Mapping Conflict Prevention Innovation in Africa

This project aims to strengthen conflict prevention knowledge. It builds upon efforts by the United Nations and the African Union to understand what works and what does not in conflict prevention. The goal is to determine why some practices are more effective and efficient than others and what enabling conditions allowed them to achieve positive outcomes on the ground. A major priority for this initiative is to produce information and analysis that is easily accessible and immediately actionable. The proposed platform allows users to better assess the evidence of conflict prevention practice. It also offers explanations for how specific interventions can be sequenced in a wide range of conflict scenarios including how to best include women in mediation processes. The project plans to develop a typology of conflict prevention practices map out effective practices in Africa and develop a digital platform that visualizes both effective and ineffective conflict prevention practices over the past decade and report back on findings.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) decision makers at targeted institutions adopt evidence-based conflict prevention practices in Africa; and (2) practitioners actively access each other and their wider networks to share information on conflict prevention within and across national borders. The ultimate outcome is to strengthen conflict prevention knowledge and practice amongst relevant stakeholders.