News & Outlook:

03/2010
Fieldwork in Liberia and Mindanao has successfully been finished. Thanks to the support of FES and DSF. Analyses will be conducted this summer. For first preliminary results see "publications".

01/2009
The Peace Zone case study as book. In German only, sorry.
"Friedenskommunikation: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Kommunikation in der Konflikttransformation" LiT Verlag.
order here

“I believe, that if we can train people for war, we can also train them for peace”
- Robert Layson, 2001

We need Peace


Peace is only possible where conflicts are transformed and solved through the means of communication. Once communication is interrupted or aborted, it is inevitably replaced by violence. The concept of Peace Communication therefore encompasses every kind of communication with the intention to (re-)create or preserve peace.

The project “Peace Communication” tries to make that kind of communication accessible for a scientific discussion and at the same time provide a theoretical framework.