Acknowledgements.- List of Contributors.- List of Illustrations.- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms.- Introduction; Emery Brusset, Cedric de Coning, Bryn Hughes.- PART I: Insights from Complexity Thinking.- 1. Implications of Complexity for Peacebuilding Policies and Practices; Cedric de Coning.- 2. Thawing Ceteris Paribus: The Move to a Complex systems Lens; Bryn Hughes.- PART II: Insights from Complexity Practice.- 3. Avoiding Perplexity: Complexity-Oriented Monitoring and Evaluation for UN Peace Operations; Charles T. Hunt.- 4. Challenges: EU Civilian Crisis Management and the Objective of Impact Assessment: Kosovo as an Example of Complexity; Tanja Tamminen.- 5. Organisisng Artisans for Peace: CMI on a Learning Curve; Oskari Eronen.- 6. Monitoring and Evaluation in Peacebuilding - Reclaiming the Lost Opportunities for Improving Peacebuilding in Practice; Pravina Makan-Lakha.- PART III: Coping with Complexity.- 7. Analysing Complex Conflicts: Requirements for Complexity-Aware Conflict Analysis; Jan Frelin .- 8. Seeking Simplicity: An Application of Complexity to Evaluation; Emery Brusset.- Conclusion; Emery Brusset, Cedric de Coning, Bryn Hughes.
Emery Brusset is a graduate of Yale University and the London Schools of Economics, who has worked in emergency aid in different conflict zones around the world. Over the last 20 years he has specialised in performance evaluation and impact assessment. He is now head of Social Terrain, which is an impact investment project developer. Mr Brusset is French, and living in England.
Cedric de Coning is a Senior Researcher with the Peace and Conflict Research Group at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and a Senior Advisor on Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding for ACCORD. His research focus is on international peace operations and peacebuilding policies and practices.
Bryn Hughes specialises in applying Complexity Thinking to organisational performance, learning and assessment. He has lectured in peace and conflict subjects, and his publications include co-authoring Forging New Conventional Wisdom Beyond International Policing: Learning fromComplex Realities and co-editing Making Sense of Peace and Capacity-Building: Rethinking Policing.