The Better Practice Project is dedicated to developing clearer, evidence-based expectations for effective peacemaking, helping practitioners, funders, and researchers more easily adopt and support proven methods.
Unlike health, education, or humanitarian response, peacemaking has never had widely shared expectations of what better practice looks like.
We work with practitioners, funders, and researchers to clarify what tends to work, learn from credible evidence, and make effective practice easier to see, easier to use, and easier to support.
We look closely at how peacebuilding is actually done—what people do, what they believe works, and how those choices perform in real settings. Through interviews, case studies, and evidence reviews, we identify where well-intentioned approaches succeed and where they fall short.
We translate research into clear guidance about what “better practice” means in different contexts. This includes examining what intelligent evidence use looks like, what effective collaboration requires, and what genuine, effective local leadership entails.
We provide clear guidance notes, decision tools, and examples of credible practice that help organizations act with more clarity and confidence. Over time, this makes better practice easier to see, safer to adopt, and more normal across the field.
These materials well help funders, practitioners, and policymakers act on credible evidence and strengthen the impact of their work.
The project exists to support, not judge, those working to reduce violence.
Stronger decisions help create better practice in the real world. And when peacemaking practice improves, efforts to prevent and reduce violence can become more effective.
Improving practice will not end violent conflict on its own. But it can help organizations avoid avoidable mistakes, act with greater confidence, and focus their energy on approaches that are more likely to protect lives and expand opportunity.
The Better Practice Project brings clarity to a field that urgently needs it — supporting the people working every day to reduce violence and improve human well-being.
