How do you negotiate peace?
From the wars in Ukraine and Syria to the conflict in Sudan: many conflicts seem insolvable. Luxshi Vimalarajah’s job is to mediate in exactly these and to talk to all actors involved. As the Senior Mediation and Development Advisor of Berghof Foundation, she served as a peace mediator in various conflicts. In this interview with […]
From female combatants to filmmakers
On 20 June 2023, Berghof Foundation, in cooperation with Makipura CTS, the Foundation for Women Affected by Conflicts and the Gender, Justice and Security Hub, premiered the movie “I Have to Speak: Colombia and Uganda”. It features the voices of women in conflict and post-conflict settings and their situation within the peace processes in the […]
Towards Peace
Berghof Foundation’s Annual Report 2022 has been released. Written statements and several videos give an overview about new and ongoing projects, publications and events. A detailed list of the donations and finances of the organisation is also available. The report in english language is available online on Berghof Foundation’s website.
Beyond box-ticking
At an event of the Transitional Justice Hub practitioners from around the world met policy-makers to discuss how people-centred transitional justice can contribute to building sustainable peace. Truth commission – check. Criminal procedures – check. Security sector reform – check. Peace – check? In the early years of its emergence in the 1990s, transitional justice […]
Sealing the cracks
Gender-sensitive and feminist approaches need to be applied to digital technologies in order to reduce the risk of reproducing biases or even doing harm. The report “Sealing the cracks. An intersectional feminist perspective on digital peacebuilding” explores how these two perspectives intersect in digital peacebuilding. How can we ensure that digital peacebuilding projects do not […]
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Evelyn Pauls from Berghof Foundation shares valuable insights on participatory peacebuilding approaches and lessons learned from her work with female ex-combatants. In spring 2022, my colleague and I were maneuvering plants around in a co-working space in central Bogotá to create a suitable backdrop for a practice video interview. This was the fourth time we […]
Forging Cooperation on Peace and Climate
In Somalia effects of climate change and environmental challenges are deepening fragility, creating obstacles for peacebuilding and thereby sustainable development. Together, they are amplifying threats to human security for many who depend on agriculture, multiplying the number of land disputes and hastening displacement across the country. FriEnt and Berghof will discuss with Somali experts. On […]
Power structures are coded into technology
Digital tools provide benefits and challenges to peacebuilding. An intersectional feminist perspective helps determine how to make the best use of them. From activism on social media to the surveillance of minority groups: new technologies impact the field of peacebuilding in profound ways. The digitalisation of our world, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has huge […]
Solidarity with Ukrainian women and marginalised groups
Germany just announced its guidelines for a feminist foreign policy. In the context of the war in Ukraine, this means actively promoting women’s participation. War impacts men and women in different ways. Nevertheless, it is rightly considered outdated to view women solely as victims of violence. This also applies to Ukraine. Since 24 February 2022, […]
Transitional Justice muss Frauen in den Mittelpunkt stellen
Nach dem Ende von gewaltsamen Konflikten unterscheidet sich das Leben der Menschen auf geschlechtsspezifische Weise. Während Männer in der Regel Machtpositionen zurückerobern, bleiben Frauen oft in prekären Lebensumständen. Maßnahmen zur Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit – auch als „Transitional Justice“ bekannt – dürfen sich daher nicht damit begnügen, eine Gesellschaft auf den Status quo ante zurückzuführen. Sie […]