Conflict Assessment and Peacebuilding Planning: Toward a Participatory Approach to Human Security

Conflict Assessment and Peacebuilding Planning has been an essential book as part of my graduate studies. It is a very practical guide for better analyzing and understanding conflict and I am excited to use both in school and professionally. I would highly recommend this book to anyone in the peacebuilding field as a way to better understand both themselves and the conflict around them.

I have learned a lot with it contents and practical experiences that are incorporated by the author.The frame works are applicable everywhere and can be cascaded contextuallly

Conflict Assessment & Peacebuilding Planning was required reading for our Foundations in Peacebuilding course at Eastern Mennonite University's Center for Justice and Peace. I have found it to be the most useful and practical handbook I have read on peacebuilding, and I plan to carry it with me everywhere I work. I only wish that it had been available earlier. I have about ten years experience working on peacebuilding projects, and this book would have been a very valuable resource. I could have analyzed situations better and responded more appropriately. This book covers work from grassroots projects to higher-level international programs, and I think it would appeal to a variety of practitioners. Importantly, it discusses theories of change and emphasizes the need for a thorough self-assessment. I relied on this manual extensively in developing a plan for faith-based missions development work for my seminary capstone project. If I could only have one resource on peacebuilding, this would be the one.

Lisa is one of the leading peacebuilding scholars/practitioners I have ever had the fortune to meet. Her text is a wonderful, user friendly, practical guide to doing applied conflict assessments and translating findings into improved programming and impact. I strongly encourage anyone engaged in peacebuilding study, practice or research to read the text.