Are We Making a Difference?: Global and Local Efforts to Assess Peacebuilding Effectiveness

This book provides a comprehensive approach to measuring peacebuilding effectiveness across different settings and challenges, with a focus on evaluation design models, reflective thinking strategies, collaboration principles, data collection and analysis methods, continuous learning practices, and authentic cases. It is valuable for students, practitioners, researchers, donors, policymakers, and community organizers.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 348 pages
Publication date: 25 August 2023
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

This comprehensive and cutting-edge text, with a global perspective, delves into the complex and challenging issue of evaluating peacebuilding efforts across various contexts and obstacles. It brings together contemporary research and best practices to provide a comprehensive framework for assessing peacebuilding initiatives. The book is filled with evaluation design models, reflective thinking strategies, collaboration principles, data collection and analysis methods, tools, continuous learning practices, and authentic case studies. The contributors analyze the inherent challenges of conflict and peace, offering innovative approaches, intellectual rigor, and practical examples for navigating and evaluating the political, personal, relational, and institutional dimensions of measuring the effectiveness of peacebuilding efforts. Whether you are a practitioner, researcher, donor, policymaker, or community organizer, this book will be an invaluable resource for understanding and advancing the field of peacebuilding.

How do we measure peace, and whose peace are we measuring? This insightful, cutting-edge text, global in scope, addresses the wicked, thorny problem of peacebuilding evaluation by gathering contemporary research and best practices for assessing peacebuilding across multiple settings and challenges.

Replete with evaluation design models, reflective thinking strategies, collaboration principles, data collection and analysis methods tools, continuous learning practices, and, above all, authentic cases, the contributors parse the inherent challenges of conflict and peace.

Students entering the field, whether as practitioners, researchers, donors, policymakers, or community organizers, will benefit from this book's creative approaches, intellectual rigor, and practical examples of navigating and evaluating the political, personal, relational, and institutional challenges of measuring the effectiveness of peacebuilding efforts.

Weight: 726g
Dimension: 256 x 178 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538152201