News

01/2012 – Miscellaneous

The new Berghof Foundation

As of 2012 the former Berghof Conflict Research, Berghof Peace Support and Insitute for Peace Education Tübingen (ift) have merged together as part of the Berghof Foundation. The Berghof Foundation has been given a new structure and organisational setting – merging our manifold operational competences…
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10/2011 – Events

Supporting Peace in the Basque Country

As part of its peace support activities in the Basque Country, the Berghof Foundation has co-sponsored the convening of an international conference to promote the resolution of the Basque conflict in San Sebastian on 17 October 2011, organised by the local peacebuilding NGO read more…
08/2011 – Publications

New book on “Theory and Practice of Systemic Conflict Transformation” released

We are pleased to announce the publication of our book "The Non-Linearity of Peace Processes – Theory and Practice of Systemic Conflict Transformation" edited by Daniela Körppen, Norbert Ropers and Hans J. Giessmann.
This is the first comprehensive…
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07/2011 – Miscellaneous

Obituary: Dekha Ibrahim Abdi (1964 in Wajir – 14 July 2011 in Nairobi)

With great sadness we announce that our dear friend and member of the Advisory Board of Berghof Peace Support, Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, has died following severe injuries sustained in a car accident in Kenya, in which her husband and their driver were immediately killed. Our…
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07/2011 – Publications

Publications on four years of Mainstreaming Conflict Sensitivity in Bolivia

The GIZ PADEP programme we have been part of since 2007 is closing after ten years of activities in Bolivia. Berghof Peace Support, in partnership with COMO and GOPA, has been implementing the component of constructive conflict transformation. We would now like to share our…
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05/2011 – Publications

Evaluation Report: MSU Standby Team of Mediation Experts

Commissioned on behalf of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Oliver Wils and Antje Herrberg have conducted an evaluation of the Standby Team of Mediation Experts of the…
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02/2011 – Publications

Workshop Report: Mediating Peace with Proscribed Armed Groups

We are pleased to announce the release of the workshop report Mediating Peace with Proscribed Armed Groups, which summarises discussions and recommendations from a policy workshop held in Brussels in October 2010. Co-organised by…
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12/2010 – Publications

Reader: Resistance and Liberation Movements in International Law

International law continues to have serious implications for resistance and liberation groups. With regard to their perceived internal and external legitimacy, international law plays a crucial role in justifying activities of those movements as well as by giving reason to counter reactions by state authorities.…
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12/2010 – Publications

Resistance and Liberation Movements - A Mapping of Legal Aspects

This document Resistance and Liberation Movements - A Mapping of Legal Aspects gives an overview about aspects in public international law regarding resistance and liberation movements. The primarily objective of this…
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12/2010 – Publications

Overview about EU Listing and Delisting Procedures

This new briefing paper EU Terrorist Listing gives an overview about EU listing and de-listing procedures. The objective of this compilation is to explain the current modus operandi, without arguing…
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10/2010 – Events

Workshop Announcement: Multitrack Peace Mediation

Multitrack Peace Mediation requires specific skills from practitioners. Therefore, BPS, together with Inmedio and CSSP, hold the course "Multitrack Peace Mediation. Mediation im Kontext von Friedensförderung und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit" for practitioners in 2011. Please see the brochure on this…
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10/2010 – Publications

New Occasional Paper on current Tamil Diaspora politics launched

Luxshi Vimalarajah and R. Cheran offer in their recent paper an in-depth analysis of the current trends in Tamil Diaspora politics and provide policy recommendations to the Tamil Diaspora activists and to the policy circles in the host countries read more…
09/2010 – Publications

Coloured Pencil Workshop Report No.3 in Russian

Engagement trough Dialogue - Translation of the Workshop report of an Abkhazian-Georgian encounter in Chisinau and Tiraspol, 24 - 29 May 2010 ДОКЛАД ЦВЕТНЫМИ КАРАНДАШАМИ №3
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08/2010 – Miscellaneous

Southern Caucasus / Южный Кавказ

The Russian translation of our project activities in the Southern Caucasus has been released.
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08/2010 – Publications

A Bitter Harvest and Grounds for Reform: The Nuba Mountains, Conflicted Land and Transitional Sudan

The paper will re-visit Comprehensive Peace Agreement provisions and current developments, in that the South has benefited from implementation in practical de facto autonomy whereas measures for the transitional areas (Southern Kordofan, Blue Nile and Abyei) and national-level reform are well behind. read more…
07/2010 – Publications

Mediating Peace with Proscribed Armed Groups

Background paper on Peace Mediation and Listed Terrorist Organizations: Challenges for Peacebuilding. Some thoughts based on the experience of the Berghof Institutions.
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07/2010 – Publications

Strengthening Support Structures for Peace

An Introduction to the Work Programme "Strengthening Support Structures for Peace Negotiation, Mediation and Dialogue" which aims at understanding and assisting peace support structures through a process of reflection and capacity building.
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07/2010 – Publications

Coloured Pencil Workshop Report No.3

Engagement trough Dialogue - Workshop report of an Abkhazian-Georgian encounter in Chisinau and Tiraspol, 24 - 29 May 2010 "Coloured Pencil Workshop Report No. 3"
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07/2010 – Miscellaneous

Bolivia & Guatemala (en español)

The Spanish translations of our project activities in Bolivia and Guatemala have been launched.
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06/2010 – Publications

Mediating Peace with Proscribed Armed Groups

United States Institute of Peace Report "Mediating Peace with Proscribed Armed Groups" by Véronique Dudouet on a workshop regarding modes of engagement with proscribed armed groups, which took place on 27 October 2009 in Washington D.C..
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05/2010 – Miscellaneous

BPS website newly launched

As of June, BPS presents itself, its programmes and activities, as well as its services and publications in a new structure and design.
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