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Among four case studies implemented in local communities in Lebanon and Tunisia, two communities were identified as resilient against and two as vulnerable towards violent extremism. This report explains the results of these empirical studies that aimed to investigate the nature of community vulnerability and resilience against violent extremism, both in their offline and online manifestations.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Faiza Ayed, Lara Azzam, Zouheir Ben Jannet, Sadok Damak, Maria El Sammak, Samiha Hamdi, Fethi Rekik, Youssef Salloum

Socio-political community dynamics in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, as well as Iraq, Lebanon, and Tunisia are impacting violent extremism, while at the same time being impacted by violent extremism. In this report, community vulnerability and resilience against violent extremism are explored by assessing the role of the absence or dysfunctions of state and religious authority figures.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Marie Kortam

This report compares findings on cumulative extremisms across six different countries in the Western Balkans and the MENA region. Focusing on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Serbia, as well as Lebanon and Iraq, it is aimed to create a synthesis of different empirical insights from a set of field-based studies carried out within the context of the PAVE project.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Isak Svensson, Desirée Nilsson

This report provides a synthesis of studies on vulnerability and resilience of communities to religious and ethno-political radicalisation in the Western Balkans and MENA region. It summarises findings relating to trends in ethno-political and religious extremism and online vs. offline dynamics of radicalisation.

• Year2022

Dieser Artikel stellt zentrale Ergebnisse einer bundesweiten Expert*innenbefragung zum aktuellen Radikalisierungsgeschehen in Deutschland vor. Er ist ein Kapitel im MOTRA-Monitor 2021 und somit Teil einer Reihe von MOTRA-Monitor-Veröffentlichungen zum Thema Radikalisierungsprävention.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Michaela Glaser, Beatrix Austin

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

This report is the first in the policy insight series on gender-inclusive conflict transformation. This first issue aims to contextualise and critically review current policies and practices in peace negotiations and post-war transitions, based on testimonies shared by network members during activities conducted since 2018, and complemented by relevant academic references. Through a participatory process of joint analysis, the series will present the experiences, aspirations and lessons learned from women in or associated with RLMs with regard to gender-inclusive approaches to peace negotiations and post-war peacebuilding.

• 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

Friedensbildung im deutschsprachigen Raum kann sich auf Erkenntnisse aus internationalen Diskursen zu Peace Education berufen und diese bei der Konzeption von Bildungsmaßnahmen berücksichtigen. Dieser Bericht gibt einen Überblick über Erkenntnisse aus englischsprachigen Grundlagenwerken und Sammelbänden zur Friedenspädagogik und Friedensbildung.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Anne Kruck

Friedensbildung in ihrer inter- und transdisziplinären Ausrichtung kann sich nur im Austausch mit verwandte Wissenschaften und Disziplinen weiterentwickeln. Dieses Paper setzt ausgewählte Ansätze aus der Friedensforschung, der Pädagogik, der Soziologie, der Sozialpsychologie, den Neurowissenschaften, der Genderforschung und den Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften in Beziehung zu Friedensbildung.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Cora Bieß, Assia Bitzan