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Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding

 

The CCDP is the Graduate Institute’s focal point for research in the areas of conflict analysis, peacebuilding, and the complex relationships between security and development. Its research projects focus on the factors and actors that are implicated in the production and reproduction of violence within and between societies and states, as well as on policies and practices to reduce violence and insecurity and enhance development and peacebuilding initiatives at the international, state, and local levels.

 

The overarching research concerns of the CCDP are reflected in four main research streams:

  • Peacebuilding, reconciliation and the transformation of conflict;
  • Community policing and informal security provision, particularly in urban settings;
  • Development, extractive industries and the political economy of violence;
  • The organisation and accountability of development and security institutions.

 

These streams are inherently interconnected, and specific research projects are consciously framed in such as a way as to maximise disciplinary and methodological collaboration across them.

 

Publications

 

Issue Brief

Civil Societies in Transitions: Facing Current Challenges in Tunisia and Egypt

 

This Issue Brief explores the challenges faced by Egyptian and Tunisian civil society in the ongoing political transitions. Discussing the reduction in the influence of civil society, the insufficient focus on people's economic and social needs and the limited effectiveness of foreign support, the brief makes various suggestions to improve civil society participation.

This report is part of an ongoing project entitled “Arab Spring: Challenges during Political Transitions and Comparative Lessons for Civil Societies in the Middle East and North Africa”.

A translation of the paper into Arabic is available.

 

Issue Brief

Arab Civil Societies after the Uprisings: Challenges during Political Transitions

 

This issue brief identifies four main challenges hindering the participation of civil society in the ongoing transitions. Discussing the fragmentation amongst civil society actors, their organizational challenges, their engagement with the political sphere as well as with donors, the brief makes various suggestions to improve civil society participation.

A translation of the paper into Arabic is now available.

 


  

 

Past Events

 

  • June 13th - Public Conference

The Situation of Palestinian Children in the Israeli Military Detention System

In collaboration with Defence for Children International (DCI) and with the support of the City of Geneva

 

  • 6 juin - 8 juin - Colloque international

Religion et Etat : Logiques de la sécularisation et de la citoyenneté en islam

En collaboration avec l'Association suisse pour le dialogue euro-arabo-musulman (ASDEAM) et avec le soutien du Centre de politique de sécurité Genève (GCSP) et le Centre Jacques Berque, Maroc.
 

  • May 22nd - Book Launch

Writing the Modern History of Iraq

In collaboration with the Iraqi Studies Group


  • May 21st - Public Seminar

Peacebuilders: An Ethnography of International Intervention

With Séverine Autesserre, Assistant Professor at Barnard College

 

  • May 15th - Public Lecture

In the Shadow of the Wall: the Israeli Undocumented Economy of Control in the West Bank (2007-2013)

With Cédric Parizot, Anthropologist of politics, researcher at the CNRS, Institute of Research and Studies of the Arab and Muslim World (Aix en Provence)