The Geneva Peacebuilding Platform is mandated to act as a ‘knowledge hub’ to advance new knowledge and understanding of peacebuilding issues and contexts, and to facilitate the interaction on peacebuilding between different institutions and sectors. This is why the generation of anaylsis and insight on trends on peacebuilding practice is at the heart of what the Platform does. The Platform produces a Brief and Paper Series, as well as initiative publications with partners.
Selected publications on trends in peacebuilding practice:
General trends
- Building Peace: An Annotated Resource Pack (Paper 21/2016)
- Responses to Conflict that Work (Paper 15/2016)
- White Paper on Peacebuilding (2015) and its 20 associated publications of the White Paper Series (2015)
- Peacebuilding: A Review of the Academic Literature (WP Series 13/2015)
- Peacebuilding: A Review of the Policy Literature (WP Series 14/2015)
- New Technologies: The Future of Alternative Infrastructures for Peace (WP Series 20/2015)
Private sector and peacebuilding
- Business and the UN Peace and Security Agenda (Brief 10/2016)
- What Role of the Private Sector in the Prevention of Election Violence? The Case of Kenya (Paper 13/2015)
- Confronting Risk, Mobilizing Action: A Framework for Conflict Prevention in the Context of Large-scale Business Investments (with Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung, 2012)
- Business and Conflict Prevention: Towards a Framework for Action (Paper 2/2011)
Urban safety and peacebuilding
- Urban Safety and Security: Lessons from the last two Decades and Emergent Issues (Paper 22/2016)
- Case Studies on Urban Safety and Peacebuilding: Lagos, Beirut, Mitrovica, Treichville and Johannesburg (Paper 19/2016)
- Negotiating with Criminal Groups: From Prejudice to Pragmatism (GPP Paper 18/2016)
- Entry Points for Programming across Urban Safety and Peacebuilding (GPP Paper 16/2016)
- Understanding the Grammar of the City: Urban Safety and Peacebuilding Practice through a Semiotic Lens (Paper 14/2016)
- Peacebuilding and the City: Setting the Scene (Brief 9/2013)
Conflict prevention
- Entry Points for Preventing Youth Engagement in Political Violence: Lessons from Burundi’s 2015 Elections (Paper 23/2016)
- What went wrong in the Central African Republic? International engagement and the failure to think conflict prevention (Paper 12/2015)
- Keeping the Peace: Lessons Learned from Preventive Action towards Kenya's 2013 Elections (Paper 10/2013)
- Entry Points for a New Prevention Agenda (Brief 8/2013)
