This discussion paper argues that a broader understanding can help overcome some of the tensions inherent in the transitional justice agenda during peace processes, by focusing both on past and future justice needs; victims’ rights and perpetrators’ accountability; as well as wider post-conflict needs that go beyond narrow retributive justice. It is hoped that such a wider understanding will energise a broader range of instruments and options for conflict parties, mediators and interveners at all stages of peace processes to deal with a legacy of human rights violations.

Using mediatEUr’s mission to Kosovo earlier in 2013 as a case study, this report presents some of the key aspects in the design and deployment of a mediation assessment mission.

Brendan McAllister shares insights from his experience as a mediator in Northern Ireland.

In this paper, Canan Gündüz explores the applicability of human needs frameworks to mediation practice, offering several pointers on how to adapt them to the field of mediation. Particularly, she pays attention to Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs, and to how such a model might help or limit a mediation process.

In this speech, delivered at the Second Seminar of the Moroccan-Spanish Initiative on the Promotion of Mediation in the Mediterranean, "Concrete Actions for an Optimal Synergy in Mediation", Brendan McAllister reviews the role of civil society in the Northern Ireland conflict to explore the contribution it can make to mediation.

On 27 March 2014, after over forty years of Moro insurgency in Mindanao, the Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front signed the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro. An International Monitoring Team was put in place in 2004 to monitor the agreement, adding a unique Civilian Protection Component (CPC) in 2009. The CPC is led by three local NGOs and an international NGO (Nonviolent Peaceforce - NP).

In January 2014, NP awarded mediatEUr and Initiatives for International Dialogue a contract to carry out an impact evaluation of its programme in support of the CPC. This report is the result of such evaluation, aimed at assessing NP's lessons to date from the CPC and deliberate future directions.

mediatEUr’s report aims to do two things concurrently: firstly, tell the story of how the KIC process unfolded and, at the same time, situate its work within the larger international experience of similar commissions. This will hopefully serve those that are engaged in similar practice elsewhere, presenting the often intricate and organic work done by individuals as part of an unfolding process, i.e. cover the ‘how’. The second will be of interest to those who work on the more technical ‘what’, namely the policy aspect of setting up and running commissions of inquiry. The final section presents lessons learned from both angles. We are grateful to the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs for trusting us with this project.

This synthesis report considers trends and issues in the context of international peace mediation and mediation support, and relates them to the past, present and future operational needs of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs, specifically to the Standby Team of Mediation Experts.

mediatEUr organised the roundtable ‘International Peace Mediation Standards? Reviewing the Field, Charting the Way Ahead’ on 21 May 2013, to review standard-setting efforts in other mediation fields, and to explore the applicability of standards in international peace mediation.

In June 2015, mediatEUr and the United Nations Development Programme in Ukraine (UNDP) launched a project to build a Dialogue Support Platform in the country (DSPU). The aim of this Platform is to support the contribution of dialogue to a peaceful, democratic and stable Ukraine.