Pamina Firchow
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 364829 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Pamina Firchow |
| PRENOMES | Pamina |
| SOBRENOME | Firchow |
| ASSINATURA | FIRCHOW P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Brandeis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7890-9586 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 152 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Comparing everyday peace preferences with the commitments of the 2016 Colombian Peace Agreement
How well do civil war peace agreements align with the post-conflict preferences of everyday people? And does the inclusivity of negotiations result in agreements that better reflect non-elite, grassroots perspectives? This article tackles these questions using a unique dataset of everyday peace indicators (EPIs) collected between 2018 and 2023 from 44 communities across eight departments in Colombia. To compare everyday preferences with the commi…
After war ends
The Politics of Measurement in the Age of Localization
How should we measure reconciliation after conflict when trying to achieve localization? This article examines a fundamental tension in international aid: the push for localization-the idea that aid is more effective when it is driven by communities themselves-versus the growing reliance on global metrics to assess progress. While international organizations and national governments use Global Performance Indicators and similar standardized metri…
Measures of Justice
Quantification is a technology of control, but whether it is reformist or authoritarian depends on who has harnessed its power and for what purposes.-Sally Engle Merry, The Seductions of Quantification (2016, 218) Professor Sally Engle Merry's thought-provoking scholarship has reached far beyond her disciplinary boundaries in anthropology and influenced our own work as human rights and peace and conflict studies scholars.On a daily basis, through…
Flipping the Power Dynamics in Measurement and Evaluation
This article addresses the overlooked barrier of accountability in the localization of international aid and development. It argues that the conventional monitoring and evaluation (M&E) practices, designed to satisfy donor accountability, hinder genuine localization in conflict-affected settings. The authors emphasize the need for a shift in knowledge creation within M&E processes, advocating for more inclusive and flexible structures that value …
Introduction to Special Issue
The Paradox of Justice
Transitional justice lacks a coherent framework for articulating the relationship between distributive and corrective justice. Academic debates remain largely normative, focused on whether and how transitional justice should distinguish itself from the realm of the social, economic, and cultural. Where there is a bridge between legal logics and lived realities, it generally happens through victims’ consultation, but these are often thinly designe…
Images and indicators
Participatory methods seek to counter the extractive nature of mainstream research methods by putting control into the hands of research subjects. But participation itself does not guarantee against extraction. There is a tension between the desire for researcher-control and the prerogative of community action in participatory methods. How can researchers committed to participation manage this tension? In this paper, we draw on the concepts of “c…
Meaningful Engagement from the Bottom-Up? Taking Stock of Participation in Transitional Justice Processes
This article surveys the literature on participation in transitional justice (TJ) focusing primarily on victims and bottom-up actors. We argue that often the preoccupation in TJ has been with greater rather than more meaningful participation, and that there needs to be a concerted effort to focus on everyday actors, including their voices, needs and priorities. Consideration also needs to be given as to whether meaningful participation can occur …
Measuring Peace from the Bottom Up with the Pasto Indigenous Group in Nariño, Colombia
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Collaborative Methodologies
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Not Just at Home or In The Grave
This article presents an original dataset collected in predominantly rural, Eastern Afghanistan, which finds that girls’ access to education and women’s professional and economic opportunities are key to understanding the experience of peace. In other words, many Afghan men and women in the areas studied not only want to see girls go to school and women sell goods at the market or treat patients in the hospital, but believe this to be fundamental…
Measuring Peace
Measuring Peace: Principles, Practices and Politics." International Peacekeeping, 27(2), pp. 337–338
World Peace Is Local Peace
Today we live in a world where the majority of wars are no longer interstate, a development that over the last few decades has often left the international community, in particular the United Nations as it was originally conceived, ill equipped to respond. The nimble action required for contemporary conflict resolution and peacebuilding now primarily lies in the hands of local actors and states, sometimes supported by international actors. But it…
When political transitions work
When political transitions work: reconciliation as interdependence When political transitions work: reconciliation as interdependence. By Fanie du Toit. New York: Oxford University Press. 2018. 312pp. £48.00. Isbn978 0 19088 185 6. Available as e-book. Pamina Firchow Pamina Firchow Brandeis University, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 96, Issue 3, May 2020, Pages 807–809, h…
Including Hard-to-Access Populations Using Mobile Phone Surveys and Participatory Indicators
One of the main obstacles for survey researchers-especially those conducting surveys in difficult contexts such as postconflict areas-is accessing respondents. In order to address this problem, this article draws on an ongoing research project to reflect on the utility of mobile phones to connect with hard-to-access populations in conflict affected, low-income countries. It considers the strengths and weaknesses of a number of different mobile ph…
Reconciliation Barometers
∞ This article provides a comprehensive overview of several efforts at creating reconciliation barometers in 10 countries worldwide. The discussion is based on reflections from the originators of the barometers themselves convened in a workshop in 2016 about methodology, definitions, challenges and outcomes of these efforts to longitudinally measure reconciliation in postconflict contexts. We conduct a cross-barometer comparison and conclude that…
Reclaiming Everyday Peace
Bringing armed conflicts to an end is difficult; restoring a lasting peace can be considerably harder. Reclaiming Everyday Peace addresses the effectiveness and impact of local level interventions on communities affected by war. Using an innovative methodology to generate participatory numbers, Pamina Firchow finds that communities saturated with external interventions after war do not have substantive higher levels of peacefulness according to c…
Do Reparations Repair Relationships? Setting the Stage for Reconciliation in Colombia
Journal Article Do Reparations Repair Relationships? Setting the Stage for Reconciliation in Colombia Get access Pamina Firchow Pamina Firchow *Assistant Professor, George Mason University, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Arlington, VA, US. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 11, Issue 2, July 2017, Pages 315–338, https:…
Measuring Peace
This article examines the possibilities of interaction and collaboration between top-down and bottom-up indicators of peace. It is based on the Everyday Peace Indicators project an experimental research project that operated in local communities in four sub-Saharan countries. The article begins by making the case for bottom-up approaches to the study of peace, conflict and security. It goes on to scope out the opportunities and obstacles for comp…
PeaceTech
This collection of articles contributes to the growing body of research on how technology is affecting peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, and research methodologies in the field. Assumptions about the use of technology for peace are interrogated, such as the purported deepening of inclusivity and widening of participation that technology provides to peacebuilders and communities. It frames the discussion from a peace-focused perspective, …
Top-down and bottom-up narratives of peace and conflict
Based on findings from the Everyday Peace Indicators project, the article considers how top-down and bottom-up narratives and understandings of conflict often differ. The article posits that top-down narratives are often the result of a peculiar framing system that imposes imaginaries on conflicts and those experiencing them. The bottom-up narratives, based on research in South Africa, South Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe, show that localised percept…
Power and Resistance in the Shaping of Argentine Domestic Policy
In contemporary Argentina, as in much of Latin America, politics is often found in the streets. In recent years it has bypassed traditional political party politics to bring day-to-day needs to the forefront through road blockades and cacerolazos (pot banging). These methods have been particularly successful in Argentina, not only in changing policy but also in bringing down administrations and politicians. They emerged from the 2001 Argentinazo'…
The Implementation of the Institutional Programme of Collective Reparations in Colombia
After more than five decades of conflict in Colombia, it seems that significant political will for transitional justice programmes—in particular reparations programmes—has emerged with the passing of the 2005 Justice and Peace Law, the 2010 election of Juan Manuel Santos and the Victims Law signed in June of 2011. In 2007, a pilot project of collective reparations programmes was initiated with the support of international development agencies. Th…
Must Our Communities Bleed to Receive Social Services? Development projects and collective reparations schemes in colombia
The provision of social services in protracted conflicts, such as the Colombian conflict, is scarce and sometimes non-existent. Collective reparations are normally composed of restitution, compensation, rehabilitation and guarantees of no repetition. They constitute what normally would encompass development projects and can provide basic social services in contexts of peace and stability with additional symbolic and psychosocial elements. After m…
Top-down and bottom-up narratives of peace and conflict
Based on findings from the Everyday Peace Indicators project, the article considers how top-down and bottom-up narratives and understandings of conflict often differ. The article posits that top-down narratives are often the result of a peculiar framing system that imposes imaginaries on conflicts and those experiencing them. The bottom-up narratives, based on research in South Africa, South Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe, show that localised percept…
Measuring Peace
This article examines the possibilities of interaction and collaboration between top-down and bottom-up indicators of peace. It is based on the Everyday Peace Indicators project an experimental research project that operated in local communities in four sub-Saharan countries. The article begins by making the case for bottom-up approaches to the study of peace, conflict and security. It goes on to scope out the opportunities and obstacles for comp…
Meaningful Engagement from the Bottom-Up? Taking Stock of Participation in Transitional Justice Processes
This article surveys the literature on participation in transitional justice (TJ) focusing primarily on victims and bottom-up actors. We argue that often the preoccupation in TJ has been with greater rather than more meaningful participation, and that there needs to be a concerted effort to focus on everyday actors, including their voices, needs and priorities. Consideration also needs to be given as to whether meaningful participation can occur …
Collaborative Methodologies
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Including Hard-to-Access Populations Using Mobile Phone Surveys and Participatory Indicators
One of the main obstacles for survey researchers-especially those conducting surveys in difficult contexts such as postconflict areas-is accessing respondents. In order to address this problem, this article draws on an ongoing research project to reflect on the utility of mobile phones to connect with hard-to-access populations in conflict affected, low-income countries. It considers the strengths and weaknesses of a number of different mobile ph…
Do Reparations Repair Relationships? Setting the Stage for Reconciliation in Colombia
Journal Article Do Reparations Repair Relationships? Setting the Stage for Reconciliation in Colombia Get access Pamina Firchow Pamina Firchow *Assistant Professor, George Mason University, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Arlington, VA, US. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 11, Issue 2, July 2017, Pages 315–338, https:…
Must Our Communities Bleed to Receive Social Services? Development projects and collective reparations schemes in colombia
The provision of social services in protracted conflicts, such as the Colombian conflict, is scarce and sometimes non-existent. Collective reparations are normally composed of restitution, compensation, rehabilitation and guarantees of no repetition. They constitute what normally would encompass development projects and can provide basic social services in contexts of peace and stability with additional symbolic and psychosocial elements. After m…
Images and indicators
Participatory methods seek to counter the extractive nature of mainstream research methods by putting control into the hands of research subjects. But participation itself does not guarantee against extraction. There is a tension between the desire for researcher-control and the prerogative of community action in participatory methods. How can researchers committed to participation manage this tension? In this paper, we draw on the concepts of “c…
PeaceTech
This collection of articles contributes to the growing body of research on how technology is affecting peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, and research methodologies in the field. Assumptions about the use of technology for peace are interrogated, such as the purported deepening of inclusivity and widening of participation that technology provides to peacebuilders and communities. It frames the discussion from a peace-focused perspective, …
After war ends
Measuring Peace from the Bottom Up with the Pasto Indigenous Group in Nariño, Colombia
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Not Just at Home or In The Grave
This article presents an original dataset collected in predominantly rural, Eastern Afghanistan, which finds that girls’ access to education and women’s professional and economic opportunities are key to understanding the experience of peace. In other words, many Afghan men and women in the areas studied not only want to see girls go to school and women sell goods at the market or treat patients in the hospital, but believe this to be fundamental…
Reconciliation Barometers
∞ This article provides a comprehensive overview of several efforts at creating reconciliation barometers in 10 countries worldwide. The discussion is based on reflections from the originators of the barometers themselves convened in a workshop in 2016 about methodology, definitions, challenges and outcomes of these efforts to longitudinally measure reconciliation in postconflict contexts. We conduct a cross-barometer comparison and conclude that…
Reparations and Peacebuilding
Measures of Justice
Quantification is a technology of control, but whether it is reformist or authoritarian depends on who has harnessed its power and for what purposes.-Sally Engle Merry, The Seductions of Quantification (2016, 218) Professor Sally Engle Merry's thought-provoking scholarship has reached far beyond her disciplinary boundaries in anthropology and influenced our own work as human rights and peace and conflict studies scholars.On a daily basis, through…
The Paradox of Justice
Transitional justice lacks a coherent framework for articulating the relationship between distributive and corrective justice. Academic debates remain largely normative, focused on whether and how transitional justice should distinguish itself from the realm of the social, economic, and cultural. Where there is a bridge between legal logics and lived realities, it generally happens through victims’ consultation, but these are often thinly designe…
World Peace Is Local Peace
Today we live in a world where the majority of wars are no longer interstate, a development that over the last few decades has often left the international community, in particular the United Nations as it was originally conceived, ill equipped to respond. The nimble action required for contemporary conflict resolution and peacebuilding now primarily lies in the hands of local actors and states, sometimes supported by international actors. But it…
The Implementation of the Institutional Programme of Collective Reparations in Colombia
After more than five decades of conflict in Colombia, it seems that significant political will for transitional justice programmes—in particular reparations programmes—has emerged with the passing of the 2005 Justice and Peace Law, the 2010 election of Juan Manuel Santos and the Victims Law signed in June of 2011. In 2007, a pilot project of collective reparations programmes was initiated with the support of international development agencies. Th…
Must Our Communities Bleed to Receive Social Services? Development projects and collective reparations schemes in colombia
The provision of social services in protracted conflicts, such as the Colombian conflict, is scarce and sometimes non-existent. Collective reparations are normally composed of restitution, compensation, rehabilitation and guarantees of no repetition. They constitute what normally would encompass development projects and can provide basic social services in contexts of peace and stability with additional symbolic and psychosocial elements. After m…
Reparations and Peacebuilding
The Implementation of the Institutional Programme of Collective Reparations in Colombia
After more than five decades of conflict in Colombia, it seems that significant political will for transitional justice programmes—in particular reparations programmes—has emerged with the passing of the 2005 Justice and Peace Law, the 2010 election of Juan Manuel Santos and the Victims Law signed in June of 2011. In 2007, a pilot project of collective reparations programmes was initiated with the support of international development agencies. Th…
Power and Resistance in the Shaping of Argentine Domestic Policy
In contemporary Argentina, as in much of Latin America, politics is often found in the streets. In recent years it has bypassed traditional political party politics to bring day-to-day needs to the forefront through road blockades and cacerolazos (pot banging). These methods have been particularly successful in Argentina, not only in changing policy but also in bringing down administrations and politicians. They emerged from the 2001 Argentinazo'…
PeaceTech
This collection of articles contributes to the growing body of research on how technology is affecting peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, and research methodologies in the field. Assumptions about the use of technology for peace are interrogated, such as the purported deepening of inclusivity and widening of participation that technology provides to peacebuilders and communities. It frames the discussion from a peace-focused perspective, …
Top-down and bottom-up narratives of peace and conflict
Based on findings from the Everyday Peace Indicators project, the article considers how top-down and bottom-up narratives and understandings of conflict often differ. The article posits that top-down narratives are often the result of a peculiar framing system that imposes imaginaries on conflicts and those experiencing them. The bottom-up narratives, based on research in South Africa, South Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe, show that localised percept…
Do Reparations Repair Relationships? Setting the Stage for Reconciliation in Colombia
Journal Article Do Reparations Repair Relationships? Setting the Stage for Reconciliation in Colombia Get access Pamina Firchow Pamina Firchow *Assistant Professor, George Mason University, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Arlington, VA, US. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 11, Issue 2, July 2017, Pages 315–338, https:…
Measuring Peace
This article examines the possibilities of interaction and collaboration between top-down and bottom-up indicators of peace. It is based on the Everyday Peace Indicators project an experimental research project that operated in local communities in four sub-Saharan countries. The article begins by making the case for bottom-up approaches to the study of peace, conflict and security. It goes on to scope out the opportunities and obstacles for comp…
Reclaiming Everyday Peace
Bringing armed conflicts to an end is difficult; restoring a lasting peace can be considerably harder. Reclaiming Everyday Peace addresses the effectiveness and impact of local level interventions on communities affected by war. Using an innovative methodology to generate participatory numbers, Pamina Firchow finds that communities saturated with external interventions after war do not have substantive higher levels of peacefulness according to c…
Reconciliation Barometers
∞ This article provides a comprehensive overview of several efforts at creating reconciliation barometers in 10 countries worldwide. The discussion is based on reflections from the originators of the barometers themselves convened in a workshop in 2016 about methodology, definitions, challenges and outcomes of these efforts to longitudinally measure reconciliation in postconflict contexts. We conduct a cross-barometer comparison and conclude that…
Not Just at Home or In The Grave
This article presents an original dataset collected in predominantly rural, Eastern Afghanistan, which finds that girls’ access to education and women’s professional and economic opportunities are key to understanding the experience of peace. In other words, many Afghan men and women in the areas studied not only want to see girls go to school and women sell goods at the market or treat patients in the hospital, but believe this to be fundamental…
Measuring Peace
Measuring Peace: Principles, Practices and Politics." International Peacekeeping, 27(2), pp. 337–338
World Peace Is Local Peace
Today we live in a world where the majority of wars are no longer interstate, a development that over the last few decades has often left the international community, in particular the United Nations as it was originally conceived, ill equipped to respond. The nimble action required for contemporary conflict resolution and peacebuilding now primarily lies in the hands of local actors and states, sometimes supported by international actors. But it…
When political transitions work
When political transitions work: reconciliation as interdependence When political transitions work: reconciliation as interdependence. By Fanie du Toit. New York: Oxford University Press. 2018. 312pp. £48.00. Isbn978 0 19088 185 6. Available as e-book. Pamina Firchow Pamina Firchow Brandeis University, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 96, Issue 3, May 2020, Pages 807–809, h…
Including Hard-to-Access Populations Using Mobile Phone Surveys and Participatory Indicators
One of the main obstacles for survey researchers-especially those conducting surveys in difficult contexts such as postconflict areas-is accessing respondents. In order to address this problem, this article draws on an ongoing research project to reflect on the utility of mobile phones to connect with hard-to-access populations in conflict affected, low-income countries. It considers the strengths and weaknesses of a number of different mobile ph…
Meaningful Engagement from the Bottom-Up? Taking Stock of Participation in Transitional Justice Processes
This article surveys the literature on participation in transitional justice (TJ) focusing primarily on victims and bottom-up actors. We argue that often the preoccupation in TJ has been with greater rather than more meaningful participation, and that there needs to be a concerted effort to focus on everyday actors, including their voices, needs and priorities. Consideration also needs to be given as to whether meaningful participation can occur …
Measuring Peace from the Bottom Up with the Pasto Indigenous Group in Nariño, Colombia
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Collaborative Methodologies
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Images and indicators
Participatory methods seek to counter the extractive nature of mainstream research methods by putting control into the hands of research subjects. But participation itself does not guarantee against extraction. There is a tension between the desire for researcher-control and the prerogative of community action in participatory methods. How can researchers committed to participation manage this tension? In this paper, we draw on the concepts of “c…
Flipping the Power Dynamics in Measurement and Evaluation
This article addresses the overlooked barrier of accountability in the localization of international aid and development. It argues that the conventional monitoring and evaluation (M&E) practices, designed to satisfy donor accountability, hinder genuine localization in conflict-affected settings. The authors emphasize the need for a shift in knowledge creation within M&E processes, advocating for more inclusive and flexible structures that value …
Introduction to Special Issue
The Paradox of Justice
Transitional justice lacks a coherent framework for articulating the relationship between distributive and corrective justice. Academic debates remain largely normative, focused on whether and how transitional justice should distinguish itself from the realm of the social, economic, and cultural. Where there is a bridge between legal logics and lived realities, it generally happens through victims’ consultation, but these are often thinly designe…
Measures of Justice
Quantification is a technology of control, but whether it is reformist or authoritarian depends on who has harnessed its power and for what purposes.-Sally Engle Merry, The Seductions of Quantification (2016, 218) Professor Sally Engle Merry's thought-provoking scholarship has reached far beyond her disciplinary boundaries in anthropology and influenced our own work as human rights and peace and conflict studies scholars.On a daily basis, through…
Comparing everyday peace preferences with the commitments of the 2016 Colombian Peace Agreement
How well do civil war peace agreements align with the post-conflict preferences of everyday people? And does the inclusivity of negotiations result in agreements that better reflect non-elite, grassroots perspectives? This article tackles these questions using a unique dataset of everyday peace indicators (EPIs) collected between 2018 and 2023 from 44 communities across eight departments in Colombia. To compare everyday preferences with the commi…
After war ends
Political science (24 obras) · Sociology (21 obras) · Peacebuilding and International Security (17 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Politics (11 obras) · Public relations (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Political Conflict and Governance (8 obras) · International Development and Aid (7 obras)