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This Strategic Framework was developed during the 9th Meeting on Negotiations for Resistance and Liberation Movements (RLMs) in Transition entitled Transitional Justice and the Role of Victims in Peace Negotiations held in October 2017, in Berlin. It provides an overview of some of the most frequent challenges RLMs face when negotiating justice and dealing with questions of victim participation. At the same time, this overview intends to offer a strategic framework for readers to address these challenges in light of comparative best practices and lessons-learned in order to support an informed understanding and strategy making of conflict actors in negotiating transitional justice

• Year2017
• Author(s)Nico Schernbeck, Luxshi Vimalarajah

Le présent manuel se fonde sur des études de cas contemporaines et entend contribuer au débat naissant sur le dialogue national, en rapprochant les perspectives et les expertises de diverses régions et en proposant une réflexion systématique et des orientations concrètes.

• Year2017

يستند هذا الدليل إلى سلسلة مندراسات الحالة المعاصرة، ويهدف إلى المساهمة في النقاش الناشئً بين حول الحوار الوطني جامعاّ الرؤى المتعمقة والخبرات منّ شتى المناطق المتنوعة. ويسعى بذلكّ إلى عرض تأمالت منهجية وطرحٍ مشورة ّ عملي ّ ة. وبالتالي فإن الدليلُ يساند الجهات ذات الصلة بالنزاعُ والممارسين )المحليين والدوليين على حد سواء( لمواجهة التحديات التي تعترضهم ولوضع التصميم األنسب لسياقهم الخاص.

• Year2017

La Fundación Berghof ha elaborado el presente Manual de Diálogos Nacionales en colaboración con la Fundación Suiza para la Paz. En él se plasman los resultados de un estudio pormenorizado al que han contribuido numerosas partes interesadas y académicos.

• Year2017

This paper is part of a broader exploratory study on the youth space of dialogue and mediation. Young people’s efforts in transforming conflict across the globe are abundant and are to some extent documented. In conflict research, however, there is a lack of reflection on the particularities of the youth approach and contribution to dialogue and mediation processes. In an attempt to offer some preliminary reflection, this paper explores the youth space of dialogue and mediation — its characteristics, dynamics, dimensions, challenges and potential — in the context of Myanmar.

• Year2017
• Author(s)Irena Grizelj

Contributing to the new World Bank’s Flagship Study "Pathways for Peace. Inclusive Approaches to Preventing Violent Conflict", this research study sheds light on and draws lessons from cases wherein specific national and related sub-national capacities for the prevention of violent political and social conflict were developed and applied by key domestic actors in internally-led processes of conflict prevention. In doing so, the research has focused on countries where complementary external support was provided through NGOs or by governments primarily under the development assistance umbrella. Hence, insights and recommendations from this research may also feed back into the Joint UNDP-DPA Programme on Building National Capacities for Conflict Prevention.

• Year2017
• Author(s)Hans-Joachim Giessmann, Janel B. Galvanek, Christine Seifert

This paper presents results from the European Union Horizon 2020-funded project “Whole-of-Society Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding” (WOSCAP). It is one of three cross-country comparative assessments of EU capabilities for conflict prevention and peacebuilding with regards to various thematic 'clusters' of external intervention. The other two comparative studies deal with EU support for security sector reform and decentralisation reform. The empirical contents are primarily based on field research carried out by local partner organisations in Mali, Yemen, Georgia and Ukraine.

• Year2017
• Author(s)Karin Göldner-Ebenthal, Véronique Dudouet

This small booklet aims at providing some guidance, inspiration and practical tools for those who are engaged in the planning and facilitation of dialogue processes or who are advocating for dialogue as a means for solving conflict. Initially, the publication started out as a handout, sharing insights into setting up and conducting constructive dialogues around contentious issues specifically in contexts of violence-prone conflict.

• Year2017
• Author(s)Norbert Ropers

This report presents a unique perspective on a unique experience that can inspire local and international peacebuilding practitioners in many parts of the world where armed conflicts are still raging or where peace processes are grappling with the intricacies of disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) processes.

• Year2017
• Author(s)Basque Permanent Social Forum

What can Cyprus learn from comparable cases? How have other settlements addressed security challenges, including the need for external guarantees and protection of human security? This paper draws on a range of settlements, but pays particular attention to other conflicts that include a de facto state or have been characterised by significant kin-state/patron-state involvement. Like the Cyprus conflict, these are at the extreme end of the spectrum of territorial solutions, which calls for creative solutions that fudge the issue of sovereignty. The paper finds a lack of examples of robust security guarantees being provided by a patron state, but there are examples of softer guarantees. The paper also considers other forms of guarantees that can supplement, or in some cases replace, external security guarantees. This includes the use of phases, built-in targets and conditions. The paper concludes by considering security within the state’s constituent units, in particular protections for local minorities.

• Year2017
• Author(s)Nina Caspersen