Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate

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Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate - Academy for Crisis Prevention and Civil Conflict Management
Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate - Academy for Crisis Prevention and Civil Conflict Management
Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate
Category: research Institute
Facility location: Landau in the Palatinate
Areas of expertise: Peace research , conflict research
Basic funding: State of Rhineland-Palatinate
Management: Dr. Charlotte Dany
Homepage: www.friedensakademie-rlp.de

The Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate - Academy for Crisis Prevention and Civil Conflict Management was anchored in 2014 as an independent “special scientific institution” at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Section 97 HochSchG). It is based in the Frank-Loebschen house in Landau. It is thus one of the youngest peace science institutions in Germany. Since January 2019, the Peace Academy has been a central institution (Section 90 HochSchG) of the University of Koblenz-Landau.

Background and development context

The idea for the establishment goes back to an initiative of the Rhineland-Palatinate state government in 2011. According to this, peace policy activities in the country are to be supported and civil and preventive strategies for conflict and crisis management are to be strengthened. This point anchored in the coalition agreement of 2011 was taken up again in November 2013 by various social groups and led to the establishment of a sponsoring association “Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate - Academy for Crisis Prevention and Civil Conflict Management” on November 12, 2013, which advocated the establishment of a Rhineland -Palatinate Peace Academy. The Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament finally provided appropriate financial resources for the establishment and development of a peace academy for the 2013 and 2014 budget years. The organization and supporter of the Peace Academy is the non-profit association founded at the end of 2013. Ulrich Sarcinelli has been chairman of the sponsoring association of the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate eV since the end of 2013. He played a key role in setting up the “Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate. Academy for Crisis Prevention and Civil Conflict Management ”as an independent, special scientific institution at the University of Koblenz-Landau. The other founding and board members of the sponsoring association include a. Dieter Schiffmann , Friedel Grützmacher ( Givat Haviva ), Roland Vogt , Christoph Picker ( Evangelical Academy of the Palatinate ) and Florian Pfeil ( Further Education Center Ingelheim (WBZ), Fridtjof Nansen Academy ), Melanie Steffens . Since January 2019, the Peace Academy has been a central institution (Section 90 HochSchG) of the University of Koblenz-Landau.

The decision to found the company was initially highly controversial and attracted a lot of media attention. In particular, the CDU parliamentary group in the opposition criticized the project of the red-green state government. On the other hand, former CDU top politicians such as the former environment minister and former executive director of  the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)  in Nairobi, Klaus Töpfer, emphasized the potential importance of such an institution. After the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate, the new government parties (SPD, FDP, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) also expressly committed to the Rhineland-Palatinate Peace Academy in the coalition agreement of May 17, 2016.

Main focus of work and research

The academy is the only institution of its kind in Rhineland-Palatinate. It pursues the fundamental aim of strengthening and further developing tried-and-tested strategies for crisis prevention and civil conflict management , promoting research in peace studies, stimulating socio-political discourse, and training peace workers and people who are confronted with potential for conflict and violence in our society.

Her main areas of work include:

  • Public relations: The Peace Academy of Rhineland-Palatinate takes up current, socio-politically important "peace" topics by organizing and participating in public events. In this way, it creates an independent, widely visible contribution to public relations work on social and peace policy not only in Rhineland-Palatinate, but also beyond (e.g. at the Bled Strategic Forum “Safeguarding the Future” 2016 in Slovenia). However, it is mainly active throughout the whole of Rhineland-Palatinate. For example, since 2015 she has been inviting people to the Landau Peace Lectures Series , where the internationally renowned conflict researcher I. William Zartman from Johns Hopkins University has given lectures. The Landau peace lectures are also recorded for the YouTube video channel of the RLP Peace Academy. On November 12, 2015, the Peace Academy of Rhineland-Palatinate, together with the Rwanda Center, brought the so-called PIN-Group (an international group of experts on international negotiation processes) to Germany. As part of the PIN Roadshow, which is taking place in Germany for the first time, internationally prominent workshops on the subject of "Negotiations on Prevention and Reconciliation as Risk Management" took place.
  • Networking: The RLP Peace Academy is committed to a. for closer cooperation between various peace science and peace policy initiatives and organizations in the country. By organizing workshops and symposia on various topics from the fields of crisis prevention and civil conflict management, the Peace Academy supports the networking of various actors and groups of actors in these fields of action.
  • Qualification & Education: Together with partners, the Peace Academy RLP is committed to the development of qualification as well as further and advanced training offers for different professional and stakeholder groups. It continuously develops new peace education offers (e.g. for schools and youth groups, for school and extracurricular learning locations). Since 2015 she has also been participating with her own workshop at the Landau Children's University. There is also a one-off offer for police candidates from the Federal Police.
  • Peace studies research & teaching: As an institution at the interface between peace work and peace education, the Peace Academy is also involved in the areas of academic peace and conflict research and regularly presents and publishes research results from the main research areas.

The current research focuses include:

  • Crisis Prevention and Civil Conflict Management
  • Environmental and resource conflicts
  • Peace education

As part of the work and research program, the Peace Academy RLP works closely with international and national NGOs and private and public institutions together (as z. B. Givat Haviva , Landessportbund Rhineland-Palatinate , the Rwanda Center, Partnership Rhineland-Palatinate and Rwanda , State Center for political education in Rhineland-Palatinate , Frank-Loeb Institute, Klaus Jensen Foundation, the PIN Group etc.). The Peace Academy RLP is also an independent institutional part of the Upper Rhine Trinational Graduate Academy's "Security Risk Orientaton" (SERIOR) project. SERIOR is a project of the University of Koblenz-Landau and the five EUCOR universities on the Upper Rhine - University of Freiburg, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , University of Basel , Université de Haute-Alsace, financed by the European Union in the INTERREG V-Upper Rhine program and by the Swiss Confederation , Université de Strasbourg - as well as the Center National de la Recherche Scientifique -Délégation Alsace and the École Nationale du Génie de l'Eau et de l'Environnement de Strasbourg. SERIOR will offer a new intercultural, interdisciplinary and practical qualification and support program for young scientists in the field of risk management. Around 50 employees involved will develop, test and implement new types of instruments for setting up the Graduate Academy SERIOR over a project period up to the end of 2018 - including summer schools, seminar series, methodical and didactic manuals for perceiving, assessing and communicating risks as well as databases for relevant literature, Projects and contacts. 

Publications

The employees regularly publish their research results and present them at international specialist conferences. The RLP Peace Academy is also the organizer of international and national specialist conferences. Relevant are u. a. the publications on human security of the research focus "Environmental changes as a cause of conflict and a threat to human security". The lectures of the Landau Peace Lecture Series organized by the RLP Peace Academy are available on youtube. Posts appear regularly on the academy blog maintained by the RLP Peace Academy (friedensakademie-blog.eu).

Others

Since 2016 the Peace Academy of Rhineland-Palatinate has been putting out the “Fit for Peace” student competition together with the Landau Children's University.

The range of courses in the field of (inter) national human rights policy and human rights education received funding in 2015 as a particularly innovative teaching project from the University of Koblenz-Landau's University Didactics Office, and Faculty 6: Cultural and Social Sciences published the “Landau Manifesto on Human Rights Education ".

With the support of local and regional donors, an endowed junior professorship for land use conflicts at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau, was set up in the 2015/16 winter semester.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Online information on the homepage (concept) of the Friedensakademie Rheinland-Pfalz. Retrieved October 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The Rhineland-Palatinate Peace Academy in the starting blocks: Professor Sarcinelli is chairman. Pfalz Express, December 16, 2013, accessed on August 9, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Online information on the homepage (sponsoring association of the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate eV) of the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate. Retrieved August 8, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Landesschau Aktuell Rhineland-Palatinate. SWR, March 9, 2015, accessed on August 9, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Markus Lachmann: "Peace, Joy, Academy. Once a controversial position in Landau has existed for a year". Allgemeine Zeitung, March 25, 2016, accessed on August 9, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Dietmar Brück: Controversial: Peace Academy is taking shape. In: Rhein-Zeitung. August 9, 2014, accessed August 9, 2016 .
  7. ^ Zoff about the Rhineland-Palatinate Peace Academy. Die Welt, March 18, 2015, accessed August 9, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Professor Dr. Klaus Töpfer at the Peace Academy: "The key to peace is freedom". In: Pfalz Express. May 11, 2015, accessed August 9, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Blatz: "A black man gives red-green start-up help. Klaus Töpfer at the opening event of the controversial Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate" . Ed .: Die Rheinpfalz. March 11, 2015, p. Front page .
  10. ^ Coalition Agreement Rhineland-Palatinate 2016–2021. May 17, 2016, accessed August 9, 2016 .
  11. ↑ LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS AT THE 2016 BLED STRATEGIC FORUM. (No longer available online.) Bled Strategic Forum, 2016, archived from the original on August 9, 2016 ; accessed on August 10, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bledstrategicforum.org
  12. ↑ Ilja Tüchter: "'The USA invented the peace process' Interview: US conflict researcher I. William Zartman on the wars of the world and the role of the USA" . Ed .: Die Rheinpfalz. March 7, 2016.
  13. ↑ About us. In: www.pin-negotiation.org/. Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Program, accessed on August 10, 2016 (English, The PIN network brings together more than 4000 international experts and practitioners for international negotiation processes. Among other things, different facets of the theory and practice of (inter-) Of particular importance for the work are the PIN roadshows accompanied by the Steering Committee, which have so far been held at the Argentine Council for International Relations, Buenos Aires; Beida University, Beijing; the Center for Conflict Resolution, Haifa; the Center for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Culture, Kyoto; the School of International Relations, Tehran; the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm; the University of Cairo; University Hassan II, Casablanca; the University of Helsinki; the UN University for Peace, San Jose, Costa Rica and in cooperation with the Peace Academy e RLP and the Rwanda Center in Koblenz took place.).
  14. ^ PIN Roadshow Koblenz - November 12, 2015. PIN Negotiations, Clingersael Netherlands Institute of International Relations, accessed on August 9, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Christina Saulich: PIN ROADSHOW 2015 in Koblenz. Negotiations on Prevention and Reconciliation as Risk Management. Conference Report. 2015, accessed August 9, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Melanie Hussak: Learn peace! Conference on peace building, 15. – 17. October 2015, University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz . Ed .: Science & Peace. No. 2016-1 , 2016, p. 60-61 ( online ).
  17. ↑ Training and workshop offers in the area of ​​peace and conflict skills. Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate, accessed on August 10, 2016 .
  18. ^ Sonja Hoffmann: Workshops on Peace . In: NeuLand. Landau campus magazine . 2016/01 / No. 40 , 2016, p. 10–11 ( online [PDF]).
  19. ↑ Online information on the homepage (research and work focus) of the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate. Retrieved August 8, 2016 .
  20. ^ Upper Rhine Trinational Graduate Academy "Security-Risk-Orientation" (SERIOR). SciPort RLP, the research portal of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, accessed on August 9, 2016 .
  21. ↑ International Graduate Academy SERIOR "Security - Risks - Orientation". December 22, 2014, accessed August 9, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Topic publications in the research focus “Environmental changes and resources as causes of conflict and threats to human security”. Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate, accessed on August 9, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Landau Manifesto on Human Rights Education. Faculty 6: Cultural and Social Sciences at the University of Koblenz-Landau, December 10, 2015, accessed on August 10, 2016 .