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UNDP’s Responsive and Accountable Institutions Team in the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, and the UN Peacebuilding Support Office, invite you to a presentation and dialogue:
Everyday Peace Indicators
putting local communities at the heart of measurement #Goal16
Pamina Firchow, Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, and Principal Investigator for the Everydaypeace indicators project, will present the project and lead a discussion.
The Everyday Peace Indicators Project investigates alternative, bottom-up indicators of peace and how such bottom-up information can be meaningfully integrated into policy processes. Funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the project develops an inductive, participatory approach to the generation of indicators in order to measure difficult-to-measure concepts such as peace.
Taking its cue from studies in sustainable development, the project asks community members to identify their own measures of peace. It is based on the premise that local communities are best placed to identify changes in their own circumstances, rather than relying on external ‘experts’ to identify indicators for them.
The project produces everyday Indicators of difficult-to-measure concepts such as peace, reconciliation, governance and violent extremism. By teaming up with local NGOs, the team works with communities to generate everyday indicators. The project also strives to influence wider debates about the measurement of difficult-to-measure concepts and aims to develop a system complementary to standard top-down indexes and barometers by influencing the debates on concept formation and quantitative measurement.
The session will be moderated by Jairo Acuña-Alfaro, Policy Advisor, Governance and Peacebuilding Cluster, BPPS/UNDP.
Time and Venue:
Friday 10 March 2017
1315-1430hrs
6th Floor Conference Room
United Nations “FF Building”
304 East 45th Street
NY, NY 10017