Field Diplomacy Initiative aims at sharing its knowledge and experience in peace building and conflict prevention through publications. FDI also hopes to reach the fieldworkers making intensive use of the internet.
On this page you can find a survey of our publications. Some of them can be downloaded directly, others need to be ordered, and still some others are internal documents which will not be made public due to a mutual agreement between FDI and the involved partners.
Reports
- A Sectoral Conflict Impact Assessment : The Justice Sector in Rwanda , December 2001, Géraldine Mattioli.
- Conflict Impact Assessment : Civic Education project (IFES) in Central Bosnia-Herzegovina , January 2002, Jos De la Haye.
- Conflict Impact Assessment : Community Service and Education project in two Burundian refugee camps, western Tanzania (CARE, Nederland), March 2002, Eveline Rooijmans.
- Conflict Impact Assessment : Grants for the Land Reform Programme (Legal Resources Centre), South Africa , February 2003, Ilse De Vlieger and Jeroen Seynhaeve.
- Conflict Impact Assessment : CRS Training in IDP Camps in Angola, January 2003, Koenraad Denayer.
- Conflict Impact Assessment : Rehabilitation of South Kivu Health Zones. Louvain Développement (2001-2003) , August 2003, Koenraad Denayer, Eva Smets.
top
Articles
- Field Diplomacy Initiatives in Burundi and Cameroon by Luc Reychler, December 2000. This article provides an insight at "field diplomacy", and a perspective on certain development projects. Click here for the article (Word File) .
top
Books
Handbook Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment Systems (PCIAS), Luc Reychler en Thania Paffenholz, 2003, Field Diplomacy Initiative vzw.
Peace building: A Field Guide by Luc Reychler and Thania Paffenholz, 2001, in cooperation with Field Diplomacy Initiative vzw. A milestone in the search for sustainable peace, this handbook highlights the invaluable contributions of people working in the field . The authors clarify how fieldworkers "fit" in the overall peace building process; provide details of the most effective practices; and offer guidelines for preparing for the field.
Written for a broad readership, Peace building offers a repertoire of concrete methods that researchers and practitioners can use to analyse contemporary conflict dynamics, to develop a better peace building architecture, and to heighten the synergy of their efforts.
Among the more than fifty authors who contributed to this handbook are Mary Anderson, Hizkias Assefa, Elise Boulding, Mari Fitzduff, Leonard Kapungu, Herbert Kelman, John Paul Lederach, Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, Norbert Ropers, Jan van Eyck, and Paul van Tongeren.
Part 1 of the book introduces concepts and tools for sustainable peace building, including chapters on selecting and training fieldworkers.
Part 2 focuses on seven specific peace building activities: mediation, monitoring, linking development aid and peace building, training local peace builders, dealing with the media, reconciliation, and peacekeeping.
Part 3 addresses the practical and emotional problems that fieldworkers confront on an almost daily basis.
Part 4 provides an overview of the lessons learned from the previous chapters. Case studies in the handbook include examples of peace building efforts in the Balkans, Burundi, the Great Lakes region of Africa, Latin America, Mozambique, Northern Ireland, Somalia, South Africa, and Sri Lanka.
- Handboek Terreindiplomatie: Handleiding, Uitgeverij Garant, 2001, 450 pagina's, ISBN: 90-4411053-5.
- Construire la Paix sur le Terrain: Mode d' Emploi, Éditions GRIP, 2000, 432 pages, ISBN: 2-87027-796-2.
- Peacebuilding : A Field Guide, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Colorado, 2001, 573 pages, ISBN : 1-55587-937-3.