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From 10–12 April 2024 we are holding a workshop at the MZES as part of our DFG-funded project on support for human rights. At this workshop the project team (Sabine Carey (University of Mannheim), Katrin Paula (TUM), Rob Johns (University of Southampton), Nadine O’Shea (TUM) ) presents the research ...

Amelie Freiberg will participate at the International Studies Association Annual Convention 2024 April 3rd – 6th 2024 in San Francisco, USA.  She will present her research “How Rebel Groups Socialize: Introducing the Socialisation & Political Education in Rebel Groups (SOPERG) Data Project”.  ...

Sabine Carey will participate at the Workshop “Wissenschaft meets Außenpolitik” Deutsche Außenpolitik aus der Sicht der Internationalen Beziehungen on 21/22 March 2024. She will contribute to a panel on civil war and fragile states. The workshop is jointly organized by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für ...

Sabine Carey will give a guest lecture at the Challenges in Advanced Democracies (CHAD) Research Group at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, on 6th March 2024. She will present her work on perceptions of the police in Northern Ireland, co-authored with Marcela Ibanez ...

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 ...