GPPi launches project on the use of German reunification expertise for UN peacebuilding

Germany’s Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) has asked GPPi to conduct a study on how expertise from German reunification can be used for United Nations peacebuilding and the stabilization of fragile states.

The study relates to the UN Civilian Capacities (CivCap) process, an effort launched by the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations to address critical capacity needs in peacebuilding. Through CivCap, the UN asks member states to mobilize civilian expertise in democratic transition processes to help fill these capacity gaps.

Titled ​“Drawing on German Reunification: New Capacities for UN Peacebuilding?,” the GPPi study will focus on the selected areas of public administration reform, judicial and legal reform, and transitional justice and accountability. It seeks to assess to what extent Germany’s experience with reunification in the 1990s could be made available for UN peacebuilding. The aim is to identify German institutional expertise from reunification and assess how it could be accessed and mobilized.

A final report will be published in autumn 2013.