Conflict and Violence Prevention Learning Agenda
USAID’s Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization and Center for Violence Prevention partnered with AIR, the Alliance for Peacebuilding, and the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project to co-create and implement a learning agenda that establishes the evidence base for effective approaches to armed conflict and violence prevention (CVP); identifies opportunities for CVP investments that would produce new knowledge; and provides USAID staff with events, tools, resources, and guidance to incorporate learning agenda findings into their work.
The project team pursued an intensive stakeholder engagement process with USAID/DC and mission staff working across armed conflict and violence (AC&V), education, food security, health, rule of law, and humanitarian assistance issues, ultimately arriving at six Learning Agenda Questions, including themes of:
- Conflict sensitive peacebuilding;
- Conflict sensitivity and integration;
- Conflict and violence prevention;
- Preventing and countering violent extremism;
- Monitoring, evaluation, and learning; and
- Climate security.
To thoroughly address each of these themes, the project team conducted intensive evidence reviews, culminating in sixteen technical reports and briefs.
AIR Publications
Evidence Review on the Integration of Conflict Sensitive Practice Within Human-Serving Sectors
Patricia Campie, Ph.D., Chandler Hill Lichtenfels, M.S., and Kirsten Chaplin, B.A. (2024)
Examining the evidence base for using conflict sensitive approaches to improve development outcomes in human-serving sectors, this review aims to identify promising and effective conflict sensitive practices based on empirical research from the development sector, worldwide, to inform future conflict sensitivity research, policy, and practice. Evidence from this review suggests that the education sector has developed the largest number of concrete conflict sensitive tools and practices that can be formally evaluated for impact on outcomes and brought to scale for the benefit of the sector and the broader development community.
Evidence Review on the Motivations and Incentives to Engage, Join or Support Violent Groups
Patricia Campie, Ph.D., Chandler Hill Lichtenfels, M.S., and Kirsten Chaplin, B.A. (2024)
This report presents findings from an evidence review of armed conflict and violence research, intended to map the evidence base for what approaches are effective in reducing the communal, social, and economic incentives motivating involvement with violent actors, and in which contexts, while pinpointing areas that require greater investigation. Findings point to using a comprehensive approach to prevent violent group affiliation by inserting prevention opportunities with populations at risk for violence at different points in their risk development pathway, beginning with their first exposure to violence as a bystander, and later as a victim.
Alliance for Peacebuilding Publications
Literature Review on Conflict Sensitivity in Peacebuilding
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., and Jeannie Shroads, M.S. (2024)
Conflict Sensitivity (CS) Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning (MEL)
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., and Amanda Woomer, Ph.D. (2024)
Motivations and Incentives to Engage, Join, or Support Violent Groups - Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning (MEL)
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., Shreya Gautam, M.A., and Kelsey Edmond, M.P.A., M.P.P. (2024)
Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism Systematic Mixed Methods Review: Prevention
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., and Brandon Kendhammer, Ph.D. (2024)
Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning (MEL): Prevention
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., Shreya Gautam, M.A., and Kelsey Edmond, M.P.A., M.P.P. (2024)
Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism Systematic Mixed Methods Review: Containment/Interdiction
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., and Brandon Kendhammer, Ph.D. (2024)
Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning (MEL): Containment/Interdiction
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., Shreya Gautam, M.A., and Kelsey Edmond, M.P.A., M.P.P. (2024)
Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism Systematic Mixed Methods Review: Disengagement, Deradicalization, Rehabilitation, and Reintegration
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., and Brandon Kendhammer, Ph.D. (2024)
Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning (MEL): Disengagement, Deradicalization, Rehabilitation, and Reintegration
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., Shreya Gautam, M.A., and Kelsey Edmond, M.P.A., M.P.P. (2024)
Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning (MEL): Climate Security
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., Amanda Woomer, Ph.D., and Shreya Gautam, M.A. (2024)
Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism Systematic Mixed Methods Review: Methodology
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., and Allyson Bachta, M.Ed. (2024)
Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning (MEL): Methodology
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, M.S., Shaziya DeYoung, M.A., Allyson Bachta, M.Ed., Shreya Gautam, M.A., and Kelsey Edmond, M.P.A., M.P.P. (2024)
