PEACEptions
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. For more on the project including the full reports visit Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES).
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. They are divided into two parts. The first consists of six infographics that examine the surveyed countries through the “Three Pillars of Peace” framework. The second presents interactive data visualizations exploring how people in the six countries understand peace in different ways. Both can be explored below.
The Three Pillars of Peace in Six Countries
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.
South Sudan
Venezuela
Cameroon
Colombia
The Philippines
Tunisia
Different Notions of Peace
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.
For You, Peace Is…?
PEACEptions
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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