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Marie-Therese Meye participated in the workshop „Political Violence in Democracies“ at the University of Amsterdam, held on 5–6 February 2024. The workshop was organized by Ursula Daxecker, Neeraj Prasad, and Andrea Ruggeri. The workshop’s aim is to challenge prevailing prescriptive views on the ...

We are very happy that Amelie Freiberg joined our team. Amelie's research focuses on explaining and predicting socialisation patterns by rebel groups in connection to conflict-related sexual violence. This spring semester she will be teaching a BA Seminar on sexual violence in armed conflicts and ...

Dr. Alina Greiner has successfully been accredited as a mental health first aider. In the Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) course Alina learned techniques to identify risk factors and warning signs and reach out and provide initial help and support to students (and others) who may be developing a ...

Marie-Therese Meye received the CDSS teaching award 2023. The award honors excellent teaching. Congratulations, Marie!

Ye June Jung will be joining our team as a visiting PhD student. June is a PhD candidate at the University of California San Diego and her research focuses on international and domestic institutions, trade, human rights, linkage politics and the European Union. Welcome to the team, June!

Marie-Therese Meye’s paper „The bridge to violence – Mapping and understanding conflict-related violence in postwar Mitrovica“ has been published in the Journal of Peace Research.  Together with her co-authors Emma Elfversson and Ivan Gusic, they advance our understanding of where, how, and why ...

On March 7, 2023 Sabine Carey participated in a roundtable on the war in the Ukraine, organized by the University of Mannheim. The panel discussion was moderated by Thomas Fetzer (Vice President for Strategic Planning, Internationalization and Equal Opportunity) and included, besides Sabine Carey, ...

We are very happy to have Dr. Alina Greiner as a Post-Doctoral Researcher on our team. In her research, Alina investigates micro-level dynamics and consequences of civil war. In particular, her research focuses on gendered dimensions of armed conflict, unobtrusive measurement of violence, and ...

Sabine Carey is presenting a joint project with Anita Gohdes and Neil Mitchell at the 6th International Conference on the Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship (PEDD) at the University of Münster, 23–25 February 2023. This project asks whether auxiliary armed forces help leaders stay in ...

Christoph Steinert will leave our Chair and begin an International Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of St. Gallen on March 1. In his fellowship research project, he will investigate the use and effectiveness of the human rights complaint mechanisms of the United Nations. He will collaborate ...