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The EU guest of honour at Guadalajara International Book Fair 2023
This year's guest of honour at 37th Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) is the European Union (EU). The FIL is the largest gathering of publishers in Latin America and an extraordinary cultural festival.

FPI at the Paris Peace Forum 2023 – three questions to Peter Wagner
On 10-11 November the European Commission’s Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI) participated in the 6th edition of the Paris Peace Forum (PPF), of which the European Commission is a strategic partner.

The EU-UN renewed cooperation on insider mediation for conflict prevention and peacebuilding
The EU and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have renewed their partnership on insider mediation for conflict prevention and peacebuilding through a three-year project funded by the FPI.
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Women combatants: from the battlefield to peace hopes
During the Paris Peace Forum (PPF), the European Commission’s Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI) organised a discussion panel on women combatants, which was intense and passionate.

Demining in Bosnia and Herzegovina: An EU-funded application that can save lives
Carefree is not a word Dea Makitan would associate with her childhood. Nor was that the feeling of other local residents of Ljubljenica village in ...

Breaking the climate-conflict cycle: EU-backed initiative revitalises Galmudug, Somalia
In the heart of the Horn of Africa, the sun-drenched, arid landscape of Somalia is being reshaped by an invisible yet relentless force: climate change. This is one of the causes of exacerbating competition between local clans over grazing land, water, and other natural resources, leading to displace