Feminist Foreign Policy Progressive Voices Collective
How can we use an intersectional feminist way of thinking to shape our foreign policies? Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) launched the Feminist Foreign Policy Progressive Voices Collective to develop concrete proposals for the EU and national level. Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) provides a powerful tool to question traditional approaches to […]
Klimaschutz braucht konfliktsensibles Handeln
Die FriEnt-Kolleginnen Caroline Kruckow und Nina Strumpf berichten von einem Workshop mit indigenen Gemeinschaften in den Philippinen. Dieser hatte gemeinsam mit dem forumZFD im Rahmen der “Build Peace”-Konferenz stattgefunden. “Was ist Kohlenstoff und Dekarbonisierung? Und was bedeutet das im Zusammenhang mit Klimawandel? Wir hatten zwar schon vor einiger Zeit eine Informationsveranstaltung zu diesem Thema, die […]
Flawed systems can’t create accurate data
Open-source investigation are often said to revolutionise human rights work. Evidence found online, however, often isn’t as objective as it seems to be. Rather, it reflects, and in some cases even exacerbates, existing inequalities and power asymmetries. Ultimately, data is only as good as the system that created it. Since March 2022, open-source investigators of […]
Transitional Justice. A Call for Decolonisation
Transitional Justice is part of the colonial order, it persists and is deeply embedded in ‘Euro- North American – centric modernity’. Even when transitional justice initiatives are comprehensive and holistic, they account for a colonial situation only to a limited extent, representing more compromises and easier ‘fixes.’ They, thus, address symptoms rather than causes; and […]
