Justice, Truth and Reconciliation

  The PCTR is a five-day intensive program which provides experts, practitioners and policy makers with a forum for reflection and targeted, relevant professional development in a dynamic and stimulating environment.  Given the issues it addresses, it is also relevant for those working in political, gender, security, human rights, development, and humanitarian fields, donors, and diplomats, working in areas affected or threatened by war and armed conflict or in post-war situations. ...

These guidelines provide supplementary examples and advice for programmes implementing the DCED Standard in conflict affected environments. They outline the challenges that programmes may face when implementing each of the eight elements of the Standard, and give practice guidance for results measurement in these contexts. ...

This is the third OGN in the assessment series. It covers issues to be taken into account when conducting an assessment. The approach should not be prescribed, but developed in line with the specific context and purpose of each assessment....

This report examines the extent to which RCTs have been used successfully to measure empowerment and accountability processes and programmes. Field experiments present immense opportunities, but the report cautions that they are more suited to measuring short-term results with short causal chains and less suitable for complex interventions....

Dear Colleagues/Experts,       The International Peace and Development Training Center (IPDTC) is inviting expert professionals, policy makers and practitioners for its upcoming Autumn Programs. The programmes are designed for UN agencies, governments and national and international organisations....

This Issue of Accord draws on multiple perspectives from across societies in both countries to explore comparative lessons and examine progress, building on analysis and recommendations from previous Accord publications on Liberia (Issue 1: 1996) and Sierra Leone (Issue 9: 2000) [see BOX 1]....

The 'Radio for Peacebuilding' project has three major components – development and adaptation of guidebooks on radio talk show production aimed at Peacebuilding into Urdu and Pashto, training and coaching provided to FM station producers and presenters to host radio talk shows on Peacebuilding and finally production of talk shows using the common ground approach....

This glossary defines and discusses 20 core terms related to conflict transformation in the work of the Berghof Foundation. ...

This paper responds to a request from the U.S Chapter of Transparency International’s ad hoc working group on the judicial integrity. The author has been asked to develop a checklist for evaluating the transparency and related aspects of judicial performance, suggest how it might be applied, and discuss its use to promote judicial reform. ...

This guide is written for programme managers responsible for improving the delivery of safety, security, and access to justice in any part of the world. It should also be useful to a wide variety of government officials and to anyone interested in pursuing a disciplined course of institutional reform in the safety and justice sector. ...

Until the recent emphasis on results management, monitoring of judicial reforms was conspicuous by its near absence. When it was done, the emphasis was on tracking inputs or outputs delivered, not the impact on overall goals and objectives....

Peace processes are negotiations between adversaries that assist a transformation of a society's conflict dynamics. Determining how best to support these processes has always been a challenge for development personnel. USAID has worked on creating strategies for constructively interacting with conflict dynamics within the wider ecology of local, interagency, and international actors. This toolkit is grounded in a comprehensive survey of USAID peace process activities to compile lessons about program success or failure....

In many developing countries, young people are coming of age in societies that lack stable government, economic growth, or basic material and physical security. In such circumstances, youth often turn away from the authority and ideology of older generations and seek to mobilize their own generation in search of solutions....

While conflict inflicts suffering on everyone, women are particularly affected by its short- and long-term effects. Sexual assault and exploitation are frequently employed as tools of war; victimization leads to isolation, alienation, prolonged emotional trauma, and unwanted pregnancies that often result in abandoned children....

Search for Common Ground has been working in Nepal since February 2006 with the mission to transform the way the world deals with conflict: away from adversarial approaches, toward cooperative solutions. With a multi-pronged program to support the peace process, SFCG combines media with community peacebuilding work that translates into the production of two nationally and 17 locally broadcast radio programs and community-based activities with youth, children and other key actors in the peace process. ...

This document in the 'What is Peacebuilding?' series examines different perspectives on peacebuilding that as a consequence have different implications for the peacebuilding practice. ...

Social challenges are complex. We have hundreds of projects that address social issues around the world. One of our core values is to never settle, so we're trying to improvehow we measure the effectiveness of your donations and how we help project leaders best meet the needs of their communities. At GlobalGiving we've learned that one of the best ways we can contribute to social change is to develop better feedback loops....

Security sector reform (SSR) commonly refers to a nationally-owned process aimed at transforming a dysfunctional security sector into an effective and accountable one that provides security and justice services to all groups of society. The concept of SSR is based on the understanding that ineffective and unaccountable security sectors represent an obstacle to development, in particular in countries emerging from armed conflict....

The OECD DAC Handbook on Security System Reform: Supporting Security and Justice provides guidance to operationalise the 2005 DAC Guidelines, Security System Reform and Governance, and closes the gap between policy and practice. It largely follows the external assistance programme cycle and contains valuable tools to help encourage a dialogue on security and justice issues and to support a security system reform (SSR) process through the assessment, design and implementation phases....

This manual is designed to be used by development practitioners to help them mainstream peacebuilding into development assistance. It aims at evidencing the added value of peacebuilding for development but also at building the capacity to programme development interventions with higher conflict sensitivity. ...