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Folke Bernadotte Academy
Swedish agency for peace, security and development

Our mission
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2026 Stockholm Forumon Peace and Development

The Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development is a multi-day conference featuring high-level panels, roundtables and workshops. It creates a bridge between policy, research and practice, and provides a neutral platform and safe space for sharing knowledge, challenges and solutions. The 2026 Stockholm Forum will be held 3-4 November 2026. It is hosted by SIPRI, co-convened with FBA and the Swedish Development Cooperation Agency, SIDA.

Stockholm Forum 2026

2026 Stockholm Forumon Peace and Development

Speakers during plenary session, Stockholm Forum 2025.

Where we work

Covers of a selection FBA publications

Our publications

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Research

Areas of expertise

Peace processes

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Democratic resilience

Folksamling som demonstrerar fotograferad bakifrån. Framför dem finns en större byggnad.

Civilian peace operations

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Latest news

Peacebuilding must learn while acting

Nyheter, 10 september 2026•Peace and security actors are expected to deliver results in increasingly complex and contested settings. Yet peacebuilding interventions are still too often planned, implemented and measured as if change were linear.

Research

Ukrainian-led programme strengthens cross-sector resilience in wartime

Nyheter, 17 juni 2026•A Ukrainian-led pilot programme on total defence is helping transform the solidarity and cross-sector cooperation that emerged during Russia’s full-scale invasion into long-term strategies for societal resilience.

Ukraine

Cooperation with partners

Ukraine is reforming its military regulations amid war

Nyheter, 11 juni 2026•Ukraine is reforming its defence sector while the war is ongoing. When FBA met with Ukrainian partners in Kyiv in May, one question kept returning – a question central to the country’s long-term resilience: how can Ukraine build a defence sector that protects the people within it?

Ukraine

Cooperation with partners

Dialogue and peace mediation

Folke Bernadotte Fellowshipfor Peace Negotiators

After nearly 60 years of armed conflict, the Basque Country underwent a remarkable transformation: the pro-independence left moved from political and armed struggle to exclusively democratic engagement, culminating in ETA’s dissolution in 2018. Listen to the insightful conversation with Gorka Elejaberrieta Díaz, the latest in our interview series Folke Bernadotte Fellowship for Peace Negotiators.

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Folke Bernadotte Fellowshipfor Peace Negotiators

Gorka Elejaberrieta Díaz and Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs.