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Designing for Results: Integrating Monitoring and Evaluation in Conflict Transformation Programs  new

This manual, produced by Search for Common Ground in partnership with the United States Institute for Peace and the Alliance for Peacebuilding is the first of his kind to focus on the particular needs of the conflict transformation field. It addresses the many challenges faced by conflict transformation practitioners in their attempts to measure and increase the effectiveness of their work with practical tips and examples from around the world (Cheyanne Church and Mark Rogers, 2006).

http://www.sfcg.org/programmes/ilr/ilt_manualpage.html

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Gender and Peace Building in Africa

This reader contains scholarly articles authored by Africans on issues of gender and peace building in Africa. As a product of two Faculty and Staff Development Seminars in Zambia involving the University for Peace (UPEACE) Department for Gender and Peace Studies, this publication intends to provide a platform to debate current issues of gender in conflict situations, their destabilising consequences on the economic development of Africa and the efforts being made to build bridges of peace with a gender perspective. (Dina Rodríguez and Edith Natukunda-Togboa, University for Peace, 2005)

http://www.comminit.com/africa/materials/ma2006/materials-2883.html

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No ownership, no peace: the Darfur peace agreement

This paper is based on the author's participation in the Darfur mediation process. The paper examines the deadline diplomacy and the failure of the AU and its international partners to distinguish between getting the parties to sign a peace agreement and obtaining their genuine consent to its terms and execution, and considers the psycho-political dynamics, balance of power and other factors that gave rise to the parties' reluctance to enter into real negotiations; and section 3 explore the ways in which the deadline diplomacy prevented the mediators from doing a proper job. (Laurie Nathan, Crisis States Research Centre, September 2006)

http://www.crisisstates.com/download/wp/wpSeries2/WP5.2.pdf

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"Failed State" and the War on Terror: Intervention in Solomon Islands (PDF)

A heightened sense of vulnerability to terror has touched every part of the world, including the Pacific Islands, and has linked small nations to large in new ways. Since the September 11 tragedy, concern has risen that so-called "failed states," losing the struggle to maintain law and order at home, could become springboards for terrorism. Australia has shed its reluctance to intervene militarily in Pacific trouble-spots-such as Solomon Islands, whose descent into chaos and violence was sparked in 1998 by civil unrest on Guadalcanal. With regional support, Australia led a mission in 2003 to restore law and order. A short-term success, the mission leaves questions about its long-term ability to achieve either well-being for Solomon Islands or security for the region. Its emphasis on shoring up a perennially weak central government, and its inattention to other pillars of Solomons society, threaten to undermine its success and create a crippling sense of dependency. For the mission to succeed, it must empower Solomon Islanders to take charge of their own destiny (PDF 19KB).

http://www.eastwestcenter.org/stored/pdfs/api072.pdf

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A Bridge Too Far: Aid Agencies and the Military in Humanitarian Response (PDF)

(ReliefWeb) Author(s): Jane Barry with Anna Jefferys, Source: Humanitarian Practice Network, Publication date: January 2002, File type: PDF, Size: 173 KB. With military forces increasingly involved in humanitarian assistance and its effect on humanitarian space in terms of principle, policy and operational questions, this paper examines key issues concerning the roles of humanitarian actors and military forces. The following issues are discussed: the politics of peace operations; the humanitarian perspective; towards a framework for civil-military relations. In addition, the paper puts forward recommendations to further dialogue and guide policy and practice for humanitarian agencies and the international community as a whole.

http://www.reliefweb.int/w/lib.nsf/WebPubDocs/D6AD9850025B54A8C1256C6700484ED1?OpenDocument

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A Culture of Peace : Women, Faith and Reconciliation (PDF)

By Marigold Best and Pamela Hussey. 2005. This Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR) Comment puts forward the voices and perspectives of women from around the world who are making powerful and innovative contributions to peace building. It provides compelling evidence that the full participation of women, enjoying equal rights with men, offers a real possibility of peace, reconciliation, and development.

http://www.ciir.org/shared_asp_files/uploadedfiles/5E56B02A-FFFD-4529-BAE7-313A1A582C06_cultureofpeace.pdf

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A Global Peace Movement Revival

A Global Peace Movement Revival By Tom Hayden, AlterNet January 19, 2004 MUMBAI, INDIA - Natalia Ablova faces a tough challenge in her campaign against the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Ablova, who looks like any friendly middle-American in her plain dress, shoulder-length hair and reading glasses, is opposing the Iraq occupation on the streets of Kyrgistan, the only Central Asian country where such protest is permitted. "There is no chance for participatory democracy in our region," she laments. But last year, she led 30 human rights groups to the U.S. Embassy to denounce the invasion. Far from being alone, Natalia Ablova is complicating the Bush administration's war planning and its status as the sole superpower. On this March 20, the first anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, when the White House expected throngs of cheering Iraqis in the streets, there will be masses of jeering protestors like Natalia Ablova around the world instead. Last year, four to five million people protested in over 600 cities globally. This year the numbers are unpredictable, but opposition to the war has increased among the general public, affecting the American presidential campaign and keeping the United Nations at a distance. This week Natalia Ablova is attending a "General Assembly of the Global Anti-War Movement," one of the many planning sessions provided space for the tens of thousands attending the World Social Forum. Instead of weakening or fragmenting the global justice movement, the war in Iraq has prompted a peace movement heavily influenced by the anti-globalization analysis of the forum.

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17595

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A Measure of Peace: Peace And Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) Of Development Projects In Conflict Zones

The Peacebuilding and Reconstruction Program Initiative. Kenneth Bush. March 1998. This paper examines the critical linkages between peace/conflict and development. Peacebuilding, the paper argues, should not be regarded as a specific activity but as an impact. There is, therefore, a tremendous need to avoid "ghettoizing" peacebuilding as a type of project separate from "conventional" development. Rather, all development activities (especially those in environments of potential conflict) should be assessed in terms of their peace and conflict impact. While the author identifies a number of important questions which may lead to a formal "tool" for peace and conflict impact assessment (PCIA), he exemplifies the spirit of this Working Paper series by acknowledging that developing such a tool "will have to be the product of the interaction and synergies of the full spectrum of the peacebuilding community."

http://web.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/10533919790A_Measure_of_Peace.pdf

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A More Secure World: Our Shared Resposibility

Report of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, United Nations 2004. "In its report, the High-level Panel sets out a bold, new vision of collective security for the 21st century. We live in a world of new and evolving threats, threats that could not have been anticipated when the UN was founded in 1945 - threats like nuclear terrorism, and State collapse from the witch's brew of poverty, disease and civil war ... The report is the start, not the end, of a process. The year 2005 will be a crucial opportunity for Member States to discuss and build on the recommendations in the report, some of which will be considered by a summit of heads of State."

http://www.un.org/secureworld/

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Accord: An International Review of Peace Initiatives

Accord provides detailed narrative and rigorous analysis on specific war and peace processes, combining readability with practical relevance. Accord's readers work in governments, non-governmental and inter-governmental organisations in the fields of conflict resolution, human rights, relief and development. Its appeal also extends to anyone with a general interest in its themes including academic researchers, armed opposition groups and journalists. It seeks to provide: a practical learning resource to enrich people's understanding of the potentialities and pitfalls of 'peacebuilding'; a primer for international readers unfamiliar with specific wars and peace processes; a reference tool containing conveniently packaged, comprehensive texts of peace agreements; a forum for interesting or contentious insights from those directly involved or affected by peace processes, particularly local civic organisations.

http://www.c-r.org/accord/

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Afghanistan, Inc: A Corpowatch Investigative Report (pdf)

Fariba Nawa, an Afghan-American who returned to her native country to examine the progress of reconstruction, uncovers some examples of where the money has (and hasn't) gone, how the system of international aid works (and doesn't), and what it is really like in the villages and cities where outsiders are rebuilding the war-torn countryside. (Fairba Nawa, CorpWatch, May 2006)

http://corpwatch.org/downloads/CorpWatch%20Afghan%20report.pdf

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Agricultural rehabilitation: mapping the linkages between humanitarian relief, social protection and development (pdf)

This paper addresses the question of how to support the livelihoods of rural people who have been affected by conflict. Specifically, it focuses on how international actors might move beyond conventional seeds and tools interventions to address vulnerability and support the agricultural component of rural livelihoods in countries emerging from conflict. It examines, both conceptually and practically, how agricultural rehabilitation can contribute to linking humanitarian assistance, social protection and longer-term development through the provision of effective support in ways that are consistent with core humanitarian principles as well as with livelihoods and rights-based approaches. The paper is based on lessons from Afghanistan and Sierra Leone, and draws its analysis from livelihoods work and social protection. (C Longley, I Christoplos, T Slaymaker, Humanitarian Policy Group, Overseas Development Institute, 2006)

http://www.odi.org.uk/hpg/papers/hpgreport22.pdf

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Alternatives to war: Colombia's peace processes

Alternatives to war: Colombia's peace processes (Accord issue 14, 2004) is an introduction to more than three decades of peacemaking efforts. It reveals the extraordinary work of civilians at grassroots, regional and national levels, and documents the main features and outcomes of formal peace processes with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the National Liberation Army (ELN), smaller guerrilla groups and more recently the paramilitaries. Authors with expert or first-hand knowledge of Colombian peacemaking identify the successes and obstacles encountered in the search for a peace deal, pinpointing lessons to inform practice and policy. The issue also contains a chronology of Colombia's conflict and peace processes plus profiles of key people and institutions, full texts of the agreements and tables of peace initiatives and negotiating agendas. (Accord issue 14, 2004)

http://www.c-r.org/our-work/accord/colombia/contents.php

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Amani Peoples Theatre (APT) - Kenya

APT is an organisation that brings together volunteer trainers to use their talents, skills, and experiences to employ interactive participatory theatre for conflict transformation, peace-building, and development in Kenya. The APT process integrates education, entertainment, and research in exploring context-specific issues related to conflict and development and enhancing the community's search for creative, non-violent responses.

http://www.aptkenya.org/

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An Ounce of Prevention: the failure of G8 policy on armed conflict (pdf 733K)

World Vision Policy Briefing, Third Quarter 2004. This World Vision report shows the accumulated debt of 16 of the world's worst war-torn countries could be wiped away for less than planned debt relief for one country: Iraq. The collective failure of international institutions - in particular G8 countries - to take conflict prevention seriously has contributed to the deaths of 14 million people and the displacement of 19 million people over the last four decades in 16 selected countries.

http://www.justice-and-peace.org/PolicyAdvocacy/pahome2.5.nsf/allArticlesHome/7A3B91803DF96B5B88256EA60053D5C7/$file/Cost%20of%20Conflict-nhr.pdf

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Antiwar.com

An American site dedicated to fighting what they see as powerful state-led intervention in other states affairs for imperal purposes.

http://www.antiwar.com/

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Austral Peace and Security Net

Austral Peace and Security Network Bi-Weekly Report, from the Nautilus Institute at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.

http://nautilus.rmit.edu.au/

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Beyond the continuum: the changing role of aid policy in protracted crises (pdf 562 KB)

HPG Report 18, July 2004. By Adele Harmer and Joanna Macrae (eds). This report, the third in HPG's annual series looking at trends in the international humanitarian system, focuses on the increasing engagement of the international development aid system in situations which have traditionally been seen as the preserve of the humanitarian community.

http://www.odi.org.uk/hpg/papers/HPGreport18.pdf

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Beyond Victimhood: Women's Peacebuilding in Sudan, Congo and Uganda

Countries in crisis and the wider international community must do much more to support women's involvement in solving Africa's deadliest conflicts. In Sudan, Congo and Uganda, an array of women's organisations and leaders are doing remarkable work, under difficult circumstances, especially in community organisations and informal conflict resolution mechanisms. Still, women remain marginalised in formal peace processes and post-conflict governments. Donors and others in the international community all need to do much more to offer sustainable support rather than just rhetoric. It is not merely a question of fairness or equity: women make a difference in part because they often adopt a more inclusive approach toward security and address key social and economic issues that would otherwise be ignored. Peace agreements, post-conflict reconstruction and governance work better when women peace activists are involved. (International Crisis Group, 28 June 2006)

http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=4185

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Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy

(World Bank) Civil wars attract much less attention than international wars but they are becoming increasingly common and and typically go on for years. Where development succeeds countries become progressively safer from violent conflict, making subsequent development easier. Where development fails countries can become trapped in a viscious circle: war wrecks the economy and increases the risk of further war. The draft Policy Research Report, Civil War and Development Policy, challenges the belief that civil wars are inevitable and proposes an agenda for global action.

http://econ.worldbank.org/prr/CivilWarPRR/

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Bush launches a new Middle East initiative

The latest Bush plan for a regional peace conference in the Middle East has been met with disdain. Underlying it, however, is a broader US ideological framing that sees the Middle East conflict as an existential struggle between 'moderates' and 'extremists'. Phyllis Bennis sets out a more subtle distinction between the various strands of Islamist strategy, and argues that the global peace movement should follow a boycott, divestment and sanctions strategy towards Israel. (Phyllis Bennis, Transnational Institute, 24 July 2007).

http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?act_id=17147

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Center on International Cooperation (CIC)

The Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University works to enhance international responses to humanitarian crises and global security threats through applied research and direct engagement with multilateral institutions and the wider policy community. It has an international reputation for agenda-setting work on post-conflict peacebuilding, global peace operations, and UN reform.

http://www.cic.nyu.edu/

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Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation

The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) is a multi-disciplinary South African non-governmental organisation. Since its inception in 1989, the CSVR has been dedicated to making a meaningful contribution to peaceful and fundamental transformation in South Africa, and in the Southern African region.

http://www.csvr.org.za/

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Civil Society and Peacebuilding: Potentials, Limitations and Critical Factor

This 76-page report is based on analytical work undertaken over the past year as part of the World Bank's ongoing efforts to better understand the role of civil society in conflict-affected and fragile states. The report seeks to improve the understanding of potential valuable contributions of civil society to peacebuilding, and provide guidance to external actors supporting civil society initiatives for peacebuilding. The report develops and discusses a new analytical framework of civil society functions in peacebuilding. Moving toward such a functional perspective would enable donors to better analyse existing and potential new forms of civil society engagement in peacebuilding. (World Bank, June 2006)

http://www.civicus.org/new/media/ESW_Civil_Society_and_Peacebuilding_Final_Draft.pdf

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Coalition of Women for Peace

We Jewish and Palestinian women, citizens of Israel representatives of various women's organizations and individuals have agreed to coordinate and organize joint activities in order to work together for a just peace based on the following principles: An end to the occupation. The full involvement of women in negotiations for peace. Establishment of the state of Palestinian side by side with the state of Israel based on the 1967 borders. The recognition of Jerusalem as the shared capital of two states. Israel must recognize its share of responsibility for the results of the 1948 war, and cooperating in finding a just solution for the Palestinian refugees. Equality, inclusion and justice for Palestinian citizens of Israel. Opposition to the militarism that permeates Israeli society. Equal rights for women and all residents of Israel. Social and economic justice for Israel's citizens and integration in the region.

http://www.coalitionofwomen4peace.org/

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