Current Projects
- ACONA – The Arms Control Negotiation Academy
- Arms Control in the Middle East: Between Self-Help and Cooperation (PhD Project)
- Cluster for Natural and Technical Science Arms Control Research (CNTR)
- Dealing with contestations and backlashes of gender equality in peacebuilding
- EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium
- Making arms control: Knowledge and expertise in and of arms control processes of emerging technologies (PhD Project)
- New Forms of Warfare: The Transformation of War
- Norm-Based Security Structure: Conventional Arms Control in Europe
- Nuclear Weapons 2.0: US Nuclear Weapon Research after the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (PhD Project)
- Perspectives of Arms Control
- Rule and Resistance in the Nuclear Order. Colonial Imprints in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and Anti-Colonial Revolt in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (PhD Project)
- The CBW network for a comprehensive reinforcement of norms against chemical and biological weapons (CBWNet)
- The Crisi/es of Arms Control
- The Evolution of Enforcement in the Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons Regimes (PhD Project)
- The Role of Justice Perceptions in Treaty Interpretation Debates (PhD Project)
- Transitional Justice in the Nuclear Age: Addressing Past Legacies of Nuclear Use and Testing
- A new role for NATO in the High North? The European Arctic and Russia’s war against Ukraine
- Arms Control Approaches to Nanotechnology – The Contribution of Public International Law
- Between Facts and Doubts: Epistemic Trust in International Organisations
- Changing Norms and Practices in International Peace and Security Law
- Effects and Modes of Effects of Humanitarian Military Interventions
- Fact-Finding in the Law of Armed Conflict
- Legitimacy Policy through Dialogue Forums? Global Economic Institutions and their Critics
- Normativity of International Practices
- Parlamente in der Sicherheitspolitik
- PATTERN: How Does the Past Matter? The Russian War of Aggression Against Ukraine and the Cold War
- State Capacity as a Moderating Factor for the Effects of Coercion on Compliance (PhD Project)
- The Collectivisation of International Security through Processes of Institutionalisation in Public International Law
- The Effects of Far Right Challenges on International Organizations
- The Normative Force of Conflict: Norm Specification Through Processes of Norm Contestation (PhD Project)
- UN Policing – Legal Basis, Status and Directives on the Use of Force
- At the Limits of the Rule of Law? Legislative Processing of Insecurity in German Counter-Terrorism since 2001 (PhD Project)
- Attacks on life or legitimate military targets? Violence against infrastructure in armed conflicts
- Causalities of Individual Radicalisation of Reichsbürger in Germany (PhD Project)
- Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET)
- hope: Prevent
- Hostile Proximity? Digital Mobilization Techniques of Salafist and Right-Wing Radical Actors in Comparison (PhD Project)
- KURI “Configurations of social and political practices in dealing with radical Islam”
- Living to Fight Each Other another Day: Armed Group Relationships in Multiparty Civil Wars
- More Than Just Religious Norms: Religious Civil Society Actors Between Principles and Interests (PhD Project)
- P/CVE Evaluation in European Comparison: How and Why do Evaluation Systems Differ Across Europe? (PhD Project)
- PrEval
- PRIF@School – Network Peace Research and Educational Practice
- Recasting the Role of Citizens in Foreign and Security Policy? Democratic Innovations and Changing Patterns of Interaction between European Executives and Citizes
- Social ties and lone wolves – Processes of radicalization in lone actor terrorists (PhD Project)
- Storytelling against Extremism (PhD Project)
- Teilprojekt InRa-Studie
- The influence of terror on European and national identity
- To Be in the Know: Motivational Foundations at the Intersection of Conspiracy Belief and Protest in Germany (PhD Project)
- Understandings of diversity and institutionalisation of diversity at the police (PhD Project)
Intrastate Conflict (20)
- China and the Andean region
- Chinese Adaptation to Conflict Risks in the Era of the Belt and Road Initiative
- Coercion in Peacebuilding
- Democracy beyond legitimate coercion: Deadly use of force by the police in the Philippines and Brazil
- Dynamics of interaction in contexts of shrinking civic space
- Economic Modernization in Russia’s Neo-Patrimonial System (PhD Project)
- Effects and Modes of Effects of Humanitarian Military Interventions
- Elections in times of shrinking and closing civic and political spaces (PhD Project)
- Elite Management and Ethnic Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
- European security and Russia
- From War to Peace? Impacts of community-based reincorporation of former FARC combatants on local security settings in Colombia (PhD Project)
- German-Colombian Peace Institute CAPAZ
- One-Sided or Balanced: Which Post-Civil War Order Secures the Intrastate Peace?
- Perceptions of Coercion: AU and ECOWAS Interventions in The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau (PhD Project)
- Research Network 'External Democracy Promotion'
- The Belt and Road Initiative’s impact on conflict states
- The Impact of the Collective Reincorporation of Former FARC-EP Fighters on the Local Reconstruction of the Social Fabric in Colombia
- The Justification of War and International Order. From Past to Present
- The Role of Media in Ethnic Conflict: The Case of Ethiopia (PhD Project)
- Violence and Political Order in Post-Conflict Colombia: An analysis of the assassination of social leaders
Glocal Junctions (18)
- A new Diaspora? Reconfigurations of political positioning of Turkish institutions and Turkish people in Germany (PhD Project)
- African Non-military Conflict Intervention Practices (ANCIP)
- Authoritarian Populism and Political Subjectivation in Saxony
- Civil Society Inclusion in AU's and ECOWAS' Non-Military Conflict Intervention Practices (PhD Project)
- Civil Society Monitoring of Far-Right Activities (CiSMon)
- Climate change, environmental movements and transformations of rural space in Colombia (PhD Project)
- Coercion in Peacebuilding
- Conflict and Art: The Transformative Potential of Aesthetic Practices
- Contradictions in processes of deradicalisation
- DFG Network “Territorializations of the Radical Right - Appropriations of Space and Discursive Framings”
- Diverging Memories: A comparative analysis of interpretations of the 1904-8 genocide in Namibia and the Majimaji War in Tanzania (PhD Project)
- Everyday Political Subjectification and the Rise of Regressive Politics. Downward mobility, urbanization and the production of space in Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig
- Evils of a Global Past? Post-colonial Genocide Memory and Glocally Entangled Reconciliation Politics
- Local perceptions of regional interventions: AU and ECOWAS in Burkina Faso and The Gambia
- Over Their Dead Bodies: Underlying axioms and contemporary use and handling of human remains from institutional collections
- Perceptions of Coercion: AU and ECOWAS Interventions in The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau (PhD Project)
- Preparing for peace: International and local responses to the spread of violent extremism
- The Prevention Project
- At the Limits of the Rule of Law? Legislative Processing of Insecurity in German Counter-Terrorism since 2001 (PhD Project)
- Causalities of Individual Radicalisation of Reichsbürger in Germany (PhD Project)
- Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET)
- Hostile Proximity? Digital Mobilization Techniques of Salafist and Right-Wing Radical Actors in Comparison (PhD Project)
- KURI “Configurations of social and political practices in dealing with radical Islam”
- P/CVE Evaluation in European Comparison: How and Why do Evaluation Systems Differ Across Europe? (PhD Project)
- PrEval
- RadiGaMe - Processes of Radicalization and Prevention Measures on Gaming Platforms: Analysis and Knowledge Transfer
- RADIS - Transfer Project Social Causes and Effects of Radical Islam in Germany and Europe
- Social ties and lone wolves – Processes of radicalization in lone actor terrorists (PhD Project)
- Storytelling against Extremism (PhD Project)
- Teilprojekt InRa-Studie
- To Be in the Know: Motivational Foundations at the Intersection of Conspiracy Belief and Protest in Germany (PhD Project)
- Understandings of diversity and institutionalisation of diversity at the police (PhD Project)
- VORTEX - Coping with Varieties of Radicalization into Terrorism and Extremism
- Arms Control Approaches to Nanotechnology – The Contribution of Public International Law
- Fact-Finding in the Law of Armed Conflict
- German-Colombian Peace Institute CAPAZ
- Heuristics and Repertoires of Collective Security: a Comparative Analysis in the Field of International Law
- The Collectivisation of International Security through Processes of Institutionalisation in Public International Law
- UN Policing – Legal Basis, Status and Directives on the Use of Force
- African Non-military Conflict Intervention Practices (ANCIP)
- Civil Society Inclusion in AU's and ECOWAS' Non-Military Conflict Intervention Practices (PhD Project)
- Coercion in Peacebuilding
- Local perceptions of regional interventions: AU and ECOWAS in Burkina Faso and The Gambia
- Perceptions of Coercion: AU and ECOWAS Interventions in The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau (PhD Project)
- Preparing for peace: International and local responses to the spread of violent extremism