Complexity thinking for peacebuilding practice and evaluation / Emery Brusset, Cedric de Coning, Bryn Hughes, editors.
Brusset, Emery, editor.; De Coning, Cedric, editor.; Hughes, Bryn W., editor.
2016
JZ6369
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Title Complexity thinking for peacebuilding practice and evaluation / Emery Brusset, Cedric de Coning, Bryn Hughes, editors.
ISBN 9781137601117 (electronic book)
1137601116 (electronic book)
9781137601100
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number JZ6369
Dewey Decimal Classification 327.1/17
Summary This book covers the design, evaluation, and learning for international interventions aiming to promote peace. More specifically, it reconceptualises this space by critically analysing mainstream approaches - presenting both conceptual and empirical content. This volume offers a variety of original and insightful contributions to the debates grappling with the adoption of complexity thinking. Insights from Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation addresses the core dilemma that practitioners have to confront: how to function in situations that are fast changing and complex, when equipped with tools designed for neither? How do we reconcile the tension between the use of linear causal logic and the dynamic political transitions that interventions are meant to assist? Readers will be given a rare opportunity to superimpose the latest conceptual innovations with the latest case study applications and from a diverse spectrum of organisational vantage points. This provides the myriad practitioners and consultants in this space with invaluable insights as to how to improve their trade craft, while ensuring policy makers and the accompanying research/academic industry have clearer guidance and innovative thinking.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Brusset, Emery, editor.
De Coning, Cedric, editor.
Hughes, Bryn W., editor.
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Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction; Emery Brusset, Cedric de Coning, Bryn Hughes
PART I: Insights from Complexity Thinking
1. Implications of Complexity for Peacebuilding Policies and Practices; Cedric de Coning
2. Thawing Ceteris Paribus: The Move to a Complex systems Lens; Bryn Hughes
PART II: Insights from Complexity Practice
3. Avoiding Perplexity: Complexity-Oriented Monitoring and Evaluation for UN Peace Operations; Charles T. Hunt
4. Challenges: EU Civilian Crisis Management and the Objective of Impact Assessment: Kosovo as an Example of Complexity; Tanja Tamminen
5. Organisisng Artisans for Peace: CMI on a Learning Curve; Oskari Eronen
6. Monitoring and Evaluation in Peacebuilding
Reclaiming the Lost Opportunities for Improving Peacebuilding in Practice; Pravina Makan-Lakha
PART III: Coping with Complexity
7. Analysing Complex Conflicts: Requirements for Complexity-Aware Conflict Analysis; Jan Frelin
8. Seeking Simplicity: An Application of Complexity to Evaluation; Emery Brusset
Conclusion; Emery Brusset, Cedric de Coning, Bryn Hughes.

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