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Este es el primer informe de incidencia política sobre la transformación de conflictos con perspectiva de género. Esta primera entrega tiene como objetivo contextualizar y revisar las políticas y prácticas actuales en las negociaciones de paz y las transiciones de posguerra, a partir de los testimonios compartidos por las miembros de la Red durante las actividades realizadas desde 2018, y complementados con referencias académicas relevantes. A través de un proceso participativo de análisis conjunto, la serie de informes de incidencia política presentará las experiencias, aspiraciones y lecciones aprendidas de las mujeres en o asociadas a los RLM con respecto a los enfoques inclusivos de género en las negociaciones de paz y la consolidación de la paz posbélica.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Claudia Cruz Almeida, Véronique Dudouet, Victoria Cochrane

Recent years have seen a dramatic increase of mass nonviolent movements around the globe, taking the street and the online space to demand radical reforms towards greater democracy, justice, peace or equal rights. External support to nonviolent movements can help prevent violent escalation, mitigate repression, protect civic space, facilitate conflict transformation and foster sustainable peace. In a global context where the shrinking of civic space is coupled with the proliferation of protests, the European Union needs to develop a strategy to deal with nonviolent movements consistently and effectively. This paper explores the role that different EU institutional actors can play in supporting nonviolent movements and puts forward some basic recommendations to develop a more coherent conceptual framework and factor peaceful protests into the EU’s external action.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Sergio Rodríguez Prieto

Das Paper setzt Friedensbildung in Bezug zu verschiedenen Nachbardisziplinen, wie der politischen Bildung, dem globalen Lernen, der entwicklungspolitischen Bildung, der Menschrechtsbildung, der Demokratiepädagogik, der Global Citizenship Education, der (inter-)religiösen Bildung, der Umweltbildung und der Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (BNE).

• Year2022
• Author(s)Cora Bieß

In diesem umfassenden Bericht zu Friedensbildung im deutschsprachigen Raum, schaffen wir einen Überblick zu aktuellen Entwicklungen, Ansätzen und Chancen der Friedensbildung. Unsere Forschung zeigt, dass Friedensbildung nicht nur hochaktuell ist, sondern gerade im schulischen Kontext an Bedeutung gewinnt. Wir schlussfolgern damit, dass Friedensbildung nur dann weitflächig und nachhaltig einen Unterschied macht, wenn sie strukturell im Bildungssystem verankert ist und sich auf qualifiziertes Lehrpersonal und außerschulische Bildungsakteur*innen stützen kann.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Cora Bieß, Assia Bitzan, Uli Jäger, Anne Kruck

Our 2021 annual report gives an overview of our work around the world during the year as well as insights into our finances and funding.

• Year2022

This manual accompanies the documentation of intergenerational voices of women who were involved in the struggles for social, economic and political equality in Mindanao. These documentaries, in film and in print, give rich opportunity for reflection and discussion - among former female combatants, their children, but also more generally for those supporting a peacebuilding path for communities in the Philippines and beyond. The manual combines the films and storytelling booklet produced with a simple guide of how to organize, structure and harvest dialogues using them with an aim to strengthen peacebuilding action.

• Year2022

Corruption and violent conflict are interlinked in deep and complex ways. This U4 Issue considers how corruption as an element of conflict systems could be addressed during peace processes and how peacebuilders can support political efforts to curb corruption and promote accountability during transitions from war to peace. Now is the time to bridge the contributions of peacebuilding and anti-corruption practitioners in the quest for a sustainable transformation process.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Ulrike Hopp-Nishanka, Joshua Rogers, Calum Humphreys

The international community is currently facing a dilemma: although building trust between representatives of state institutions and the population is one of the fundamental components of cooperation between donors and recipient countries of support services in the security sector, we are observing worldwide that trust in state institutions fades. Confidence-building initiatives between citizens and, for example, the police and the military obviously do not always contribute to improvement. Therefore, basic assumptions about the role of trust and how trust-building works in conflict societies must be questioned.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Viktoria Budde, Karoline Eickhoff

A shifting state system, a dysfunctional market and a restless global society face rising economic inequality and mass migration, accelerating polarisation and extremism, and urgent demands for decolonisation, racial justice and an end to gender-based violence. Current economic and political models offer little reprieve, and in some cases seem to be fuelling disorder rather than promoting the order or stability they aim to achieve. How will the peacebuilding field respond or transform given these challenges?

• Year2022
• Author(s)Lisa Schirch

Local governance is changing in Yemen, with far-reaching effects on the way state institutions function, on central-local relations, and on service provision and citizens’ experiences of the state. Earlier Berghof research (Rogers 2020) highlighted the ways in which war and Houthi policy were re-drawing central-local relations and the functioning of local governance in the areas under Ansar Allah’s control. This paper complements that investigation by examining the changes under way in the areas under the control of the internationally recognised government.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Katharina Jautz, Monder Basalma, Joshua Rogers