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Second Circle
Second Circle brings a unique and innovative subject matter to life with passion and excitement, communicating the way in which we can better understand the social consequences of aid interventions, of peace initiatives, and of industrial investment. The book will give readers not just another manual on evaluations, but offer a bold, original and compelling overview of how to carry out evaluations and impact assessments - and what it means in terms of 'dos' and 'don'ts'. Packed with international case studies and invaluable personal experiences, the book delivers an honest, forthright but engaging explanation of social responsbility, and why now, more than ever, everyone needs to enagage with this compelling, essential and challenging issue.
Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation
This book covers the design, evaluation, and learning for international interventions aiming to promote peace. More specifically, it reconceptualises this space by critically analysing mainstream approaches – presenting both conceptual and empirical content. This volume offers a variety of original and insightful contributions to the debates grappling with the adoption of complexity thinking. Insights from Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation addresses the core dilemma that practitioners have to confront: how to function in situations that are fast changing and complex, when equipped with tools designed for neither? How do we reconcile the tension between the use o...
Evaluation of the Conflict Prevention Pools
Finding / Greg Austin -- Synthesis report / principal authors, Greg Austin ... et al. -- Afghanistan study: Country case study 2 / principal authors, Jonathan Goodhand with Paul Bergne -- Russia and the Former Soviet Union: Country/regional case study 1 / principal authors, Greg Austin and Paul Bergne-- Sierra Leone: Country/regional case study 3 / principal author, Jeremy Ginifer with input from Kaye Oliver-- Sudan: Country/regional case study 4 / principal author, Emery Brusset -- Security sector reform strategy: Thematic case study 1 / principal author, Nicole Ball -- Strengthening the United Nations: Thematic case study 2 / principal author, Pierre Robert with input from Andrew Mack-- Portfolio review / principal authors, Greg Austin and Malcolm Chalmers.
Enhancing Disaster and Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Through Evaluation
In a changing world of fad and fashion, the humanitarian impulse is an enduring quality. This impulse was present in the aftermaths of the Rwandan genocide, Hurricane Katrina, the Indian Ocean tsunami, and the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, The first principle of humanitarian assistance is "do no harm." The second might be, "do better!" Enter the evaluation of emergency and disaster management. The route from donor to affected population in long and varied. When sudden, unprecedented needs are juxtaposed with exceptional levels of charitable responses, the question is whether the responses were good enough. Did supply meet demand? Was it the right thing? Was it done well? Who received sup...
The Market for Force
The legitimate use of force is generally presumed to be the realm of the state. However, the flourishing role of the private sector in security over the last twenty years has brought this into question. In this book Deborah Avant examines the privatization of security and its impact on the control of force. She describes the growth of private security companies, explains how the industry works, and describes its range of customers – including states, non-government organisations and commercial transnational corporations. She charts the inevitable trade-offs that the market for force imposes on the states, firms and people wishing to control it, suggests a new way to think about the control of force, and offers a model of institutional analysis that draws on both economic and sociological reasoning. The book contains case studies drawn from the US and Europe as well as Africa and the Middle East.
Civil Wars in Africa
A collection of case studies of nine African countries, Civil Wars in Africa provides a comparative perspective on the causes of civil war and the processes by which internal conflict may be resolved or averted. The book focuses on the wars in Ethiopia, Liberia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, and Uganda as well as the experiences of Tanzania and Zimbabwe, where civil war was averted, to underline conditions under which conflict can most successfully be managed. John Kiyaga-Nsubuga focuses on Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement regime's attempt to bring peace to Uganda. John Prendergast and Mark Duffield look at Ethiopia's long civil war and the role of liberation politi...
The Political Economy of Armed Conflict
Globalization, suggest the authors of this collection, is creating new opportunities - some legal, some illicit - for armed factions to pursue their agendas in civil war. Within this context, they analyze the key dynamics of war economies and the challenges posed for conflict resolution and sustainable peace. Thematic chapters consider key issues in the political economy of internal wars, as well as how differing types of resource dependency influence the scope, character, and duration of conflicts. Case studies of Burma, Colombia, Kosovo, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka illustrate a range of ways in which belligerents make use of global markets and the transnational flow of resources. An underlying theme is the opportunities available to the international community to alter the economic incentive structure that inadvertently supports armed conflict.
War and Peace in Zaire-Congo
The 1994 Rwandan Genocide continues to have serious repercussions for peace and stability in the Great Lakes region of Africa. Here, the contributors look at the continuation of the conflict in the territory of Zaire, ultimately asking how best to handle a problem which has been a source of instability for years - the problem of refugee warriors.
