
PEACEptions is a joint project of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES). Building on Willy Brandt’s phrase that “peace is not everything, but without peace everything is nothing,” the project explores diverse understandings of peace, ranging from a sense of tranquility and the absence of conflict to socio-political transformations across six countries.
Guided by a Comparative Area Studies (CAS) approach, the project is structured around three elements that transcend contextual boundaries: physical integrity, individual and collective human rights, and constructive conflict transformation. Comparing and contrasting how peace is conceived in Cameroon, Colombia, the Philippines, South Sudan, Tunisia, and Venezuela is essential in order to develop concrete, context-specific proposals for peacebuilding.
Below you will find a collection of visualizations that summarize and illustrate the project’s findings. These visualizations are partly digital and partly physical; the latter will be soon available here.
These six PEACEptions infographics map the Pillars of Peace across diverse country contexts. Each snapshot shows how security, human rights, and conflict transformation institutions combine to shape where peace holds, where it frays, and what may strengthen it.
Download all six studies at once. To download individual country infographics, click on the images below.
This collection of three visualizations shows both shared and contrasting ideas of peace across the six countries surveyed. How do people define peace in their own words? How do different genders view peace in similar and different ways? Find out for yourself by comparing countries internally or between them below.
The survey in Colombia was possible thanks to a grant by the German International Cooperation (GIZ) No. 81244809 project 14.2170.0-002.00. In all other countries the surveys were commissioned by the local FES offices.
For more interactive visualizations and other types of knowledge exchange visit Transfer for Transformation (T4T).
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