Center for Peace Mediation

CENTER FOR PEACE MEDIATION

The Center for Peace Mediation is a small university-based, practice-oriented research institution in the field of 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. It is home to an interdisciplinary team of scholar-practitioners.

Since 2018, the CPM is running the Mediation Hub, a research and transfer project on peace mediation with and at the Federal Foreign Office.

In its research, teaching and consultancy for diplomats, political decision-makers and civil society actors, the Center explores and supports the practice of peace mediation, seeking to enable it to be more effective, reflective and responsible.

Bringing Viadrina`s concept of mutual knowledge transfer to foreign politics, the Center strategically interlink science, practice and policy to stimulate joint learning and mutual support between the often siloed spheres.

A red thread running through all those activities is to seek for constructive ways to deal with the dilemmas of peacemaking.

News

Book Friedensmediation - Spannungsfeld aus Methodik, Macht und Politik with contributions of IMSD, Swiss and CPM authors out now!
This year's Peace Mediation & Crisis Diplomacy in Action program focused on Mediation Responses to Conflicts in Times of Corona including also ´Anti-Corona` Protests in Germany

Upcoming

Publications

17-18 Sep 20: Mediation Workshop at Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs
26-27 Oct 20: Mediation & Dialogue Workshop at Ukraine Calling
Oct/Nov 20: Peaceland Talk Inclusion Dilemmas in Peacebuilding and Dialogues: Is Inclusion of "pro-Russian" Ukrainians Impossible? at Mediation & Dialogue Center, Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
15-16 Dec 20: Module Conflict Prevention and Management in Master of International Law and Humanitarian Law, LL.M.
23-24 Jun 21: Workshop at swisspeace Summer School: Ukraine - Opportunities and Challenges for Dialogue

Past

11 Sep 20: Input to Panel "Multi-track EU Mediation – Voices from the Field on Opportunities & Challenges" at Conference of the German Council Presidency on "Mediation as a key CFSP Instrument"
31 Aug-4 Sep 20: Workshop Peace Mediation & Crisis Diplomacy in Action 2020: Mediation Responses to Conflicts in Times of Corona together with Training Academy for International Diplomats of German Federal Foreign Office
25 Aug 20: Workshop on Conflict Mediation in the Context of Diversity at Viadrinicum 2020: Transsectoral Lab: (Post-)Migration. (Dis-)Integrative Encounters
24 Jul 2020: Online Discussion "Das Modell S? - Wissenstausch zwischen Diplomatie und Forschung", with FU Berlin, ISFH Hamburg and Division S03 of the Federal Foreign Office
18-20 Jun 20: Module Mediation in International Peace Processes at Viadrina Master’s Program in Mediation and Conflict Management
9 Mar 20: Center for Peace Mediation presents Handlungsempfehlungen der Initiative Mediation Support at Anhörung zu Friedensmediation im Unterausschuss Zivile Krisenprävention, Konfliktbearbeitung und vernetztes Handeln of the German Bundestag

27-28 Jan 20: Reflective Practice Workshop Dealing with Dilemmas in Peace Process Support with the GIZ Syria Cluster Istanbul

10-11 Dec 19: Course Conflict Prevention and Management in Master of International Law and Humanitarian Law, LL.M.
27 Nov 19: Workshop & Dies Academicus Dealing with Difficult Decisions and Dilemmas in Peace Mediation at Berghof Foundation
19 Nov 19: Lecture The Peacebuilding Role of Art by guest researcher Olesia Herashchenko
19 Nov 19: Workshop Friedensprozesse/Mediation at Ressortgemeinsames Engagement in fragilen Staaten
19-20 Sep 19: Mediation Workshop at Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs
8-10 Sep 19: Research Paper Presentation Inclusion Dilemmas in Ukraine at Conflict Research Society Conference

Holper/Kirchhoff (2021, upcoming): Rethinking the Professionalisation of Peace Mediation.
Holper/Kirchhoff (2020, upcoming): (Dys-)Functions and Potentials of Norms as a Guidance System for Peace Mediators.
Holper/Kirchhoff/Würkert (2020, upcoming): Normen als Ordnungsrahmen der Friedensmediation.
Holper/Kyselova (2020): Inclusion Dilemmas in Peacebuilding and Dialogues in Ukraine
Holper/Kirchhoff (ed.) (2020): Friedensmediation - Spannungsfeld aus Methodik, Macht und Politik.
Holper/Kirchhoff/Leschinski/Röder/Vogt/von Dobeneck/Walter-Drop (2020): Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on fragile contexts and foreign policy instruments / Auswirkungen der Covid-19 Pandemie auf fragile Kontexte und außenpolitische Instrumente
IMSD (2020): Konzept Friedensmediation in die außenpolitische Praxis umsetzen! Stellungnahme für den Unterausschuss Zivile Krisenprävention, Konfliktbearbeitung & vernetztes Handeln
Kraus (now Holper)/Frazer/Kirchhoff/Kyselova/Mason/Palmiano Federer (2019): 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 (now Holper)(2018): "...es lassen sich, wie so oft in Konflikten, zwei komplett unterschiedliche Geschichte erzählen".
Kraus (now Holper)/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