CENTER FOR PEACE MEDIATION

​The Center for Peace Mediation is a small university-based mediation actor. It is focusing on mediation in political conflicts and peace processes, with ​Research & Analysis, Academic Teaching, Facilitation & Support and ​Policy & Strategy activities.

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.

​The Center explores and supports the practice of peace mediation to enable it to be more effective, reflective and responsible. The Center’s research seeks to identify constructive ways to deal with the dilemmas and limitations 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

• 23-27 Apr 18: Peace Mediation & Crisis Diplomacy Courses at Training for International Diplomats, German Federal Foreign Office
• 24-25 May/19 Jun 18: Seminar Normative Dimensionen internationaler Streitbeilegung: Friedensmediation in der Ukrainekrise in Theorie und Praxis an der Bucerius Law School
• 23/24 Aug 18: Workshop at Transsectoral PeaceLab. Looking for Hybrid Solutions to Hybrid Conflicts: Academia, Civil Society, and the Arts at Viadrina

​Past

• 12-16 Mar 18: Module 2 in MAS Mediation in Peace Processes at ETH Zürich
• Feb 18: Start Research and Transfer Project Peace Mediation: CPM and Federal Foreign Office Division S03
• 14/15 Feb 18: Kick-Off Workshop B/Orders in Motion Research Project Safe Spaces: Mapping the Red Lines in Peacemakers` Trade-Offs ​
• 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

• 10 Nov 17: Presentation of Research Findings Track III Dialogues in Ukraine at Childfund study visit program
• 15/16 Nov 17: Workshops Viadrina Days of Conflict (management) 
  ​at European University Viadrina
• 24-25 Oct 17:  Workshop on Method, Multitrack and Mindsets Training for International Diplomats, German Federal Foreign Office at Regional Network Meeting, Kiev/Ukraine
• 5 Oct 17: Presentation of Research Findings Track III Dialogues in Ukraine at OSCE, Ukraine
• 21/22 Sep 17: Peace Mediation & Crisis Diplomacy Courses at Training for International Diplomats, German Federal Foreign Office
• 8 Sep 17: Contribution to  Berghofs' 6th Mediation Round Table on Third Parties in Multi Track Mediation
• 6-7 Sept 17: Workshop Conflict Management Viadrinicum Summer School
• 5 Sep 17: Presentation of Research Findings Track III Dialogues in Ukraine at informal meeting of organisations active in Ukraine
• 22-24 Jun 17: Seminar MA Mediation Mediation in International ​Peace Processes​
• ​​Jun/Jul 17: Summer School Seminar ​Ambivalences of Conflict Resolution: The EU's Responses to Internal and External Crises
• 20 May 17: Expert Round Table (ERT II) Kiev "Recommendations for Dialogue Facilitation 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. In: eds. Trenczek/Berning/Lenz, Mediation und Konfliktmanagement. 2. überarb. Aufl. 
• IMSD (2017): Friedensmediation in den Koalitionsvertrag integrieren. Eine Positionierung der Initiative Mediation Support.
• IMSD/Auswärtiges Amt (2017): Normativer Bezugsrahmen und völkerrechtliche Grundlagen der Friedensmediation. Nr. 5 der Fact Sheet-Reihe Friedensmediation und Mediation Support 
• ​Kyselova/von Dobeneck (2017): Track III Dialogues in Ukraine: Major Patterns and Resulting Risks. Research-based Policy Paper. CPM/KMA Research project. 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. Fact Sheet Series Peace Mediation and Mediation Support.
• von Dobeneck/Kraus/Kyselova (2016): Challenges to Mediation and Dialogue in Ukraine: Distrust in Procedures and a Dysfunctional Market. 
• Kirchhoff/Kraus/von Dobeneck (2016): Von Elefanten und Papiertigern in der Friedensmediation. Beitrag zum PeaceLab2016: Krisenprävention weiter denken.
• Federal Foreign Office/IMSD (2016): The OSCE as Mediator: Instruments, Challenges, Potentials. Report of the German OSCE Chairmanship Conference 2016.​
• ​IMSD (2016): Das deutsche Bekenntnis zur Friedensmediation ausbuchstabieren – eine Positionierung der Initiative Mediation Support.
• Mediation Support Network (2016): Joint letter of the Mediation Support Network to the new UN Secretary-General​.
• IMSD/Auswärtiges Amt (2016): Grundlagen der Mediation: Konzepte und Definitionen. Fact Sheet Reihe: Friedensmediation und Mediation Support.​
• ​​Mediation Support Network (2016): Challenges to Mediation Support in Hot Wars. Learnings from Syria and Ukraine. MSN Discussion
  ​Points 7.
• ​IMSD/Federal Foreign Office (2016): Identifying Mediation Entry Points. Report of the Mediation Expert Meeting 2015. 
• Kirchhoff/Kraus (2016): ​Konflikte und Normen. Ein Gespräch mit Birgit Gantz-Rathmann, Christoph Möllers und Alexander Redlich. In: Konfliktdynamik, Vol. 04.
• Kirchhoff/Kraus (2016): Von Zauberhänden und Verregelungsskepsis: Normen im Konflikt. In: Konfliktdynamik, Vol. 04.