Does religion offer an identity-building framework to spread peace beyond the boundaries of social communities?

• blog post 18 Dec 2019
• Author(s) Hans-Joachim Giessmann

• DE

Governments and the international community can no longer afford to pretend that peace negotiations with Salafi-Jihadi Armed Groups are fundamentally impossible.

• press release 11 Dec 2019

• DE

9 November is widely regarded as a kind of “day of destiny” for the Germans.

• blog post 7 Nov 2019
• Author(s) Hans-Joachim Giessmann

Each year the International Day of Peace is celebrated all over the world on 21 September.

• feature 20 Sep 2019

I am writing this blog post on the flight back from Kabul to Germany...

• blog post 4 Sep 2019
• Author(s) Hans-Joachim Giessmann

Somalia has suffered from ongoing conflict for close to three decades, leaving millions displaced and affected by violence.

• feature 29 Aug 2019

Are there parallels between the recent massacres in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio and the impending arms race following the abolition of the INF Treaty?

• blog post 13 Aug 2019
• Author(s) Hans-Joachim Giessmann

What does it mean to feel safe? Is it not being afraid to walk home at night? Or is it the ability to provide food for your family?

• feature 23 Jul 2019

• AR

For the first time, representatives of the Afghan government and society and of the Taliban movement met in their personal capacity for a dialogue in Doha, Qatar.

• feature 23 Jul 2019

On 18 June 2019, Donald Trump did what his political opponents had feared and his supporters had hoped for: He announced his intention to stand for re-election.

• blog post 28 Jun 2019
• Author(s) Hans-Joachim Giessmann