Key themes from digital workshop on Building Evidence Based Practice in Peacebuilding

 
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Authors: Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, Saurav Upadhyay

Publisher: Alliance for Peacebuilding

Publication date: May 2021

Abstract: The Alliance for Peacebuilding, Better Evidence Project, and One Earth Future organized a Digital Workshop to promote collaboration among global peacebuilding practitioners on advancing the field’s evidence-based practice. Alliance for Peacebuilding’s Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik and One Earth Future’s Conor Seyle presented findings from their recently released report: Some Credible Evidence: Perceptions about the Evidence Base in the Peacebuilding Field.

The Better Evidence Project’s Executive Director, Dr. Kristina Hook, introduced and moderate a panel of special guest speakers including:

  • Alpaslan Özerdem, Dean of the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University

  • Stephen Del Rosso, Program Director, International Peace & Security at Carnegie Corporation

  • Marcel Arsenault, Founder & CEO of One Earth Future Foundation

  • Liz Hume, Acting President & CEO of Alliance for Peacebuilding

Breakout groups were created to facilitate discussions to encourage collaboration between experts in the field. Topics included:

  • Women, peace, and security and evidence:

    • How to encourage attention to the evidence-based role of women in peacebuilding

  • Developing a foundation of evidence-based approaches:

    • How to collate and communicate the findings where the field sees evidence

  • Promoting evidence-based approaches in US government:

    • How to better engage government policy and practice in the discussion

  • Rigor, not methods:

    • How to discuss rigor in evidence without devolving to a methods debate

  • Next Steps for Peacemaking Evidence:

    • How to increase the evidence we have about peacemaking

This infographic summarizes key themes from the digital workshop on building evidence-based practice

About the Authors:

Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik is the Senior Director of Learning & Evaluation at the Alliance for Peacebuilding.

Saurav Upadhyay is the Manager of Learning & Evaluation at the Alliance for Peacebuilding.