From Research to Practice: @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social Researchers Join MINT Students for Conversations on Applied Research. Read more about the ARP Drop-In-Clinic and the programme. 🔗https://shorturl.at/l5m2U
CCDP | Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
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The CCDP is the Graduate Institute’s focal point for research in the areas of conflict analysis, peacebuilding and the complex relationships between security and development.
Some research projects don't end. They grow into new questions, new partnerships, and new tools. In this CCDP Spotlight Podcast, Sara Hellmüller, Fanny Badache, Bilal Salaymeh, and Margaux Pinaud reflect on five years of research on UN peace missions. bsky.app/profile/gvag...
How can some states survive without armed forces? A new book by Zoltan Barany examines countries that exist without standing militaries, drawing on global field research to rethink assumptions about security and state survival. academic.oup.com/book/61886
States without Armies: Why They Exist and How They Survive
Abstract. Is it possible for a state to exist without a military in an increasingly divided and heavily militarized world? The answer is “yes.” Twenty-one
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Eliza Urwin attended the recent #OSCE Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Conflict Prevention at the invitation of the Swiss FDFA, joining discussions on AI and conflict prevention. Great to also see friends of CCDP on the panel, -- Hiba Qasas and Evelyne Tauchnitz. @gvagrad.bsky.social
Join @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social's unique event to discuss China & drug policy with 3 key academics: 📌The reported decline in China's illegal drug market 📌How China deals with the sharp increase of synthetic drug consumption 📌Tensions around chemical precursors for synthetic opioids shorturl.at/5UJ52
Join the @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social for seminar on "Islamic Jurists in Conflict: From Warfare to Governance and Mediation" led by Emanuel Schäublin (ETH Zurich). 🗓️Tuesday, 12 May at 3 PM at the Institute (P1-547) or online 🔗https://shorturl.at/5BANj
What if funding shifted from compliance to curiosity? A new piece in CDA Collaborative Learning Projects highlights the ECCP Community Fund explores how participatory grants can reshape how resources and responsibility circulate in climate and peacebuilding work. 📖 tinyurl.com/ynjnbwxe
Rebuilding the Anthills: Transformation Prototypes for the Post-Aid World - CDA Collaborative Learning
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📅 21 April | Geneva Join us for Neutrality in Cyberspace: International Humanitarian Law at the Digital Battlefield, an in-person conference on the relevance of neutrality in cyberspace and IHL. Register: www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio... @gvagrad-law.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social
The CCDP and DCAF joined institutional partners for a timely expert briefing on the evolving security situation in the Middle East. As one of the contributors , Julia Pickhardt reflects from a mediation and conflict prevention standpoint. Read her article 🔗 www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
Seven Years in the Making: Reflections on the Role of Diplomacy and Mediation in the Iran-war
The CCDP and DCAF joined institutional partners for a timely expert briefing on the evolving security situation in the Middle East. As one of the contributing speakers, Julia Pickhardt offered reflect...
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🌐 Khalid Tinasti, CCDP Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer at the Graduate Institute, has been appointed to a UN Expert Panel preparing recommendations for the 2029 global drug policy review. www.unodc.org/unodc/en/pre...
Commission on Narcotic Drugs establishes Expert Panel to contribute to the 2029 global drug policy review
Commission on Narcotic Drugs establishes Expert Panel to contribute to the 2029 global drug policy review
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Is Switzerland strengthening its defence industry — or quietly redrawing the boundaries of neutrality in a more polarized security landscape? Keith Krause @gvagrad.bsky.social @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social discusses: faculti.net/switzerland-... #defense #security
The International Law Colloquium presents: Warfare in the Digital Age: Cyber Operations as Means of Modern Armed Conflict with Daryna Abbakumova, Visiting Professor, Department of International Law & @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow. 📅 5th March Join online: shorturl.at/sOZpP
Research Professor Sara Hellmüller [@sarahellmuller.bsky.social] speaks at Doha Launch of World Mediation Report 2026 🔗 Watch the recording www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio... @gvagrad.bsky.social
📌 How do institutions keep longterm priorities alive amid crisis? In #GPO2026, the authors reveal how agendakeeping has become a strategic tool for relevance in International Geneva. 👉 Read more: www.genevapolicyoutlook.ch/agenda-keepi... @GePolOutlook #GlobalGovernance
Agenda-Keeping in International Geneva
As crises multiply, institutions in Geneva race to keep long-term priorities alive. Lucile Maertens and colleagues reveal how UN Agencies keep vital issues on the world’s agenda through agenda-keeping...
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@gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social Spotlight Podcast: UN Peace Missions in a Changing World Margaux Pinaud speaks with IR Reesearch Professor Sara Hellmüller, Fanny BADACHE & Bilal Salaymeh about how shifts in global politics are reshaping UN peace missions and their mandates. Listen👉 shorturl.at/PGu5j
New CCDP Spotlight 🎙️ How does global drug policy shape security, power, and multilateralism? Jennifer Thornquest speaks with Dr. Khalid Tinasti on governing international drug control in an era of geopolitical change. @gvagrad.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6oNo...
S3E1 Drug Policy and Global Power: Rethinking Governance, Security, and Multilateralism
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The CCDP has received a 2025 SNSF AGORA grant to share 17,000+ Everyday Peace Indicators. Follow the Project Blog Series by Apolline Foedit. www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio... gvagrad.bsky.social
The ECCP Community Fund piloted its first funding cycle in 2025, supporting six community led activities across countries. Explore what we learned in the new ECCP Community Fund Learning Brief 🔗 eccp.substack.com/p/eccp-what-...
ECCP: What did we learn from our Community Fund pilot in 2025?
And, of course, upcoming meetings!
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📚 New Publication | Research Article by Emilian Berutti 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @gvagradlibrary.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social
📣 Call for abstracts | Rethinking SSR The workshop invites critical perspectives on #SSR and international security assistance amid shifting global orders, new security providers, and evolving threats. 🗓 Deadline: 11 Feb 2026 Submit here 🔗 eisa-net.org/ewis-2026/ab... @gvagrad.bsky.social
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CCDP Incoming Research Associate, Dr Shona Loong, receives the Ambizione career grant by the SNSF for her four year project “Governing the Revolution” on foreign aid, rebel governance, and the Spring Revolution in #Myanmar. www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
New SNSF Ambizione grant to be hosted by the CCDP
Incoming Research Associate, Dr Shona Loong, receives the Ambizione career grant by the SNSF for her four year project “Governing the Revolution” on foreign aid, rebel governance, and the Spring Revol...
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Our seminar Hospitals Under Fire, co hosted with the Global Health Centre @gvagrad-ghc.bsky.social, brought together experts to examine rising attacks on health care in conflict. Health Policy Watch covered the event 🗣️ healthpolicy-watch.news/ban-all-atta... @gvagrad.bsky.social
'Ban All Attacks On Hospitals As Shielding Has Become A Tool Of Genocide' - Health Policy Watch
All attacks on hospitals should be banned and the exceptions in international humanitarian law (IHL) that enable aggressors to justify bombing hospitals – by,
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🎉 Sara Hellmüller and Bilal Salaymeh are shortlisted for the 2026 Bernard Brodie Prize for their article in Contemporary Security Policy. Their work on transactional peacemaking brings new clarity to how states shape peace processes in Libya, Syria, and Yemen. doi.org/10.1080/1352...
Transactional peacemaking: Warmakers as peacemakers in the political marketplace of peace processes
World politics are changing with important implications for international peace processes. We argue that recent changes in world order have led to transactionalism becoming more pronounced in peace...
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🎙️ New Podcast Episode In this episode, Jennifer Thornquest speaks with Nicolas Florquin, Head of Data and Analytics at the Small Arms Survey, about the transnational circulation and control of small arms in Latin America. open.spotify.com/episode/2YUH...
S2E5 Tracing the Flow of Firearms: Understanding the Circulation and Control of Small Arms in Latin America
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@gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social presents “Ecos de Realidad", a tribute to activists who gave their lives defending justice, equity & human rights, by leading Mexican painter and activist Álvaro Sebastián Quiroz Bolaños. 📅14-16 Oct - The Fab, in the context of Geneva Peace Week 👉 shorturl.at/WlJOM
