Join DME for Peace on Thursday, June 20th at 10am EDT, as Dr. Sukanya Podder, Senior Lecturer in Defence and Security Studies at King’s College London, leads a M&E Thursday Talk discussion on “Reflexive Peacebuilding: Legacies, Institutional Learning, and Reflection.”
Over the last three decades, there has been an enormous expansion in energy and significant resources expended by international organizations, bilateral donors, and non-governmental organizations in the name of peacebuilding. Dr. Sukanya Podder will discuss how we still, however, have little idea if these resources are ‘well spent’ beyond a program-specific monitoring and evaluation of short-term outputs. And, how we are equally uncertain of the longer-term effects of peacebuilding interventions on various target populations, and what these mean for institutional learning and reflection more generally.
Participants will be asked to consider the concept of peacebuilding legacy, i.e. the long-term effects of peacebuilding interventions.To illustrate this point, Sukanya will explore results from a recent study of two youth-focused peacebuilding programs run over a decade by a leading international peacebuilding NGO in Sierra Leone and Macedonia.
The DME for Peace Team