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swisspeace

Name:
swisspeace

Web address:
http://www.swisspeace.org

Email:
infoswisspeace.ch

Mailing address:
swisspeace
P.O. Box
Sonnenbergstrasse 17
CH – 3000 Bern 7
Switzerland

Areas of work:

swisspeace (the Swiss Peace Foundation) is a practice-oriented peace research institute with headquarters in Bern, Switzerland. It was founded in 1988 with the goal to promote independent peace research in Switzerland. During recent years it developed into an internationally renowned institution in peace and conflict research. Today swisspeace engages about 40 staff members.

Its most important clients are the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Swiss National Science Foundation, as well as other national and international organizations and foundations.

The early recognition of violent conflicts, civil peacebuilding as undertaken by governmental and non-governmental organizations, environmental and resource conflicts, human security, gender, business & peace and mediation are among the research priorities of swisspeace. Its early warning system (FAST) and its center for peacebuilding (KOFF) are swisspeace’s largest operational programs. Moreover, swisspeace advises the Afghan Civil Society Forum (ACSF) in Kabul, a project it initiated to encourage the involvement of civil society in the political reconstruction and peace process of post-Taliban Afghanistan, on strategic issues and national and international networking.

swisspeace furthermore shares its expertise through backstopping mandates for government agencies and evaluation of peacebuilding programs. It contributes to training and capacity-building through workshops on conflict analysis, early warning, gender, and reconciliation; training of trainers in "Do-No-Harm"; post-graduate courses at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich; and seminars and lectures at the Universities of Basel and Bern. In publishing reports, carrying out analysis and organizing conferences, swisspeace contributes to the formation of political opinions on current national and international peace and security policy issues.

Office addresses:
Phone +41 (0)31 330 12 12
Fax +41 (0)31 330 12 13

 

Current projects

Title: Business & Peace

Project description:
Business & Peace analyzes the complex links between economic forces and violent conflict, and aims to promote proactive engagement of the private sector in civil peacebuilding and conflict transformation.
www.swisspeace.org/research

Title: FAST International

Project description:
FAST International is the early warning program of swisspeace. Funded and utilized by an international consortium of development agencies, FAST International facilitates the early recognition of impending or potential crisis situations in order to prevent violent conflict. FAST International aims at enhancing political decision makers’ and their offices’ ability to identify critical developments in a timely manner so that coherent political strategies can be formulated to prevent or limit destructive effects of violent conflicts, and to identify windows of opportunity for peacebuilding. www.swisspeace.org/fast

Title: Gender

Project description:
Gender examines the underlying and hidden gender dimensions of violent conflict and peacebuilding - in theory and practice. www.swisspeace.org/research

Title: Human Security

Project description:
Human Security explores opportunities and challenges in the provision of human security, the early prevention of violent conflict, and the sustainable restoration of the cultural, economic and political systems of violence-torn societies.
www.swisspeace.org/research

Title: KOFF Center for Peacebuilding

Project description:
The Center for Peacebuilding was founded at swisspeace in March 2001 by the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and various Swiss non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The current number of member NGOs is 45. The Center has an annual budget of about CHF 1 million. The major contribution comes from the Political Affairs Division IV of the DFA. Member NGOs contribute through a membership fee. KOFF plays an active part in ensuring that Swiss peace policy remains consistent in theory and practice by providing analyses, advice and training to all relevant Swiss actors, governmental and non-governmental, and through the promotion of networking. The Center develops synergies between non-governmental and governmental actors involved in peace-building, within Switzerland and internationally. 
www.swisspeace.org/koff

Title: MSP Mediation Support Project

Partners:
Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich

Project description:
Mediation aims to strengthen capacities in the area of international mediation & facilitation by focusing on research, training and networking. The Mediation Support Project MSP is a joint venture between swisspeace and the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich.
www.swisspeace.org/research

Title: NCCR North South WP1 Governance and Conflict

Project description:
swisspeace is a member of the international research program NCCR North-South "Research partnerships for mitigating syndromes of global change". Within the program swisspeace heads the "Governance and Conflict" work package (WP1), which is conducted in collaboration with the Graduate Institute of Development Studies in Geneva. Research will be carried out between 2005 and 2009 and builds upon the results and insights of a previous work on environmental conflicts (2001-2005). The NCCR North-South is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
www.swisspeace.org/research

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The RRN has a number of member organizations who run projects, as well as individual membership. For more details see all: