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Can Jobs Programs Build Peace?

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dc.contributor.authorBrück, Tilman
dc.contributor.authorFerguson, Neil T. N.
dc.contributor.authorIzzi, Valeria
dc.contributor.authorStojetz, Wolfgang
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-19T20:01:41Z
dc.date.available2023-07-19T20:01:41Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-30
dc.description.abstractIn the last decade, well over $10 billion has been spent on employment programs designed to contribute to peace and stability. Despite the outlay, whether these programs perform, and how they do so, remain open questions. This study conducts three reviews to derive the status quo of knowledge. First, it draws on academic literature on the microfoundations of instability to distill testable theories of how employment programs could affect stability at the micro level. Second, it analyses academic and grey literature that directly evaluates the impacts of employment programs on peace-related outcomes. Third, it conducts a systematic review of program-based learning from over 400 interventions. This study finds good theoretical reasons to believe that employment programs could contribute to peace. However, only very limited evidence exists on overall impacts on peace or on the pathways underlying the theories of change. At the program level, the review finds strong evidence that contributions to peace and stability are often simply assumed to have occurred. This provides a major challenge for the justification of continued spending on jobs for peace programs. Instead, systematic and rigorous learning on the impacts of jobs for peace programs needs to be scaled up urgently.en
dc.identifier.citationWorld Bank Research Observer
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/40046
dc.identifier.issn0257-3032 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1564-6971 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/40046
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Research Observer
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subjectEMPLOYMENT INTERVENTIONS
dc.subjectPEACE BUILDING
dc.subjectJOBS
dc.subjectCONFLICT
dc.subjectJOBS FOR PEACE
dc.titleCan Jobs Programs Build Peace?en
dc.typeJournal Article
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okr.crossref.titleCan Jobs Programs Build Peace?
okr.date.disclosure2023-07-19
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Journal Article
okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wbro/lkaa004
okr.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1596/40046
okr.journal.nbpages234–259
okr.language.supporteden
okr.region.geographicalWorld
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Employment and Shared Growth
okr.volume36 (2)
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