Environmental peacebuilding is a rapidly growing field of research and practice at the
intersection of environment, conflict, peace and security. Focusing on these linkages is …

Across the globe, digital technologies have radically changed social life in the twenty-first
century. Digital devices have become all-pervasive in how private, public, and not-for-profit …

This article surveyed different emerging technologies (ET), in particular artificial intelligence,
and their burgeoning application in the evaluation industry. Evidence suggests that …

In today's rapidly evolving technological society, data generation and collection offer
unprecedented opportunities. While data collection and analysis were largely limited by …

Evaluators have been slow to “plug” into the digital world, let alone engage with the strategic
implications of the Big Data revolution for the evaluation discipline. Yet, Big Data holds …

This chapter presents a type of evaluation which tries to contribute to transformational
change, ie, dynamic evaluations. The focus is on transformational change of society …

In recent years, combat drones have been a presence in the skies over conflict zones such
as Afghanistan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Libya, and Ukraine. These drones, unmanned aerial …

Across the contributions in this book, a picture is emerging that artificial intelligence (AI) has
gained a foothold not only in various professional research fields but also in organizations …

Criteria identify and define the aspects on which what we evaluate is judged and play a
central role in evaluation practice. While work on the use of AI in evaluation is burgeoning, at …

For quite some time the evaluation community has not been very active in addressing these
or similar issues. Leeuw and Leeuw (2012) studied how much interest was shown by this …