Last Advisory Board meeting in 2024 with departmental representatives at the Federal Foreign Office

At the last of its quarterly Advisory Board meetings in 2024, the Advisory Board looked back together with the departments on the developments in the field of civilian crisis crevention over the past year, on the intersection of various current topics and on possible synergies and emerging issues for the future of crisis prevention, conflict transformation and peacebuilding. Besides a review of the successful holding of this year’s Berlin Peace Dialogue 2024, there was also an exchange on the status of the further development of the crisis guidelines. The interconnections between crisis prevention and peacebuilding with fragility, climate-related risks and in the context of the HDP nexus were also on the agenda.

In this context, the Advisory Board presented its newly published study on environmental peacebuilding and discussed the relevance of climate- and environment-related approaches for sustainable peace with the departmental representatives. Departmental representatives from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development also used the meeting to present the new BMZ position paper ‘Overcoming Fragility’ and discuss its implications.

The Advisory Board would like to express its thanks for the lively dialogue and shared view of the future, and in particular to the Federal Foreign Office for providing the premises for the conference. Representatives from the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Chancellery, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, the Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Home Affairs and the Federal Ministry of Defence also took part in the exchange.