Center for Peace Mediation

CENTER FOR PEACE MEDIATION

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

The Center is active in the areas of Research & Analysis, Academic Teaching, Facilitation & Support and Policy & Strategy.

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, which is based on close collaboration between science, practice and policy and stimulates joint reflection, mutual learning and support of each others`work in and on peace mediation.

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

Upcoming

Publications

15-16 Nov 18: Authors‘ Workshop "Rethinking Peace Mediation" in New York City. Here you can find the Call for Papers.
16 Nov 18: Public Panel Discussion "Rethinking Peace Mediation", Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations
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
22-23 Nov 18: Viadrina Days of Conflict management 2018
28 Nov 18: B/Orders in Motion Research Factory "Excluded Identities in Ukraine: What to do with ´the other Ukrainians`?" at Viadrina

Past

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
23-27 Apr 18: Training and Problem Solving Workshop at German Federal Foreign Office Diplomacy & Peace Mediation in Action
12-16 Mar 18: Module 2 in MAS Mediation in Peace Processes at ETH Zürich
14-15 Feb 18: Kick-Off Workshop B/ORDERS IN MOTION Research Project Tough Choices: Dilemmas and Decisions in Peacemaking
14 Dec 17: Presentation of Research Findings Track III Dialogues in Ukraine at MinTOT, Kiev/Ukraine
29 Nov 17: Presentation of Research Findings and expert discussion Track III Dialogues in Ukraine in cooperation with zif

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. Research Outline
Federal Foreign Office/IMSD (2017): Basics of Mediation: Concepts and Definitions.