Peace Talks in Focus. Report on Trends and Scenarios

Peace Talks in Focus. Report on Trends and Scenarios is a yearbook that analyses peace processes and negotiations that took place in the world during a year. The examination of the development and dynamics of negotiations worldwide allows to provide a comprehensive overview of peace processes, identify trends and comparatively analyse the various scenarios. Peace Talks in Focus. Report on Trends and Scenarios also analyses the evolution of peace processes from a gender perspective. One of the main objectives of this report is to provide information and analysis to those who participate in peaceful conflict resolution at different levels, including parties to disputes, mediators, civil society activists and others.

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About Peace Talks in Focus:

The voices and knowledge of women and girls are often omitted and neglected in con ict contexts. They are considered victims, incapable, fragile, and irrelevant to peacebuilding. It is essential to give voice to the perspectives, views, and feelings of women in conflict settings in order to build and keep peace; this is precisely what the report Peace Talks in Focus. Report on Trends and Scenarios does. Women have always been at the forefront of the pursuit of peace and social cohesion. They weave the social fabric of communities and know how to achieve peace. Their absence at political negotiation tables and in National Dialogues often results in incomplete and fragile peace agreements. It is time to recognize the important role of this group in guaranteeing a sustainable and lasting peace.

Nzira de Deus
Executive Director of Fórum Mulher, Mozambique

Yearbook Peace Talks in Focus 2025. Report on Trends and Scenarios, compiled by the School for a Culture of Peace (ECP), is an outstanding strategic resource that re-centres peace negotiations as a political, rather than military, pathway to addressing conflict, while grounding its analysis in rigorous global evidence and comparative trends. Its integration of gender across case studies and regional analysis moves beyond tokenistic inclusion, providing a valuable foundation for advancing the Women, Peace and Security agenda in practice. By examining 53 peace processes across all regions, it equips policymakers, mediators and feminist movements alike with a rare combination of analytical depth and operational relevance. For WILPF, it reinforces the case that inclusive, rights-based and locally led dialogue remains one of the most effective alternatives to escalating militarisation. At a time when multilateralism is under strain, this yearbook stands as an indispensable guide for those committed to transformative peace grounded in justice, participation and the resolution of root causes. The publication is one of the strongest global references on peace processes because of its breadth, empirical rigour and comparative analysis.

Amrita Kapur
Secretary general of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)

One of the great challenges of the 21st century should be to move “from the age of force and war to the age of dialogue and negotiation”, to borrow an expression from Andrea Riccardi. Humanity can heal con icts through dialogue, diplomacy, and encounter, but today these are humiliated. Despite the pessimistic and resigned rhetoric that surrounds us, the School for a Culture of Peace (ECP) has been working tirelessly for over 25 years to build a culture of peace, alerting us and analysing open con icts around the world. It reminds us that the suffering of victims and the violation of human rights continue, but it also illustrates the paths to resolution set in motion by peacebuilding efforts. Peace Talks in Focus. Report on Trends and Scenarios reveals the stark reality of our world so that each of us, starting from our own perspective, can react. It is a very useful and rigorous tool, not only for specialists, but for all of us who feel the responsibility to build a new humanism of peace. As Giorgio La Pira said, we believe that “the method of war must be replaced by the method of peace: the method of negotiation, of encounter, of convergence; that is, the authentically human method!”

Jaume Castro Forns
Head of Sant’Egidio community, Catalonia