Center for Peace Mediation

CENTER FOR PEACE MEDIATION

The Center for Peace Mediation is a small university-based institution for applied peace & conflict studies specializing on mediation in political conflicts and peace processes.

The Center is part of the Institute for Conflict Management at European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, and home to an interdisciplinary team of scholar-practitioners.

Since 2018, the CPM is running a Research and Transfer Project on Peace Mediation with and at the Federal Foreign Office.

The Center explores and supports the practice of peace mediation with the aim to enable it to be more effective, reflective and responsible. One of the Center`s main characteristics is its transfer approach: science, practice and policy closely collaborate in order to stimulate joint learning and mutual support.

In its teaching, training and consultancy for diplomats, political decision-makers and civil society actors the Center s methods, ethics and legal dimensions of peace mediation. A special focus of its research activities is to seek for constructive ways to deal with the dilemmas of peace mediation.

Upcoming

Publications

2-6 Sep 19: Training & Coaching Peace Mediation & Crisis Diplomacy in Action 2019: Managing Difficult Decisions and Dilemmas in Societal Transitions at German Federal Foreign Office & Viadrina
8-10 Sep 19: Research Paper Presentation Inclusion Dilemma Ukraine at Conflict Research Society Conference Brighton
19-20 Sep 19: Mediation Workshop at Mercator Fellowship for International Affairs

Past

4 Apr 19: Mediation Workshop at Viadrina Ukraine Calling
14-16 Mar 19: Seminar Mediation in International Peace Processes at Viadrina Master’s Program in Mediation and Conflict Management
6 Mar 19: Teaching Micro Skills & Dilemma Management at MAS Mediation in Peace Processes at ETH Zurich
4 Dec 18: Guest Lecture "An Academic View on International Conflict" at Centre for Rural Development Humboldt University
28 Nov 18: B/Orders in Motion Research Factory "Excluded Identities in Ukraine: What to do with ´the other Ukrainians`?" at Viadrina
22-23 Nov 18: Viadrina Days of Conflict management 2018
22-23 Nov 18: Seminar in MA Int'l Human Rights & Humanitarian Law LLM International Conflict Prevention & Management
15-17 Nov 18: Workshop "Intervision als Methode zur Reflexion der Involviertheit in der Lehre der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung", AK Curriculum & Didaktik der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Innsbruck

15-16 Nov 18: Authors‘ Workshop & Public Panel Discussion Rethinking Peace Mediation, Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations, New York City. Call for Papers.
23-24 Aug 18: Workshop at Transsectoral PeaceLab. Looking for Hybrid Solutions to Hybrid Conflicts: Academia, Civil Society, and the Arts at Viadrina
24-25 May/19 Jun 18: Kolloquium Normative Dimensionen internationaler Streitbeilegung: Friedensmediation in der Ukrainekrise in Theorie und Praxis an der Bucerius Law School

Kirchhoff/Kraus (ed.) (2020, upcoming): Friedensmediation. Interdisziplinäre Studien zu Mediation und Konfliktmanagement.
Nomos Verlag.
Kraus/Frazer/Kirchhoff/Kyselova/Mason/Palmiano Federer (2019, upcoming): Dilemmas and Trade-Offs in Peacemaking: A Framework for Navigating Difficult Decisions.
Federal Foreign Office/IMSD (2019): Methodology and communication tools in peace mediation.
Federal Foreign Office/IMSD (2019): The normative framework and the international legal basis of peace mediation.
Kirchhoff/Kraus (2018): "...es lassen sich, wie so oft in Konflikten, zwei komplett unterschiedliche Geschichte erzählen".
Kraus/Kyselova (2018): Doing Action Research on Dialogues in Ukraine.
AK Curriculum und Didaktik der AFK (2018): Mitteilung an den Wissenschaftsrat zur Evaluation der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung in Deutschland und Österreich
Kyselova/Kraus/Kirchhoff/von Dobeneck (2017): Track III Dialogues in Ukraine: Full Research Report
Kirchhoff/Kraus (2017): Mediation in internationalen Konflikten und Friedensprozessen.
IMSD (2017): Friedensmediation in den Koalitionsvertrag integrieren.
IMSD/Auswärtiges Amt (2017): Normativer Bezugsrahmen und völkerrechtliche Grundlagen der Friedensmediation.
Kyselova/von Dobeneck (2017): Track III Dialogues in Ukraine: Major Patterns and Resulting Risks /Ukrainian version.
Kerber/Kraus (ed.) (2017): Dialogue in Odessa, Ukraine. Findings and suggestions based on a series of interviews with local dialogue actors, carried out in Odessa in 2015/Ukrainian version.
Kraus/Kirchhoff/Mason (2017): Safe Spaces: Mapping the Red Lines in Peacemakers' Trade-Offs.
Federal Foreign Office/IMSD (2017): Basics of Mediation: Concepts and Definitions.