Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 8/2020

Traumatised nations

UN peacekeepers in Cote d’Ivoire in 2012.
Global Governance

Self-perpetuating cycles of violence

Joint UN and World Bank study on international cooperation in conflict prevention

Graffiti on a bullet riddled building on the former frontline of the Lebanese civil war in downtown Beirut (photo taken in 2018).
Conflict transformation

Collective trauma

Violent conflicts can lead to the traumatisation of entire communities

Non-violent communication workshop at the women’s cooperation Nisaa Kaderat (Capable Women).
Collective memories

Legacy of wounds

Peace-work contributes to a healing process of collective trauma in Lebanon

More Articles

A mural in Windhoek depicts the celebration of independence in 1990.
Land ownership

How the first redistribution attempt failed

The policy proposed by Namibia’s first National Land Reform Conference in the early 1990s never took off

White farmers still own most of the commercial farming land.
Land restitution

Righting a wrong

To make amends for colonial-era crimes, Germany should fund Namibian land restitution

In the exhibition at the Uganda National Museum in Kampala: Dictator Idi Amin during a public appearance.
Idi Amin photo exhibition

Facets of a despot

A photo exhibition marks a first tentative attempt by Ugandans to come to terms with the past under Idi Amin

Hindu fanatics tearing down Babri Mosque in 1992.
Recurring trauma

Feelings of aggravation

The history of anti-Muslim violence in India

The International Criminal Court in The Hague.
International Criminal Court

Revisiting the peace versus justice debate

Demands for criminal accountability can be an obstacle to peace

Young Afghan victims of war.
Our view

Belonging together

Nations are nothing natural, but human-made “imagined communities”

In March 2011, activists of H.I.J.O.S remind in Buenos Aires of all the people who disappeared during the military dictatorship in Argentina.
Social psychology

Collective trauma

Every crisis leaves deep scars in the memory of the affected society

Women demand their rights: demonstration on 8 March 2020, the international women’s day, in Kathmandu.
Sexual violence

Justice for the victims

Nepal must urgently reform its sexual violence laws