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Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding

 

The CCDP is the Graduate Institute’s focal point for research in the areas of conflict analysis, humanitarianism, peacebuilding, and the complex relationships between security and development. Its research projects focus on the factors and actors that are implicated in the production and reproduction of violence within and between societies and states, as well as on policies and practices to reduce violence and insecurity and enhance development and peacebuilding initiatives at the international, state, and local levels.

 

The overarching research concerns of the CCDP are reflected in four main research streams:

  • Peacebuilding, reconciliation and the state;
  • Conflict transformation, humanitarianism and armed actors;
  • Development and the political economy of violence;
  • Multi-stakeholder initiatives and the politics of monitoring and evaluation.

 

These streams are inherently interconnected, and specific research projects are consciously framed in such as a way as to maximise disciplinary and methodological collaboration across them.

 

News

 

 

 

30.01.2012 - New Project - Arab Spring: Challenges during Political Transitions and Comparative Lessons for Civil Societies in the Middle East and North Africa

The CCDP is pleased to announce a new research project connected to its current “Civil Society and Peacebuilding” project. In cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung (FES), the Arab Reform Initiative, and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), the CCDP will discuss the challenges faced by civil society groups in the Middle East and North Africa during the consolidation phase of the current transitions.

For more information, please read the project's page.

 

28.11.2011 - Issue Brief - Strenghtening Preventive Diplomacy: The Role of Private Actors

The CCDP is pleased to announce the publication of a new Issue Brief, written by Azar Eskandarpour and Achim Wennmann.

This report explores the role of private actors in preventive diplomacy. It shows that private actors are often better placed than formal actors to engage preventively. The United Nations therefore has a tremendous resource base for preventive diplomacy that, if more widely explored, could become a significant contribution for long-term, in-country prevention programmes. 

To read the Issue Brief, please click here.

 

25.11.2011 - NEW PUBLICATION by Research Fellow Susanna Campbell: A Liberal Peace?: The Problems and Practices of Peacebuilding.

The CCDP is pleased to advertise a new publication by one of its research fellow, Susanna Campbell. The book, written by some of the most prominent scholars in the liberal peace and peacebuilding effectiveness debate, alongside several new scholars making cutting edge contributions, looks at peacebuilding and statebuilding practice to take the debate on liberal peace forward.

For a complete summary of the book and to know more about one of its editors, Susanna Campbell, please read the author's profile.

 

 

 

Publications

 

Working Paper 8

Oil, Gas and Minerals: The Impact of Resource-Dependence and Governance on Sustainable Development

Written by the CCDP’s Deputy Director Gilles Carbonnier together with Fritz Brugger and Natascha Wagner, this Working Paper takes adjusted net savings (ANS) as an indicator of weak sustainability in order to examine the link between resource dependence and sustainable development. The results highlight a negative relationship between natural resource extraction and ANS but indicate that this is not inevitable. Effective checks on the power of the executive appears to be critical for sustainable outcomes. Moreover, effective legislative chambers, an independent judiciary and broad acceptance of established institutions all have a positive impact on ANS per capita. The results further confirm that armed conflict and armed violence as measured by homicide rate have a negative impact on ANS.

For more information about the project and the working paper, please click here.

 

Working Paper 7

A Review of Practices and Expert Opinions: Linking Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding.

Written by  Masayo Kondo Rossier during her four-month UN Sabbatical Leave Programme, this CCDP Working Paper considers the actual and potential linkages between humanitarian action and peacebuilding. It examines synergies through a comparative review of the practices and policy approaches of both fields. On the basis of extensive survey questions with specialists in both areas, the Working Paper seeks to demonstrate practical ways in which humanitarian action can contribute to sustainable peacebuilding.

 

Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) for Madagascar

The CCDP is pleased to announce the publication of a Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) for Madagascar, a six-month project mandated by the UNICEF, with the support of the French and Norwegian Embassies. The original document was written in English and translated into French. Click here for more info.
 
 
 
 

 


 

 

  

 

Past Events

 

  •  December 13th - Seminar on 

The Future of Sudan

with Andrew Natsios, former USAID Administrator (2001-2006) and Special Envoy to Sudan (2006-2007).

 

 

  • November 29th - Public Lecture on 

Trends in New Media and Reporting in Humanitarian Action

with Ben Parker, Director, Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) News and Interim Head of Office, OCHA Eastern Africa.

 

  • June 22nd- Summer Lecture on 

The Arab Spring and its Aftermath

with Riccardo Bocco, Professor of Political Sociology and member of the CCDP steering committee

 

 

  • May 24th- Public conference on

What Ever Happened to Canadian Internationalism?

with David Black, Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Development Studies (IDS) at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada and CCDP Research Fellow

 

 

  • May 19th- Public conference on

Palestinian Political Prisoners

with Ismael Nashif, Professor of Anthropology at Ben Gourion University. Click here for more info.

 

 

  • May 2nd- In collaboration with the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, public launch of the

Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment for Madagascar

With authors Oliver Jutersonke and Moncef Kartas, respectively Head of Research and Principal Researcher for the PCIA. Click here for more info.

 

 

  • April 19th, Public conference on 

Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations

with Richard Ned Lebow, James O. Freedman Presdential Professor of Government, Dartmouth College, Hanover, U.S and Olof Palme Professor, Lunde University, Sweden. For more information about the event, please click here

 

 


 

For more information about past events, please click here.