Hello dear friends! I am the founder of a non profit organization called INART in Florida State! I am currently studying a masters degree in the European Graduate School on Expressive Arts, Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding. I started this adventure one year and a half ago and on december 20th, 2012 we finally got our tax excempt status.

Nevertheless we are in search of our treasurer! It s not a paid job, it is ad honorem participation to build a great organization that will…

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“Peace requires that many people work at many levels in different ways, and, with all this work, you cannot tell who is responsible for what.”[1]

In order to understand peace and development processes more broadly, experience has shown that we need to look beyond micro-level successes to…

Article found here: Resolving Hybrid Conflicts: The Bougainville Story

If you are interested in hybrid conflicts (blending of state and non-state actors and issues in violent conflicts), the region of Oceania, environmental sustainability, or ways in which indigenous and westernized models of conflict prevention, management, and resolution can be…

What's in this Post?

• Common Weaknesses of Conflict Analyses
• Checklist for Reviewing a Conflict Analysis
• Key Questions for Conflict Analysis

Common Weaknesses of Conflict Analyses

Experience shows a number of recurrent challenges to the production and use of conflict analysis.

Partial analysis. Due to time or resources constraints, it is often tempting to limit the focus of the analysis to a donor’s particular…

Traditional media programming, be they stories from the news media or fictional soap-operas, frequently[1] stress and exploit conflict for its entertainment value. While such an approach may attract more viewers and thus increase profit, which is the goal of the broadcaster, it most certainly has a negative impact on issues of conflict and peace. Such an approach, moreover, “does not reflect what most people have learned in their individual lives: namely,…

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Participatory project strategies are quite popular these days, and there’s good reason: study after study have found that…

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As international organizations have proliferated and taken on more and more responsibilities in global society, so too has the need increased to hold such institutions to account—particularly given the power and responsibilities entrusted to international non-governmental organizations by beneficiaries, donors and the public.

A common discussion in…

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Conflict analysis has long been established as a critical ingredient for effective programming in peacebuilding and conflict transformation. As one participant in the Reflecting on Peace Practice Project at CDA, Inc. stated, “Analysis is not optional; it is essential and obligatory for peace work.”…

Global Network for the Study of…

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“One of the major challenges for design, monitoring and evaluation for peacebuilding is the timeline. Conflict transformation takes place over long periods of time—or it doesn’t in some cases. But we are often forced to look in two to three year blocks of time at projects, or sometimes if we are lucky at programming more broadly, and it’s very, very…

Dear All,

TransConflict is pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative, 'The Peacebuilders’ Panel', which is designed to stimulate debate about peacebuilding and conflict transformation.

Targeted at peacebuilding practitioners, academics, students and enthusiasts, the aim of the initiative is to improve understanding about the respective…

A Manifesto for the Emerging Culture Of Peace

A new peace movement is rising out of the hardened soil of our long planetary winter. It is evidenced by the Arab Spring and the emer gence of the Occupy movement. It…

Dear All,

There is an emerging discussion in international development on theories of change. On the one hand you have methodological discussions and debates in theory-based evaluation on the testability and evaluability of theories of change, and on the other an emphasis on program design and the role and qualities of a good theory of change. This DM&E Tip attempts to capture the key points of the discussions on both sides (perhaps duality is a simplification, but it will suffice for this…

Cross posted from the Learning Portal for DM&E for Peacebuilding

One of the more recent developments in peacebuilding DM&E has been the increasing emphasis on developing explicit theories of change as part of project or program design. In our upcoming interview with the Senior Technical Advisor for Justice & Peace at Catholic Relief Services, Tom Bamat suggests that the…

I'll be presenting on critical peace education next week at the CIES 2012 conference, arguing that critical peace education (CPE) is vital to our efforts to achieve larger scale conflict transformation.  One particular skill, collaborative problem solving, is not often described within the context of classic critical theory (Habermas 1989, Foucault 1995). Here is a key contribution of critical peace education to the project of global conflict…

Dear All,

On behalf of TransConflict and the Global Coalition for Conflict Transformation, I hereby write to request your personal endorsement of the Principles of Conflict Transformation by signing the following ePetition:

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There’s still time to apply to the 2012 Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI). Come take from one to four courses in development, humanitarian assistance,…