Abstract
Questions of evaluation are important to conveners, participants and funders of conflict resolution initiatives. Yet good evaluation is tied to a number of complicated questions concerning what constitutes success and failure in projects that may be multi-dimensional or only part of an effort to settle a larger conflict. Rothman has offered Action Evaluation as a methodology that seeks to incorporate goal setting and evaluation into project designs. He argues that this will improve a project by monitoring the changing nature of goals through the life of a conflict resolution intervention, and action evaluation’s self-conscious attention to goal setting offers a mechanism for developing and committing an intervention to specific internal and external standards of evaluation. This article examines Action Evaluation as a theory of practice, considering its conceptual strengths and examining specific issues of its implementation.
Keywords
action evaluation, conflict resolution, goal setting, project monitoring, theory and practice
Publication Date
5-2001
DOI
10.46743/1082-7307/2001.1011
Recommended Citation
Ross, Marc Howard
(2001)
"Action Evaluation in the Theory and Practice of Conflict Resolution,"
Peace and Conflict Studies: Vol. 8:
No.
1, Article 1.
DOI: 10.46743/1082-7307/2001.1011
Available at:
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/pcs/vol8/iss1/1
