Transcendence and the Evaluation of Faith-Based Peacebuilding

Many interventions work to build peace and prevent conflict by creating change in people ’ s attitudes, thought processes, and relationships. In such cases, it may be necessary to collect attitudinal data, conduct interviews,workshops, or focus group discussions with stakeholders, or carry out surveys to collect quantitative data. Measuring intangible changes in areas such as perceptions through interviews requires the same triangulation vetting as other types of data. require random controlled trials (RCTs) using a “ treatment ” group and one or more comparison groups. In these evaluation modes, causation in religious peacebuilding work would be determined by comparing the results of interreligious peacebuilding in one population (of individuals, groups, communities, or countries) with the same results in a similar population not subject to