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The field of peacebuilding-contrary to the fields of development and humanitarian actionremains to adopt data standards for what constitutes peacebuilding. The challenge relates in part to the absence of agreed-upon definitions of peace itself. Consequently, peacebuilding activities are often fragmented with limited transparency and coordination among activities and actors. Defining peacebuilding exclusively by what peacebuilders do would not capture the full breath of activities and actors that indeed contribute to peacebuilding outcomes-including actors that are not traditionally labelled as peacebuilders. Defining peacebuilding by achieved outcomes would also not be practical, given the dearth of evaluations in peacebuilding. This brief takes a different approach and focuses on identifying categories of peacebuilding areas and tracking of their associated expenditures based on recurring priorities of the United Nations (UN) in peacebuilding contexts. These are essential for coordination, planning, policy making, assessing peacebuilding needs, and developing lessons learned and may help illuminate the concept of peace. We discuss the methodologies developed to this effect by the

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Author

Ayham Al Maleh; Etizaz Shah; Henk-Jan Brinkman; Viktoria von Knobloch

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences