Beyond Intractability: A Free Knowledge Base on More Constructive Approaches to Destructive Conflict

Evaluation of Interventions
How Evaluations Are Useful
	Laura Chasin talks about using feedback from participants to improve the design of dialogue groups.
	Helen Chauncey explains what they do with evaluations.
	Helen Chauncey explains why it is so important that NGOs have clear goals and vision as well as what she calls a "value-added" philosophy.
	Eileen Babbitt describes an ICAR-based project that brought together high-level Israeli and Palestinian women in a long series of workshops starting in 1992 with the goal of getting a dialogue started.
	Eileen Babbitt describes the difficult refugee resettlement problem in Bosnia and Rwanda and how she worked with UNHCR to evaluate their response.
	Eileen Babbitt describes some of the challenges in evaluating the UNHCR's refugee resettlement efforts in Bosnia and Rwanda.
Defining Success
	Lawrence Susskind discusses how he measures success in his consensus building work.
	Helen Chauncey argues that coexistence work is necessary to bring about peacebuilding success.
	Sanda Kaufman observes that Westerners expect very quick results when it comes to conflicts and their resolution.
	Mary Anderson asserts that practitioners are often too tolerant of slow progress towards peace.
	Howard Gadlin, Ombudsman at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) suggests some means of assessing the success of his interventions as an ombudsman.
	John Katunga of Nairobi Peace Initiative (NPI) explains NPI's efforts to evaluate their community mediation efforts.

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Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war. -- John F. Kennedy

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