Conflict Assessment and Peacebuilding Planning: Toward a Participatory Approach to Human Security
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.
Building a culture of peace: Exploring intersectional learning spaces in adult education
The global context of violence is influenced by an increasingly globalized world, where fear is instilled, national security is prioritized, and spaces for peace building are shrinking. Given the changing and complex nature of contemporary violence, today perhaps more than ever, we need to further develop understandings of peace and skills for conflict transforma - tion. By synthesizing the principles embedded in critical adult education with principles from peacebuilding and interna- tional humanitarian law, a new theoretical framework can be created for building peace in sites of adult learning. While complicated by diverse philosophical underpinnings, com - plex conflict issues require new learning spaces for creativ - ity and the formation of alternative practices where equity and respect for human dignity are the quintessential focus.
Land Rights Reform and Governance in Africa How to make it work in the 21st Century?
1 Resumo 2 Resumen 3 Résumé 5 Summary 7 The Contex 7 Tenure insecurity is a socio-political condition engineered intentionally or otherwise by policies – and is remediable by policies Looking for Root Causes 7 The denial of customary lands as private property lies at the heart of insecurity t Wrongful attrition has especially aff ected common properties and the poor 8 The commons as the capital of the rural poor 8 20th Century Remedy 9 The Promised Reform 9 Liberation of customary tenure from a century of suppression 9 Recognising customary land interests as private property rights 10 The helping hand of governance and natural resource management reforms 10 Constraints 11 Helping customary owners get hold of investment or helping investors get hold of customary lands? 11 Enabling Reform 12 Adopting developmentally-sound and poverty-focused change 12 Focusing upon the commons due to the losses they face and their value for the majority poor 12 Clarifying collective private rights 13 Helping the poor make use of their capital 13 Shaping land reform in the right directions and with public will 14