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KOFF, Publications, Critical Reflections, Human Rights and Civil Society Space

19 Sep 2014

Critical Reflection: Challenges for Human Rights Defenders: Reflections from Nepal

The Critical Reflection highlights specific challenges which human rights defenders in Nepal face. It also takes a step back and reflects on some common challenges that cut across different contexts.

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30 Jun 2014

Critical Reflection on Ukraine 2014 – Civil Society Creating Space between Past and Future: informal follow up discussion

The Ukrainian crisis is not ebbing and is continuously taking new forms. What has started as a movement of civilian protest against a corrupt and ideologically ambiguous political elite in late 2013 has developed into an armed conflict in spring 2014.

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31 Mar 2014

Critical Reflection on Reconciliation in South Sudan in the context of the current crisis

Since mid-December 2013 South Sudan has been caught up in armed violence that has brought severe human rights violations, death, devastation and displacement.

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KOFF, Publications, Critical Reflections, Women Peace & Security

30 Mar 2014

Critical Reflection on Promoting Women’s Participation in Peace Negotiations and Peace Processes

Fourteen years after UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on “Women, Peace and Security” was passed, formal peace negotiations remain clearly male-dominated processes of decision-making.

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3 Jan 2014

Critical Reflection on Local Elections in Kosovo – A Step Closer to Normalization?

At the end of December 2013, I met a long time Balkans correspondent from a major German newspaper. When the conversation touched upon Kosovo, he was quite categorical: „It is over“ he said.

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KOFF, Publications, Annual Reports

1 Jan 2014

Annual Report 2013

Facilitating political dialogue and the joint analysis of non-governmental, state and private-sector actors in Switzerland and abroad remained one of KOFF's main roles.

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KOFF, Publications, Critical Reflections, Women Peace & Security

12 Dec 2013

Critical Reflection on New Deal and Resolution 1325 - No Need to Reinvent the Wheel to Make the Road to 2015 and Beyond

Approaching 2015 it has become clear that fragility and gender inequality risk undermining development and reversing the gains that have been made.

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2 Dec 2013

Critical Reflection on Myanmar: Working in a Quickly Changing Environment

Not many countries can compare with the level of attention that Myanmar’s transition process has received over the last years.

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22 Oct 2013

Critical Reflection on youth and political mobilization in West Africa

Since the Arab springs redesigned the map of political mobilizations, the youth issues and the political order is particularly acute.

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KOFF, Publications, Critical Reflections

16 Sep 2013

Critical Reflection on the Use of New Technologies: Expanding Opportunities for Peacebuilding?

Technology provides new avenues for participation, enabling people to engage with the world and seek change in new ways. Many areas of public policy and development practice have embraced these opportunities that technology provides.

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