A Synthesis of Evaluations of Peacebuilding Activities Undertaken by Humanitarian Agencies and Conflict Resolution Organisations

 This synthesis pulls together 15 country case studies, of which roughly half concern third party humanitarian agencies while the rest can be categorized as conflict resolution/transformation organizations.

Recognising that there is new-found interest in peacebuilding, though it is not a new field,
this report aims to contribute to the debate around possible criteria and the need for conceptual frameworks for assessing such interventions. The central argument of the paper is that peacebuilding is not simply a technical exercise and, as such, requires new ways of viewing and assessing it.