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Measuring What Matters in Peace Operations and Crisis Management |
The first comprehensive overview of theories, mechanisms, and stakeholder approaches for measuring the success and progress of interventions within the global community of nations.
The international community has become increasingly interested in measuring the effectiveness of its activities in war-affected environments. This interest is partially motivated by a need to calculate the costs of these very expensive ventures and partially by the recognition that activities have not always been successful. While stakeholders are interested in measuring the effectiveness of their work in places like Afghanistan, they may be reticent to discover that their military, policing, and humanitarian activities are ineffectual or, worse, have had negative effects on recipient populations recovering from armed conflicts.
Sarah Jane Meharg analyses why various mechanisms - results-based management, measures of effectiveness, log frames, essential task matrices - are used in attempts to reduce complex intervention activities to simple success stories. She argues that the stakeholders involved could benefit from a deeper understanding of the theories, concepts, philosophies, and assumptions of other stakeholders in the peace operations and crisis management environment. She suggests ways to achieve this understanding through the strategic exercise of measuring effectiveness in relation to organizational requirements and recipient population's priorities in post-conflict societies.
Measuring What Matters in Peace Operations and Crisis Management provides policy advice on stakeholder approaches and advances the thinking on measuring progress in general. Primary field research for this book was conducted by Canada's Pearson Peacekeeping Centre.
Sarah Jane Meharg analyses why various mechanisms - results-based management, measures of effectiveness, log frames, essential task matrices - are used in attempts to reduce complex intervention activities to simple success stories. She argues that the stakeholders involved could benefit from a deeper understanding of the theories, concepts, philosophies, and assumptions of other stakeholders in the peace operations and crisis management environment. She suggests ways to achieve this understanding through the strategic exercise of measuring effectiveness in relation to organizational requirements and recipient population's priorities in post-conflict societies.
Measuring What Matters in Peace Operations and Crisis Management provides policy advice on stakeholder approaches and advances the thinking on measuring progress in general. Primary field research for this book was conducted by Canada's Pearson Peacekeeping Centre.
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Part of the Queen's Policy Studies Series (number 130 in series)
200 Pages, 6 x 9
10 tables
Queen's Policy Studies in partnership with Pearson Peacekeeping Centre
ISBN 9781553392286
March 2009
Formats: Paperback
Measuring What Matters in Peace Operations and Crisis Management highlights the need to identify appropriate measures of effectiveness from the perspective of recipient populations so as to enable international actors to better comprehend the significance and impact of external interventions. This book is an important and timely contribution to the ongoing debate on the role of international actors in promoting peace and stability. Ahtisaari, Chairman, Crisis Management Initiative (2008 Nobel Peace Prize laureate)
Sarah Jane Meharg is senior research associate, Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, and adjunct assistant professor, Department of Politics and Economics, at the Royal Military College of Canada.
Measuring What Matters in Peace Operations and Crisis Management
Sarah Jane Meharg
Table of Contents
Tables, Figures, Maps ix
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Methodology, and How to Read This Book 19
PART I. Worldviews and Paradigm Blindness
CHAPTER 1: Trade-Offs and Play Spaces 27
CHAPTER 2: Theories of Intervention 45
CHAPTER 3: The Language of Measuring 57
CHAPTER 4: Mechanisms and Tools 89
CHAPTER 5: Measuring Success in Bosnia-Herzegovina 129
PART II. Measuring What Matters: An Epistemic Community 151
CHAPTER 6: Peace Operations and Crisis Management: Not Just Benign Tasks but Political Acts 153
RORY KEANE
CHAPTER 7: Trends and Challenges in Measuring Effectiveness in the Humanitarian System 159
JOHN BORTON
CHAPTER 8: The Art and Science of Assessing Iraqi Security Force Performance 169
KEITH HAUK and STEPHEN MARIANO
CHAPTER 9: Measures of Effectiveness: Examining the United Kingdom in Afghanistan 177
STUART GORDON
CHAPTER 10: Measures of Effectiveness for Peace Operations and Crisis Management 183
DAVID CHUTER
CHAPTER 11: Significance of Impact Assessment: A New Methodology 189
EMERY BRUSSET
CHAPTER 12: An Organizational Perspective on Measuring the Effectiveness of Crisis Management 203
KRISTIINA RINTAKOSKI
CHAPTER 13: Measuring Effectiveness in Peace-Building and State Building 209
JAKE SHERMAN
CHAPTER 14: Practitioner Perspectives and Policy Options 215
PART III. Entering a Common Tradespace
CHAPTER 15: Measuring Success in a Common Tradespace 229
CHAPTER 16: Emerging Trends in a Common Tradespace 243
Conclusion 255
Appendices 263
Bibliography 271
Author Biography 283
Contributors 285
Index 289
Sarah Jane Meharg
Table of Contents
Tables, Figures, Maps ix
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Methodology, and How to Read This Book 19
PART I. Worldviews and Paradigm Blindness
CHAPTER 1: Trade-Offs and Play Spaces 27
CHAPTER 2: Theories of Intervention 45
CHAPTER 3: The Language of Measuring 57
CHAPTER 4: Mechanisms and Tools 89
CHAPTER 5: Measuring Success in Bosnia-Herzegovina 129
PART II. Measuring What Matters: An Epistemic Community 151
CHAPTER 6: Peace Operations and Crisis Management: Not Just Benign Tasks but Political Acts 153
RORY KEANE
CHAPTER 7: Trends and Challenges in Measuring Effectiveness in the Humanitarian System 159
JOHN BORTON
CHAPTER 8: The Art and Science of Assessing Iraqi Security Force Performance 169
KEITH HAUK and STEPHEN MARIANO
CHAPTER 9: Measures of Effectiveness: Examining the United Kingdom in Afghanistan 177
STUART GORDON
CHAPTER 10: Measures of Effectiveness for Peace Operations and Crisis Management 183
DAVID CHUTER
CHAPTER 11: Significance of Impact Assessment: A New Methodology 189
EMERY BRUSSET
CHAPTER 12: An Organizational Perspective on Measuring the Effectiveness of Crisis Management 203
KRISTIINA RINTAKOSKI
CHAPTER 13: Measuring Effectiveness in Peace-Building and State Building 209
JAKE SHERMAN
CHAPTER 14: Practitioner Perspectives and Policy Options 215
PART III. Entering a Common Tradespace
CHAPTER 15: Measuring Success in a Common Tradespace 229
CHAPTER 16: Emerging Trends in a Common Tradespace 243
Conclusion 255
Appendices 263
Bibliography 271
Author Biography 283
Contributors 285
Index 289
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