FriEnt-Topics

FriEnt works on key challenges at the interface between peace building and development and thus generates significant impetus for its members’ practical work.

FriEnt’s current priority topics are:

FriEnt-Countries

Countries & Regions

FriEnt’s priority countries and regions have, in some cases, been blighted by violent conflict for decades. Both the causes of the conflicts and the opportunities for and approaches to settling the conflicts differ immensely.

For FriEnt, they represent examples which illustrate various possibilities and constraints of peace building and non-violent conflict management. Country-specific round tables hosted by FriEnt provide a central forum for networking and dialogue.

The current priority countries and regions are:

Who we are

The Working Group on Peace and Development (FriEnt) is an association of governmental organisations, church development agencies, civil society networks, and political foundations. FriEnt aims to pool capacities, support networking and cooperation, and contribute to conflict-sensitive development cooperation.
About us

Latest Impulse articles

Guns, Drugs and Dollars: Getting Global Drivers of Local Violence on the Post-2015 Agenda

Impulse 04/2013 by Erwin van Veen more

Tunisia in transition: Start of a third wave of Transitional Justice?

Impulse 03/2013 by Amine Ghali, KADEM more

The role of social services for peacebuilding

Impulse 01-02/2013 by Anita Ernstorfer, UNICEF more

Peace and state-building – a need for change

Impulse 09/2012 by Habib Ur Rehman Mayar, g7+ Focal Point in Afghanistan more

Post-2015 – treading the path to peace

Impulse 08/2012 by Larry Attree, Saferworld more

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FriEnt members

FriEnt's nine members are united by their great commitment to peace and development. They vary, however, in their size, mandate, international partners, projects and approaches. They aim to utilise their diverse perspectives and experience as an asset for their shared productive work on peace building in the context of development cooperation.
FriEnt members

Member Publications

The Crisis Management Toolbox

From Civilian Crisis Prevention to Peacebuilding: Principles, Actors,...

C. Major, T. Pietz, E. Schöndorf, W. Hummel | SWP/ZIF | 2013

Pioneering the Comprehensive Approach:

Policy Briefing

Andreas Wittkowsky and Ulrich Wittkampf | Zentrum für Internationale Friedenseinsätze | 2013

Confronting Risk, Mobilizing Action - A Framework for Conflict Prevention in the Context of Large-scale Business Investments

International policy analysis

Brian Ganson, Achim Wennmann | Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung | 2013

Peace Operations 2025

Scenarios

Zentrum für Internationale Friedenseinsätze | 2012

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FriEnt Publications

Justice Transitionnelle & Traitement du Passé

Document d'orientation

Sylvia Servaes et Natascha Zupan | FriEnt | 2013

Help or Hindrance? Results-orientation in conflict-affected situations

FriEnt/KOFF-Working Paper

Stefan Bächtold, Roland Dittli,Sylvia Servaes | KOFF, FriEnt | 2013

Critical Reflection on ‘Land Grabbing’ in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts

Following the KOFF Roundtable of 27 November 2012

A. Graf, C. Kruckow, S. Gemperle | KOFF, FriEnt | 2013

Education, change and peacebuilding

Essay

Professor Lynn Davies | FriEnt | 2013

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