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The dance of peace and justice: local perceptions of international peacebuilding in West Africa

Leib, Julia / Samantha Ruppel (2021)
External Publications

Implications of COVID-19 for conflict in Africa

Fiedler, Charlotte / Karina Mross / Yonas Adaye Adeto (2021)
Briefing Paper 12/2021

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected armed conflict and political violence within countries? Focusing on Africa, this policy brief analyses the immediate and long-term implications of the pandemic on conflict and reflects on its implications for international peacebuilding efforts.

EU-China engagement in humanitarian aid: different approaches, shared interests?

Friesen, Ina / Leon Janauschek (2021)
Briefing Paper 11/2021

To close the gap between humanitarian needs and available funding, the European Union should develop a long-term strategy as to how to engage with China on humanitarian matters. This paper suggests focusing the dialogue on the food security sector and anticipatory humanitarian aid.

UNESCO Chair in Human-Water Systems

Online, 18. May 2021

A key challenge for sustainable water management and thus sustainable development as a whole is the complexity of human-water-systems. Inter- and transdisciplinary approaches and the targeted processing of research results are central for a better understanding and sustainable implementation of knowledge. This is where the new UNESCO…

To save biodiversity, transform the economy

Rodríguez, Jean Carlo / Ina Lehmann (2021)
The Current Column, 17. May 2021

As countries of the Global North consider how to re-set their economies after the COVID-19 pandemic, this window of political opportunity should be used now to transform our economic system.

Hydro-social dynamics of miningscapes: obstacles to implementing water protection legislation in Mongolia

Schoderer, Mirja / Daniel Karthe / Ines Dombrowsky / Jampel Dell'Angelo (2021)
External Publications

Potentials and Challenges of a Future AU-EU Trade Agreement

Online, 12. May 2021

Africa’s role in the world trading system is currently receiving increased attention. In 2018, the members of the African Union (AU) adopted the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement to create the world’s largest free trade area in terms of participating countries. On 1 January 2021, Africa began trading under the AfCFTA,…

Seven principles to guide German development policy

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Imme Scholz (2021)
The Current Column, 10. May 2021

For Germany in this election year, a number of questions arise in its external policy areas. What will the future model for German development policy look like?

Benefits and challenges of a WTO Investment Facilitation Framework for Development for Latin American economies

Online, 05. May 2021

Investment facilitation can be understood as a set of measures concerned, among other things, with improving the transparency and predictability of investment frameworks, streamlining procedures related to foreign investors and enhancing coordination and cooperation among different stakeholders, to attract foreign direct investment (FDI)…

The second hand market for air conditioners in Metro Manila. Business models, resource use, policy options

Never, Babette (2021)
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Proposals to make the T20 a more impactful, effective, and continuous think tank process

Berger, Axel / Imme Scholz / Anna-Katharina Hornidge / Sait Akman / Jann Lay / Gustavo Martinez / Stormy Mildner / Amrita Narlikar / Andrea Ordóñez / Claudia Schmucker / Elizabeth Sidiropoulos / Sébastien Treyer (2021)
External Publications

About the need for a public debate about social cohesion and democracy

Leininger, Julia / Armin von Schiller (2021)
The Current Column, 28. April 2021

Against what many “preached” at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, societies did not become stronger through the crisis.

Newly founded African-German Leadership Academy fosters mutual learning on sustainability

Press Release: Shaping sustainable economic and social change together - that is the aim of the newly established BMZ African-German Leadership Academy.

Delayed return: consolidation of the Zimbabwean diaspora and transnationalism

Jaji, Rose (2021)
External Publications

The ambiguous partner: Mexico and the European Green Deal

Ruano, Lorena (2021)
External Publications

Exploring South African 'Green Leadership' in the context of the European Green Deal

Chevallier, Romy / Alex Benkenstein (2021)
External Publications

How knowledge networks develop their transformative potential

Vogel, Johanna (2021)
The Current Column, 12. April 2021

The pandemic highlights the importance of knowledge networks as instruments. To be successful, they need to be interdisciplinary, as well as transnational and also need to pursue a common global vision.

The G20’s missed opportunity

Akhtar, Shamshad / Ulrich Volz / Moritz Kraemer / Stephany Griffith-Jones With dozens of low- an (2021)
External Publications

The IMF and the macro-criticality of climate change

Volz, Ulrich (2021)
External Publications

Reforming the UN Development System at Country Level

This research and policy advice project investigates whether and to what extent the reform for strengthening the UNDS bears first fruits.