Measuring What Matters in Peace Operations and Crisis Management (Queen's Policy Studies Series) (Volume 130) - Softcover

Meharg, Sarah Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1553392280 ISBN 13: 9781553392286

Publisher: Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, 2009

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Institute of Intergovernmental Relations
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1553392280
• ISBN 13: 9781553392286
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200