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Community-level healing in Rwanda.

Video: Connecting mental health and peacebuilding across the conflict cycleLearning from lived experience

Watch our World Mental Health Day event recording to explore how conflict experiences can deepen our understanding of mental health, wellbeing and peacebuilding.

  • event 8 Oct 2026
Teilnehmer verfolgen bei der Berlin Climate and Security Conference im Auswärtigen Amt die Diskussion. Das Motto der Konferenz ist «Building a Climate for Peace» und bringt zentrale Akteure aus den Bereichen Klima, Frieden und Sicherheit zusammen.

Beyond the climate security conference room

Ahead of the Berlin Climate and Security Conference, read Nazanine Moshiri’s reflections on how we can move climate security from talk to action.

  • blog post 29 Sept 2026
  • Author(s) Nazanine Moshiri
Trump with the leaders of the DRC and Rwanda at the signing of a minerals agreement, underscoring the close connection between peace mediation and U.S. strategic and economic interests.

Transactional deal-makingThe promise and perils for peace mediation

Narine Karapetyan and Karoline Eickhoff argue that transactionalism’s effects on peace mediation depend on shifting third-party interests.

  • blog post 28 Sept 2026
  • Author(s) Narine Karapetyan, Karoline Eickhoff
Behind every agreement is a long and often difficult process of building trust, opening dialogue, navigating setbacks, and taking incremental steps forward.

Video: Building peace from the ground up

Watch the recording of our International Day of Peace event to hear from peacebuilders about their day-to-day efforts in building lasting peace.

  • event 21 Sept 2026
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos signs a peace accord with FARC leader TimoleónJiménez.

International Day of Peace 2026: The small steps that make peace possible

This International Day of Peace, voices from Uganda, Catalonia, and Colombia reveal how trust, dialogue, and persistence lay the groundwork for lasting peace.

  • feature 17 Sept 2026
The National Conference for Partnership and Integration aimed at identifying areas of existing agreement and outstanding differences between the central and local levels.

Rethinking local governance in Yemen

Improved central-local relations are crucial for any future peace process in Yemen.

  • blog post 11 Sept 2026
  • Author(s) Katharina Jautz
Climate, peace, and security: Advancing Germany’s policy response.

How can Germany turn climate security commitments into action?

Ahead of the Berlin Climate and Security Conference, we explore what Germany should do to support the climate, peace, and security agenda.

  • feature 9 Sept 2026
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Negotiating against all odds

Our Senior Mediation Advisor Luxshi Vimalarajah speaks with WOZ about negotiating peace amid record conflict numbers and shrinking funding for conflict resolution.

  • feature 8 Sept 2026
Peacebuilding is more than representation. It’s about transforming power and creating space for every voice.

Conflict transformation requires gender-transformative peacebuilding

Gender-transformative peacebuilding is not about adding women to existing processes, but transforming the systems of power that perpetuate conflict.

  • blog post 4 Sept 2026
  • Author(s) Claudia Cruz Almeida
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The Refugee Convention at 75: time to address climate-conflict displacement

Eighty-three million internally displaced persons fall outside the world's main binding protection treaty. Climate change is adding millions more.

  • blog post 28 Jul 2026
  • Author(s) Laís Clemente Pereira, Alexandra Steinkraus, Nike Löble
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