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Insights from NeuroscienceHow trauma and identity influence peace negotiations
Ahead of The Berlin Moot peace conference, we discussed with cognitive and neurosciences experts how their findings can advance peacebuilding.
- blog post 27 Feb 2024
- Author(s) Charlotte Hamm, Carla Schraml
Navigating transitional justice dilemmas in NepalPeer advice from international experts offers a way forward
The Global Learning Hub for Transitional Justice organised a peer exchange on how to improve the latest bill in Nepal’s continuing effort at dealing with the past.
- feature 28 Feb 2024
How to empower women in conflict?Women of The Berlin Moot share their recommendations for International Women’s Day
Leading up to The Berlin Moot, female experts and practitioners shed light on why it is crucial to include women in the conversation to achieve sustainable peace.
- feature 4 Mar 2024
Political reintegration and the continuation of the struggle after warWomen ex-combatants in formal and informal politics
This is the second issue of our policy insight series on gender-inclusive conflict transformation. This paper explores the political re-conversion pathways that women ex-combatants pursue after the signing of a peace agreement. From 2022 to 2023, we engaged in focus group discussions, interviews, and peer-learning workshops with over 70 women ex-combatants from Colombia, El Salvador, and the Philippines. In this publication, we present their testimonies and analyse their experiences of continuing their engagement post-war through nonviolent means in both formal and informal political spheres.
- Year 2024
- Author(s) Claudia Cruz Almeida, Véronique Dudouet, Johanna-Maria Hülzer
From the mountains to the public arenaThe struggle of women ex-combatants of FARC-EP to make their voices heard
In the third issue of our policy insight series on gender-inclusive conflict transformation, Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera, former member of FARC-EP, a negotiator during the peace process and signatory to the 2016 Final Peace Agreement in Colombia, shares her experiences of transitioning from armed conflict to the legal political sphere. She details the challenges encountered in "continuing the struggle without arms" and offers a set of recommendations aimed at ensuring meaningful political participation for women ex-combatants in peace processes.
- Year 2024
- Author(s) Victoria Sandino Simanca Herrera
Community peacebuilders promoting reconciliation in Hirshabelle and Galmudug States, Somalia
The project focuses on supporting and empowering local peacebuilders in their efforts to address conflict and support reconciliation in Hirshabelle and Galmudug States.
- Current Project
From silent victim to bridgebuilder: The potential of environmental peacebuilding in Ukraine
Our colleague Mariia Levchenko shares insights how environmental rehabilitation can go hand in hand with social cohesion programmes in Ukraine.
- blog post 11 Mar 2024
- Author(s) Mariia Levchenko
National Dialogue and peacemaking
This eight-week online course provides an in-depth understanding of National Dialogues and how to prepare, conduct and implement them.
- Course Sep 2024
Empowerment lies withinOpportunities and challenges for the implementation of the Women, Peace & Security framework by political movements in Yemen
This policy brief analysis the role that political movements in Yemen play in implementing the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) framework, especially in safeguarding and fostering the involvement of women and girls in peace and security matters. It offers recommendations on how international actors can enhance support for WPS policies and practices in relation to political movements in Yemen.
- Year 2024
- Author(s) Ann-Kristin Sjöberg, Wameedh Shakir, Véronique Dudouet