Exploring the peacebuilding potential of MSMEs On the occasion of the publication of the joint CDA / International Alert / FriEnt Dossier “Business and Peace: It takes Two to Tango” FriEnt invited...
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Business and Peace: It takes two to tango
The new publication "Business and Peace. It takes two to tango" gets to the bottom of opportunities and risks of the private sector's commitment to peacebuilding. Jobs, jobs, jobs – according to the...
Development and Security Rely on Peace, Justice and Inclusion
by Diana Quick A shared statement by peacebuilding organizations International Day of Peace, 21 September 2018 ChildFund is one of dozens of international and domestic peacebuilding organizations...
Implementing the New Commitments to Peace: A shared statement by peacebuilding organizations International Day of Peace, 21 September 2017
The last year has seen significant global challenges, including an unprecedented level of humanitarian need, rising inequality and exclusion, growing climate change impacts, and increasing threats to...
World + 4 more
How do I know? Strategic planning, learning and evaluation for peacebuilding (FriEnt Study 06/2014)
Introduction Natascha Zupan and Sylvia Servaes “Unless Colombian NGOs successfully convey their multidimensional understanding of peace to the international development community, the paradoxical...
Walking the line - Strategic approaches to peacebuilding in Lebanon
After the 2006 war in Lebanon and the ensuing political deadlock and escalation throughout 2007, the need for a more thorough understanding of the conflict and peacebuilding context and for...
Rwanda + 1 more
Maintaining the process? - Aid to transitional justice in Rwanda and Guatemala, 1995-2005
1. Introduction How does aid to transitional justice work? What are the patterns, types and causes of such aid? Research on transitional justice (TJ) has boomed in the last couple of decades. In...
Maintaining the process in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Coherence and complementarity of EU institutions and civil society in the field of transitional justice
1. Introduction Transitional justice is the process by which societies emerging from armed conflict or oppressive rule deal with the legacy of mass atrocity and past human rights abuse. The...
Contributing to Peace and Justice - Establishing Links between DDR and Reparations
DDR programs have traditionally been designed and implemented in total isolation from transitional justice measures, of which reparations for victims is one kind. It is only recently that the...
Development and Legitimacy in Transitional Justice. Report from Workshops at the Conference "Building a Future on Peace and Justice", 25 to 27 June 2007
For the past three years, FriEnt, the German Working Group on Development and Peace, has been focussing on the subject of transitional justice. FriEnt has organized a series of roundtable discussions...
Justice mechanisms and the question of legitimacy - The example of Rwanda's multi-layered justice mechanisms
1. Introduction "Peace", as the Secretary-General of the United Nations wrote in 2004, "cannot be achieved unless the population is confident that redress for grievances can be obtained through...
Transitional Justice & Dealing with the Past - Guidance Paper
The transitional justice concept, with its various mechanisms, offers practical starting points for the planning of measures in peace oriented development work. In particular, it enables state and...
Responsibility to Protect (R2P): Perspectives of the South and the North - International Workshop 17 October 2006 Bonn, Germany
On 17 October 2006, the Working Group for Development and Peace (FriEnt) and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) jointly organised an international workshop on the "Responsibility to Protect:...
Dealing with Spoilers in Peace Processes: International Workshop 26 - 27 September 2006 Bonn, Germany
On 26 and 27 September 2006, the Working Group for Development and Peace (FriEnt) and the German Development Institute (DIE) jointly organised an international workshop on "Dealing with Spoilers in...
State and Non-State Cooperation for Crisis Prevention and Peace-Building Policy
How can NGOs and think tanks from the academic field contribute more effectively to shaping international strategies for crisis prevention at national and EU level? And how are state and non-state...