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Colombia cuenta con una amplia gama de instituciones con funciones relacionadas a la construcción de paz. A base del concepto de infraestructura para la paz, este estudio Berghof “Infraestructura de Paz en Colombia”, elaborado a inicios 2014 por Silke Pfeiffer presenta un mapeo de las diferentes entidades Colombianas y analiza su potencial para el actual proceso de paz de Colombia.

• Year2014
• Author(s)Silke Pfeiffer

Develops a basic concept of internationally oriented, context-related and process-oriented peace education with clearly defined target groups. Against this background, the author presents a comprehensive and practical approach to peace education in crisis and conflict regions, the aim being to promote conflict transformation. In this context, a fundamental distinction is made between direct peace education (encounter, inspiration, training) and structural peace education (pilot projects, curricula, implementation). The context-related interaction between these two basic forms is identified as a promising approach and offered up for discussion. Brief case studies from the practice of peace education are presented for the purpose of illustration.

• Year2014
• Author(s)Uli Jäger

Entwickelt ein Grundverständnis von international ausgerichteter, kontextbezogener und prozessorientierter Friedenspädagogik mit klar definierten Zielgruppen. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird ein umfassender und praxisorientierter Ansatz für Friedenspädagogik in Krisen- und Kriegsregionen präsentiert, der die Transformation von Konflikten fördern will. Dabei wird grundlegend zwischen unmittelbarer Friedenspädagogik (Begegnung, Inspiration, Qualifizierung) und strukturbezogener Friedenspädagogik (Modellprojekte, Curricula, Implementierung) unterschieden. Das kontextbezogene Zusammenspiel dieser beiden Grundformen wird als ein erfolgversprechender Ansatz zur Diskussion gestellt. Fallbeispiele aus der Praxis der Friedenspädagogik verdeutlichen die Überlegungen.

• Year2014
• Author(s)Uli Jäger

• Year2014
• Author(s)Janel B. Galvanek

This brief examines the impact of the second Constituent Assembly elections on Nepal’s peace and conflict context. Considered narrowly through a democratisation lens the elections can be hailed a success. However, if one unpacks the larger processes surrounding the event a more nuanced picture emerges. This brief argues that Nepal’s peace process has moved from simplicity to complexity; a reality that is reflected in, but not accommodated by, the electoral process. The brief presents a range of options to address this discrepancy.

• Year2014
• Author(s)Marike Blunck

The unresolved ‘Kurdish question’ is closely tied to the interests of global powers, and as such is as much the problem of England, the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) as of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria and the region. In short, the Kurdish question is an international problem.

Because Kurds have always lived under the sway of others, they have had difficulty establishing the internal dynamics and motivation required for self-administration. The result has been a lack of societal unity and religious ideologies that sometimes conflict with one another – which explains the Kurdish people’s vicious cycle of dividedness, external reliance, inner conflict and subdivision into even smaller pieces.

• Year2014
• Author(s)Adem Uzun

Das SIPRI Yearbook 2014 ist eine Zusammenstellung von Originaldaten aus den Bereichen globale Militärausgaben, internationale Rüstungstransfers, Rüstungsproduktion, Atomstreitkräfte, bewaffnete Konflikte und multilaterale Friedenseinsätze sowie von neuesten Analysen wichtiger Aspekte der Rüstungskontrolle, des Friedens und der internationalen Sicherheit. Das SIPRI-Jahrbuch, das erstmals 1969 erschienen ist, wird von SIPRI-Forschern und eingeladenen externen Experten verfasst. Diese Broschüre fasst die Inhalte des SIPRI Yearbook 2014 zusammen und enthält eine Auswahl an Daten und Informationen aus dem Jahrbuch.

• Year2014
• Author(s)Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Explores the particular shape of peacebuilding security, taking as a starting point the security risks and strategies of the related professions of humanitarian, development, and human rights work. The author presents two paradoxes of peacebuilding security, relating to multi-partiality and concerns about instrumentalising security. Building on these paradoxes, she outlines three cornerstones of a peacebuilding approach to security and risk management – adapting to context and organisational profile, emphasising relationship-building and communication, and taking a holistic approach.

• Year2014
• Author(s)Larissa Fast

Can infrastructures for peace – inadvertently or by design – be used to further state-building fashioned after the liberal peacebuilding agenda? This is the question Vincent Verzat is exploring in his reader’s comment to Berghof Handbook Dialogue No. 10. His article Infrastructure for Peace: A Grass-roots Way To Do State-building? takes a close look at the discourse and rhetoric used by international organisations and questions one of I4P’s role-models, the Ghanaian peace architecture

• Year2014
• Author(s)Vincent Verzat

El documento brinda a los actores académicos, a la cooperación internacional en Colombia y a actores estatales y no estatales activos en la Construcción de Paz, un panorama de lo que se realizó y cuáles impactos se obtuvieron, igual que las lecciones aprendidas.

• Year2014
• Author(s)Carlos H. Fernández