Strategic and Responsive Tools for Evaluation

A set of tools to integrate strategic and responsive components of evaluation for peacebuilding initiatives.

The Big Picture of Conflict Transformation

A diagram representing the circular process of conflict transformation through inquiry around the presenting situation, horizon of the future, and development of change processes.

Conflict in the Countryside

An exercise to develop a proposal for the construction of health clinics in a country navigating conflict following the signing of a peace accord.

YATAMA-Sandinista Mediation: Twelve Things I Have Learned

Twelve reflections gathered through the experience of mediating between YATAMA and the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.

Designing Good Meetings

Suggestions to improve meetings through clarifying purpose, roles, and process.

The Mediator’s Cultural Assumptions

A brief article clarifying how North American definitions of mediation may produce crucial points of tension when directly exported to other cultures, as well as suggesting factors for mediators to consider when moving between different cultural settings.

Continuum of Cultural Expectations

A chart illustrating cultural expectations across stages of mediation along a spectrum from "pure formal" to "pure informal."

Social Transformation of Conflict

A diagram illustrating the process and dynamics that unfold as social conflict escalates, shifting from constructive to destructive.

Conflict Transformation: A Working Definition

A table exploring the descriptive and prescriptive ways of understanding conflict transformation across four dimensions: personal, relational, structural, and cultural.