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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, decision-makers and civil society actors the Center interlinks methods, ethics and legal dimensions of peace mediation.

Upcoming

Publications

20 May 17: Expert Round Table (ERT II) Kiev "Recommendations for Dialogue Facilitation in Ukraine". Project description.
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
Jan 18-Dec 19: B/Orders in Motion Research Group II Safe Spaces: Mapping the Red Lines in Peacemakers` Trade-Offs

Past

27 Apr 17 : Workshop Conflict Management in programm Ukraine Calling
15 Mar 17: Peace Mediation Training for Attaché Diplomats Foreign Office/IMSD
6-10 Mar 17: Training Peace Mediation and Crisis Diplomacy in Action: Mediation Perspectives within the United Nations and the African Union
25 Nov 16: Research Focus Group: Mediation and Dialogue in Ukraine
1-2 Nov 16: Lectures & Training Viadrina Days of Conflict (Management)

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. CPM Study.
Kraus/Kirchhoff/Mason (2017): Safe Spaces: Mapping the Red Lines in Peacemakers` Trade-Offs. Research Outline for B/Orders in Motion Seed Money Project 2018-2019.
von Dobeneck/Kraus/Kyselova (2016): Challenges to Mediation and Dialogue in Ukraine: Distrust in Procedures a Dysfunctional Market. CPM Discussion Paper.
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.
Kirchhoff (2015): Politische Mediation. Triadische Aushandlungsprozesse in und zwischen Gesellschaften.