Suchergebnisse

Understanding civil society / Christoph Spurk -- Civil society and the state / Kjell Erling Kjellman and Kristian Berg Harpviken -- Civil society and peacebuilding / Thania Paffenholz -- A comprehensive analytical framework / Thania Paffenholz and Christoph Spurk -- Guatemala: a dependent and fragmented civil society / Sabine Kurtenbach -- Northern Ireland: civil society and the slow building of peace / Roberto Belloni -- Bosnia-Herzegovina: civil society in a semiprotectorate / Roberto Belloni and Bruce Hemmer -- Turkey: the Kurdish question and the coercive state / Ayşe Betül Çelik -- Cyprus: a divided civil society in stalemate / Esra Çuhadar and Andreas Kotelis -- Israel and Palestine: civil societies in despair / Esra Çuhadar and Sari Hanafi -- Afghanistan: civil society between modernity and tradition / Kaja Borchgrevink and Kristian Berg Harpviken -- Nepal: from conflict to consolidating a fragile peace / Rhoderick Chalmers -- Sri Lanka: peace activists and nationalists / Camilla Orjuela -- Somalia: civil society in a collapsed state / Ken Menkhaus ... [et al.] -- Nigeria: dilemmas of co-optation in the Niger Delta / Darren Kew and Cyril Obi -- What civil society can contribute to peacebuilding / Thania Paffenholz -- Enabling and disenabling factors for civil society peacebuilding / Thania Paffenholz ... [et al.] -- Conclusion / Thania Paffenholz

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

The following article analyses opportunities and limitations of NGOs in peacebuilding. The article presents an evidence-based assessment as well as a critical reflection. After a short discussion of definitions and terms, the text continues with an introduction into seven possible civil society peacebuilding functions in different phases of conflict. Thereafter, the text presents an assessment of the relevance and effectiveness of these functions based on the results of a three year research project coming to the conclusion that NGOs have a role to play in peacebuilding; however, a distinct analysis of their relevance and effectiveness is needed. The effects of civil society peacebuilding are reduced by a high level of violence, authoritarian and weak states alike, the behavior of polarized media as well as the way interventions are planned and implemented. It is also important to notice that civil society engagement cannot replace political action. Adapted from the source document.