When Katharina Schilling showed us the two compilations, resource book and methods book, she had painstakingly put together on the basis of her work experience and the challenges of working with many young people in Sierra Leone and Cameroon, we felt these tools should be made available to a larger ...

Pädagogische PublikationBafoussam, Berlin

Report on a Peace Dialogue involving various community members from Kenya and Ethiopia, held on January, 10-12, 2012 in Dillo, Ethiopia. The Borana communities of southern Ethiopia and the Gabra of northern Kenya are neighbors that share similarities in terms of language, culture and traditional ...

This publication on gender approach, discrimination and peace building is intended to illustrate the links between these different fields of action. These issues do not only affect relations between men and women, but also between young people and old, between ethnic or religious groups, people with ...

Bafoussam, Berlin

“At the end of March 2012, six of us from the CNA team had the opportunity to go for a study tour to Berlin and devote a whole week to monuments in Berlin, that is those relating to the culture of remembrance. We had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, and once we got it, we put the ...

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The study „The Pre-Election Coverage by Kenyan Newspapers“ is the first monitoring report that the Media Council of Kenya publishes ahead of the General Election in (presumably) March 2013. The aim of this paper is to analyze the adherence of the print media to the “Guidelines of Election Coverage” ...

Analyse oder Studie

Nach elf Jahren Arbeit mit MRVs und Personen, die sich für Frieden und Gerechtigkeit einsetzten, zog sich pbi Ende Januar 2011 aus Indonesien zurück. In Ost- und West-Timor, in Aceh und in Papua hat pbi in Indonesien lokale Organisationen sowohl durch die Bereitstellung von Schutz, Netzwerken und ...

Dokumentation

In 2006, Cambodian Defenders Project (CDP) undertook the first ever research project focused on gender-based violence during the Khmer Rouge rule of April 1975 to January 1979. The project sought to reveal the truth about the prevalence of genderbased violence during the Khmer Rouge rule and, in ...

Dokumentation

Am 7. Oktober fanden in Bosnien und Herzegowina Lokalwahlen statt. 56% der 3,1 Millionen Wähler entschieden sich zumeist für ethnisch orientierte Parteien. Die Wähler waren aufgerufen, über 78 Lokalregierungen in der Föderation und 58 in der Republika Srpska zu entscheiden, wobei insgesamt 338 ...

More than thirty years have passed since the fall of the Khmer Rouge state, Democratic Kampuchea. In this time, the world has become aware of the many atrocities that the population suffered at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, including forced transfer and evacuation, ex­trajudicial killing, forced ...

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The Peace Radio project was jointly launched in June 2010 by the Resource Centre for Civil Society Groups Association (RCCSGA) and Council of Nationalities (CoN) with the financial and technical support of GIZ’s Civil Peace Service Program (CPS). The main objective of the program is to enhance the ...

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2011 is PBI& 39;s 30th year. Unfortunately, the world is still a dangerous to be a human rights defender, and the need for international accompaniment to protect such courageous and important people is as strong as ever. Zum 30. Geburtstag von peace brigades international (pbi) ist dieser Kurzfilm ...

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Outlining the challenges arising in development-oriented peace work in the coming years is a challenge in itself, for this is a broad field, covering topics from reform processes in the United Nations and the European Union, to climate change, the increasing scarcity of natural resources, the role ...

Dokumentation

Human Rights and Conflict Transformation are instrumental for sustainable peace and development. Both are key elements for the attainment of social justice and the construction of societies in which every person has the freedom to act upon his or her own choices. However, “peace versus justice” has ...

Analyse oder StudieEschborn

Consider the following: ‘dealing’ with the past can be utterly confounding and complex. Yet, what makes dealing with the past such a delicate and challenging process? To be sure, there is no dearth of elucidations and topics. At present, though, three major challenges come to mind. The first ...

Prishtina

Der jüngste Grenzkonflikt mit Serbien hat Kosovo erneut hoch oben auf die internationale Politikagenda katapultiert. Straßen wurden blockiert, ein kosovarischer Polizist kam ums Leben. Zwar konnte eine weitere Eskalation verhindert werden, doch die Lage bleibt angespannt: Pristina besteht auf die ...

The street art workshop "DE/CONSTRUCTING Identities" took place at the invitation of the Forum Civil Peace Service (forumZFD) and pax christi Aachen with support from the German embassy in Pristina. From 23 July to 1 August, 2011, 25 young people from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia ...

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It is generally acknowledged that democracy is good for peace. This has become an unchallenged truth, often expressed without important nuances. Support for democratisation is widely and rightly regarded as an essential component of building peace and stability but the lack of nuance means there is ...

Dokumentation

Fostering peace and development in conflict-affected regions requires a citizen oriented state working in partnership with an active civil society. The slow progress toward both peace and sustainable development is due in part toward conflicting and uncoordinated approaches between these diverse ...

Dokumentation