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Please note that the Chair's secretariat will be closed from 22 December 2025 until 6 January 2026. Happy holidays!

The paper “Genocide, women’s empowerment, and intergenerational transmission of violent attitudes” co-authored with Daniel Kammer (University of Konstanz) has been published open access in World Development. 

Completely overhauled textbook on human rights by Sabine C. Carey, Mark Gibney, University of North Carolina, Asheville, and Anita R. Gohdes, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin

Meridith LaVelle will be joining our team as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. Meridith holds a PhD in Political Science and International Affairs from the University of Georgia. Her research include tech and politics, political violence, human rights, political economy, and ...

In der neuesten Ausgabe des Uni-Magazins FORUM mit dem Schwerpunkt Demokratieforschung berichtet Sabine Carey über ihr aktuelles DFG Projekt. Zusammen mit ihrem Team an der TU München und der University of Southampton untersucht sie die Haltung der Bevölkerung in Deutschland zur ...

Science is often criticized as costly or unnecessary, but Sabine Carey shows that it is essential for progress, democracy, and our future. In an episode of the COM'LAB SciencePod, she highlights the importance of research for our society and its role in enabling well-founded decisions. She explains ...

Marie-Therese Meye has published a new article in the special issue Political Violence in Democracies in the Journal of Peace Research, titled “Why some districts march more: Protest mobilization in the wake of US representatives’ election denial.” The article investigates how local political ...

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The paper co-authored by Muhammad Muhammad and Domantas Undzenas “Entangled fates—the rally effect around Europe due to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine” has been published by Springer Nature Limited in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

Sabine Carey will discuss an ongoing project with Katrin Paula, Rob Johns and Nadine O’Shea on human rights attitudes at the “Conflict and Change” research seminar at University College London on 30 April 2025.