| $299,995 |
2020 |
Oregon State University
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OSU will analyze five case studies to characterize successful EPB, identify replicable and adaptable EPB strategies, and target the education and training of EPB scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. Four of the case studies will be from completed projects conducted by Ecopeace in Israel, Jordan, and Palestine. An additional case study will come from a partnership with the Center for Ecology and Energy (CEE) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. CEE adapted Ecopeace’S ‘good Water Neighbors’ model of EPB to the unique sociocultural and ecological characteristics of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The research methodology includes initial desk research, field data collection, and analysis using process tracing methods. |
| $281,709 |
2020 |
Environmental Law Institute
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ELI will synthesize learning from academia and practitioners on the state of knowledge on environmental peacebuilding M&e and will serve as an important bridge between theory-based conceptualizations of effective M&e approaches and practical experiences specific to the field of environmental peacebuilding. After completing an academic and gray literature review, ELI will consult with practitioners working in the field to collect additional approaches and experiences that may not be fully represented in publications. This unreported knowledge is important to understanding the practical opportunities, constraints, and trade-offs associated with environmental peacebuilding M&e. ELI will start interviews and consultations with Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnpAx) members and utilize a snowball sampling approach. ELI will collect and synthesize learning regarding: 1) environmental peacebuilding situations where traditional M&e approaches are problematic; 2) alternative M&e approaches that have been innovated; and 3) the effectiveness of innovative M&e approaches. ELI will focus particular attention on approaches for how monitoring and evaluation might depend on particular pathways for environmental peacebuilding, such as addressing environmental causes of conflict or reintegration of ex-combatants into natural resource-related jobs, and the scale and type of interventions, such as dialogue or capacity building. These considerations of pathways, scale, and type are anticipated to substantially affect context-appropriate and effective approaches to M&e. ELI will convert the research into guidance on good practice in environmental peacebuilding M&e in a ready-for-use toolkit for practitioners in English, French, and Spanish. The toolkit will include information on the importance of M&e, implementation challenges, practical conceptualizations of M&e, good practices (both proven and promising), guidance on contexts in which certain practices have been applied, and links to external resources. ELI will also create a project website to house the toolkit and short case study videos. |
| $149,721 |
2022 |
American University |
A project to research how domestic actors in conflict-affected countries, often referred to as “local” actors, influence the effectiveness of multilateral conflict prevention and peacebuilding efforts via formal and informal networks. The project will examine conditions under which these local-global networks of peacebuilders work best in conflict-affected countries. |
| $149,134 |
2022 |
United Nations University |
Centre for Policy Research project to examine why some conflict-affected states developed severe problems with organized crime over the past 10 years and how multilateral organizations can more coherently and effectively address organized crime in the future. The research will identify gaps and overlaps in multilateral approaches to countering organized crime, highlight the constraints on multilateral policy and action against organized crime, and offer recommendations to improve counter-organized crime assistance and programming by multilateral organizations for conflict-affected sub-Saharan African states. |
| $140,047 |
2022 |
Governing Council of the University of Toronto |
A research project to examine why insurgent organizations sometimes become integrated into political, economic, and social sectors of society, while at other times they remain partially or fully precluded from participation in the post-conflict state. The project will result in a dataset on war-to-peace transitions in Southeast Asia and a comparative analysis of insurgent groups in Myanmar and the Philippines. |
| $128,700 |
2022 |
United Nations University |
Centre for Policy Research project to examine how the UN can translate broad prevention strategies at the regional level into integrated interventions in fragile, conflict-prone settings. The research will identify which tools and approaches are best able to identify risks in fragile countries and which models exist for the UN to better partner with national and regional actors to improve its prevention work at both levels. |
| $123,660 |
2022 |
Atlantic Council of the U S Inc
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A research project to analyze how core global trends and uncertainties will reshape multilateral institutions, especially the UN. The research will focus on the implications of drivers of change such as rising multipolarity, climate change, diffusion of global authority (e.g., to nonstate actors), and disruptive technological development. |
| $120,508 |
2022 |
University of Denver |
A project to research the extent to which joint multilateral UN-AU Special Political Missions are effective in facilitating political transitions, settlements, and durable institutions that offer pathways toward conflict prevention and peacebuilding in conflict-affected countries in Africa. The project will generate analysis and recommendations regarding UN-AU multilateral approaches to peace and security. |
| $101,097 |
2020 |
The University of Sheffield |
The University of Sheffield aims to improve conservation, natural resources governance and environmental peacebuilding interventions in protected areas, specifically those immersed in protracted armed conflict in fragile states. It aims to ensure that these interventions contribute to mitigating and transforming armed conflict and adequately address the effects of environmental change on dynamics of conflict and violence. The University of Sheffield will first conduct in-depth field research in two protected areas in eastern DRC: the Itombwe Nature Reserve and the Okapi Wildlife Reserve to generate new knowledge on the links between conservation, armed conflicts, and environmental change. The project will map specific environmental peacebuilding, conflict-sensitive conservation, and natural resources governance interventions in the case study areas, involving a large network of international and local Congolese organizations. Findings will be used to analyze and conceptually re-think general policy approaches to environmental peacebuilding, conflict-sensitive conservation, and natural resources governance in zones of protracted armed conflict in fragile settings. |
| $100,619 |
2020 |
Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation |
HKUST will undertake an innovative climate-fragility risk assessment to develop novel strategies to reduce locally specific climate-fragility risks in Bangsamoro. After an extensive literature review, HKUST will analyze satellite images, hydrological data, meteorological data, and land use data to assess variations in Bangsamoro’s natural environment since 1960. Next, HKUST will conduct interviews, focus groups, and community mapping exercises with key informants including community members, past members of armed groups, security and development experts, and state officials to collect oral histories of outbreaks of violence and peacebuilding efforts. The research will result in a climate-fragility risk assessment tool to analyze climate and security risks, based on the five core capital categories in the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework: human, social, natural, physical, and financial capital. The tool will be applied at a workshop bringing key Filipino actors to collaboratively formulate policy recommendations and strategies to address these risks. |
| $100,000 |
2020 |
International Rescue Committee, Inc.
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IRC aims to increase understanding on natural resource management in urban and peri-urban areas affected by forced displacement and effects on local peace and conflict dynamics. IRC will first conduct a literature review and then begin participatory qualitative research in Maiduguri, Nigeria, and Goma, DRC, two secondary cities in fragile and conflict affected countries that have experienced rapid urbanization through displacement. Field research will employ an explanatory case study research design addressing the key questions identified on displacement impacts on natural resource management and identify promising approaches that mitigate the risk of exclusion, discrimination, and violence. Within each city, neighborhoods will be identified as either urban or peri-urban and qualitative data will be collected through focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews. Finally, IRC will develop a research report, policy brief, and academic paper that will be disseminated digitally and through interactive forums. |
| $99,256 |
2020 |
Universidad del Rosario |
Rosario will increase understanding on the relationship between violent conflict and deforestation in the Colombian Amazon through the development of diagnostic tools to be used in the design and implementation of policies at the local, national, regional levels. In conjunction with the School of Forest Resources and Conservation at the University of Florida, Rosario will conduct field research, including geospatial analysis and participatory mapping with community members, in the Caqueta, Putumayo, and Guaviare areas of northwest Colombian Amazon. Rosario will develop a policy toolbox to be deployed by peacebuilding practitioners to test and diagnose deforestation conflicts, including pedagogical tools and a database of resources, in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. Rosario will also develop a course with the Universidad de la Amazonia for local authorities, peasants, and indigenous leaders to increase the capacity to resolve deforestation-related conflicts. |
| $97,515 |
2020 |
Indigenous Movement for Peace Advancement and Conflict Transformation (IMPACT) |
IMPACT will develop a better understanding of how grassroots environmental peacebuilding movements reduce environment-related violent conflict in fragile contexts and facilitate opportunities for supporting, sustaining, scaling, and linking such movements in Northern Kenya. IMPACT will conduct participatory action research, including key informant interviews and monitoring of ongoing peacebuilding activities, with the PARAN Alliance in the Borana, Maasai, Rendille, and Samburu areas of Kenya. Next, IMPACT will use the research results to design and pilot a training program for the PARAN Alliance containing 12 short capacity building courses in English and Swahili to equip local leaders with the skills to sustain, scale, and link their peacebuilding efforts. |
| $95,000 |
2020 |
Tufts University, World Peace Foundation |
WPF will investigate decarbonization’s impacts on peacebuilding and mediation models by evaluating the political impacts of shifting to sustainable energy sources in fragile states that do not have the fiscal or institutional capacity to plan for the energy transition. WPF will focus primarily on the cases of Nigeria, South Sudan, Sudan and Iraq. For broader comparative analysis, WPF will include the secondary cases of Algeria, Chad, DRC, Yemen, Libya and Syria, plus emerging oil producers. From these case studies, WPF will create of an analysis and typology of existing peace agreements and peace processes in countries with predominantly transactional political systems to evaluate the impact of ‘traumatic decarbonization,’ (or massive unplanned reduction in revenue from oil) on political settlements. |
