EPLO Member Organisation Event – Climate change, environmental degradation and conflict

Across the world, climate change and environmental degradation have sweeping impact on local communities. In areas affected by ongoing conflict like the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Middle East, they are causing mass food insecurity, displacing millions, undermining human security, and increasing the risks of further escalations. Meanwhile, conflict itself is […]

EPLO Member Organisation Event: Nature as collateral damage? Environmental impacts of the war in Ukraine

Quaker House Square Ambiorix 50, Brussels

In partnership with the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy, this event will provide a space for discussion on the environmental impacts of armed conflict, particularly in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. When analyzing the ongoing war, discussions tend to focus on human security, politico-military considerations, and, in the longer term, reconstruction of […]

EPLO Member Organisation Event: No participation without protection

This event presents recent findings of a pilot study conducted by the Berghof Foundation and Fight for Humanity, with the support of the German Federal Foreign Office, on the role of armed political movements in Myanmar in the implementation of the agenda on Women, Peace and Security (WPS). The findings show that these movements and women’s […]

EPLO Brown Bag Lunch Event – Ulaanbaatar Process: A Civil Society Approach to Building Peace in Northeast Asia

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

The 'Ulaanbaatar Process: A Civil Society Approach to Building Peace in Northeast Asia' is a unique civil society dialogue for peace and stability in Northeast Asia, coordinated by the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), Peace Boat, and Blue Banner. The process promotes effective regional Track 2 dialogue, and is the only standing platform […]

Member Organisation Event – The Global Impacts of the Invasion of Ukraine: Insights from the Youth, Peace and Security Agenda

The invasion of Ukraine has caused immense human suffering. Until November 20th, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 16,784 civilian casualties in the country. In the same month, UNHCR announced that the number of displaced people as a result of the invasion arrived at 14 million. Other several million […]

EPLO Member Organisation Event: “A Feminist Take on Nuclear Weapons in Germany”

An estimated 20 US nuclear warheads remain at Büchel Air base in Germany. Hopes have been high among feminist civil society that with the new government’s committment to a Feminist Foreign Policy, and with a Green feminist minister, whose party has a long history in advocating for Global Zero, Germany would drive international nuclear disarmament […]

EPLO Member Organisation Event – Basel Peace Forum 2023

Borders are an integral part of our daily lives. As a social construct, they are randomly drawn or clearly defined, have historical or cultural backgrounds, and result from international treaties or political negotiations. Borders separate states, cities and people, but they are also crossed by humans, goods, objects, ideas and practices. In recent years, a […]

EPLO Member Organisation Event: “Enabling change: Gender-transformative approaches to transitional justice”

Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung Stresemannstraße 94 Berlin

Access and meaningful participation, diversity and transformation: Feminist development and feminist foreign policy draw attention to existing inequalities and they envision change in power structures, gender norms and opportunities. In many societies, however, violent conflicts exacerbate existing discrimination – and after hostilities end, legacies of violence continue to shape people's lives in gender-specific ways. Addressing […]

EPLO Brown Bag Lunch Event – Kosovo-Serbia: Time for constructive voices

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

2022 has been a year of perpetual crisis in relations between Kosovo and Serbia, culminating in barricades and mass resignations by Kosovo Serbs in the north from Kosovo institutions. Whilst the EU and US believe there is an important window of opportunity to finalise an agreement on the normalisation of relations, recent tensions have undermined […]