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Long-term reintegration challenges and opportunities for female ex-combatantsInsights from Aceh, Burundi, Colombia, Mindanao, Nepal and Uganda
The policy brief analyses long-term reintegration challenges and opportunities for female ex-combatants. Drawing insights from working with female ex-combatants in Aceh, Burundi, Colombia, Mindanao, Nepal, and Uganda, it sheds light on the often neglected aspects of their experiences after conflicts end. It offers recommendations for policymakers, peacebuilders and many more on how to design sustainable post-conflict reintegration processes for female ex-combatants.
- Year 2023
- Author(s) Evelyn Pauls
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
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
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
The role of women in peacebuilding in ColombiaA film screening and conversation
Join us on 16 April for a film screening and panel discussion. A cooperation with the Colombian Embassy in Berlin and the Swedish Embassy in Berlin.
- event 16 Apr 2024
Watch the livestream of The Berlin MootJoin the inaugural edition of our peacemaking conference on 17 April
Livestreamed panels will cover topics from multipolarity and geopolitics in peacemaking to human rights in mediation, or the role of protest movements.
- feature 11 Apr 2024
Day one of The Berlin Moot: High time to reshape peacemaking
Read a summary of takeaways from the first day of The Berlin Moot
- feature 17 Apr 2024
Day two of The Berlin Moot: "We don’t need more policies, we need more implementation."
We concluded the inaugural edition of The Berlin Moot with a call to take action in reshaping peace. Read takeaways from day two.
- feature 18 Apr 2024