Re-thinking Peace and Conflict Studies in a Postcolonial World
„Re-thinking Peace and Conflict Studies in a Postcolonial World“ is the concluding conference of the Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict network. The goal is to bring together researchers from the network, its partner institutions and local scholars to discuss themes of the network as well as recent developments in postcolonial studies. It focuses on […]
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 […]
Open Lecture: „The city as body“ by David G. Miranda
David G. Miranda develops an interdisciplinary analysis examining the complex relationship between body, public space, and artivism during the Chilean Social Uprising (2019-2020), a phenomenon that transformed the city into a corporeal extension of social protest. Through a comprehensive study of over 300 photographic records documenting urban artistic interventions and feminist artivist practices, David […]
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
https://youtu.be/I49AYxhR73U?si=KrMQgURXdhmvaXxA n this video, Prof. Dr. Pascha Bueno-Hansen explores key insights from their book project „Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes.“ Drawing on a qualitative approach termed „Activist Interpretive Protagonism“, the book examines how people of non-normative genders and sexualities in Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia have resisted armed conflict, political repression, and authoritarianism. Through the […]
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 […]
Handbook on Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South
Peace and Conflict Studies was broadly founded in the Northern Hemisphere, influencing how scholars understand patterns of peace or violence in the Global North via a core-periphery relationship with the Global South, automatically rejecting alternatives like Third Worldism. This has led to the implicit strengthening of asymmetric colonial power structures in the way knowledge about […]
