1.
WHAT RPP IS: RPP is a collaborative effort of agencies and individuals
involved in peace/conflict work intended to learn lessons from past
experience in order to do better in the future.
2.
WHAT RPP OFFERS: While the agencies that work on conflict and peace
regularly review their own experience, RPP offers an opportunity for
the community of agencies to review past experience collectively and,
through comparing their work in a broad range of settings, for them
to identify what works, under what conditions and why with greater generality
than an agency can do alone.
3.
APPROACH: By collecting a range of case studies (up to twenty examples
of work done in different areas of the world in different conflicts
and different stages of conflicts), RPP allows for inductive learning--i.e.
learning from actual experiences. By engaging in an open and collaborative
process of analysis, practitioners can share reflections on their work.
4.
CASE STUDIES: Case studies are a way to learn from past experience.
RPP's case studies are NOT evaluations of past work. RPP's case studies
are NOT definitive analyses of the conflicts where the projects/programmes
occur. These case studies are intended to be credible stories of efforts
undertaken to help prevent, reduce or resolve conflict in areas where
intergroup conflicts have been, are, or could become destructive and
violent. The stories will provide descriptions of what prompted people
to undertake conflict work; what, how and why they did it; and what
happened as a result of their efforts (and why).
5.
TIMING: RPP is an 18 month project that ends in February 2001. The
case studies are usually written in a few weeks' time. They are necessarily
brief, reflective snapshots of complex and dynamic situations. Cumulatively,
they can provide incredibly rich "raw data" for analysis from which
a great deal can be learned about which aspects of peace work are contextual
and local and which are more generalizable across varying circumstances.
The
Reflecting on Peace Practice Project (RPP)
