This article looks at the project currently being piloted by Interpeace, on the role of resilience in the Guatemalan peacebuilding process.

This assessment of resilience draws attention to capacities and strengths in society, whether as individual personality traits, solidarity networks of communities or alternative livelihood strategies, which can inform more context-specific and nationally-owned peacebuilding processes.

This edition of the Journal of Peacebuilding focuses on resilience in peacebuilding contexts.

This document is a background course on effective advising in statebuilding and peacebuilding contexts. ‘Technical Cooperation’ or ‘Technical Assistance’, mostly in the form of international experts and advisors, and loans and grants for ‘institutional reform’ constitute a huge share of official development assistance. Yet a growing body of comparative and cumulative evaluations, further bolstered by […]

This document is a background course on effective advising in statebuilding and peacebuilding contexts. Social and economic development, organizational development and institutional reform, statebuilding and peacebuilding, the delivery of social services and other public goods etc. are not solely ‘technical’ challenges. Around each of these and related issues we find competing interests, power asymmetries, perceptions […]

This document is a background course on effective advising in statebuilding and peacebuilding contexts. Capacities can exist at different levels: that of an individual (which we then will call ‘competencies’), a team, a unit within an organization, an organization as a whole. We are looking here at ‘capacity’ for an organization as a whole.