Past Events

See the BEFORE founders and staff in person to learn more about conflict prevention and how you can engage with the work of BEFORE.

Heinz Krummenacher, BEFORE CEO

  • “Frieden – ein Begriff im Wandel“, Contribution at the 20 year swisspeace annual conference, Bern, 11 November, 2008
  • “A Genocide Early Warning and Response Mechanism for the EU”, Global Futures Forum on Genocide Prevention, Washington, 30 October, 2008
  • “Estimating the Informational Overlap between Hand-Coded Political Event Data and the World Wide Web“, 12th World Multi-conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, USA, 1 July, 2008
  • “The Comparative Advantage of Quantitative Early Warning”, Genocide Advisory Group led by Yehuda Bauer and Ted R. Gurr, Zürich, 9 June, 2008
  • “State-of-the-Art Political Early Warning”, programme interdisciplinaire en action humanitaire, Geneva, 8 April, 2008
  • “Major Challenges in Open Source Political Early Warning”, Meeting of the Budapest Club, Budapest, 4 April, 2008
  • “Collaboration between Nongovernmental Organizations and the UN in the Field of Early Warning“, Meeting between NGO representatives and the Special Advisor on Genocide Prevention of the UN-Secretary General, Francis Deng, Washington, 3 March, 2008
  • “Quantitative Approaches to Political Early Warning”, Tools for Early Warning and Application to Policy“, Global Futures Forum on Genocide Prevention, Washington, 18 October, 2007
  • “Sicherheitspolitik im Zeichen des Klimawandels“, 2. Internationale Friedenskonferenz der Lucerne Initiative for Peace and Security, Luzern, 21 September, 2007
  • “Early Warning Indicators Based on Policy Analysis“, expert input at the BICC / GMOSS seminar on Environment and Conflict – Evaluating and strengthening the means of interdisciplinary cooperation”, Bonn, 18 – 20 September, 2007
  • “Steuert die Welt auf den Dritten Weltkrieg zu?“, LIPS-Dialogabend, Luzern, 24 April, 2006
  • “Making Prevention Rhetoric Work: the Need for Effective Political Early Warning“, University of Khartoum / IGAD / UNDP International Conference on Early Warning, Khartoum, 11 April, 2006
  • “Event Data Analysis a Useful Method of Measuring Sexual Violence?” Presentation at the “Technical Consultation on Methods and Systems for the Assessment and Monitoring of Sexual Violence and Exploitation in Conflict Situations”, UN Population Fund and the Social Science Research Council, New York, December 15, 2005
  • “An der Schwelle zu einer neuen Ära des internationalen Terrorismus?” Übersee-Club, Hamburg and Bremen 1 and 2 October, 2004
  • “Towards an Early Warning System in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka”, Introduction to a training workshop on early warning for the Foundation for Coexistence, Sri Lanka, 20 -24 November, 2003
  • Einleitung zur swisspeace Jahreskonferenz “Alles läuft wie geschmiert – Die Rolle von Erdöl bei Gewaltkonflikten“, Bern, 30 October, 2003
  • “Terrorism the New Enemy: Fact or Perception?” World Peace Conference, Hamburg, 21 October, 2003
  • “Rolle und Stellenwert von Meinungsumfragen in Friedensprozessen“, Wapor Seminar on Public Opinion, Polls and Policy, Zurich, 27 June, 2003
  • “Welches sicherheitspolitische Konzept vertritt die Schweiz?“ Vortrag im Rahmen der Paulus Akademie Tagung on Pax Americana – eine Herausforderung für Europa und die Schweiz, Zurich 23 / 24 May, 2003
  • “What are the Real Causes of Terrorism?” Paper presented at the Forum on Early Warning and Early Response Conference on Terrorist Threats in the Caucasus, London, 14 February, 2003
  • “Instruments for Non-military Prevention of Conflict and Crisis-management”. European Peace Conference: “Disarmament for Development”, Brussels,7-8 December, 2001
  • “Early Warning and Conflict Prevention: Conditions, Feasibility and Major Lessons learned”, Conference of the European Platform for Conflict Prevention “Towards Better Peace Building Practice”, Soesteberg, Netherlands, 24-26 October, 2001
  • “Transformation in Central Asia and its Repercussions on the Perspectives of the Islamic Movement”. CORE workshop on “The OSCE and Political Islam – the Case of Central Asia”, Hamburg, 22-24 September, 2001