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 conte
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PEACEBUILDING
PRACTICE EVALUATION and
Edited by
Emery Brusset, Cedric de Coning and Bryn Hughes
Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation
Emery Brusset • Cedric de Coning • Bryn Hughes Editors
Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation
Editors Emery Brusset Social Terrain Limited, UK
Bryn Hughes University of Queensland Australia
Cedric de Coning Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) Norway
ISBN 978-1-137-60110-0 ISBN 978-1-137-60111-7 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-60111-7
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book emerged from the rich and stimulating exchanges that took place among a group of practitioners and researchers that have met at the Phoenix Network since 2009. What brought us together was a shared interest in the challenges of evaluating peacebuilding campaigns and programmes. The network collected a multidisciplinary group of individuals from consultancy, academia, think tanks, donor agencies, defence research, and conflict management NGOs. In the course of our meetings we realised that we shared a frustration with the limitations of the mainstream approaches to monitoring and evaluation. An interest in Complexity gradually developed in the group. It is out of this creative and collaborative atmosphere that this book emerged. Many members of the Phoenix Network provided feedback and thoughtful comments, to whom we are very grateful. Apart from the authors who reviewed one another’s chapters, we
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