Aid for Peace: A Guide to Planning and Evaluation for Conflict Zones

Dr. Thania Paffenholz; Prof. Luc Reychler

doi:10.5771/9783845201146

Summary

Armed conflict has become the overarching challenge for foreign policy and puts development and humanitarian assistance at considerable risk. How to deal with this situation? What to do? A milestone in its field, this guidebook provides conceptual thought and practical support. It leads both practitioner and academic reader through a planning and evaluation process that helps the user to better design development, humanitarian and peacebuilding interventions in conflict prone areas of the world.

Based on the state of the art in theory and practice of peacebuilding, planning and evaluation, the book introduces the "Aid for Peace" Approach and walks the user through a systematic and comprehensive step-by-step process. The user understands how to

• analyze and anticipate conflict dynamics and peacebuilding needs;

• plan new interventions and evaluate existing ones;

• map her or his own intervention and assess its relevance for peacebuilding;

• assess the effects of interventions on peace and conflict by making hypotheses of change explicit and operational;

• integrate the conflict and peace lens into standard planning and evaluation procedures and criteria as well as organizational structures;

• combine a strategic with a process understanding in building a vision for peacebuilding for better contributing to conflict transformation and social change.

Written for a broad readership, Aid for Peace leads to the creation of an appropriate policy, project or program design for working in conflict zones.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2007
Copyright Year: 2007
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8329-2582-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-0114-6
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Language: English
Pages: 162
Product Type: Monograph

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 2 - 6
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Preface No access Pages 7 - 10
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Acknowledgments No access Pages 11 - 14
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1. What is the ?Aid for Peace? Approach all about? No access Pages 15 - 17
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2. The ?Aid for Peace? Framework and its Applications No access Pages 17 - 28
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1. Evaluating Peacebuilding Interventions No access Pages 29 - 58
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2. Planning Peacebuilding Interventions No access Pages 58 - 70
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1. Conducting a Peace and Con%ict Assessment No access Pages 71 - 104
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2. Integrating the Peace/Con%ict Lens into Standard Development Planning No access Pages 104 - 108
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3. Integrating the Peace/Con%ict Lens into Standard Development and Humanitarian Evaluations No access Pages 108 - 118
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4. Integrating the Peace/Con%ict Lens into Organizational Structure (Mainstreaming) No access Pages 118 - 130
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IV The Devil is in the Details: Practical Tools 12 Using the ?Aid for Peace? Approach: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions No access Pages 131 - 162
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