Fact-finding
The term fact-finding (English for fact-finding , investigation ) comes in German and in English-speaking often in a connotation to human rights violations and conflicts before, but can be also used commonly in the sense of the word.
Fact Finding tries to find facts about human rights violations and conflicts as a preliminary stage to conflict prevention.
In the Agenda for Peace , fact finding is listed as a means of conflict prevention . There is no arbitration here, but trained interviewers ask about human rights violations and conflicts.
Often it is otherwise impossible to get a picture of the conflict. The UN , but also the OSCE, have problems finding enough qualified personnel for such actions. Because the fact finders not only have to be trained in interview techniques, but also in the national language . So far there have only been a few such fact-finding missions, including one in Moldova . This avoided a major conflict there. The OSCE led this mission.
literature
- Johan Galtung, Peace by Peaceful Means , Opladen, Leske and Budrich, 1998 ISBN 3-8100-1864-3
- AS Hornby: Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (5th A.) of Current English. German edition . Cornelsen Verlag GmbH & Co., Berlin, September 2002 ISBN 3-464-11223-3