More than six years after more than 700,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar’s Rakhine State to Bangladesh, the now protracted crisis has reached an important inflection point. Conditions in the world’s largest refugee camp are worsening, with a spike in killings, crime and a four-fold rise in abductions compounded by dwindling humanitarian assistance. Many refugees have little […]
Foreign aid, be it humanitarian, peacebuilding or development support, frequently brings with it a range of unintended consequences. In his new book, ‘Foreign Aid and its Unintended Consequences’ Prof. Dirk-Jan Koch brings together his teams’ research and his personal experiences with the side effects of foreign aid. The book, which is aimed at development practitioners, […]
Illicit economies in opium and cocaine are generally regarded only as criminological problems to be solved mainly by law enforcement – which may be why sustainable solutions remain elusive. In his new book ‘Rethinking Illicit Economies in Opium and Cocaine: Policy Responses to Drug Crops in the Global South’, Dr Eric D. U. Gutierrez opens […]
Futures thinking and foresight refer to an ecosystem of approaches, methods, tools, practices, and processes aimed at creating a space to imagine the factors and forces shaping the future. In peacemaking praxis, these methodologies can enable participatory analysis of key issues and beliefs among conflict stakeholders, as well as the joint creation of alternative futures. The envisioned futures function as shared and […]
On 26 March, EPLO will hold its 2024 General Assembly in Brussels, Belgium.
On 11 April, EPLO will host an NGO Roundtable Meeting in Berlin, Germany. The overall objective of this CSDN NGO Roundtable meeting is to enable representatives of German-based peacebuilding NGOs to exchange on advocacy and funding issues relating to th eEuropean Union’s support to conflict prevention and peacebuilding.
The Berlin Moot will bring together policymakers and global experts from a variety of disciplines with peace practitioners and mediators to discuss new peacemaking approaches. As conflicts are escalating at an alarming rate in different regions, established methods and actors are facing apparent limits to their effectiveness. At The Berlin Moot, innovative peacemaking tools that […]
Date: Tuesday 7 May Time: 15:00 - 16:00 CEST / Brussels time Platform: Zoom In October 2023, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC), through its Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation program (GIJTR), launched its State of Truth in the World Report (SoTR) - the first report of its kind, written largely by civil society experts from 18 countries with […]