When: March 17 2026
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (CET)
Where: Online (via Zoom)
Languages: English with simultaneous interpretation to French. 

The Sahel remains one of the world’s most complex and contested landscapes of conflict and peacebuilding. Conventional stabilisation approaches have often overlooked the diversity of local voices, community knowledge, and indigenous peace architectures that shape resilience and mediation from within. As crises continue to unfold across Niger and the broader Sahel region, there is an urgent need to rethink how researchers, policymakers, and practitioners understand and engage with peace processes – shifting from externally driven templates towards approaches that are grounded in local realities.

In this session, the Berghof foundation will discuss findings from their latest report "Cultural blind spots in conflict resolution in Niger and the Sahel". The report challenges dominant paradigms in peace research and practice and brings forward local perspectives that are too often marginalised in policy debates.

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