What makes a peace organization sustainable?
May 11th, 2010As noted in my previous post, during the coming weeks I will be travelling in the Balkans focusing on civil society development from an organization development perspective. I will be looking at peace and human rights organizations, that have grown from an initiative into a mature and sustainable organization.
The issue has been on my mind for a long time. In recent years there have been several studies over the impact of civil society development initiatives and support programmes. Here are some examples:
- The upcoming publication evaluation of the civil peace service programme carried out for the German federal ministry for economic cooperation (link as soon as published)
- The Hivos Vision Paper on Civil society building
- Thania Paffenholz, Civil Society and Peace building
- Martina Fischer, Civil Society in Conflict Transformation: Ambivalence, Potentials and Challenges
- The evaluation of the EU CARDS programme, carried out in 2006.