Conflict Assessment

This book is about the effectiveness of peace practice. ...

The purpose of the Rwanda Land Dispute Management Project (LDMP) is to support and strengthen local resolution of land disputes. This effort is particularly appropriate now because the Government of Rwanda (GoR) is piloting a process for formalizing land rights, with the goal of eventually formalizing land rights nationwide....

The prevention of violent conflicts has become a significant issue with the end of the Cold War and experiences such as the genocide in Rwanda, ethnic wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and state failure in Somalia. The international community has attempted to engage more actively in conflict prevention, or efforts to curtail the spread of violence and find a solution at early stages of conflict....

Acclaimed  by  policy  makers  and  practitioners  from  national  and international  organizations  and  governments  as  one  of  the  best  programs  of  its  kind  in  the world, The PCTR program is a five-day intensive training which provides middle and senior-level experts with  a  forum  for  reflection  and  professional  development  in  a  dynamic  and  stimulating environment ...

Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) is a tool and process for anticipating and assessing the risk for and the effects of development and humanitarian work on armed conflict and for peacebuilding. This Tip Sheet aims to clarify what PCIA approaches entail, and what to consider when choosing a PCIA approach....

Natural disasters, war, conflicts, and precarious political conditions always strike individuals. If death, injury and the loss of the material basis of existence are marking everyday life, there is a shattering psychological effect for those involved....

This tip sheet on gender and peacebuilding provides specific guidelines on how to systematically integrate gender aspects (i.e. the socially determined roles attributed to women and men) in programme strategy, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. It also outlines thematic points of engagement for mainstreaming gender considerations throughout the conflict cycle....

This conflict analysis Tip Sheet1 summarizes seven tools that can be used to assess different characteristics of a conflict in a structured way. It focuses our attention on particular aspects of a conflict, to bring order into a confused conflict perception....

Mercy Corps recently undertook a study to explore the links between conflict and drought resilience among pastoralists in Southern Ethiopia. The research provides strong evidence of the contributions of Mercy Corps peacebuilding programming to pastoralists’ abilities to productively cope with and adapt to the recent drought....

This handbook is designed as a simple, step-by-step guide to effectively administering the Youth Conflict & Tolerance Survey (YCTS) Tool. It focuses on conflict tolerance issues that youth confront in three context settings: the home, at school, and in the community. ...

The GEMS Toolkit (Gender mainstreaming strategies: Programming tools) is a set of 12 practical tools to facilitate the implementation of Gender Mainstreaming Strategies (GEMS) in organizations, policies, programmes and projects. The GEMS Toolkit aims to share knowledge, skills and tools with ILO constituents and partners in the Asia-Pacific region and worldwide on how to: do a gender analysis of their work and their organization put gender in the mainstream of policies, programmes and projects carry out gender-specific action to redress inequalities. The tools in the GEMS Toolkit have been designed in the form of quick reference guides, checklists and tips for ease of use....

The aim of developing conflict analysis methodologies is to improve the effectiveness of development cooperation and humanitarian assistance in places affected by violent conflicts and insecurity, to provide a better basis for assessing the potential of conflict-sensitive interventions, and to support peace and security....

This study aims to contribute to the collective understanding of how development can play a role in conflict prevention and peacebuilding. It brings together diverse strands of current thought on the link between development on the one hand and conflict prevention and peacebuilding on the other....

Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) is a method to anticipate, observe, or evaluate the impact of planned, ongoing, or completed interventions in the structures and process that decrease the likelihood of violent conflict and improve the chances for peaceful co-existence. ...

The Reflecting on Peace Practice Project (RPP) is an experience-based learning process that involves agencies whose programs attempt to prevent or mitigate violent conflict. Its purpose is to analyze experience at the individual program level across a broad range of agencies and contexts....

Contractors operating in unstable states face a range of conflict risks. Oil, gas and mining projects, which frequently have significant contractor involvement, can inadvertently trigger or sustain violence, or become the focus of resentment themselves....

This research explores the theories of change (TOCs) and underlying assumptions of six peacebuilding initiatives of six organisations in Nepal: Alliance for Peace (AfP), CARE Nepal, International Alert, Search For Common Ground (SFCG), Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction (MoPR) and Youth Action Nepal (YOAC Nepal)....

The report both reviews the state of the art in evaluating media interventions in conflict and outlines the Caux Guiding Principles (hereinafter, Caux Principles) for improving the evaluation process. It stresses effective evaluation as a critical step forward for using the media in conflict prevention and peacebuilding. ...

Over the past twenty years, media interventions have become an accepted tool for conflict management. Interventions have often proven ineffective, however, because they lacked clear definition of their intended outcomes.  This research describes an Intended-Outcomes Needs Assessment methodology (IONA) to help address this by: Integrating conflict analysis and media assessments to sharpen the focus on peacebuilding objectives; and Improving the quality and precision of project plans to enable better comparison of the results achieved. ...

This report focuses on how theories of change can improve the effectiveness of peacebuilding interventions. A review of 19 peacebuilding projects in three conflict-affected countries found that the process of articulating and reviewing theories of change adds rigour and transparency, clarifies project logic, highlights assumptions that need to be tested, and helps identify appropriate participants and partners....