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Dealing with Painful Memories and Violent Pasts. Towards a Framework for Contextual UnderstandingHandbook Dialogue Series No. 11 - lead article

Reflects on the role of different approaches for dealing with painful memories and violent pasts. The author explores how different dimensions – interpersonal and intergroup relations, memories and identities at the individual and collective level – relate to one another. He also addresses how one can constructively address victim identities and cultures of victimhood that may stem from painful or traumatic experiences in light of his work in South Africa and Northern Ireland, among other locales.

  • Year 2015
  • Author(s) Brandon Hamber
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Media-Related Peacebuilding in Processes of Conflict TransformationHandbook Article

Focusing on their constructive potential, the author contextualises the work of media and journalists as actors in peacebuilding processes. He draws on examples from the DRC and Sudan, and discusses the added value of new technologies, in reflecting on how peacebuilding processes can be opened up and made more inclusive - especially locally - by high-quality reporting.

  • Year 2015
  • Author(s) Rousbeh Legatis
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There is no way around itWe need strong teams for working on fragile and conflict contexts

Working on fragile or conflict contexts is different from work in other projects. The consulting team of a GIZ programme and the individual consultants have to deal with security issues as well as with their own emotionality. National consultants’ personal histories are interlinked with specific conflict issues and actors. This emotionality and how consultants deal with it plays an important role when the consultants interact with the client systems and within their own consulting team. The consultants need to be aware of their own backgrounds and of how to keep the necessary distance to the clients. To deal with tensions and conflicts in the team and rather create a constructive and supportive working atmosphere, the GIZ project or programme manager and the team can strengthen their skills of self-reflection, communication, feedback, peer consulting, and other necessary technical and methodological skills.

  • Year 2015
  • Author(s) Uta Giebel, Barbara Unger
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Erkenntnisse für die Entwicklung und Gestaltung der Management- und Steuerungsstruktur eines Programms der Technischen ZusammenarbeitBeitrag zur Systematisierung von Lernerfahrungen des Friedensprogramms Cercapaz

Das Friedensprogramm Cercapaz mit einer Laufzeit von 8 Jahren und 3 Monaten (2007-2015) wurde in 3 Phasen und pro Phase mit einer jeweils veränderten Management- und Steuerungsstruktur durchgeführt. Das Programm ist damit einen Lernweg gegangen, der es wert ist, ihn nicht nur auf der Ebene der fachlichen Lernerfahrungen zu systematisieren, sondern auch bezüglich der Entwicklung seiner Management- und Steuerungsstruktur. Die Ergebnisse dieses Dokuments basieren auf Interviews, einschlägigen Programmdokumenten sowie Fachliteratur. Die Unterscheidung zwischen Management- und Steuerungsstruktur wird entsprechend der „Landkarte der Logiken“ der GIZ.

  • Year 2015
  • Author(s) Elke Breckner, Uta Giebel
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Germany as Mediator: Peace Mediation and Mediation Support in German Foreign PolicyConference Report

What are peace mediation and mediation support? What role can Germany play in this area? These questions were the focus of the 2014 Peace Mediation Conference, which brought together 200 policy-makers, staff from relevant ministries, Members of Parliament and representatives of organisations engaged in peace mediation. The aim was to increase Germany’s visibility and sharpen its profile as a conflict mediator in the foreign policy arena.

  • Year 2015
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Deutschland als Vermittler: Friedensmediation und Mediation Support in der deutschen AußenpolitikKonferenzbericht

Was ist Friedensmediation und Mediation Support? Welche Rolle kann Deutschland in diesem Bereich spielen? Diese Fragen standen im Mittelpunkt der Konferenz Friedensmediation 2014. 200 politische Entscheidungsträger, Mitarbeiter relevanter Ministerien sowie Parlamentarier und Vertreter der im Bereich Friedensmediation tätigen Organisationen tauschten sich darüber aus. Ziel der Konferenz war es, das außenpolitische Profil Deutschlands als Konfliktvermittler sichtbar zu machen und weiter zu schärfen. Auf Basis einer gemeinsamen Bestandsaufnahme zum deutschen Engagement im Bereich der Friedensmediation erarbeiteten die deutschen und internationalen Experten Vorschläge, wie enger zusammengearbeitet und besser voneinander gelernt werden kann.

  • Year 2015
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Nuestro territorio, nuestra pazAprendizajes para la construcción de paz territorial con comunidades campesinas en Antioquia (Colombia) – Un insumo para los departamentos

Esta sistematización presenta los aprendizajes obtenidos en el proyecto piloto de la Gobernación de Antioquia (Colombia), acompañado por la Berghof Foundation y desarrollado con comunidades rurales fuertemente victimizadas por el conflicto armado interno. Planteó responder a la pregunta “Cómo pueden los departamentos, teniendo en cuenta experiencias previas y estrategias gubernamentales, impulsar procesos de construcción de paz en las comunidades rurales?” Las experiencias aquí expuestas están dirigidas a gobiernos locales y regionales, aliados, así como a entidades del orden nacional y otras organizaciones de construcción de paz, como aporte al diseño y ejecución de programas similares.

  • Year 2015
  • Author(s) Isabel Cristina Correa Tamayo, Carlos Hernán Fernández Niño, Iván Marulanda Gómez
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Berghof Foundation Annual Report 2014

This annual report focuses on the topic of youth and features highlights of our work in 2014.

  • Year 2015
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SIPRI Yearbook 2015Armaments, Disarmaments and Internatinal Security (Kurzfassung Deutsch)

Das SIPRI Yearbook 2015 ist eine Zusammenstellung von Originaldaten aus den Bereichen globale Militärausgaben, internationale Rüstungstransfers, Rüstungsproduktion, Atomstreitkräfte, bewaffnete Konflikte und multilaterale Friedenseinsätze sowie von neuesten Analysen wichtiger Aspekte der Rüstungskontrolle, des Friedens und der internationalen Sicherheit.

Diese Broschüre fasst die Inhalte des SIPRI Yearbook 2015 zusammen.

  • Year 2015
  • Author(s) Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Berghof Foundation
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Recalling South Africa – Memory Work across Time and SpaceBerghof Handbook Dialogue Series No. 11 - comment

I remember well the time of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). I had come to South Africa a few months before the start of the first hearing, as a “bright-eyed and bushy-tailed” twenty-something enthusiastic about witnessing and partaking in this time of transformation in the country. At that time I only knew South Africa from my youthful times of rebellion in the German anti-apartheid movement. I loved the sincerity and courage with which South Africans approached the task, even though it was clear from the start that this would be a tremendously painful exercise. I recall going to one of the first hearings of the TRC and being warmly welcomed when I shared my interest in memory work based on my experience of having led youth exchange visits to concentration camps in Poland and inter-generational dialogue projects in Germany.

  • Year 2015
  • Author(s) Undine Whande
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