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Founded in 2002 – ZIF turns 20 this year. To mark its birthday, ZIF launches a social media campaign and will celebrate its anniversary in June.

On April 4^th, the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Christian Schmidt, briefed ZIF staff on the country’s current political climate.

In an opinion piece for EURACTIV, analyst Andreas Wittkowsky argues for “Associated EU memberships”.

From March 28 to 30, ZIF in cooperation with the European External Action Service (EEAS) organized for the second time a tailor-made training and coaching program for the new members of the EEAS mediator pool in La Hulpe near Brussels. 

At the contingent meeting of our secondees in UN humanitarian missions, our humanitarian experts shared their field experiences with ZIF and the German Foreign Office.

The Dashboard Peace Operations 2022 features key trends of the ZIF World Map and shines a spotlight on current challenges and peace operations in Somalia.

A statement of the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) on the war in Ukraine.

The Federal Foreign Office is considering to increase the number of German civilian personnel in Ukraine. ZIF as a seconding institution supports this plan by providing experienced civilian experts.

ZIF is opening additional humanitarian profiles and welcomes applications from humanitarian experts.

The Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) nexus is gaining relevance for the support of peace operations. In a ZIF study Carina Böttcher and Andreas Wittkowsky shed light on the weight of the peace pillar in the present debate.

On her recent trip to Ukraine this week, Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock met again personnel of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission, amongst them German seconded monitors.

In the second year of a global pandemic, the election observation activities were reduced once again. However, on behalf of the Federal Foreign Office, ZIF was able to deploy 178 election observes worldwide in 2021.

During her first official visit in Kyiv, Annalena Baerbock met with German secondees to the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.

Delphine Van Solinge, adviser on digital risks at the ICRC, outlines the potential and the risks involved in delivering humanitarian protection in the digital space.

The new map provides information and staff numbers for the various missions of the UN, EU, OSCE and other organizations.

ZIF is co-hosting the Challenges Annual Forum 2021 from December 1^st to December 3^rd. Many sessions of the digital event will be available via stream.

The Briefing summarizes findings and recommendations for UN missions faced with by violent extremist groups.

Michael Rühle offers ten recommendations for how the organisation can respond to hybrid challenges.

ZIF is cohosting this year’s Challenges Annual Forum from December 1^st to 3^rd in Berlin. The hybrid event serves as a cooperative and international platform for dialogue in Peace Operations.

November 3-5, 2021, ZIF hosted a peace mediation capacity building program in close cooperation with the Federal Foreign Office and the Maltese Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs.