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From now on, humanitarian deployments by ZIF to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) are possible.
 

Through scenarios Camino Kavanagh contextualises and makes tangible the goals and complexity inherent in the Strategy for the digital transformation of UN peacekeeping.

The ZIF Dashboard offers an introduction to exit strategies and transitions by presenting data and examples.

Annika Hansen and Naomi Miyashita describe challenges and goals of the Strategy for the Digital Transformation of UN Peacekeeping.

Annika S. Hansen and Tobias von Gienanth write about the danger of generalised lessons from Afghanistan and key success factors of peace operations.

Civilian Operations Commander Francisco Estebán Perez visited Berlin for talks about the cooperation in EU peace missions.

The GIZ Data Lab experiment “Data in fragile contexts” explores new ways to utilize alternative data sources in order to better understand contextual realities on the ground and how they correlate with conflict dynamics.

In a new EUISS brief, Tobias Pietz describes what happened to CSDP missions and operations at the outset of the pandemic, and points to some lessons which can be drawn from the experiences so far.

After Afghanistan, Europe cannot simply wash its hands of international crisis management, argues Tobias Pietz in a comment at World Politics Review.

Anne Schneibel describes the German Aerospace Center’s innovative collaboration with humanitarian actors in the Humanitarian Technology Initiative

For its first course in physical attendance since 2020, ZIF invited 16 upcoming Short-Term Election Observers to a four-day training in Schwanenwerder.

On July 27th and 28th, ZIF carried out a workshop in cooperation with OROLSI on „Dealing with Armed Groups Designated as Terrorist Organizations in the Sahel“.

On June 23rd, 2021, the German Federal Government honored three German peacekeepers as representatives of all the Germans deployed in international peace operations.

On June 30^th, ZIF, in cooperation with the Mediation Support Team of the European External Action Service (EEAS), organised a peer exchange on challenges and opportunities for a sustainable peace process in the Central African Republic (CAR).

The Challenges Forum is a global partnership of 50 organizations in 24 countries. Its annual international conference serves as a cooperative platform for dialogue to contribute to more effective international peace operations.

Andreas T. Hirblinger explores the new momentum behind the use of artificial intelligence to prevent conflict and to make or build peace.

At the invitation of the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) and Unit S03 of the Federal Foreign Office (AA), 9 ambassadors from selected German missions abroad came together yesterday for a digital practice workshop on peace mediation.

Virtual Reality (VR) as an avenue to mitigate the challenges of language training for UN Peacekeeping? Ryan Cross argues, that the use of VR language tools might be a solution to at least some of peacekeeping’s language problems.

Comment by Tobias Pietz on the Common Security and Defence Policy at IP Quarterly

On that day, ever since 2003, the United Nations pay tribute to its personnel in peace operations. And so do we: as seconding agency, we honor all peacekeepers in their missions around the world, but especially our 158 currently seconded civilian experts for their multilateral contribution and commitment to stability and peace.