Legacies of Liberation: Revisiting Peace Studies in Contentious Times
In a context of ongoing wars and heightened social tensions the field of peace and conflict studies, which has long sought to explain the dynamics of war and efforts at peace, offers a range of perspectives. Some of these emanate from the Global South and speak to experiences of conflict and international politics there. The […]
Challenging research, disrupting insights: Taking stock of the project beyond „results“ (19. May 2025)
The project started with questions about the effect of historically grown postcolonial hierarchies on contemporary conflicts, the legacy of postcolonial hierarchies in peace initiative and ways to transform these, as well as postcolonial hierarchies in peace epistemologies. Three years into the project, multiple insights and answers to those questions have emerged or are currently taking […]
Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes: Interventions in Transitional Justice
Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes: Interventions in Transitional Justice employs a qualitative and humanistic social science approach to examine the resistance practices of people of non-normative genders and sexualities to armed conflict, political repression, and authoritarian regimes in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. This analysis uplifts activists’ efforts to reimagine truth, peace, reparations, and […]
Biruk Terrefe
Biruk’s research lies at the intersection of Political Science, Development Studies, and Geography with a focus on how infrastructure projects and urban spaces relate to the politics of statecraft in Africa. His current research agenda investigates the relationship between infrastructure and state-building, particularly how large energy, transport, and logistics systems have shaped (and are shaped […]
Nessim Znaien
is Professor of Colonial/Postcolonial Maghreb at Phillips-Universität Marburg, attached to the History Department and the Centre for the Near and Middle East (CNMS). He studied history in Lyon and Paris, and Arabic, Italian and Turkish at the University of Aix-Marseille.
Martine Toppenberg Dahl
is a student assistant helping to develop the Virtual Encyclopaedia in the Postcolonial Hierarchies network at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute (ABI) Freiburg. She is currently pursuing her M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Freiburg. She obtained her B.A. in International Relations at Malmö University in Sweden.
Freiheitskämpfe, aber wo? Über Aktivismus im Lokalen und Globalen
Wann: 6.11., 18:00-20:00Wo: Deutschhausstraße 12, Raum 00A26Referenten: Armin Djamali, Tarek Shukrallah, Tareq SydiqModeration: Thorsten Bonacker Weltweit streiten Menschen für ihre Rechte, mal mit mehr und weniger Erfolg. Drei Bücher setzen sich mit diesen Kämpfen aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln auseinander: In „tofan (sturm)“ (edition assemblage) gehen literarische Interventionen an die Grenzen des geschriebenen Wortes, widmen sich […]
(Dis)Arming Responsibility – An interdisciplinary workshop
Oktober 25 – 26, 2024 The workshop brings together an interdisciplinary team of European scholars, practitioners, and activists engaged in studying international arms production and transfer, with a particular focus on European arms companies. While there has been significant scholarly attention devoted to the responsibilities of states in managing the trade in arms, much less […]
Keynote Opening Panel: ‚Queer, Feminist, and Relational Perspectives on Time and Temporality‘
https://youtu.be/Z31ciXvLWmU?si=ZHZITKGp67ULspnQ Speakers: Emma Pritchard, University of Oxford; Alvaro Okura, State University of Londrina (UEL/Brazil); Juliana González Villamizar, Giessen University Moderated by Prof. Susanne Buckley-Zistel Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict Network and one of its member-institutions, Center for Conflict Studies at Philipps University Marburg, is hosting an Opening Panel on ‚Queer, Feminist, and Relational Perspectives on Time and Temporality.‘ […]
Public Lecture by Prof. Manuela Boatcă, „We Have Never Been Postcolonial. Notes on Theoretically (In)Convenient Times“
https://youtu.be/OOmTPyWU-M4?si=dloKLnU9ScWzcSYW With an introduction by Prof. Annika Oettler and Prof. Susanne Buckley-Zistel. Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict Network and one of its member-institutions, Center for Conflict Studies at Philipps University Marburg is hosting a Public Lecture by Prof. Manuela Boatcă, „We Have Never Been Postcolonial. Notes on Theoretically (In)Convenient Times.“ The event is held as part of […]
