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Tuesday, 03 December, 3.00 - 4.30pm (CET), Online, English

How do climate justice and efforts for a more just, peaceful and inclusive society interlink? Together with you and three amazing experts- Delia Berner (Alliance Sud), Golda Amanda Fuentes (Mission 21), and Annette Mokler (terre des hommes schweiz) - we want to explore this interlinkage, and its manifestation in two specific regions - Western Sahara and the region around Lake Titicaca.

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In June, our KOFF Roundtable on Conflict Sensitivity & Climate Change took place in Bern, looking at challenges associated with climate-related programming in fragile and conflict-affected settings. We are delighted to share the synthesis of this Roundtable with you. It summarizes the key points from the event and highlights relevant recommendations for practitioners working on climate-related programming.

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Thursday, 22 June 2023 | 2-4pm (CEST) | online | English

Youth is heavily affected by conflict. As youth are experts of their lived experiences, the YPS Agenda highlights the importance of youth as agents for sustainable peace. Please join us for this Roundtable and discuss, learn and reflect together with us on meaningful youth participation, challenges, opportunities, and the policy-practice-connect.

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Wednesday | 14.09.2022 | 3-5 pm

KOFF roundtable on media & information in the context of the war in Ukraine and other peace and security trends. The roundtable provides a space for KOFF members to exchange knowledge on the role of media, conspiracy theories, and preservation of open-source content for dealing with the past during conflict, and to jointly reflect on how multiple truths can exist at once in relation to misinformation. External partners are welcome to join these reflections.

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Building on the KOFF Master Class on Urban Peacebuilding, terre des hommes schweiz and KOFF organized a roundtable discussion on the impact of urban police violence on community life in Brazil, as well as the ways in which civil society and researchers from the peripheries respond to it.

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Over the past years, KOFF members have experienced and examined what it means when the space for civil society shrinks. At the same time, many organizations and individuals around the world have adapted old and developed new strategies and approaches to continue their work for peace, against all odds. The upcoming roundtable will highlight the creative, persistent, and innovative ways in which civil society «makes space» for peacebuilding.

December 1, 9:30am

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What are the biggest hurdles we currently face regarding mis/disinformation? What impact can digital technologies make in promoting peacemaking and preventing conflict?

In the third KOFF roundtable of 2021, panelists from four areas of peacebuilding discussed the challenges of mis/disinformation and ways forward - the discussion is reflected and summarized in this synthesis.

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How does Switzerland advocate for peace? Who determines peace policy? What has changed in recent years? What priorities should Switzerland set in its future peace policy in the future? And how does the Swiss candidature for a non-permanent seat in the UN Security Council play into this?

These and other questions came up at a KOFF Roundtable in May 2021 - the discussion is reflected and summarized in this synthesis.

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We are observing an increase in countries that are adopting a feminist foreign policy (FFP). Sweden, France and Mexico have launched their FFP programs in 2014, 2019 and 2020, while Canada is bound to announce its FFP strategy this year. At this roundtable KOFF brings together official representatives from these countries, Swiss administration and from civil society organizations to address questions such as: What is a feminist foreign policy? What do these policies entail and how do they relate to the Women, Peace and Security agenda?

June 22, 9.30am-12pm

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The Swiss Peace Council and the Switzerland-UNO Association together with KOFF invite you to this roundtable, where we will take a closer look at the development of Swiss peace policy and gather perspectives, suggestions and demands of the participating organizations around Switzerland's candidacy for the UN Security Council. Everyone who is interested in Switzerland's engagement in the field of peace is cordially invited. We are looking forward to an exciting exchange. The number of places is limited, we ask for registration until 4.5.2021 at natalina.haller@swisspeace.ch. The event is in German with the option to speak French, too.

May 11, 2021, 9.15am-12pm (online)

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