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Evaluating Peacebuilding Initiatives Using Multiple Methodologies: Lessons Learned from a Greek-Turkish Peace Education Initiative
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Evaluating Peacebuilding Initiatives Using Multiple Methodologies: Lessons
Learned from a Greek-Turkish Peace Education Initiative
Esra Cuhadar Gürkaynak: ## email not listed ##
Orkun Genco Genc: ## email not listed ##
Paper presented at the ISA Annual Convention 2007
Chicago
Working Draft!
Please do not cite without authors’ permission.
ABSTRACT
This paper discusses the results of a study evaluating a Greek-Turkish peace
education initiative titled Learning Conflict Resolution and Producing Peace: Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue (TGCD). The initiative took place at the grassroots level and its purpose was to build and improve relations among Turkish and Greek youth. TGCD incorporated contact and peace education as the primary tools for change. This research evaluated the program by combining a two-way evaluation methodology. The first part investigated the program’s theory of change through structured interviews with the organizers and participant observation. A process map has been created as a result of this. In the second part, we conduct a field experiment involving the treatment group and a control group to assess the outcomes from the workshop at the inter-personal level. We measure the sustainability of three major traits in the treatment group: attitudinal empathy, behavioral empathy, and trust. The findings of the experiment suggest that there are significant differences between the treatment group and the control group with regard to the development of attitudinal empathy and trust. Finally, we compare the results from the mapping of the program’s theory of change and the findings from the experimental design. This study contributes to the literature at large in a sense that it assesses and tests a program’s theory of change with multiple methodologies using qualitative interviews, mapping, and a field experiment.
Introduction
Intractable conflicts, including the Greek-Turkish conflict generally and the Cypriot
conflict particularly, are among the most challenging types of conflicts. These conflicts are
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Evaluating Peacebuilding Initiatives Using Multiple Methodologies: Lessons
Learned from a Greek-Turkish Peace Education Initiative
Esra Cuhadar Gürkaynak: ## email not listed ##
Orkun Genco Genc: ## email not listed ##
Paper presented at the ISA Annual Convention 2007
Chicago
Working Draft!
Please do not cite without authors’ permission.
ABSTRACT
This paper discusses the results of a study evaluating a Greek-Turkish peace
education initiative titled Learning Conflict Resolution and Producing Peace: Turkish-Greek
Civic Dialogue (TGCD). The initiative took place at the grassroots level and its purpose was
to build and improve relations among Turkish and Greek youth. TGCD incorporated
contact and peace education as the primary tools for change. This research evaluated the
program by combining a two-way evaluation methodology. The first part investigated the
program’s theory of change through structured interviews with the organizers and
participant observation. A process map has been created as a result of this. In the second
part, we conduct a field experiment involving the treatment group and a control group to
assess the outcomes from the workshop at the inter-personal level. We measure the
sustainability of three major traits in the treatment group: attitudinal empathy, behavioral
empathy, and trust. The findings of the experiment suggest that there are significant
differences between the treatment group and the control group with regard to the
development of attitudinal empathy and trust. Finally, we compare the results from the
mapping of the program’s theory of change and the findings from the experimental design.
This study contributes to the literature at large in a sense that it assesses and tests a
program’s theory of change with multiple methodologies using qualitative interviews,
mapping, and a field experiment.
Introduction
Intractable conflicts, including the Greek-Turkish conflict generally and the Cypriot
conflict particularly, are among the most challenging types of conflicts. These conflicts are
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