With this volume, one gets the sense of a discipline coming of age; it articulates a maturing of the field of scholarship around peace-building and conflict engagement/transformation/resolution. The work includes contributions from scholars and practitioners who propose strategies for determining what works, why, and how in a complex field that has often seen itself as exceptional, resisting efforts to set realizable goals for--and implementing processes for achieving--assessment. Anchoring chapters by the editor lay out the groundwork for evaluation (types and purposes) and make a plea for building a "community of inquiry for public, shared, and cumulative learning." Other contributions review the different contexts and modalities for evaluation, and different evaluative tools and frameworks applicable in these contexts--all in the interest of building knowledge from experience. Overall, the work contributes to clarity--conceptually and operationally--for an emerging field that is starting to look at itself, and indicates ways the field can build both problem-solving and theory-building research. It will be of interest to practitioners and scholars, as well as to students of social science methodology.--CHOICE Biografía del autor Tamra Pearson d'Estrée is Henry R. Luce Professor of Conflict Resolution in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and has co-directed DU's Conflict Resolution Institute since 2002. Her intergroup relations work includes conflict resolution capacity building, and problem-solving workshops in inter-communal conflicts. Her research areas include identity dimensions of social and ethnic conflict, procedural justice, and the evaluation of international, community and environmental conflict resolution. In addition to numerous book chapters and journal articles, she is co-author, with Bonnie G. Colby, of Braving the Currents: Evaluating Conflict Resolution in the River Basins of the American West (Springer), and co-editor, with Ruth Parsons, of Cultural Encounters and Emergent Practices in Conflict Resolution Capacity-Building (Palgrave Macmillan). Contexts for her conflict work have included Israel-Palestine, Turkey, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Ukraine, Georgia, Guatemala, US intertribal disputes, US Native-nonNative relations, US policy disputes, and US interreligious relations.