Our Publications

In the hopes of greater impact and benefits, one of the main goals of BEFORE is to share and disseminate lessons learned to the larger global conflict prevention community of practitioners and analysts. These documents provide the larger international community with insights into the BEFORE method of violence prevention and our collective knowledge on prevention and peacebuilding.

BEFORE Program Descriptions and Methodology:

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• BEFORE Brochure
• BEFORE 10 Step Approach to Consolidate Peace
• BEFORE’s Global Organizational Structure

BEFORE Program Evaluations, Conflict Assessments, and National Action Plans:

• BEFORE Guinea Assessment Report: Executive Summary/ Full Report
• BEFORE Guinea Consolidation of Peace Workshop: Executive Summary in English / Rapport D’Atelier in French
• BEFORE Guinea National Action Plan to Consolidate Peace: English / French
• BEFORE Guinea-Bissau Evaluation: Executive Summary / Full Report

Conflict Prevention, Peacekeeping and More:

• Michael S. Lund, “Conflict Prevention: Theory in Pursuit of Policy and Practice,” in William Zartman, Jacob Bercovitch, and Viktor Kremenyk, eds. Handbook of Conflict Resolution [Sage Publications, 2008].
• Andreas Mehler / Henning Melber / Klaas van Walraven (eds): Africa Yearbook 4. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara 2006, Leiden: Brill 2008
• Andreas Mehler: Positive, ambiguous or negative. Peacekeeping in the local security fabric, in: Critical Currents 5/2008 (The United Nations, Security and Peacekeeping in Africa. Lessons and Prospects, Uppsala: Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, 41-65
• Andreas Mehler: Not always in the people’s interest: Power-sharing arrangements in African peace agreements, GIGA Working Papers 83 (2008), Hamburg: GIGA
• Andreas Mehler: France in Search of a New Africa Policy, in: Internationale Politik, Global Edition, 1/2008, 28-38.
• Andreas Mehler: Political Discourse in Football Coverage – The Cases of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, in Soccer and Society, 9 (2008) 1, 96–110
• Andreas Mehler: Mehr Analyse, mehr Mut zu Kooperation: Peacekeeper, staatliche und nichtstaatliche Gewaltakteure in Afrika, in: Die Friedenswarte 83 (2008) 1, 45-69
• Matthias Basedau / Gero Erdmann / Andreas Mehler (eds): Votes, Money and Violence. Parties and Elections in Africa south of the Sahara, Uppsala: NAI 2007
• Matthias Basedau / Andreas Mehler / Judy Smith-Höhn: Caught between International, State and Non-state Actors: Public Perceptions of Security in Post-conflict Urban Liberia, in: Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, 3 (2007) 2, 84-89
• Andreas Mehler: The shaky foundations, adverse circumstances and limited achievements of democratic transition in the Central African Republic, in Leo Villalón/Peter VonDoepp (eds): The Fate of Africa’s Democratic Experiments. Elites and Institutions. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2005, 126-152
• Denis Tull / Andreas Mehler: The hidden costs of power-sharing: Reproducing insurgent violence in Africa (Available only to account holders), in: African Affairs; 104 (2005) 416: 375-398
• Ulf Engel/Andreas Mehler: “Under construction”: Governance in Africa’s new violent social spaces, in: Ulf Engel / Gorm Rye Olsen (eds.): The African Exception, Aldershot: Ashgate 2005, 87-102
• Andreas Mehler: Oligopolies of violence in Africa south of the Sahara, in: Nord-Süd aktuell 18 (2004) 3, 539-548