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Fact sheet – swisspeace
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Präsidentin / Präsident
Dr. Jakob Kellenberger
Geschäftsstelle / Kontakt
swisspeace
Sonnenbergstrasse 17
P.O. Box
CH-3000 Bern 7
+41 (0)31 330 12 12
Fax: +41 (0)31 330 12 13
[email protected]
URL Website
http://www.swisspeace.ch/
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Gründungs- / Beitrittsjahr
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swisspeace is a practice-oriented peace research institute. It carries out research on
violent conflicts and their peaceful transformation. Through training, networking and
exchange of experiences, swisspeace supports Swiss and international organizations
to build up their civilian peacebuilding capacities. Thereby, it helps to create informed opinions on Swiss and international peace policy through reports, analyses
and conferences. swisspeace promotes knowledge transfer between researchers and
practitioners.
swisspeace was founded in 1988 as the Swiss Peace Foundation with the goal of promoting independent peace research in Switzerland. Today swisspeace employs more
about 50 staff members. Its most important clients are the Swiss Federal Department
of Foreign Affairs, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the UN and development
agencies. swisspeace is an associated Institute of the University of Basel.
Gründung: 1988
Beitritt zur SAGW: 1998
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Zentrale Ziele 2013–2016
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Enlarging membership, successful positioning of new postgraduate courses, acquisition of new research projects, implementing new framework agreement with FDFA,
intensifying cooperation with the University of Basel in teaching and research
Mission und thematische
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swisspeace conducts inter- and transdisciplinary peace research, offers university
courses and trainings and advises state and non-state actors in the field of peacebuilding. It concentrates on the topics of business & peace, dealing with the past, impact
assessment, mediation and statehood.
Anzahl Mitglieder
190
Mitgliederbeitrag
Einzelpersonen: CHF 100
Publikationen
Newsletter / Bulletin
KOFF newsletter edited at swisspeace on Swiss peacebuilding activities:
http://koff.swisspeace.ch/news/newsletter/
published monthy
Tagungen
Tagungsarten und Kadenz
swisspeace Annual Conference, once a year:
http://www.swisspeace.ch/activities/events/annual-conferences.html
Regular events: roundtable discussions and workshops both on relevant regions and
selected topics. These events bring together representatives from governmental and
non-governmental organizations as well as academia to share experiences and lessons
learned in order to enhance coherence and complementarity among Swiss actors' activities and to promote the exchange between practice and research.
http://www.swisspeace.ch/activities/events.html
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Weitere Informationen
Fachinformationen
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swisspeace Working Papers Series http://www.swisspeace.ch/publications/workingpapers.html
swisspeace Essential Series http://www.swisspeace.ch/publications/essentials.html
Weitere Aktivitäten
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series including contributions
from staff members on core research issues and topics as well
as conference papers
(2-4 papers/year)
The Foundation is involved in post-graduate courses, social science study programs
and the training of doctoral candidates at the University of Basel. It is also part of the
International Graduate School North-South run by the Universities of Bern, Basel and
Zurich. Partnerships are being developed with scholars and research institutes in Africa, Asia and Central America. In September 2012 swisspeace and the University of
Basel launched the first postgraduate course in civilian peacebuilding (Certificate of
Advanced Studies CAS). In 2014 several postgraduate courses will be offered at the
swisspeace Academy in Basel.
http://www.swisspeace.ch/activities/training/cas-civilian-peacebuilding.html
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