Monitoring Peace Consolidation: United Nations Practitioner’s Guide to Benchmarking
2010. New York: United Nations.
This text is an official United Nations publication produced in cooperation with the Norwegian Peacebuilding Center. It outlines the three primary approaches employed by the United Nations when determining benchmarks to assess the success of its peacebuilding operations; interestingly, however, none of the three approaches bases themselves on data collected from the local population in the form of surveys or focus groups. Instead, all three strategies are centred primarily on international poverty reduction strategy papers or other external targets, a notable contrast from the methods employed by organizations such as the Everyday Peace Indicator project which emphasizes the importance of local participation in establishing benchmarks of peace.