Summary – Local infrastructures for peace in Guinea-Bissau: The contribution of the Regional Spaces for Dialogue to peacebuilding

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This document is a summary of the case study that documents how regional spaces of dialogue contribute to the peacebuilding efforts being carried out in Guinea-Bissau, and is an example of a successful method being widely used on a national level. [...]

Local infrastructures for peace in Guinea-Bissau: The contribution of the Regional Spaces for Dialogue to peacebuilding

Type: PDF Size: 2Mb Published: November 25, 2015

This case study documents how regional spaces of dialogue contribute to the peacebuilding efforts being carried out in Guinea-Bissau, and is an example of a successful method being widely used on a national level. [...]

Infra-estrutura local para a paz na Guiné-Bissau: A contribução dos Espaços Regionais de Diálogo para a construção da paz

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This case study documents how regional spaces of dialogue contribute to the peacebuilding efforts being carried out in Guinea-Bissau, and is an example of a successful method being widely used on a national level. [...]

Résumé – Infrastructures locales de paix en Guinée-Bissau: La contribution des Espaces régionaux de dialogue à la consolidation de la paix

Type: PDF Size: 352Kb Published: November 25, 2015

This document is a summary of the case study that documents how regional spaces of dialogue contribute to the peacebuilding efforts being carried out in Guinea-Bissau, and is an example of a successful method being widely used on a national level. [...]

The contribution of Regional Spaces for Dialogue to Peacebuilding in Guinea-Bissau

Published: November 25, 2015

How do local infrastructures for peace contribute to peacebuilding and statebuilding processes? What allows them to effectively ensure local ownership? Do they have any impact on the national level? How can they sustain their actions without external financial [...]

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 [...]

Resilience and peacebuilding: The project in Guatemala

Type: PDF Size: 2Mb Published: October 31, 2015 Author: Mariel Aguilar

This article looks at the project currently being piloted by Interpeace, on the role of resilience in the Guatemalan peacebuilding process. [...]

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 [...]

The limited value-for-money of international technical cooperation, capacity-development and institutional reform support – Effective advising in statebuilding and peacebuilding contexts

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This document is a background course on effective advising in statebuilding and peacebuilding contexts. ‘Technical Cooperation’ or ‘Technical Assistance’, mostly in the form of international experts and advisors, and loans and grants for ‘institution [...]

Thinking and working politically – Effective advising in statebuilding and peacebuilding contexts

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This document is a background course on effective advising in statebuilding and peacebuilding contexts. Social and economic development, organizational development and institutional reform, statebuilding and peacebuilding, the delivery of social services and o [...]

Public participation and citizen engagement – Effective advising in statebuilding and peacebuilding contexts

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This document is a background course on effective advising in statebuilding and peacebuilding contexts. It explores the importance of public participation and citizen engagement on issues of public importance. [...]

Understanding and working with power – Effective advising in statebuilding and peacebuilding contexts

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This document is a background course on effective advising in statebuilding and peacebuilding contexts. Anyone interested in ‘change’ has an interest in understanding ‘power’, because ‘power’ is both one of the constraining factors to change and on [...]

The art of asking catalytic questions – Effective advising in statebuilding and peacebuilding contexts

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This document is a background course on effective advising in statebuilding and peacebuilding contexts. Asking powerful, compelling questions that matter is a central skill of an adviser, mentor or coach, or of a thought leader, seeking to catalyze in others t [...]

Appreciative inquiry – Effective advising in statebuilding and peacebuilding contexts

Type: PDF Size: 572Kb Published: October 13, 2015

This document is a background course on effective advising in statebuilding and peacebuilding contexts. This paper explores the practice of appreciative inquiry in advising, which aims at perceiving organizations as ‘social constructs’ that are produced an [...]

Somaliland’s progress towards peace: Mapping the community perspective

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The Academy for Peace and Development (APD) is proud to present its Pillar Note – the central document of its Pillars of Peace II programme. The pillar note brings together the findings of an extensive mapping exercise carried out across Somaliland by APD at [...]

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. [...]