Partnership beyond projects: the importance of local ownership and trust

Interpeace and the Centre of Studies for Peace and Development (CEPAD) have worked together since 2007, supporting peacebuilding processes in Timor-Leste. Our partnership began in response to the violent political crisis of 2006, which revealed the challenges of a young nation adopting a new system of state structures. Throughout the years, we used Participatory Action [...]

NGO Consortium members vote Interpeace to chair Somalia peacebuilding group

Members of national and international civil society organizations operating in Somalia have voted Interpeace as the chair of a multi-agency peacebuilding working group. The Somalia NGO Consortium made the announcement on 27 January 2020. Somalia NGO Consortium (SNC) is a voluntary coordination mechanism of national and international Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working in Somalia and operates [...]

Governing with and for Citizens – Lessons from a Post-Genocide Rwanda

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A study on citizens’ participation in post-genocide Rwanda was jointly undertaken by Never Again Rwanda (NAR) and Interpeace in the framework of their Societal Healing and Participatory Governance for Sustainabe Peace Program. Both organisations believe that in a wounded society, participation of citizens in governance is a major healing mechanism. In Rwanda, given the history [...]

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, Liberia and Timor-Leste. The goal of the FAR programme is to understand resilience to violent conflict from a local perspective and to determine how existing capacities for resilience can be leveraged and strenghtened to better [...]

Somaliland youth violence and youth role role in peacebuilding: Baseline survey

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This report seeks to understand the perceptions young people have about trends in youth violence in Somaliland, including extent, actors and causes. It also seeks to lay a foundation for youth empowerment by asking youth what is needed to improve their ability to play a positive role in society. This information will feed into a [...]

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 ‘institutional reform’ constitute a huge share of official development assistance. Yet a growing body of comparative and cumulative evaluations, further bolstered by [...]

The 5 capabilities framework – 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. Capacities can exist at different levels: that of an individual (which we then will call ‘competencies’), a team, a unit within an organization, an organization as a whole. We are looking here at ‘capacity’ for an organization as a whole.

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 one of its enablers. This paper discusses the importance of understanding and working with power in multi-stakeholder processes.

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 the energies to develop competencies and capacities and to move towards a stronger future. This [...]

Appreciative inquiry – 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. This paper explores the practice of appreciative inquiry in advising, which aims at perceiving organizations as ‘social constructs’ that are produced and reproduced through conversations.

Jill and Jack of all trades, master of some. Competency requirements for effective advising in international cooperation contexts

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This working paper examines the competency requirements for effective advising in international cooperation contexts.

United Nations review of international civilian capacities

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This report is a contribution to a broader UN-led reflection and wider consultation about the type, quality, expertise and availability of civilian experts to support the immediate capacity development needs of countries emerging from conflict. This document presents the results of a civil society survey and summarises the responses of 34 civil society organisations.

Peacebuilding how? Assessing the design of peacebuilding interventions

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This document in the ‘Peacebuilding How?’ series visualizes the major dimensions that need to be considered when designing or assessing a peacebuilding intervention. The central question is whether the peacebuilding intervention is strategic, which requires a credible argumentation linking it to an analysis of the conflict dynamics.