Addressing fragility through integrated peacebuilding
With increasingly complex crises, development programmes face up to more complex requirements and challenges. Addressing drivers of conflict and fragility becomes key for improving effectiveness and sustainability of interventions. During a joint workshop, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) collaborated with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) […]
Partnerschaften und Friedensdividende
FriEnt-Kollegin Svenja Windisch berichtet vom OECD Forum on Development, Peace and Stability. Zahlreiche Vertreter*innen des International Dialogue for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (IDPS) hatten daran Anfang März 2025 in Paris teilgenommen. Die Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (CSPPS), der auch FriEnt angehört, war u.a. mit Vertreter*innen aus Haiti, Südsudan, Liberia, den USA, Mali und […]
The power to do good
Designed smartly, private investment in fragile and conflict-affected settings (FCAS) has the power to do good – whether building social cohesion, providing inclusive livelihoods or improving safety. Yet, the amount of investment to fragile settings has declined since 2015, and remains concentrated in extractives sectors. The global financing gaps for the SDGs is approximately $USD […]
Finding Complementarity
The highlight of the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) high-level week was the Summit of the Future. This was called for in UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ “Our Common Agenda” report. Following the conclusion of the UNGA, it is timely to reflect on what went on during those action-packed days. The highlight of this UNGA […]
FriEnt supports the SDG16Now Campaign
The Global Sustainable Development Goal 16 (SDG16) will be reviewed at the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) 2024 between 8 and 17 July in New York. The HLPF serves as an annual platform for exchanging experiences and peer-to-peer learning when it comes to implementing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This year, for […]
The past should not dictate the future
“We need to address both the extent to which historical events shape the collective emotions and worldviews of the present, and the extent to which power-hungry politicians are willing to manipulate those emotions and instrumentalize those worldviews to lend the appearance of legitimacy to their political goals.” – Werner Wintersteiner In February 2022, in the first […]
Shifting power through collaboration
To what extent are networks uniquely placed to advance change in the global peacebuilding system? How can networks navigate and perhaps transform the competitive dynamics of the system that currently shape organisations’ interactions with one another? How can equity as a core value within networks – in their governance, composition, and decision-making – catalyse sustainable […]
Did we miss the memo?
Traditionally, many peacebuilders have shunned geopolitics because it represents the kind of power politics, emphasis on hard security, top-down approaches and confrontation that is an anathema to principles that peacebuilders hold close. Yet, changes in global power dynamics may provide new spaces for multilateral and local peacebuilding in old and emerging conflicts, as well as […]
Peacebuilding on a global stage
The new section of the Future Needs Peacebuilding Blog focusses on Implementing Agendas for Peace. Under the premise that global arenas and agendas provide leverage points for peacebuilding dimensions, the blog articles focus on how well and future-oriented the peacebuilding dimension is set up in international and national systems. Andrew Tomlinson’s opening article investigates the […]
Gemeinsames Lernen in der „Nexus Academy“
Mit einem Praxistest für Schlüsselakteure der humanitären Hilfe, der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und der Friedensförderung hat im September und Oktober 2021 die Pilotierung für die „Nexus Academy“ begonnen. Die Nexus Academy ist eine gemeinsame Initiative des OECD Entwicklungsausschuss (DAC) und UN-Partnern und bietet ein innovatives Trainingsformat für das gemeinsame Lernen und Vernetzen der Akteure in allen drei […]
