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 interlinks 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

In two PeacebyPeace Podcast episodes Sarah Brockmeier discusses Germany's role in peace mediation with Niels Annen, Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office, and Dr. Anne Holper, Julia von Dobeneck and Prof. Dr. Lars Kirchhoff from the Center for Peace Mediation on the occasion of releasing the book Friedensmediation: Spannungsfeld aus Methodik, Macht und Politik

PeacebyPeace · S3E4 | Deutschland & Friedensmediation (Teil 1): Zwischen Methodik, Macht und Politik

PeacebyPeace · S3E5 | Deutschland & Friedensmediation (Teil 2): Interview mit Niels Annen

Upcoming

Publications

4 Feb 21: Panel Contribution "«This far and no further»? The Making of and Shifting of Red Lines in Peacemaking" at Swiss Political Science Association Conference 2021
18 Mar 21: Workshop "Dilemmata in politischen Krisen und Konflikten: Eine Navigationshilfe" at German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies Conference 2021 (AFK)
23-24 Jun 21: Workshop at swisspeace Summer School: Ukraine - Opportunities and Challenges for Dialogue

Past

17-18 Dec 20: Module on Conflict Prevention and Management in Master of International Law and Humanitarian Law, LL.M.
9 Nov 20: Online Peaceland Talk on Inclusion Dilemmas in Peacebuilding & Dialogue in Ukraine with Anne Holper, Tatiana Kyselova and Karina Korostelina at Mediation & Dialogue Research Center, Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
5 Nov 20: Contribution to European Science Diplomacy Online Conference
26 Oct 20: Mediation & Dialogue Workshops at Ukraine Calling
17-18 Sep 20: Mediation Workshop at Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs
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

Holper/Kirchhoff (2021): Rethinking the Professionalisation of Peace Mediation.
Holper/Kyselova (2020): Inclusion Dilemmas in Peacebuilding and Dialogues in Ukraine.
Holper/Kirchhoff (2020): (Dys-)Functions and Potentials of Norms as a Guidance System for Peace Mediators.
Holper/Kirchhoff (eds.) (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