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