Participation in post-conflict environments in Timor-Leste and Rwanda; Sarah Cliffe, Scott Guggenheim, and Markus Kostner; 2003

Document is a planning and management tool that can assist development and humanitarian organizations in analyzing situations of (potential) conflict and identifying strategic opportunities for conflict prevention and peace-building.

Document describes a joint USAID-PVO conference called Dialogue on Working in Conflict, in which USAID and PVO representatives discussed how to help the U.S. humanitarian and development communities be more effective in working in conflict settings.

Working paper on conducting monitoring and evaluation in refugee-related situations.; Georg Frerks and Dorothea Hilhorst

Document describes the key functions that international social change networks perform as well as the challenges in assessing the abilities of a network.

This report presents an analytical framework to analyze institutional options for partnering community based organizations (CBOs) with local governments (LGs) in community driven development (CDD).

Analysis of the peace building potential of faith-based organizations.; Tsjeard Bouta, S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana, Mohammed Abu-Nimer; 2005

Document provides a comparative look at women’s political participation in specifiic countries as well as at the obstacles women confront in politics, and outlines 95 best practices to promote gender equality in party politics.

Guide sets standards for laws permitting, protecting and regulating civic organizations that choose to obtain legal personality and enables concerned individuals to evaluate an existing law governing civic organizations or to draft a better one.

USAID toolkit exploring the connections between livelihoods and conflict; This ""toolkit"" explains the connections between livelihood and conflict and aims to provide USAID missions with access to concrete, practical program options, lessons learned, and information about potential partners, mechanisms and monitoring and evaluation tools for implementing more effective conflict programs. The document concentrates on how violent conflict can affect individual and community access to essential resources and how an approach that focuses on strengthening that access can help people survive and recover from conflict. Livelihoods, or individuals' or households' access to resources is often a primary factor in motivating violence. In some cases, if livelihood support is offered early enough, conflict may be avoided.