FriEnt Impulses
FriEnt’s monthly newsletter Impulses is a valuable source of information for all those interested or involved in the field of peacebuilding, development cooperation and civil conflict transformation on the national and international level. Each issue of the newsletter contains commentary pieces and background stories on current trends and challenges.
In addition, the newsletter features the latest news about the current work of FriEnt and its member organisations.
Feel free to browse through previous issues below.
Latest issue of FriEnt Impulses
Peace is a prerequisite for sustainable development – and, at the same time, essential for effectively tackling the consequences of the climate crisis. Conversely, climate change exacerbates existing inequalities and fuels conflicts. How can policymakers, civil society and international cooperation work together to address these challenges? This issue of our newsletter explores this question.
Geopolitical shifts, new alliances, and growing challenges for civil society engagement are currently shaping our work – and this newsletter is where we keep you informed.
Our newsletter revisits the Climate–Peace–Security nexus, both in our leading article on the UN Climate Change Conference COP30 and in the “Stimmen & Studien” section: with our policy brief on the NiKE and our new study on Chinese Conceptions of Peace. This central nexus is also reflected in the “Themen” section, in line with our FriEnt focus areas “Peace & Climate”, “Peace & Security” and “Feminist Peacebuilding”.
In our leading article, Dr Julia Leininger, Co-Chair of the Advisory Board to the Federal Government for Civilian Crisis Prevention and Peacebuilding, explores how peace and security can be integrated in one approach. You will find further interesting articles from our FriEnt member organisations in the “Themen” section. Moreover, we feature two new FriEnt publications on peace and climate in the “Stimmen & Studien” section.
80 years after the end of the Second World War, our leading article focuses on peace and security in today’s Europe. We also address this topic in our “Themen” and “Stimmen” sections, reflecting current political developments. Moreover, we warmly welcome our new Managing Director, Nana Odoi, and extend our sincere thanks to Matthias Ries!
Nine years after the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement on April 22, Earth Day, we dedicate our leading article to the connection between climate and security – and what this means for peace. In our “Themen” and “Stimmen & Studien” sections, we also explore the question of why there can be no sustainable security without peace.
March was marked by International Women’s Day, which is about nothing less than equality for all. We explore what is needed to achieve this – especially in the current situation in Germany – in our leading article. The “Themen” section addresses how inequality threatens not only our democracies, but peace and development as a whole – and why it makes sense to look at this from a feminist perspective.
The past six months have been all about “Peace & Climate” – with the COP29 discussed in our leading article, various studies including environmental peacebuilding as well as workshops at the FriEnt Peacebuilding Forum in Berlin to the Philippines. In this issue, we would like to reflect on these developments, also looking towards the Bonn Climate Change Conference in June.
On 6-9 June, around 400 million EU citizens have the right to vote for their representatives in the European Parliament. However, despite the EU’s history as a peace project, peace is out of favour in discussions on political priorities and resource allocation. The EU elections are a significant opportunity for peacebuilders to call for stronger approaches towards peace.
April 7 marked the beginning of Kwibuka30, the period commemorating 30 years of genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Many descendants of survivors of the genocide still live with trauma. At the same time, there is a real risk that the conflict around the armed group M23 escalates into a regional war.
Wie geht Friedensarbeit in Kriegszeiten? Seit Russlands Angriff auf ukrainische Staatsgebiete im Februar 2022 hat das Wort Frieden stark gelitten. Mit der Eskalation der Gewalt im Nahen Osten setzt sich eine Diskursverschiebung fort: Rufe gegen militärische Angriffe und Aufrufe für friedliche Lösungen werden aus dem Kontext gerissen und politisiert.