DATE / TIME:

2015•06•30    09:30 - 18:00

Location:

New York

The complexity of contemporary security interventions relating to drugs, organized crime, rule of law and countering violent extremism, and the climate of fiscal austerity, underline the need to strengthen the assessment of effectiveness in those interventions. Identifying and demonstrating impact is not easy. Indeed, many of the metrics currently used to measure security intervention outcomes are arguably not fit for purpose. Innovative new technologies, techniques and methods are, however, emerging. This workshop — Measuring the Impacts of Security Interventions: Innovating for Success in Drug Policy, Organized Crime, Rule of Law and Countering Violent Extremism — aims to highlight innovation in these fields and encourage cross-fertilization and allow governments and intergovernmental actors to consider how to apply these innovations in inter-agency contexts.

About the Workshop

To improve awareness and uptake of recent innovations, the UN University’s Office in New York will host this workshop in New York on 30 June 2015, inviting Member States, donors, practitioners, researchers, academics, and innovators of all kinds to explore new approaches to the assessment of an array of security interventions. Participants will engage with innovative research on intervention assessment, and monitoring and evaluation in the fields of rule of law, organized crime, drug policy, and countering violent extremism. They will consider how developments in one field may contribute to the others, and begin to consider what they mean for policy and programming. Despite the differences in the aims and approaches of drug policy, organized crime, rule of law, and countering violent extremism interventions, they share common methodological challenges, use common data (or commonly find it lacking), and can take advantage of many of the same innovations. By bringing together scholars and practitioners focused on an array of security interventions, this conference will help break down siloed mentalities, facilitate cross-fertilization of evaluation approaches, and share lessons learned.

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