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Implementation, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Adjustment

BI Article
Evaluation as a Tool for Reflection
This essay argues that evaluation and systematic reflection provides for the learning and knowledge necessary for effective dispute resolution processes. At the same time, it poses significant difficulties.

BI Article
Formative Evaluation
Long-term conflicts are typically caused by many factors that are both interconnected and constantly changing. Formative evaluation can help practitioners adjust their interventions as the conflict changes.

BI Article
Action Evaluation
Action Evaluation (AE), is an innovative method that uses social and computer technology to define, promote, and assess success in complex social interventions. It is a direct response to recurrent questions about the effectiveness of conflict-resolution.

Colleague Activities
Guiding Steps For Peacebuilding Design, Monitoring, & Evaluation
Detailing seven necessary steps for evidence-based peacebuilding and learning in the peacebuilding field.

News and Opinion
ICTs for Monitoring and Evaluation of Peacebuilding Programmes
This paper explores the incorporation of information and communications technologies (ICTs) into the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems of peacebuilding programmes.

BI Article
Evaluation and Assessment of Interventions
Winston Churchill said, "True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information." This essay explains how evaluation can make interventions into intractable conflict more effective.

BI Article
Jay Rothman: Systematic Collaborative Visioning for Conflict Resolution Action and Evaluation in the Post-Covid19 World
A summary of the conclusions of an action evaluation workshop examing the conflict field's response to COVID.

BI Article
Talk with Shamil Idress, CEO of Search for Common Ground
Heidi Burgess interviews Shamill Idress about his career, Search for Common Ground's work, current challenges facing Search, the peacebuilding field, and the world as a whole--and how we can meet them.

Colleague Activities
Measuring Peace: How the Peacebuilding Field Can Enable and Evaluate Effective Interreligious Dialogue
The goal of the initiative was to gather and assess the evidence about the effectiveness of interreligious dialogue (IRD) as a peacebuilding approach, and to promote monitoring, evaluation, and learning.

News and Opinion
Misplaced trust: When trust in science fosters belief in pseudoscience and the benefits of critical evaluation