Can resilience for peace enhance the sustainability of international interventions?

A key factor in building sustainable peace is local ownership. This is often inadequately attended to - or even undermined - by international actors in the process of humanitarian action, development assistance, disaster recovery, and peacebuilding efforts. Th [...]

Understanding and Strengthening Resilience for Peace in Timor-Leste

Understanding the resilient capacities of local actors during and after violent conflicts, has been one of Interpeace’s main objectives in the past two years. Determining how these existing capacities for resilience can be strengthened to contribute to susta [...]

Interpeace Launches a Guidance Note on Assessing Resilience for Peace

Over 80% of humanitarian emergencies around the world today are conflict-related. More than half of all these crises are protracted conflicts of 8 years or more. Whereas immediate needs of vulnerable and suffering populations are only increasing, the trend wil [...]

Peace among us – A population-based study about resilience for peace in Guatemala

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Twenty years after the signing of the peace accords between the State of Guatemala and the National Revolutionary Unity of Guatemala (URNG) in 1996, Guatemala remains confronted to poverty, exclusion [...]

Using resilience to build peace – Practice brief: resilience and peacebuilding

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The mainstream approach to peacebuilding is for the most part premised on finding solutions to fragility. As such, conflict analysis is the primary tool used to inform programmes and policies. Whilst a sound understanding of conflict dynamics, including root c [...]

Assessing resilience for peace – Guidance Note

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This report is the product of the Framework for Assessing Resilience (FAR) programme. It offers analytical and operational reflections and guidance reflecting an approach to the assessment of resilience bo [...]

Understanding and Strengthening Resilience for Peace: Timor-Leste Final Report

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Frameworks for Assessing Resilience (FAR) is a programme initiated by Interpeace, implemented between 2014 and 2016 with local partners in Guatemala [...]

Interpeace co-hosts a panel on resilience and peace at the second World Bank Forum on Fragility, Conflict and Violence

Over 200 partners, and more than 600 participants, gathered in Washington DC between March 1st and March 3rd to discuss issues of fragility, conflict and violence at the World Bank's second annual [...]

National Working Group on resilience presents its Policy Recommendations in Dili

A more effective national Strategy on Civic Education can foster greater resilience for Peace in Timor-Leste The National Working Group on Resilience (NWG-R) presented its proposal to establish a National Commission on Civic Education to almost 100 [...]

FAR Country Note Liberia

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This study reviews the most pressing challenges to peace in Liberia today and documents the ways in which individuals, families, communities, institutions as well as the government, are coping with, adapting to, or in some instances even transforming these cha [...]

Announcing a new edition of the Journal of Peacebuilding

The latest edition of the Journal of Peacebuilding is out and freely available online. This special issue, produced by the Interpeace Regional Office in Latin America[...]

Four perspectives on resilience in Guatemala

Type: PDF Size: 4Mb Published: October 31, 2015 Author: Otto Argueta and Arnoldo Gálvez

This section presents a series of conversations with members of the national group on the contribution of a resilience approach and the perspectives for transformation that the group has identified over the past months. [...]

Piloting a resilience approach to peacebuilding: Insights from Interpeace’s Frameworks for Assessing Resilience (FAR) project

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This assessment of resilience draws attention to capacities and strengths in society, whether as individual personality traits, solidarity networks of communities or alternative livelihood strategies, which can inform more context-specific and nationally-owned [...]

Frameworks for Assessing Resilience – Report of the First Global Methodology Workshop

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As part of the “Frameworks for Assessing Resilience” (FAR), Interpeace organized and hosted a workshop in New York City on April 14-17 examining ‘resilience for peacebuilding’ in conflict-affected countries. This report is an overview of the four days [...]

Resilience in the face of the institutional crisis of the political system

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This document takes stock of the Frameworks for Assessing Resilience (FAR) programme in Guatemala. It looks at resilience in light of the current political situation in Guatemala. [...]

Assessing resilience for peacebuilding – Executive summary

Type: PDF Size: 611Kb Published: June 15, 2015 Author: Erin McCandless and Graeme Simpson

This document offers a critical review of resilience and the evolving approaches related to its assessment and measurement. It explores how a resilience approach can inform peacebuilding, and conversely, how a peacebuilding perspective can support and strength [...]

Does resilience enrich peacebuilding?

Peacebuilding is complex, multi-layered and political and the success of resilient individuals and communities has impact on the resilience of the entire society or state. Identifying leaders or institutions that can connect individuals, communities and govern [...]

Mekanismu atu Kompriende Reziliensia: Timor-Leste Relatoriu Nasional

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This document is a report of the findings of the consultation phase of the Frameworks for Assessing Resilience (FAR) pilot project in Timor-Leste. [...]