PT Unknown TI Zivile Konfliktbearbeitung: aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse SE INEF-Report PY 2007 IS 85 DI 10.17185/duepublico/26915 LA de AB Since the mid‐1990s, a debate about “Zivile Konfliktbearbeitung” (civilian conflict management) has emerged within German politics and academia. It centres on concepts, effects and actors of civilian conflict management. Consequently, the two articles of the first section of this volume focus on the history of the concept (Weller) and on those concepts applied in peace‐oriented development aid (Kirschner). The second section deals with the question how allegedly plausible assessments of the effects of civilian conflict management measures come about (Körppen) and how these effects can be measured scientifically (Quack). The authors of the third section focus on different actors of civilian conflict management, like “religion‐based” actors (Weingardt), business corporations (Engert) or development actors in civil‐military co‐operation (Hofmann). The volume concludes with an outlook concerning areas of further research (Weller). ER