The IECEU (Improving the Effectiveness of Capabilities in EU Conflict Prevention) and WOSCAP (Whole of Society Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding) projects are organising their final conference together on Wednesday 8 November 2017 with the purpose of bringing together all relevant stakeholders and end-users in the field of European Union’s conflict prevention and peacebuilding. The conference […]
The purpose of the meeting, which is being organised in the framework of the Civil Society Dialogue Network (CSDN), with the support of the European External Action Service (EEAS), and the European Commission (Service for Foreign Policy Instruments and Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development) (EC), is to gather input from representatives of civil society […]
On the occasion of Universal Children's Day, the European Parliament (EP) Delegation to Mashreq Countries (DMAS), jointly with the EP Delegation to Palestine (DPAL) and civil society organisations, including World Vision International, is organising an Exchange of Views (EoV) on the situation of children affected by the Syria Crisis on Monday 20 November at the […]
The Budapest Centre for Mass Atrocities Prevention, in co-operation with the European Centre for the Responsibility To Protect and the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, is organising a roundtable on 'Gender-Based Mass Atrocity Prevention' as a pre-event of the 10th Budapest Human Rights Forum. Until recently the human rights of women, […]
The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) and Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW) are holding a joint conference on 2 December in Brussels. Sanctuary Everywhere will explore what can be done to build a Europe which is safe and welcoming for everyone, including refugees and LGBTQI+ people. If you would like to participate in […]
Efforts by the international community to prevent election violence have evolved over the last few years. There is broad recognition today that prevention mechanisms need to address root causes of violence through a more coherent approach. Quaker organisations such as the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) have contributed to reducing post-election violence in Kenya by […]
'Critical Friends: Using external actors to catalyze reflection' is part of a webinar series which DME for Peace are hosting. DME for Peace is a global community of practitioners, evaluators, donors, and academics who share best and emerging practices on how to design, monitor, and evaluate peacebuilding programs. Through greater collaboration and transparency we hope […]
For those of us working on peace, development and security, M&E is ultimately a way for organisations and funders to ensure that our engagements in already complicated, fragile and high-risk contexts are as effective as possible and avoid doing harm. The Critical Friend method emerged to respond to the limitations of traditional evaluations on effectiveness […]
The European External Action Service (EEAS), based in Brussels, will shortly carry out a strategic review of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM Georgia) as the current mandate of the Mission runs until 14 December 2018. The Civil Society Dialogue Network (CSDN) has been hosting a series of meetings enabling civil society to […]
How can the peacebuilding field tackle the unique challenges of peacebuilding evaluation and learning? The Peacebuilding Evaluation Consortium (PEC), the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) and EPLO invite you to a lunchtime roundtable meeting to present and discuss the PEC’s draft Guiding Steps for Peacebuilding. The document aims to help organisations to enhance how they conduct […]