Inhaltlich wäre es gut für Deutschland, wenn Schwarz-Rot den grünen Vorschlag zur Sicherheits-Ausnahme von der Schuldenbremse aufnehmen würde:
"Gesamtverteidigung + sipo-Aufgaben" :=
1. Verteidigungsfähigkeit inkl. Dienste, auch kollektiv (EU!)
2. Ukrainehilfe, Stabilisierung
4. Zivilschutz/Cyber
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Countries that achieve peace after war are those that do get more money for peace — but as conflicts grow, peace&security budgets shrink. Important to see the topic gather lots of interest in Brussels at the EU @gppi.bsky.social & @ceps-fp.bsky.social w/ my colleague Abi Watson presenting our work

Wir müssen zivilgesellschaftliche Akteure in Konfliktgebieten besser verstehen, um sie strategischer zu unterstützen. Danke für die lebhafte Diskussion heute Abend im Bundestag, Jamila Schäfer, Anka Feldhusen @diplo.de & @gppi.bsky.social -Kollegen @melissali.bsky.social & @jhensing.bsky.social !

Of course, it's not easy to do. (Donors think it's not cheap, either, but that's a misunderstanding: if you don't invest in targeting your investment well, all of it is much more likely to be ineffective -- so a few percent of the total spend for good targeting is a steal!) 5/8

If we don't know these things, the risk is high to do harm or be useless. Conversely, donors that managed to feed reliable, actionable analysis even from remote spaces where violence takes place into adaptive programs reaped 4 kinds of benefits: (4/8)

A couple of key points -- first, why?! Basically, because too often, attempts at addressing violence & building peace are flying half-blind -- missing at least one of the three requirements for useful political analysis to drive programming: (3/8)

NEW LAUNCH: War is political & all politics is local. To intervene, we need to know the politics: who calls the shots in the village, why do people do what they do?

Yet a lot of violence is in remote, inaccessible areas where it it is difficult to track anything.

What to do?🧵 1/8