We held an Impact Data Chat focused on Peace & Conflict Resolution this June and had a rich conversation with representatives from foundations, evaluation firms, and nonprofits.

Below is a list of resources curated from people who joined the conversation. Please feel free to share other tools we should add. We will continue to update this.

Initiatives & Websites

• One Earth Future: https://oneearthfuture.org/en (in general) and their PeaceWire newsletter
• Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security- Conflict Tracker https://giwps.georgetown.edu/georgetown-launches-first-conflict-tracker-with-gender-focus/
• SIPRI https://www.sipri.org/
• War Prevention Initiative's "Peace Science Digest" - https://warpreventioninitiative.org/peace-science-digest/
• Water, Climate Change & Resilience https://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/work/water-climate-change-and-resilience/
• Canvas Arts PBS https://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/canvas-arts
• Oslo Freedom Forum https://oslofreedomforum.com/

Databases and Research

• PRIO has a compedium of different databases on peace, and conflict to search: https://www.prio.org/data
• Pa-X Peace agreements database: 150 peace agreements 1990 to 2023 https://peacerep.org/data/
• Institute for Economics and Peace 2024 Global Peace Index https://www.economicsandpeace.org/
• SIPRI https://www.sipri.org/
• Alliance for Peacebuilding's Eirene Database: https://www.allianceforpeacebuilding.org/eirene-peacebuilding-database
• ImpactMapper produced a research project on SDG5, and many outcomes were related to peace and security https://www.impactmapper.com/sdg5-projects/new-report
• ImpactMapper just launched the Spotlight Initiative Compendium to end VAWG which has multiple case studies on women in peacebuilding and humanitarian settings. https://www.spotlightinitiative.org/publications/compendium-innovative-and-good-practices-and-lessons-learned
• UN Centre for Policy Research https://unu.edu/cpr

Frameworks

• USAID - Evidence Base for Collaborating, Learning and Adapting https://usaidlearninglab.org/system/files/resource/files/cla_literature_review_update_march_2020_final.pdf
• Intrac - Complex M&E Systems: Raising standards, lowering the bar https://www.intrac.org/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Praxis-Series-6.-Complex-ME-Systems.pdf

Academic & News Articles

• Doing things differently - how we use outcome harvesting -l in the messy worlds of conflict and advocacy https://www.saferworld-global.org/resources/publications/1027-doing-things-differently-rethinking-monitoring-and-evaluation-to-understand-change
• Data shows when women are involved in peace agreements, they are 35% more likely to last at least 15 years https://news.byu.edu/intellect/byu-study-womens-involvement-in-u-n-peace-negotiations-essential-for-long-term-security#:~:text=Research%20has%20shown%20that%20the,last%20at%20least%2015%20years

Webinars and panel discussions

• Women Plus Water - Leveraging Water for Peace https://water.usask.ca/events/2024/03/wpw3.php
• Building Nexus Resilience: Addressing Mitigation and Conflicts in Water-Energy-Food Systems https://energy.tamu.edu/event/building-nexus-resilience-workshop-1/

Rapid Response Funds for Activists and Human Rights Defenders

• Urgent Action Fund https://urgentactionfund.org/
• Urgent Action Fund Africa https://www.uaf-africa.org/
• Urgent Action Fund Asia Pacific https://www.uafanp.org/
• Freedom Fund https://www.freedomfund.org/
• Frontline Defenders https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/
• American Friends Service Committee https://afsc.org/
• MADRE https://www.madre.org/
• Peace Direct https://www.peacedirect.org/

Art and Illustration Resources

• Artists for Change https://www.artists4change.org/
• Mona Chalabi instagram https://www.instagram.com/monachalabi/
• The World podcast https://theworld.org/
• Oslo Freedom Forum, using art to communicate peace https://hrf.org/explore-art-music-film-at-the-oslo-freedom-forum/
• Canvas Art

‍