Auf ins Gipfeljahr 2019
2019 wird ein entscheidendes Jahr für die Zukunft des nachhaltigen Entwicklungsziels (SDG) 16 für friedliche, gerechte und inklusive Gesellschaften. Höhepunkt ist das sogenannte High Level Political Forum im Juli in New York, wo erstmalig auch fragile und von Konflikten betroffene Staaten über die Umsetzung der Agenda 2030 berichten. Für Friedensakteure eine große Chance und Herausforderung, […]
Nepals Vision 2030
Die Zukunftsvision der nepalesischen Regierung ist eindeutig: In 12 Jahren möchte Nepal zu einem inklusiven Wohlfahrtsstaat prosperieren, so hat sie es in ihrem Status- und Planungsbericht zur Agenda 2030 festgehalten. Die gegenwärtige Regierungspraxis bleibt jedoch für einen Großteil der Bevölkerung hinter ihren Erwartungen zurück. Ob dies langfristig zum sozialen Frieden in Nepal beiträgt, ist fraglich. […]
Wirtschaft und Frieden – eine Bilanz
Mitte der 90er Jahre hielt die Friedensarbeit Einzug in die Entwicklungsarbeit. Mehr als 20 Jahre später scheinen wir in den Bemühungen um die Integration von Friedens- und Entwicklungsarbeit jedoch wieder am Ausgangspunkt zu sein: „Jobs – jobs – jobs“ ist der Tenor des Weltentwicklungsberichts von 2011. Die besondere Rolle für die Wirtschaft und den privaten […]
Italy’s contributions to peacebuilding
Bernardo Monzani and Bernardo Venturi, Agency for Peacebuilding, Italy, criticise that peacebuilding continues to be a “non-priority” in Italy. They examine missed opportunities, the role of civil society organisations, and the challenges that need to be tackled. As violent conflict and instability have grown around the world and in the Mediterranean neighbourhood in particular, Italy […]
Thinking Big About Transitional Justice
This Impulse article is part of the FriEnt PeaceLabBlog Series on Transitional Justice, which will provide support to develop the government’s Transitional Justice strategy (2019). Pablo de Greiff discusses the positive achievements of transitional justice as well as the challenges that still lay ahead. He defines Germany as being one of the key players to […]
What will peacebuilding look like in 2030?
Reflecting his 26 years of engagement in peacebuilding, Jonathan Cohen considers how peacebuilding might look like in 2030. Highlighting that the future peacebuilding is about those people who build peace on a daily basis in the midst of conflict, he calls on the international community to provide consistent support and to help building resilient communities. […]
Armenia in transition: When justice prevails in peace
The governing Republican Party initiated a shift to a parliamentary republic in 2015, presenting it as a key move towards further democratisation of the country. Yet this discourse was predominantly discredited amongst the citizens when it became obvious that reproduction of Serzh Sargsyan’s governance was the main purpose of the change. Legally everything seemed well […]
New challenges for peacebuilding in Sierra Leone
The peace and stability of the state of Sierra Leone is put to the test whenever a governing political party loses elections and there is transfer of power to the former opposition. Adenike Cole, Sierra Leone Action Network on Small Arms, and Sheku Kamara, Conservation Society of Sierra Leone, discuss the 2018 elections, the potential […]
Bosnien und den Westlichen Balkan priorisieren
„We cannot only address conflicts once they are on the front pages of the newspapers. Furthermore, we must not lose our focus too soon, let alone accept frozen conflicts. We need to be resolute in our search for political solutions“, so der neue deutsche Außenminister Heiko Maas. Das ist ein mittlerweile klassisches Bekenntnis zu Prävention, […]
Pathways for peace
The joint World Bank-United Nations report on pathways for peace was launched on March 1, 2018. It is estimated that in 2030 between 45 and 60% of the world poor will be living in countries affected by fragility, conflict and violence, and therefore no improvement in the living standard of the poor will be possible […]