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November: The team launched the UN Peace Missions App. Download it here: App Store and Google Play
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November: The team launched the UN Peace Missions Website. Check it out here: www.peacemissions.info
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November: The team hosted an exhibition on UN Peace Missions at Geneva Peace Week, Link
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November: Sara Hellmüller spoke at a panel on the future of UN peace and security engagements, at Geneva Peace Week, Link
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October: Fanny Badache launched her co-edited book on International Organizations and Research Methods. Recording available here.
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October: Bilal Salayme participated in the GCSP Workshop "Outlook and Opportunities in the MENA Region: Analytics and Options for the Swiss MENA Strategy
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October: Sara Hellmüller spoke at an event organized by ETH Zürich entitled “Mediation Exchanges: Where is the UN heading?”
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October: Sara Hellmüller co-published a forum article in International Peacekeeping on “UN Peacekeeping at 75: Achievements, Challenges, and Prospects”, Link.
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September: Marie Holch joined the project team as Student Researcher.
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September: Bilal Salayme and Fanny Badache presented their work at the 6th Peace and Security Conference at the University of Manchester.
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September: Sara Hellmüller’s book “Partners for Peace: The Interaction between Local and International Actors in Peacebuilding” is now also available in German: Link.
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September: Bilal Salayme wrote an op-ed on the latest protests in the South of Syria (in Arabic) Link.
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September: Sara Hellmüller published a new article on “Knowledge Production on Mediation: Practice-Oriented, but not Practice-Relevant?”, in International Affairs, Link.
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September: Sara Hellmüller co-edited a special issue on “Knowledge Production on Peace: Actors, Hierarchies, and Policy Relevance”, in International Affairs, Link.
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August: Fanny Badache published a co-edited volume on research methods and international organizations with the University of Michigan Press, available in open access Link.
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July: The whole team participated in the European Workshops in International Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
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June: Sara Hellmüller participated in a conference on “Conference on UN Peacekeeping at 75“ organized by the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zürich.
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June: Sara Hellmüller was interviewed by the newspaper Republik on Switzerland’s presidency of the UN Security Council (in German), Link.
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June: Fanny Badache gave a talk on "Regulating the researcher-participant relationship" in the Ethics Review Workshop at the European University Institute.
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June: Bilal Salaymeh commented on the Jordnain Initiative for the Syrian peace process on the Syrian News Website EnabBaladi (in Arabic), Link.
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June: Bilal Salaymeh was interviewed by 'Geneva Solution' on the latest developments in the Syrian peace process, Link.
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May : Sara Hellmüller and Bilal Salaymeh published a paper, "Multiparty mediation in a changing world: the emergence and impact of parallel processes to UN peacemaking in Syria and Libya”, in International Journal of Conflict Management, Link.
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May: Bilal Salaymeh participated in a workshop "Towards a Post Middle East international politics?" at the University of Oxford, Link.
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May 2023 – December 2024: Funding by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Agora) for a project to develop a website and mobile app and host a roving pop-up exhibition on UN peace missions.
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April: Fanny Badache gave a talk on « Peacekeeping in a new world order » at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute.
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April: Bilal Salayme published a book review, 'Syria Betrayed: Atrocities, War, and the Failure of International Diplomacy' in the International Peacekeeping Journal. Link.
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April: Bilal Salayme published a review article, 'Hamas: Isolated, Contained, but not Co-opted?' in Insight Turkey Journal. Link.
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March: Sara Hellmüller, Xiang-Yun Rosalind Tan and Corinne Bara published the article “What is in a Mandate: Introducing the Dataset on UN Peace Mission Mandates” in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Link.
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March: Fanny Badache published a special issue (with Leah Kimber) on « Anchoring International Organizations in Organizational Sociology » in the Swiss Journal of Sociology. Link.
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March: Fanny Badache, Sara Hellmüller and Bilal Salayme presented their work at the International Studies Association 64th annual convention in Montreal (Canada).
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March-June: Fanny Badache is a visiting fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute.
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February: Sara Hellmüller teaches two courses in the MINT programme of the Geneva Graduate Institute in the spring semester: One course on “Going to “the Field”: Ethics, Risks, and Practicalities of Research in Conflict-Affected Contexts” and one course on “Diversity in Peacebuilding: Women and Civil Society Inclusion.”
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February: Sara Hellmüller moderates a lunch briefing on the war in Ukraine at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Link.
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February: Fanny Badache, Bilal Salayme, and Sara Hellmüller presented their research at the Annual Congress of the Swiss Political Science Association.
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February: Sara Hellmüller co-chaired the Peace and Security Working Group at the Annual Congress of the Swiss Political Science Association.
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January: Bilal Salayme presented a paper at the Annual Palestine Forum at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar.
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January: Bilal Salayme gave a lecture (online) for the master's students in International Migration and Refugee Studies at Birzeit University.
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January: Bilal Salayme was the discussant for the CCDP seminar on 'Armed Groups Origins and the Transformation in Civil War ', Link.
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January: Sara Hellmüller taught two one-day sessions on mediation in English and French in the Executive Master in Development Policies and Practices.
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January: Sara Hellmüller, together with Dr. Lucile Maertens (University of Lausanne) secured funding from the Fondation pour l’Université de Lausanne for a project “Promoting sustainability in the UN Security Council: The role of Switzerland as an elected member.”
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January: Sara Hellmüller, Marie Lobjoy, and Xiang-Yun Rosalind Tan published an article entitled “Beyond Generations: A New Approach to Categorizing Peace Missions” in Global Governance, Link.
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January: Bilal Salayme commented on the rapprochement between Turkey and the Syrian regime, Link.
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December: Sara Hellmüller presented a paper on “Security Conceptualizations and UN Peace Missions” at the School of Economics and Political Science at the University of St. Gallen.
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December: Sara Hellmüller gave an input on “UN Security Council Politics and Switzerland” at the Mistra Geopolitics PhD workshop at Stockholm University together with Dr. Lucile Maertens.
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December: Sara Hellmüller gave an input and moderated a discussion on “The Future of Peace Mediation” at the Geneva Graduate Institute Alumni Event in Bern.
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November: Fanny Badache published an article on legitimacy in international organizations in Global Studies Quarterly, Link.
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November: Bilal Salayme moderated a panel on the political impasse in Libya, Link.
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November: Bilal Salayme gave a lecture for the master course on 'Development et action humanitaire' at Paris 1 or Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
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November: Fanny Badache, Sara Hellmüller and Bilal Salayme published an article on the UN role in peacebuilding in Contemporary Security Policy, Link.
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November: Fanny Badache, Sara Hellmüller and Bilal Salayme published a blog post on “UN Peacebuilding in a Multipolar World Order”, Link.
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November: Fanny Badache traveled to Paris and New York to conduct in-person interviews for the research project.
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November: Bilal published a policy brief "Libya, Back to Square One?", Link.
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November: Sara Hellmüller and Rosalind Tan published Version 1.5 of the United Nations Peace Missions Datasets, Link.
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October-December: Sara Hellmüller is an academic visitor at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.
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October: Bilal commented on the status of Syria at the latest Arab League Summit (in Arabic), Link.
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October: Sara Hellmüller participated in the Oxford Colloquium on International Mediation and Armed Conflict, University of Oxford.
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October: Sara Hellmüller gave two interviews to the Swiss National Radio (SRF 3) on the Nobel Peace Prize.
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September: Bilal participated in a round table on Syria at the Stimson Center Middle East and North Africa Program.
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September: Fanny Badache participated in a discussion about UN peacekeeping and Switzerland's role in it on RTS, Link.
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August: Fanny Badache, Sara Hellmüller, and Bilal Salayme published a dataset gathering all peace-related speeches by the P5 (France, UK, USA, Russian Federation and China) as well as Brazil, South Africa and Turkey in the UNSC (UNSCPeaS), Link.
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July/August: Sara Hellmüller taught at the Geneva Graduate Institute’s Summer Course on the UN in a Changing World, giving an input on UN Security Council Diplomacy.
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July: The project team now has a Twitter handle. Follow us! Link.
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June: Sara Hellmüller co-moderated a workshop on “The impact of geopolitical competition on armed conflict and peace mediation” organised by ETH Zürich, MAS Mediation.
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June: Bilal Salayme presented his working paper "From Monopoly to Oligopoly of Violence, the Reconfiguration of Political Order in Northern Syria" at the CCDP Seminar Series.
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June: Flavia Keller joined the project team as Student Researcher.
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May: Sara Hellmüller discussed her article on trans-scalar peacebuilding with Cooperation and Conflict editor-in-chief Annika Björkdahl and Susanne Buckley-Zistel (University of Marburg) and Gearoid Millar (University of Aberdeen), Link.
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May: Sara Hellmüller participated in a discussion on NATO and neutrality by Swissinfo, Link.
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May: Sara Hellmüller taught on “Peacebuilding and peacekeeping” for the Graduate Institute’s Executive Master in International Negotiation and Policy-Making.
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April: Sara Hellmüller and Rosalind Tan published Version 1.4 of the United Nations Peace Missions Datasets. V1.4 entails the largest set of changes to the UNPMM data, Link.
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April: Sara Hellmüller published an article on “Peacemaking in a shifting world order: A macro-level analysis of UN mediation in Syria” in the Review of International Studies, Link (see short blog entry here).
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April: Sara Hellmüller gave a guest lecture at the University de Lausanne on “Produire des normes.”
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April: Sara Hellmüller spoke at an event on “Peacebuilding in the current geopolitical environment,” organised by swisspeace in Basel.
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April: Bilal Salayme presented his working paper "From Monopoly to Oligopoly of Violence, the Reconfiguration of Political Order in Northern Syria" at the CCDP Seminar Series.
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March: Sara Hellmüller was interviewed by sciences.lu on how to make peace, Link.
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March: Sara Hellmüller participated in a Town Hall meeting on the War in Ukraine at the Graduate Institute, Link.
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February: Sara Hellmüller published an entry in The Global entitled “Re-establishing congruence: UN peacebuilding in a shifting world order,” Link.
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February: Fanny Badache was elected at-large member of the International Studies Association’s IO section Executive Committee.
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February: Sara Hellmüller co-chaired the peace and security working group at the SPSA 2022 Conference.
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February: Sara Hellmüller and Xiang-Yun Rosalind Tan (with Corinne Bara) presented their paper at SPSA 2022 Conference: What is in a Mandate? Introducing the Dataset on United Nations Peace Mission Mandates (UNPMM).
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February: Bilal Salayme, Sara Hellmüller and Fanny Badache presented their paper at the 2022 SPSA Conference: Rising Powers and Re-Conceptualizing Sovereignty in Changing Global Politics.
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January: Sara Hellmüller spoke about her work with Persuasive Discourse, Link.
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January: Fanny Badache co-edited a special issue on « Time and Space in the Study of International Organizations » in Global Policy, Link.
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January: Sara Hellmüller published a paper in Cooperation and Conflict entitled “A trans-scalar approach to peacebuilding and transitional justice: Insights from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Link.
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December: Sara Hellmüller participated in a workshop on “Rethinking Inclusive Peace Processes in Times of Global Systemic Crisis and Social Change” organised by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP).
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November: Sara Hellmüller and Rosalind Tan published Version 1.3 of the United Nations Peace Missions Datasets, Link.
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November: Sara Hellmüller spoke on “norms and norm change” at the event “Pizza, Philosophy and Science” organised by Reatch.
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November: Sara Hellmüller participated in a conference on “Mediators as Gatekeepers” organized by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).
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November: Sara Hellmüller participated in a research-practitioner dialogue on “Effective Mediation” organized by Folke Bernadotte Academy.
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November: Bilal Salayme participated in the Arab-Turkish Relations Conference and presented the paper "the Impact of the Turkish post-conflict stabilization model on the local Arab political order", at Qatar University - Ibn Khaldoun Center, Link.
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October: Sara Hellmüller and Rosalind Tan published Version 1.2 of the United Nations Peace Missions Datasets, Link.
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September: Sara Hellmüller gave an interview for Geneva Solutions on the Syrian Peace Process, Link.
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September: Bilal Salayme published an op-ed tackling the upcoming election in Libya and the possible candidacy of Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, link.
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September: Bilal Salayme participated in EISA Annual Conference and presented the co-authored paper "Legitimation of the UN's Role in Peacebuilding in a Changing World Order."
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September: Sara Hellmüller published a review article on „Normen in der Mediation: Analyse und Ausblick” in the Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Vol. 10 (1). Link here.
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September: Sara Hellmüller participated in a conference on “Contested Norms of International Peace and Security Law” organised by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg.
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September: Fanny Badache was the co-chair of the section « 21st century International Organizations: Power, Politics and Global Policy-Making » at the 2021 ECPR General Conference.
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August: Bilal Salayme was interviewed by Al-Jazeera Mubasher Channel on possible Turkish policies in Afghanistan, link.
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August: Sara Hellmüller gave a guest lecture on “The Maintenance of Peace and Security” at the Graduate Institute’s Summer Programme on the United Nations in a Changing World.
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July: Bilal Salayme published an op-ed about UN Security Council Resolution 2585 - in Arabic: Has Russia imposed its will on the humanitarian aids to Syria? Link here.
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June: Fanny Badache presented a paper at the Annual Congress of the Academic Council of the United Nations System (ACUNS).
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June: Fanny Badache organised two panels on « Anchoring International Organizations in Organization Sociology » at the Annual Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association.
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June: Fanny Badache is co-editing a special issue on « Anchoring International Organizations in the Study of Organization Sociology » in the Swiss Journal of Sociology. Deadline: 01.09.21. More information here.
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June: Fanny Badache published a review of the book « Les langues du pouvoir. Le plurilinguisme au sein de l’administration fédérale » in the Swiss Political Science Review. Link here.
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June: Marie Lobjoy participated in a panel discussion on R2P terminology across UN languages at 5th Responsibility to Protect in Theory and Practice Conference.
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June: Sara Hellmüller participated in a conference on “Norms and Peace: Pathways out of Intrastate Violence” organised by the University of Kiel.
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June: Bilal Salayme published an analysis on the latest developments in Palestinian politics and Palestinian/Israeli conflict - in Turkish: "Filistin’de Bloklaşma Ötesi Bir Ayaklanma" (Palestine, an Uprising Beyond Blocks). Link here.
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June: Bilal Salayme published an op-ed about Berlin-2 Conference on Libya - in Arabic: Why we shouldn't bet on Berlin-2 Conference to solve the Libyan crisis? Link here.
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June: Bilal Salayme published a Book Review "İki Darbe Arasında: Türkiye Suriye Politikası (1960-1980) [Between Two Coups: Turkey’s Syria Policy (1960-1980)]" in Insight Turkey Journal Vol. 23, No 2. Link here.
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May: Sara Hellmüller gave a guest lecture on “Promotion de la paix entre le local et l’international” at the Global Studies Institute at the University of Geneva.
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May: Fanny Badache presented a paper at the workshop « The Legitimation of International Organisations in Disruptive Times » during the ECPR Joint Sessions.
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April: Bilal Salayme was interviewed live by Al-Jazeera Mubasher on a potential Egyptian-Turkish rapprochement.
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April: Marie Lobjoy participated in a panel discussion on humanitarian civil-military coordination (UN-CMCoord) analysis at the Human Networks & Partnerships Weeks.
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April: Bilal Salayme wrote an op-ed for TRT Arabi, on the establishment of the Qatari-Turkish-Russian mechanism on the Syrian track. Link here.
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April: Sara Hellmüller published a paper on consent to mediation in internationalized civil wars in International Negotiation. Link here.
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April: Sara Hellmüller participated in a high-level panel on Syria at the EU Community of Practice on Peace Mediation 2021 event.
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April: Sara Hellmüller and Bilal Salayme engaged in a conversation with UN Special Envoy for Syria, Geir O. Pedersen, on Multilateralism in the 21st century on the occasion of the International Day of Multilateralism. Link here.
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April: Fanny Badache and Sara Hellmüller presented papers at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. Sara Hellmüller was co-chair of program for the Peace Studies Section.
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April: Sara Hellmüller was interviewed by Swissinfo for an article on Swiss policy to promote women. Link here.
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March: Sara Hellmüller and Rosalind Tan published Version 1.1 of the United Nations Peace Missions Datasets, Link.
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March: Bilal Salayme was a discussant in the join event of CCDP and the University of Neuchâtel 'Borders in the Middle East: Past and Present'.
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March: Bilal Salayme gave a lecture on 'Turkey in the Middle East', for a Masters course at the International University in Geneva.
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March: Sara Hellmüller gave a lecture on UN Peace Operations in a Changing World Order at the Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo.
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March: Sara Hellmüller was interviewed on UN Peace Missions by the Swiss National Radio station (SRF) for their program Echo der Zeit. Link here.
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February: Sara Hellmüller and Rosalind Tan established Version 1.0 of the United Nations Peace Missions Datasets.
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February: Fanny Badache and Sara Hellmüller presented papers during the Annual Congress of the Swiss Political Science Association. Sara Hellmüller was co-chair of the Peace and Security Working Group.
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February: Sara Hellmüller became a member of Swiss Women in Peace Processes (SWiPP), a network of 15 women working on peace processes created by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. Link here.
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January: Fanny Badache joined the project team as Postdoctoral Researcher.
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December: Sara Hellmüller, together with co-authors Jamie Pring and Oliver Richmond, published an article entitled "How Norms Matter in Mediation: An Introduction" in the Swiss Political Science Review. Link here.
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November: Sara Hellmüller published a chapter entitled "Civil Society Inclusion in Peace Mediation," in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Link here.
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November: Sara Hellmüller published a chapter entitled "DR Congo: Local and International Peacebuilders’ Interaction," in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Link here.
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October: Sara Hellmüller gave a training on “Mediation: The Case of Syria” to Syrian Women mandated by swisspeace and NOREF.
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October: Sara Hellmüller published an article entitled "Meaning‐Making in Peace‐Making: The Inclusion Norm at the Interplay between the United Nations and Civil Society in the Syrian Peace Process," in the Swiss Political Science Review. Link here.
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October: Sara Hellmüller published a chapter entitled "Mediation," in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Link here.
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September: Bilal Salayme joined the project team as Research Assistant. Bilal is pursuing a PhD in International Relations/Political Science at the Graduate Institute. His research interests include authoritarianism, regime change, armed non-state actors, and armed conflict and peacebuilding.
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September: Sara Hellmüller presented a paper on the research project at the annual workshop of the working group on empirical methods of the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies. Link here.
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September: Sara Hellmüller presented preliminary findings of the dataset on UN peace operations at the conference "Politics after War: Reexamining Dilemmas of Peacebuilding in the Era of Trump and COVID." Link here.
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August: Sara Hellmüller published a chapter entitled "The Role of Civil Society Actors in Peacemaking and Peacebuilding," in The Routledge Handbook of Peace, Security and Development. Link here.
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May: Marie Lobjoy joined the project team as Student Researcher. Marie is pursuing a Master in International Affairs at the Graduate Institute. Her research interests include critical security studies and military interventionism in the MENA and Sahel regions.
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April: We are recruiting a post-doctoral student to work on the project (application deadline: 12/06/2020). Link here.
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March: Sara Hellmüller gave an interview to the German news channel ZDF on the Idlib ceasefire concluded between Russia and Turkey. Link here.
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March: Rosalind Tan joined the project team as Student Researcher. Rosalind is pursuing a Master in International Affairs at the Graduate Institute. Her research interests include postcolonial critical theory, discourse analysis and illiberal peacebuilding.
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February: Sara Hellmüller presented the research project at the Annual Congress of the Swiss Political Science Association. Link here.
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January: Sara Hellmüller received a SNSF Flexibility Grant for the entire duration of the project.