From Seed to Success
Guiding Partners From Data to Transformation
Based in the dynamic San Diego-Tijuana borderlands, Peace Evaluation and Accompanied Research (PEAR) provides design, monitoring, evaluation, and learning services that bring peace science to and peace conscience together. We recognize that the most meaningful interventions are often not designed by technocrats, but planted, watered, tended, and lovingly pruned. Our work bridges rigorous data analysis with relational accompaniment, helping partners—from community-based organizations to international NGOs—cultivate their own capacity to learn, adapt, and bring their ideas to fruition.
Our Services Include
Program Design
Theories of change, logframes, and adaptive learning frameworks informed by peacebuilding principles.
Monitoring & Evaluation
Participatory, context-sensitive approaches that integrate qualitative, quantitative, and geospatial tools.
Organizational Learning Systems
Capacity-building to strengthen partners’ data cultures and internal feedback loops.
Applied Peace Science
Translating evidence into strategies that foster social cohesion, justice, and resilience.
Examples of Applied Peace Science in Motion
From Co-Creation to Transformation
How We Work
The PEAR Method
At PEAR, evaluation is not a single event but a living cycle of collaboration and learning. We help partners navigate every stage of their program’s evolution — or join them wherever they are — weaving accompaniment through it all. Our approach ensures that peacebuilding practice remains grounded in evidence, guided by relationship, and adaptive to change.
Research & Resources
Connect With Us
Whether you’re an organization seeking to strengthen your evaluation capacity or a student ready to apply peace science in practice, PEAR offers pathways to collaborate and learn.
Evidence that Builds Peace
For Partners & Funders
PEAR partners gain a stronger capacity for self-evaluation and adaptation, as well as stronger ties to the PEAR network of organizations.