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From October 12 to 22, ZIF organized for the first time in cooperation with the European External Action Service (EEAS) a virtual and tailor-made training and coaching program for the members of the new EEAS Pool of mediators.

The Dashboard Peace Operations 2020 provides you with important figures of peace operations worldwide, important trends and, as a main topic, an overview of peace operations in Ukraine and the Sahel region.

On the 17th of September 2020, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) signed a standby partnership agreement to deploy humanitarian experts from the ZIF Expert Pool to WFP operations.

As part of  the German EU Council Presidency, the German Federal Foreign Office organized a virtual conference on 11 September 2020 on "Mediation as a key instrument of the Common Foreign and Security Policy". The high-level event brought together EU ambassadors, Mediation Focal Points of EU Member States and selected representatives of peace mediation organizations.

The African Standby Capacity (ASC) celebrates its 5^th anniversary. The development of the ASC was honoured in an online seminar on August 4, 2020.