🤝swisspeace & DCAF have recently started a new exciting learning partnership focusing on DCAF’s contribution to long-term change in Security Sector Governance (SSG). swisspeace brings along its experience in Adaptative Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL). We're glad to embark in this journey!

This online short course equips peace practitioners with the skills to strategically analyze, design, and support dialogue processes in complex peace environments. 📅 25–29 January 2027 | 5 afternoons (CET) 💻 Online 📝 Apply by 1 December 2026 👉Read more & apply here: buff.ly/Lz3xhlA

Meetings, workshops, trainings, our work runs on interactions. But how often do we default to the same discussions? This on-site training will help you design and guide more engaging, inclusive, and efficient exchanges. 🗓️ 14–15 Jan 2027 | ⏳ Apply by 15 November 2026 Read more: buff.ly/1dXTZzO

What does police reform look like from the perspective of those who live and enact it daily? Michel Thill will share fresh perspectives on policing, violence, legitimacy, and state-building — moving beyond simple narratives of "success" or "failure." 📅 10 September 2026 🕖 7:00 PM 👉 buff.ly/AhRKjPb

Looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our Dealing with the Past Program! 🗓️ Starting 1 October 2026 | ⏳ Apply by 6 September 2026 Apply here: buff.ly/g3aSKmS

What does the end of the Assad regime mean for Syrians living abroad? In the next ECHO BASEL, authors Zaher Al Jamous and Lubna Abou Kheir, alongside Dr Ali Sonay, discuss notions of home and memory, and consider how Syria's future can be shaped from faraway Basel. Register here: buff.ly/lWLSCTd

Would you like to develop creative and engaging training approaches? Our Creative & Innovative Methodologies for Inclusive Peacebuilding course offers hands-on training and equips you with innovative pedagogical and training approaches. 👉️ buff.ly/PQdWBUg ⏰ Apply by 1st of September 2026

Apply for our Gender, Conflict & Peacebuilding course if you want to grasp how gender intersects with identities such as race, class, as well as critically assess the strengths and limitations of the UN Security Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security: buff.ly/Unxnyt6 🗓️ 23 – 25 Sept. 2026

🔔Mediation & Peacemaking Course | 7–9 October 2026 Designed for practitioners and academics seeking to complement their experience with current conceptual and practical insights, this course explores how mediators support sustainable peace processes. 🚀Apply by 15 September 2026: buff.ly/IknygB1

What can we learn about peace negotiations from role-plays and simulations? 🎭🤔 Julian Arevalo explores in this newly open access publication the study of how negotiation complexity is introduced, experienced, and managed in simulated scenarios. 📖 Read now: buff.ly/leH2WJ8

Our online course Disappeared & Missing Persons in Peacebuilding explores legal, humanitarian, forensic and psychosocial approaches to addressing missing persons in post-conflict settings. 📅 14–16 October 2026 & 21–23 October 2026 Learn more & apply: buff.ly/TtBDOJV

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Happy to share a glimpse of our Peace Mediation Course that concluded last week. 🙏 Thank you to all participants and partners, the FDFA & ETH Zürich, for making this a very enriching experience. We are committed to investing further in the skills & relationships that contribute to lasting peace.

📝A project in Afghanistan we work on is about supporting local actors in rehabilitating watersheds and irrigation systems. It also promotes dialogue and cooperation among communities. We are working on this project for PATRIP and with a local partner organization ! Read more here: buff.ly/JW02HJR

An opportunity to learn important and practical skills, connect with peers and pursue a fascinating training. Choose the CAS of your choice: 🔹 CAS Peacebuilding Essentials: buff.ly/NocWWfI 🔹 CAS Peace Mediation & Dialogue: buff.ly/TT8PPfK 🔹 CAS Dealing with the Past (virtual/online): buff.ly/Q0Zd5Bn

Exciting opportunities are now open within the REVET (Renewable Energy Inclusive Skills for Employment and Training) project, implemented by swisspeace, Norwegian Refugee Council and hftm Höhere Fachschule Technik Mittelland. We are currently recruiting for two Juba-based national positions.

As part of our CAS Art & Peace program, we co-organized a study trip to Greece with Habibi.works, an intercultural platform for empowerment, education, and community building. 📷️Program participants discovered Athens through the lenses of contemporary art, migration, coexistence, and solidarity.

🏠🔑 Syria’s 2025 Constitution makes the return of refugees and displaced people a key priority of the political transition. But what can displaced Syrians actually return to? In this Working Paper, Ana Farrèr explores housing, land and property (HLP) rights 👉 buff.ly/SfNwHGq

✨ Looking back in pictures at the successful Guided Art Tours we organized for the VOLTA Art Fairs. Thank you to Dr. Gal Harmat, Senior Researcher and expert in Art & Peace and all participants for such interdisciplinary reflections, we look forward to many more such partnerships in the future!🙌

Our Gender, Conflict & Peacebuilding course offers gender perspectives on mediation, conflict sensitivity, and the culture of peace, in both physical and digital spaces and within international organizations. Join us to explore this fascinating topic: buff.ly/4e5F5Tx

📘 2025 Zoom-in #5 Visual communication is at the heart of today's peace landscape. Researching its visual depictions in specific context such as Colombia is the aim of the project "From Pixels to Peace". Read the article about it here: buff.ly/yI30xfn

👥We brought 26 researchers & practitioners from various disciplines to Basel for a Workshop. This interdisciplinary exchange enabled participants to reflect on how complexity & conflict fragmentation affect negotiations, mediation efforts, and broader peace processes. Learn more: buff.ly/KQDkj04

Do you sometimes feel strained by your work in the peacebuilding and human rights sector? Sign up for our Mental Wellbeing & Peacebuilding course and explore strategies to manage stress and protect your mental well-being. 👉️ buff.ly/U0mH5Mu

📢 We're hiring a Policy & Stakeholder Engagement Lead (80–100%) in Basel. Lead dialogue platforms, engage policymakers & civil society, and shape peacebuilding policy in Switzerland and beyond. 📅 Sept 2026 (or by agreement) ➡️ swisspeace.jobs.personio.de/job/2688270 #jobs #policydialogue

A big shout-out to Luca! 👏 By keeping our finances on track and ensuring projects meet donor requirements, Luca Paneth helps lay the foundation for our peacebuilding work to thrive. Thank you, Luca, for all that you do! 🌸

Our Creative & Innovative Methodologies for Inclusive Peacebuilding cours offers hands-on training to create creative, innovative and engaging training approaches to translate theories, concepts, and ideas into practical methods and tools. 👉️https://buff.ly/3Z4145j

📘 2025 Zoom-in #4 Last year, Senior Program Officer Michel Thill published the book “The Police, the State and the Congo Cop”, exploring statehood and policy reform through the lens of the police in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 👀 Want to learn more? Read this article: buff.ly/XrKqIe2

HAPPENING TOMORROW 📚 🗣Book talk by Dr. Maria Birnbaum: Before Recognition: How the Politics of Religion shaped the International Order Learn about how colonial and anti-colonial governmental logics shaped the politics of religious minorities, representation, and border-making dynamics.

Do you work in peacebuilding, development cooperation, humanitarian work, or media? Or are you a career changer looking to enter these fields? Choose the Certificate of Advanced Studies of your choice to expand your skills and knowledge: ⏳ August 2026 – October 2027 👉 Apply now: buff.ly/LmR2Ycd

How can we make Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) projects more effective in conflict settings? 🔍 Last week, participants in our Adaptive MEL course explored practical ways to navigate complexity and adapt to change. 🚀 Stay tuned for next year’s edition! 🚀https://buff.ly/sWTnYUx

Earlier this month, mediation went local🌍🤝 The Mediation Support Network's 2026 Annual Meeting brought practitioners to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, in partnership with ZIMBABWE INSTITUTE, for a sharp look at insider mediation in a shifting landscape. 👉https://buff.ly/2fGWOF6