Insider Research: Evaluating Practice within Conflict Management Service Provider Organizations

This roundtable will explore how conflict management practitioner organizations conduct research and evaluation concerning practice. The session will help to illuminate the opportunities and challenges of conducting research or evaluation within conflict management practitioner organizations and institutions, create dialogue between theory and practice on evaluation methods and practices, describe several current approaches to evaluating or conducting research that both quantitative and qualitative approaches, engage with the audience to learn about other experiences and to consider best practices, and develop and explore ideas that could be used in a future publication about conducting evaluation and research in conflict management organizations.