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Over the next decades, climate change will profoundly affect the socio-ecological systems that underpin human societies and result in fundamental social change. Besides its potential to stir tensions or exacerbate violent conflicts, in some contexts, it may provide space for political actors to address long-standing tensions around natural resources or to build new alliances in order to address environmental challenges. But when might a National Dialogue be an appropriate tool to address climate change? Read more about the complex relationship between climate change and National Dialogue processes in this paper.

• Year2023
• Author(s)McKenzie Johnson

What are the challenges for organising a National Dialogue process in the context of popular uprisings? What are opportunities for National Dialogues to be successful when active social movements are involved? In this paper, Isabel Bramsen analyses how National Dialogue processes need to be designed, conducted and implemented to allow for inclusive change through the involvement of protest movements.

• Year2023
• Author(s)Isabel Bramsen

The policy brief analyses long-term reintegration challenges and opportunities for female ex-combatants. Drawing insights from working with female ex-combatants in Aceh, Burundi, Colombia, Mindanao, Nepal, and Uganda, it sheds light on the often neglected aspects of their experiences after conflicts end. It offers recommendations for policymakers, peacebuilders and many more on how to design sustainable post-conflict reintegration processes for female ex-combatants.

• Year2023
• Author(s)Evelyn Pauls

The negative effects of climate change and the security risks associated with it are beginning to register across Iraq. Over the past decade, the rise in extreme weather events, such as high temperatures, droughts, desertification, flooding, and sand and dust storms, has caused various severe consequences, including water scarcity, loss of economic livelihoods (particularly for those relying on the agricultural sector), climateinduced displacement and migration, and a rise in food insecurity.

• Year2023

بدأ العراق يشعر بوطأة تغيُّر المناخ وزيادة المخاطر الأمنيّة ذات الصلة. وكان لزيادة الظواهر الجويّة القصوى خلال العقد الماضي – بدءًا من درجات الحرارة المرتفعة والجفاف والتصحّر وصولًا إلى الفيضانات والعواصف الرمليّة والغباريّة - عواقب وخيمة عدّة، بما في ذلك ندرة المياه وفقدان سبل العيش الاقتصاديّة، (ولا سيّما بالنسبة إلى الأشخاص المعتمدين على القطاع الزراعي)، والنزوح والهجرة بسبب المناخ، وتزايد انعدام الأمن الغذائي. كما ازدادت قابليّة البلد على التأثّر بهذه العواقب بسبب القدرات المحدودة ونقص الهياكل والآليات التي يمكنها الاستجابة بشكل فعّال لآثار تغّير المناخ والتخفيف من حدّتها. فآثار تغيُّر المناخ أدَّت إلى تفاقم التحدّيات الكثيرة التي تواجهها البلاد، خصوصًا تلك المرتبطة بالنزاع الأخير مع ما يُسمّى بتنظيم الدولة الإسلاميّة (المعروف أيضًا باسم داعش)، فضلًا عن الاستبعاد السياسي وسوء الحوكمة.

• Year2023

کاریگەرییە نەرێنییەکانی گۆڕانی کەشوهەوا و مەترسییە ئەمنییەکانی پەیوەست بەوەوە لە سەرانسەری عێراقدا دەستیان پێکردووە. لە ماوەی دەیەی ڕابردوودا، بەرزبوونەوەی ڕووداوە توندەکانی کەشوهەوا، وەک بەرزبوونەوەی پلەکانی گەرما، وشکەساڵی، بیابانبوون، لافاو، و زریانی خۆڵ و خۆڵ بارین، لێکەوتەی ترسناک و جۆراوجۆری لێکەوتەوە، لەوانە کەمی ئاو، لەدەستدانی بژێوی ئابووری (بەتایبەت بۆ ئەوانەی وابەستەی کەرتی کشتوکاڵین)، ئاوارەبوون و کۆچکردن بەهۆی کەشوهەوا، و زیادبوونی نائاسایشی خۆراک. لاوازی وڵات بەرامبەر بە ئەم کاریگەرییانە بەرزبووەتەوە بەهۆی سنووردارکردنی تواناكان و نەبوونی پێکهاتە و میکانیزمێک کە بتوانێت بە شێوەیەکی کاریگەر وەڵامی کاریگەرییەکانی گۆڕانی کەشوهەوا بداتەوە و کەم بکاتەوە.

• Year2023

In the 23rd year since the adoption of UN resolution 1325, governments, international organisations, and civil society groups worldwide are making efforts to integrate gender considerations into the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) framework. However, the unique needs and perspectives of the LGBTQI+ community have often been overlooked.

In collaboration with CFFP, the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, we have created this guidebook to assist civil society representatives and policy practitioners in better acknowledging the lived experiences of LGBTQI+ individuals.

• Year2023
• Author(s)Liam Li, Nina Bernarding, Christine Seifert, Beatrix Austin

This booklet seeks to amplify some of the hidden and forgotten voices in conflict. The stories of female ex-combatants from diverse political, religious, ethnic and national backgrounds show that women and their experiences of armed conflict and its aftermath have to be taken seriously for building sustainable peace.

• Year2023
• Author(s)Beatrice Aciro, Grace Arach, Violeta Guetnamova, Isabelle Kawka

Esta publicación busca amplificar algunas de las voces ocultas y olvidadas en el conflicto. Las historias de mujeres excombatientes de diversos orígenes políticos, religiosos, étnicos y nacionales muestran que las mujeres y sus experiencias de conflictos armados y sus secuelas deben tomarse en serio para construir una paz sostenible.

• Year2023
• Author(s)Beatrice Aciro, Grace Arach, Violeta Guetnamova, Isabelle Kawka

In her book, Katarina Månsson examines the relationship between human rights and mediation by analysing past and present mediation processes, from the early beginnings of United Nation's mediation efforts to recent examples like the peace process in Colombia.

• Year2023
• Author(s)Katarina Månsson