The EU’s Integrated Approach and the German Guidelines ‘Preventing Crises, Resolving Conflicts, Building Peace’

On 31 January 2018, Rüdiger König, Director-General for Crisis Prevention, Stabilisation, Post-Conflict Management and Humanitarian Assistance at the German Federal Foreign Office discussed the new German guidelines on “Preventing Crises, Resolving Conflicts, Building Peace” at the Permanent Representation of Germany to the EU in Brussels.

PeaceLab: Discussing Iraq’s Stabilization in New York

On 18 April in New York, hosted by the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations, senior officials from Iraq, UNDP and Germany will discuss Iraq’s experience with stabilization and what the international community can learn from it.

How Stabilization Worked in Iraq, and What the UN Can Learn from it

On 18 April 2018, the German Mission to the United Nations in New York hosted a roundtable on success factors of stabilization in Iraq and its lessons for the international community. At the UN, stabilization remains a contentious issue that sparked a lot of interest in the speaker’s conclusions: it’s all about political strategy, international coherence, local leadership and flexibility in deploying funds.

Learning to Prevent Conflict: Workshop on Early Warning and Early Action

On January 30, 2019, the African Union Peace and Security Commission in Addis Ababa hosted a one-day PeaceLab workshop on African and European lessons on early warning and early action. The German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier joined the workshop for a “fishbowl discussion.”

The Art of Crisis Prevention: Maritime Security in the Red Sea & the Gulf of Aden

At this year’s Munich Security Conference, a special PeaceLab is taking place for the second time: a diplomatic table top exercise during which participants are invited to test different strategies for regional and international actors to work together on maritime security in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

Corona-PeaceLab: How Do We Need to Adapt Crisis Prevention and Peacebuilding?

The coronavirus pandemic has plunged the world into a crisis that will affect all policy areas. The German government is seeking your ideas: "PeaceLab" offers an established platform for debate on how the pandemic affects crisis prevention, conflict resolution and peacebuilding.

PeaceLab Podcast: Transitions from Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding

#LearningforPeace: The Future of Crisis Prevention and Peacebuilding

After the German government published its implementation report on progress in the area of “Preventing Crises, Resolving Conflicts, Building Peace,” PeaceLab hosted three events on lessons learned and future priorities. Participants from the policy, civil society, and research communities discussed European crisis engagement, the climate-conflict nexus, and early action.