In February 2025, ANCIP research fellow, Camille Vern, spent two weeks in Addis Ababa to conduct concluding interviews for her PhD project on the AU Panel of the Wise.

From 15 to 21 February 2025, Mona Saleh conducted a field research stay at the SADC Secretariat in Gaborone as part of her ongoing work within the ANCIP network.

On 11 February 2025, the second ANCIP Transfer Workshop took place in Brussels with logistical support by the Brussels office of the Leibniz Association. Representatives from European and African embassies, the EU Commission, think tanks, political party foundations, and research institutions attended the workshop to engage with the work of the research network on African Non-Military Conflict Intervention Practices (ANCIP).

In cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation office in Berlin, the ANCIP (African Non-Military Conflict Intervention Practices) competence network has organized its first transfer workshop on 6 February 2025. The project is generously funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, 2022–2026).

From November to December 2024, S. Elisabeth Warnck was a guest researcher at PRIF. During this time, she collaborated with Antonia Witt’s research group and engaged with the ANCIP team in Frankfurt, focusing on the ANCIP Portal and her dissertation project. The research stay facilitated valuable exchanges and synergies between the sub-projects.

From December 11–12, 2024, the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA)—under the College of Humanities at the University of Ghana and jointly funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the University of Ghana—hosted a conference titled “Dealing with Conflict, Preparing for Peace: Current Research and Its Policy Implications” at the University of Ghana.

Jonas Schaaf conducted his field research in Abuja from mid-October to mid-November. In interviews with ECOWAS officials whose work is related to the project’s themes, practices and logics of civil society inclusion in the West African regional organization’s interventions were identified.

Emma Birikorang, acting Director of Research of Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Accra has joined University Duisburg-Essen (INEF) for a first stay as ANCIP fellow in fall 2024.