USAID’s Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization (CPS) and Center for Violence Prevention (CVP) partnered with the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP), American Institutes for Research (AIR) and the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) to co-create and implement a learning agenda that establishes the evidence base for effective approaches to armed conflict and violence (AC&V) prevention; identifies opportunities for AC&V investments that would produce new knowledge; and provides USAID staff with events, tools, resources, and guidance to incorporate learning agenda findings into their work.
The project team pursued an intensive stakeholder engagement process with USAID/DC and mission staff working across AC&V, education, food security, health, rule of law, and humanitarian assistance issues, ultimately arriving at six learning agenda questions, including themes of:
Conflict sensitive peacebuilding;
Conflict sensitivity and integration;
Conflict and violence prevention;
Preventing and countering violent extremism;
Monitoring, evaluation, and learning; and
Climate security.
To thoroughly address each of these themes, the project team conducted intensive evidence reviews, culminating in sixteen technical reports and briefs.
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PREVENTING/ COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM (P/CVE)
EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS PROJECT REPORTS
Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism Systematic Mixed Methods Review: Methodology
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., and Allyson Bachta, M.Ed. (2024)
This report highlights the methodology utilized for a Mixed-Methods Systematic Scoping Review to assess the evidence base of P/CVE programs focused on (1) prevention; (2) containment/interdiction; and (3) disengagement, deradicalization, rehabilitation, and reintegration efforts.
Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism Systematic Mixed Methods Review: Prevention
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., and Brandon Kendhammer, Ph.D. (2024)
This report assesses the evidence base of six theories of change focused on prevention efforts in P/CVE programs and includes 116 different studies.
Additional AfP Resources: [Forthcoming] In-depth scatterplot analysis of bespoke theories of change.
Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism Systematic Mixed Methods Review: Containment/Interdiction
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., and Brandon Kendhammer, Ph.D. (2024)
This report assesses the evidence base of four theories of change focused on containment/interdiction efforts in P/CVE programs and includes 50 different studies.
Additional AfP Resources: [Forthcoming] In-depth scatterplot analysis of bespoke theories of change.
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., and Brandon Kendhammer, Ph.D. (2024)
This report assesses the evidence base of seven theories of change focused on disengagement, deradicalization, rehabilitation, and reintegration efforts in P/CVE programs and includes 25 different studies.
Additional AfP Resources: [Forthcoming] In-depth scatterplot analysis of bespoke theories of change.
MONITORING, EVALUATION, & LEARNING PROJECT REPORTS
Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning (MEL): Methodology
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., Shreya Gautam, M.A., and Kelsey Edmond, M.P.A., M.P.P. (2024)
This report highlights the methodology utilized for assessing indicators and measures across P/CVE programs focused on (1) prevention; (2) containment/interdiction; and (3) disengagement, deradicalization, rehabilitation, and reintegration efforts.
Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning (MEL): Prevention
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., Shreya Gautam, M.A., and Kelsey Edmond, M.P.A., M.P.P. (2024)
This report assesses 1,268 indicators and measures across 93 P/CVE programs focused on prevention efforts.
Additional AfP Resources: [Forthcoming] View the indicators and measures analyzed in this report in the Eirene Peacebuilding Indicator Database.
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., Shreya Gautam, M.A., and Kelsey Edmond, M.P.A., M.P.P. (2024)
This report assesses 679 indicators and measures across 39 P/CVE programs focused on containment/interdiction efforts.
Additional AfP Resources: [Forthcoming] View the indicators and measures analyzed in this report in the Eirene Peacebuilding Indicator Database.
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., Shreya Gautam, M.A., and Kelsey Edmond, M.P.A., M.P.P. (2024)
This report assesses 130 indicators and measures across 10 P/CVE programs focused on disengagement, deradicalization, rehabilitation, and reintegration efforts.
Additional AfP Resources: [Forthcoming] View the indicators and measures analyzed in this report in the Eirene Peacebuilding Indicator Database.
CONFLICT SENSITIVITY
Literature Review on Conflict Sensitivity in Peacebuilding
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., and Jeannie Shroads, M.S. (2024)
This report presents findings from a literature review of the best practices for Conflict Sensitivity and the associated frameworks as applied to peacebuilding.
Conflict Sensitivity (CS) Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning (MEL)
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., and Amanda Woomer, Ph.D. (2024)
This report assesses 72 indicators and measures across 50 conflict sensitivity resources.
Additional AfP Resources: [Forthcoming] View the indicators and measures analyzed in this report in the Eirene Peacebuilding Indicator Database.
CLIMATE SECURITY
Climate Security Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning (MEL)
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., Amanda Woomer, Ph.D., and Shreya Gautam, M.A. (2024)
This report assesses 209 indicators and measures across 128 climate security programs.
Additional AfP Resources: [Forthcoming] View the indicators and measures analyzed in this report in the Eirene Peacebuilding Indicator Database.
Motivations and Incentives to Engage, Join, or Support Violent Groups
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., Shreya Gautam, M.A., and Kelsey Edmond, M.P.A., M.P.P. (2024)
This report assesses 261 indicators and measures across 73 programs focused on motivations and incentives to engage, join, or support violent groups and associated forms of violence.
Additional AfP Resources: [Forthcoming] View the indicators and measures analyzed in this report in the Eirene Peacebuilding Indicator Database.
AIR publications
Evidence Review on the Integration of Conflict Sensitive Practice Within Human-Serving Sectors
Patricia Campie, Ph.D., Chandler Hill Lichtenfels, M.S., and Kirsten Chaplin, B.A. (2024)
This report and associated brief examines the evidence base for using conflict sensitive approaches to improve development outcomes in human-serving sectors.
Evidence Review on the Motivations and Incentives to Engage, Join or Support Violent Groups
Patricia Campie, Ph.D., Chandler Hill Lichtenfels, M.S., and Kirsten Chaplin, B.A. (2024)
This report and associated brief presents findings from an evidence review of armed conflict and violence research, intended to map the evidence base for what approaches are effective in reducing the communal, social, and economic incentives motivating involvement with violent actors, and in which contexts, while pinpointing areas that require greater investigation.
