Publications

Dynamic Content Reaching a Broad Audience

The Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) publishes and disseminates dynamic content on peacebuilding and models for the field that reach a broad audience, including members of our own community, other nongovernmental organizations, funders, policymakers, and others.

Books

In 2013, AfP and Rowman and Littlefield agreed to publish a series of books on peacebuilding for students and practitioners as well as the general public.

You can view and purchase the books here.

For more information, contact Chip Hauss, at hauss@allianceforpeacebuilding.org

Briefs

AfP’s policy briefs provide reliable information on new issues within the peacebuilding field. For more information on current policy and policy briefs, contact Liz Hume at lhume@allianceforpeacebuilding.org.

Policy Briefs

• Ethiopia: Conflict Dynamics Amid Sweeping Reforms Require a Peacebuilding Approach

• Afghanistan: The Elements Needed for a Successful Peace Process (2019)

• U.S. Foreign Assistance to Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala (2019)

• Global Fragility Act Country Snapshot: Central African Republic (2019)

• Global Fragility Act Country Snapshot: Bangladesh (2019)

• Briefing Book: How the 116th Congress Can Build Peace (2019)

• Countering Violent Extremism (Updated 2018)

• Violence against Women in Politics: A Barrier to Peace and Security (2018)

• What Works to Address Violent Extremism? (2018)

• Civil Society in the Age of Automation: Understanding the Benefits and Risks of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Bots (2018)

• Social Media and Its Impact on Social Goods (2018) 

• Increase Efficiency, Reduce Violence: Peacebuilding Perspectives on Reforms to USAID and the State Department (2017)

• Violence Reduction: Evidence from Around the World (2017)

• Countering Violent Extremism (2016)

• Women’s Empowerment Programs (2015)

• Strategy for Stability in Somalia (2015)

• Security Sector Reform and Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration Theories of Change (2015)

• Theories of Change on Counter Terrorism, Counterinsurgency and Preventing Violent Extremism (2015)

• Theories of Change (2015)

• Locally Led Peacebuilding in the Central African Republic (2014)

• Military Support to Governance (2014)

• Military Support to Peacebuilding (2014)

“Gender &” Brief Series

This series aims to foster the practical integration of the twin objectives of gender equality and peace.

• Gender & Atrocity Prevention (2018)

• Gender & Countering Violent Extremism (2018)

• Gender & Fragility, Conflict, & Violence (2018)

• Gender & Nonviolent Action (2018)

• Gender & Social Enterprise for Peace (2018)

• Gender & Trauma-Informed Care (2018)

• Gender & Forced Migration (2018).

Reports

AfP releases many reports each year that address new topics within the peacebuilding field, our work and the focuses of our working groups.

Annual Reports

Annual Reports

• Alliance for Peacebuilding Annual Report (2018)

• Alliance for Peacebuilding Annual Report (2017)

• Alliance for Peacebuilding Annual Report (2015)

• Alliance for Peacebuilding Annual Report (2014)

Conference Reports

• PeaceCon 2018 Conference Report (2018)

• 2017 Annual Conference Report (2017)

Roundtable Reports

• Consultation Roundtable on Peacebuilding Cost-Effectiveness (2016)

• Beyond Crisis Management in the Middle East (2015)

• Military Support to Peacebuilding Full Report (2014)

Peacebuilding Evaluation

• Perspectives in Peacebuilding: Assessment of current dynamics in the peacebuilding system (2019)

• Local peacebuilding: What works and why (2019) joint collaboration between Peace Direct and AfP

• Raising the Bar – Monitoring & Evaluation Requirements of Peacebuilding Funders (2019)

• Violence Reduction Subsector Review & Evidence Evaluation (2019)

• Snapshot of Adaptive Management in Peacebuilding Programs (2018)

• Guiding Steps for Peacebuilding Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation (2018)

• Peacebuilding Approaches to Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism: Assessing the Evidence for Key Theories of Change (2018)

• Violence Reduction: Evidence from Around the World (2017)

• Wicked Problems: Peacebuilding Evaluation Ethics, Determining What is Good and Right (2016)

• Thinking Evaluatively in Peacebuilding Design Implementation and Monitoring (2016)

• Supernatural Belief and the Evaluation of Faith-based Peacebuilding (2016)

• Effective Inter-Religious Action in Peacebuilding Global Advisory Council Report (2016)

• Meta-review of Inter-Religious Peacebuilding Program Evaluations (2015)

• Starting on the Same Page: A Lessons Report (2011)

• Proof of Concept: Nine Examples of Peacebuilding Evaluation (2011)

Peacebuilding Mapping

• Public Support for Peacebuilding (2017)

• Peacebuilding 2.0: Mapping the Boundaries of an Expanding Field (2012)

Archived Publications

Building Peace

Building Peace was an AfP publication that highlighted the myriad of ways in which peacebuilding can heal war-torn societies and prevent deadly violence in the world’s most chaotic and fragile conflict zones. This project was commenced in 2013 and finished in 2015. Jessica Berns served as the Editor-in-Chief of Building Peace. Below are the archived editions of Building Peace.

• Issue 1
• Issue 2
• Issue 3
• Issue 4
• Issue 5
• Issue 6

Peacebuilding Post

A Spotlight on Members Worldwide

Stories from AfP’s own members, highlighting the richness and creativity of members’ peacebuilding activities across 153 countries.

3P Human Security Publications

AfP’s Policy & Advocacy program and its Human Security program have been shaped a great deal by the previous work of 3P Human Security (formerly the 3D Security Initiative), an organization established in 2005 to bring civil society peacebuilding voices and approaches to US policymakers. The organization merged with AfP in 2012 and the publications in this collection were produced by 3P over its eight years of policy & advocacy in Washington.