Conflict Assessment and Peacebuilding Planning: Toward a Participatory Approach to Human Security - Softcover

Schirch, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565495799 ISBN 13: 9781565495791

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

Achieving human security requires strategic peacebuilding; and too often, critical steps in this sequence are missing, or conducted by different groups of people without coordination. The Conflict Assessment and Peacebuilding Handbook aims to improve the effectiveness of peacebuilding by better linking practical conflict assessment exercises to self-assessment, theories of change, designing and planning, and monitoring and evaluation of peacebuilding efforts. Recognizing that many groups skimp on assessment fearing an analysis paralysis, or design programs based on untested assumptions, this approach provides basic as well as advanced tools to improve peacebuilding practice. This concise and lucid handbook tackles the problem of too much data by suggesting ways to sort, categorize and prioritize data to make it useful. Through its synthesis of a wide range of conceptual frameworks into a convenient and logical framework useful for practitioners such as NGOs developing projects, journalists wanting to write conflict-sensitive stories, or government/military agencies designing large scale efforts, the Conflict Assessment and Peacebuilding Handbook is an essential scholarly and practical tool for the study and implementation of peacebuilding efforts.

About this title

About the Author:

<strong>Lisa Schirch</strong> is an associate professor of peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University’s Conflict Transformation Program, USA. A former Fulbright fellow, Schirch has fifteen years of experience consulting with a network of strategic partner organisations around the world. Her peacebuilding experience includes facilitating interethnic dialogues, designing training programs for women in peacebuilding, creating alternative security strategies, and working as a mediator and trainer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1565495799
• ISBN 13: 9781565495791
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 229