic development in the world is leading to increased levels of water stress that point to potential water crises. As the most…

Water-Related Conflicts: Definitions, Data, and Trends from the Water Conflict Chronology

2023 | Environmental Research Letters
Peter H. Gleick and Morgan Shimabuku

Violence associated with freshwater resources has occurred throughout recorded history, with water triggering violence and armed conflict, water or water systems being used as weapons,…

Transboundary Water Governance Scholarship: A Critical Review

2023 | Environments
Robert G. Varady, Tamee R. Albrecht, Sayanangshu Modak, Margaret O. Wilder, and Andrea K. Gerlak

Governing and managing the allocation and use of freshwater has always been a complex and fraught undertaking. The challenges to effective and equitable management have…

Nuclear Security during Armed Conflict: Lessons from Ukraine

2023 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Vitaly Fechenko

The attacks on nuclear installations in Ukraine by the Russian military in 2022 were unprecedented. Nuclear security aims at prevention, detection and response to malicious…

Key Climate Security Actors and Frameworks in Eastern Africa

2023 | adelphi
Lucas Destrijcker, Adrian Foong, Ayan Mahamoud, and Johanna Caitlin Dieffenbacher

This mapping exercise provides an overview of relevant actors and frameworks in Eastern Africa, focusing on the interlinkages between climate, peace and security in the…

Climate Peacebuilding: A Reset for Major Power Relations?

2023 | Fletcher Forum of World Affairs
Mihaela Papa

The international community has been facing the threat of nuclear war and, up to this point, has failed to meet universally embraced climate and sustainability…

Water Security and Cross-Border Water Management in the Kabul River Basin

2023 | Sustainability
Ravichandran Moorthy and Sumayya Bibi

This paper investigates the collaborative and benefit-sharing approaches to conflict management in the management of cross-border water resources for the sustainable development of the Kabul…

Study of the Design of National Park of Halabja (Paytakhty Ashty) According to the Environmental and Recreational Needs of the Residents

2022 | Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Sciences
Ali O. M. Sharbazhery, Mihraban O. Mustafa, and Chia K. Rashid

Designed a national park in the name of Peace Park (Paytakhty Ashty) on an area of 25 hectares of agricultural land with a slope of 1-2 %, located…