In May 2018, the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) adopted conclusions on ‘Strengthening Civilian Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)’, in which EU foreign ministers once again highlighted the importance of mainstreaming human rights and gender into all missions’ activities as a means of improving their effectiveness. Gender and human rights advisers in CSDP missions are […]

Ms. President is a 26-episode, reality television series on the prime-time Kenyan Television Network, produced by Media Focus on Africa and funded by the European Union (Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace). Over 1000 female local peacebuilder applied to participate in this TV reality show to compete for the title of ‘Ms President’ by partaking […]

Cordaid and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) recently published a new report entitled ‘Diverse pathways to justice for all: Supporting everyday justice providers to achieve SDG16.3’. The report draws on insights from Cordaid’s work in 5 diverse country contexts to provide recommendations on how customary, community-based, and other informal institutions and processes can contribute to […]

In October, the European Union and the United States jointly called for future intra-Afghan dialogues and peace conferences to build on the achievements of the intra-Afghan Peace Conference which took place last July in Doha. These notably include participation in the peace process by representatives of the Government of Afghanistan, political leaders, Taliban and civil […]

In this Brown Bag Lunch discussion, Odeh Nasser Najadah, head of the Palestinian Ka’abneh Furijat municipality, and Alon Cohen-Lifshitz, director of the planning and community department in the West Bank at Bimkom, will discuss Israel’s planning policy and its consequences on Palestinian communities and on conflict and peace dynamics. Participants are welcome to bring their […]

In her latest book entitled ‘Extralegal groups in post-conflict Liberia: How trade makes the state’, Dr Christine Cheng studies the aftermath of the Liberian civil war and shows how extralegal groups emerged as a product of livelihood strategies and of the political economy of war. She analyses the trajectory of extralegal groups in three sectors […]

The Colombian Truth Commission was established in 2019 to respond to the rights of over 8 million people who the State acknowledges to be victims of the armed conflict. Thousands of these victims fled the country and are now living in Europe. The Truth Commission has an unprecedented mandate of engaging with the diaspora and […]

The populations in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin (LCB) regions face a range of challenges and threats to their human security due to ongoing conflicts and crises. In particular, young women and men under the age of 25, who make up about two thirds of the population living in the regions, face frequent exposure […]

Last year was supposed to be a moment of celebration and reflection for the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda, as it marked the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325. Yet, the COVID-19 crisis spoiled these plans and, more importantly, created—or rather compounded—challenges to the Agenda around the world. As […]

In peacebuilding and conflict transformation processes, organisations working in and on conflict suffer from ‘shrinking spaces’ by governmental, business, or far-right activities, and develop maladaptive coping practices such as overplanning, reactivity, siege mentality or utopian visions. How should donors react to this? Based on his article entitled ‘Creating Clarity in Conflict?’, Torge Kuebler will discuss […]