📌 The new à propos is online! The latest issue of the peacebuilding magazine from KOFF delves into the topic of localization: What does meaningful localization look like in practice?
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Are you a professional interested or engaged in the peacebuilding, humanitarian, or development sector? Are you a practitioner or academic interested in complementing your own experiences with current conceptual insights and practical knowledge?
Explore our upcoming courses: swisspeace.ch/courses
Korrektur: Die Podiumsdiskussion findet nach der Vorführung am Dienstag 21. April statt.
Mach dir ein Bild über die komplexe Situation im Nahen Osten 👉 buff.ly/p7UsExK
📢 Do you want to learn more about Switzerland’s peacebuilding landscape? Join the public panel discussion by KOFF, the Swiss platform for peacebuilding, on 7 May in Bern!
🔗 Details & Registration here: buff.ly/hLf36EY
💡Learn from our experts how human rights and conflict transformation relate to and complement each other and acquire strategies and skills to navigate remaining challenges and dilemmas.
Peace & Human Rights
🗓️ 09 – 11 September 2026
📍 Basel
⏰ Apply by 31 May 2026
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📽️ Am 18. April laden Swiss Humanity Initiative und das Forum für Menschenrechte in Israel/Palästina zu einer Kinovorstellung des Dokumentarfilms "UNRWA, 75 Jahre provisorische Geschichte" mit anschliessender Podiumsdiskussion ein.
Mach dir ein Bild über die Situation 👇https://buff.ly/p7UsExK
Was können wir aus dem kolumbianischen Friedensprozess lernen?🤔
Philipp Lustenberger, Sondergesandter des EDA für den Friedensprozess in Kolumbien, spricht an unserer nächsten Veranstaltung über die aktuelle Konfliktlage und zieht Bezüge zu anderen Kontexten.
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Are you working in or on fragile and conflict-affected environments? Interested in improving your skills in conflict-sensitive project management? Then our Conflict Sensitivity course is a great match for you.
🗓️ 10 – 12 June 2026 & 17 – 19 June 2026
📍 Virtual
⏰ Apply by now 👉️ buff.ly/AZcAo4c
How do we know if our projects strengthen or undermine social cohesion, or if our projects really contribute to local peacebuilding?🤔
Join our experts to adapt programs and projects effectively and to assess their contributions to peace and positive social change.
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The Complex Political Negotiation course, held at the end of March, was a great success. A huge thank you to all participants and experts for their contributions and active participation.🤗 👏
Check out our continuing education course and program offer 👉️ buff.ly/10gOfhP
Climate change impacts conflicts. Are you familiar with the causal linkages between natural resources, inter-/national climate policies, and conflicts? Learn about key concepts and reflect how different stakeholders can contribute to mitigating climate-induced conflicts.
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Conflicts often go hand in hand with a polarization in the society. National Dialogue is a conflict transformation tool, that offers a horizon for societies to transform relations after conflict.
Apply now and learn from experts how to design and implement them effectively.
👉 swisspeace.ch/courses
Join us this Thursday (2 April) for a special screening of the award-winning film QUI VIT ENCORE at 18:00 at Stadtkino Basel. A conversation between swisspeace expert Roland Dittli and the film's director Nicolas Wadimoff will follow the screening.
Information and tickets: buff.ly/dZrcBV7
Over the past 2 years, swisspeace has supported the SDC, UNDP, and UNFPA in promoting social cohesion in the Republic of Moldova.
🗣️ At the National Social Cohesion Forum on 26 March in Chisinau, Senior Researcher Dr. Gal Harmat highlighted the success of this project. 👉 buff.ly/mg3tJwV
This month, we successfully held the first online edition of the Gender, Conflict & Peacebuilding course. As for our in-person edition, we have received a lot of postitive feedback. We thank the experts and the 13 participants for their inputs and participation.
➡️ More about this topic in our new essential: buff.ly/VIxUn4x
➡️ On the conference: buff.ly/MQ7Z8H0
The event is co-organized by ICIP, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC) and the War Childhood Museum.
Our swisspeace expert Claudia Josi is joining the “Multi-Stakeholder Roundtable on Memory, Prevention and Social Cohesion in Europe” in Sarajevo. They explore how truth, inclusive approaches, and open dialogue can help turn memory initiatives into long‑term civic action that prevents future harm.
🚀 Are you searching for a meaningful internship with political relevance? Our Continuing Education team is currently searching for two interns.
Intern | 100% | 6 months | Starting August 15, 2026, or February 1, 2027
👉 Apply by April 26: swisspeace.ch/jobs
This month, we shine the spotlight on Johannes Fark, who has been leading swisspeace’s Central Services for eight years and has just completed his eighth financial audit! 👏
Join us in cheering him on as he embarks on the final chapter of his career! 💐
📢 #JobAlert: Help us communicate peace 💙— manage our channels, co-organize the Basel Peace Forum, and shape how the world hears about us.
✅ Master's in comms, media, or IR
✅ German + English writing skills
✅ EU/EFTA/Swiss work permit
💰 CHF 48K–55K
Apply here by 19 April:
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💡New Policy Brief
As internet access has improved, online spaces have turned into breeding grounds for nationalist tensions, reinforced and normalized through everyday interactions.
Repeated exposure to hostile exchanges on social media can reinforce polarization. 📱
📖 Read more: buff.ly/fwtM7el
🚀Plan your course ahead. Our spots are limited!
Do you work on transitional justice, human rights, or peacebuilding? Are you working in a conflict or post-conflict context, faced with the challenges of addressing cases of missing and disappeared persons?
Apply for this course 👇️
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Civilian and military peacebuilding actors often operate simultaneously in the same space but pursue different and sometimes contradictory objectives.
How are these actors different, and what collaboration approaches exist?
Don't miss the chance to join our amazing experts
👉 swisspeace.ch/courses
Erfahre welche Wege eine progressive europäische Sicherheitspolitik jenseits von Aufrüstung und traditionellem Pazifismus eröffnen kann. Ein Gespräch mit Laurent Goetschel (swisspeace), Priska Seiler Graf (SP) und Leonie Stamm (DGAP).
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✈️💼We are back from Juba, where we visited our partners to work with them on various projects, e.g., higher education for renewable energy & peacebuilding, conflict sensitivity, art & peace, and more. Learn about our work in South Sudan: buff.ly/T0r8SX6. We are grateful for the good collaboration🙌
Understand the essential concepts of conflict sensitivity and acquire concrete tools to improve the integration in your work. Start anytime and work at your own pace 👉 swisspeace.ch/courses
This month, we held our first edition of the Rethinking State-building in a Changing World course. We drew on current debates, new approaches, and case studies about South Sudan, Chile, DR Congo, Colombia to explore how state-building interventions can be rethought.
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🤝 swisspeace is associated to the University of Basel. In addition to our research activities, we teach at the university. From key concepts and introduction courses to applied research seminars and field trips: Explore our current and past teaching
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📘 🌍 Read our new first-ever research analyzing the work of the of the Syrian Civil Society Support Room; the formal inclusion platform of the United Nations in the political process that kicked in 2016.
The paper describes the background, design, and impact of this platform: buff.ly/hWyv4En
Angriffe auf Gesundheitseinrichtungen in bewaffneten Konflikten nehmen weltweit zu – trotz völkerrechtlichem Schutz.
Mario Behrens (Politikwissenschaftler, Uni Basel / swisspeace) ordnet die Entwicklung im VSAO Journal ein.
👉 www.vsao-journal.ch/de/artikel/a...
@mbehrens.bsky.social @unibas.ch
