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Investing in peaceThe role of dialogue and conflict mediation in ensuring Europe’s security
Funding for non-military interventions is at an all-time low. While it is important to prepare for our defence, we must also invest in peace.
- feature 7 Nov 2025
Video: Climate finance blind spots – closing the gapHow can climate finance reach fragile and conflict-affected countries?
Watch our event recording to explore how global funding mechanisms can better reach fragile and conflict-affected contexts with insights from our Afghanistan report.
- event 26 Nov 2025
From transition to transformationRethinking transitional justice in challenging circumstances
Our Global Learning Hub for Transitional Justice and Reconciliation brought policymakers and practitioners together in Berlin to discuss how strategies must evolve.
- feature 13 Nov 2025
No peace at COP30? Why that’s a risk the world can’t afford
Read why peace, good governance and climate adaptation should not be separate agendas at COP30.
- blog post 12 Nov 2025
- Author(s) Nazanine Moshiri
Resilient social contract for Lebanon’s future
This research explores intergenerational perspectives on Lebanon’s social contract, aiming to shape inclusive reforms grounded in trust, participation, and shared civic aspirations.
- Current Project
Entry points for climate finance and peacebuilding in Afghanistan
This report examines the current climate finance landscape in Afghanistan, analysing funding trends before and after 2021 and identifying entry points for action under current political constraints.
It explores how political constraints and institutional gaps have reshaped access, delivery, and co-financing dynamics, while identifying emerging models for indirect implementation through UN agencies, NGOs, and regional mechanisms. Comparative case studies from Haiti, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo illustrate how other fragile states have mobilised climate finance amidst instability.
- Year 2025
- Author(s) Dima Reda
Unter dem Radar: Protest und Mobilisierung gegen GeflüchtetenzuzugErgebnisse der MOTRA-Expert*innenbefragung 2023/2024
Vor dem Hintergrund eines wieder erstarkten Fluchtaufkommens, von kommunalen Überlastungsanzeigen und Debatten um Zuzugsbegrenzungen kam es in 2023 wieder verstärkt zu Protesten gegen die Unterbringung von Geflüchteten. Basierend auf einer bundesweiten Expert*innenbefragung skizziert der Beitrag dieses Protestgeschehen und zeigt regionale Unterschiede sowie Kontinuitäten und Veränderungen seit der Protestwelle in den Jahren 2016 und 2017 auf.
- Year 2025
- Author(s) Michaela Glaser
Politics beyond the partyInformal pathways for ex-combatants’ political transformation
The Primer explains the importance of informal political spaces in achieving long-term peace. These arenas are often the most immediate and accessible venues where marginalised groups or lower-level fighters -- including women and young people -- can express their views, develop leadership skills, and take action, especially when formal institutions are inaccessible, exclusive, or no longer trusted. Acknowledging and supporting these peaceful forms of organisation allows DDR and peacebuilding actors to enable ex-combatants to pursue social change without violence, resolve grievances constructively, and rebuild confidence between them and the wider community.
- Year 2025
Getting the timing rightSequencing DDR and political transformation support
This Primer provides guidance for DDR practitioners, peacebuilding stakeholders, and international partners on how to sequence DDR efforts alongside political transformation in ways that align and ideally strengthen one another. Using insights from cases like Nepal, Liberia, Northern Ireland, the Philippines, and Colombia, it examines how different sequencing choices affect the relationship between security and political inclusion in post-conflict settings. The document presents conceptual frameworks, comparative case examples and practical principles to help develop more coordinated and context-sensitive strategies.
- Year 2025