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KOFF issues publications on various topics in civilian peacebuilding. The peacebuilding magazine “à propos” is released four times a year and provides an opportunity for the member organizations to express their views on a subject. In addition, we publish Essentials, which offer expert advice for practitioners, Critical Reflections, which summarize the main outputs of meetings and reports on a wide variety of peacebuilding issues.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Critical Reflection on the New Deal and the Role of Civil Society

Since its adoption at the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan in 2011, the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States has become a new paradigm guiding the engagement of both local and international actors in so called ‘fragile and conflict affected states’.

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Critical Reflection on doing Business in Myanmar: Potential Challenges and Ways Forward

Since the establishment of President Thein Sein's elected government in 2010, significant political and economic reforms in Myanmar have placed it in the spotlight.

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Annual Report 2012

The Center for Peacebuilding KOFF has had an eventful year 2012 and has successfully implemented the first milestones of the new 2012-2015 strategy.

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Critical Reflection on ‘Land Grabbing’ in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts

Large-scale land acquisitions are a reality in most regions worldwide. Vast areas of land are leased to foreign as well as national investors on a long term basis of 30-99 years.

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