Impact assessment in post-conflict peacebuilding

9 juillet, 2004

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the challenges related to the assessment of impacts of peacebuilding, notably in post-conflict situations. The first part of the paper sets the context and describes how peacebuilding, notwithstanding initial resistances, eventually became accepted into development thinking and development practices. The second part of the paper presents the catalogue of challenges that have been identified in recent years.