Reclaiming Everyday Peace - Local Voices in Measurement and Evaluation After War

Introduces the Everyday Peace Indicators as a measurement, diagnostic and evaluation tool and makes an argument for its utility in conflict affected contexts.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Understanding Everyday Peace: 1. Measuring peace; 2. Who counts in the measurement of peace?; 3. A new approach to measuring peace; Part II. Evaluating Everyday Peace: 4. Everyday peace in Uganda and Colombia; 5. The multidimensionality of everyday peace; 6. Why do local interventions fail and why do they succeed?; Conclusion; Appendices.

About the author

Pamina Firchow is Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, Virginia. Her main research interests surround the study of the international accompaniment of communities affected by mass violence, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Dr Firchow has received support for her research from the United States Institute of Peace, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Rotary Foundation, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the University of Geneva. She has been working in the peacebuilding sector as a scholar-practitioner for non-governmental organizations and universities since 1999.

Summary

Peace settlements and interventions' terms for communities affected by war are often imposed by external parties and can lead to renewed conflicts and violence. This book argues that more attention must be directed toward the constituents of interventions and that local communities need to be involved in the development of the measures and standards used.

Product details

• Authors: Pamina Firchow, Pamina (George Mason University Firchow, Firchow Pamina
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781108416252
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41625-2
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Law, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Civil Rights, International Relations, Politics & government, Diplomacy, Politics and government, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Society and Social Sciences, Peacekeeping operations