The Peace Report 2023 “Peace Is a Long Way Off” (in German) shows that besides the war in Ukraine, the number of violent conflicts, mostly involving non-state armed actors, is increasing worldwide. The Russian Wagner Group is not only active in the war between Russia and Ukraine but also in the Sahel, undermining international peace missions. The peace research institutes, therefore, call for the group to be designated as a criminal organisation and sanctioned.
Other key themes of the 2023 Peace Report include the strengthening of arms control measures, the credible implementation of a feminist foreign and security policy in concrete situations, measures to mitigate crises in the Global South, particularly those caused by climate change, and the mitigation of social polarisation.
The full press release is available here (pdf, in German) You can download the entire Peace Report as a PDF here.
The recommendations of the German peace and conflict research institutes to the German government can be found here
An overview of the editors of the Peace Report can be found here (pdf, in German)
The Peace Report The Peace Report is the annual publication by the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC), the Leibniz Institute Peace Research Institute Frankfurt …read more
