Local actors should be involved in peacebuilding processes and security sector reforms (SSR). The book presents a feminist and intersectoral conceptualisation of SSR as well as quantitative and qualitative findings from 42 post-conflict societies as well as from Afghanistan and Colombia. Open Access until 11 December 2023!

„Sanktionen“ stellt fundiert, verständlich und anschaulich die Möglichkeiten und Fallstricke dieses zentralen Machtinstruments der internationalen Politik im 21. Jahrhundert vor und gibt einen Blick in die Zukunft: Wie werden Sanktionen künftig eingesetzt? Das Buch stellt Maßstäbe vor, die Europa und Deutschland bei der Verhängung ihrer Strafmaßnahmen in Zukunft leiten sollten.

Der Westen ist nicht mehr der Nabel der Welt. Stattdessen treten die Staaten des Globalen Südens mit neuem Selbstbewusstsein auf. Das Buch diskutiert, warum die Staaten des Globalen Südens so handeln, wie sie es tun, warum deren Skepsis gegenüber dem Westen so tief sitzt – und warum in der neuen Vielfalt auch Chancen liegen.

To what extent do minority grievances contribute to intrastate conflict? Based on a novel dataset on 771 religious minorities, the book offers new insights into classic debates on the influences of discrimination, deprivation, and inequality (DDI) on minority grievances and conflict behavior. DDI is a significant cause of minority grievances which, in turn, deeply influence their conflict behaviors.

Der Kommunismus währte nur bis zum Mauerfall, und auch mit dem Ende der Geschichte war es letztlich nicht weit her. Gehen uns die Zukunftsentwürfe aus? Nein. Doch um positive Bilder des künftigen Miteinanders zu schaffen, müssen wir lernen, mutiger nach vorne zu schauen. Risiken und Nebenwirkungen inklusive. Der Text wurde mit dem Sylke-Tempel-Essaypreis 2024 ausgezeichnet.

The Ethics Guidelines of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies place the respect for human dignity and safeguarding the rights and well-being of all research participants, especially but not exclusively those with lived experience of displacement, at the heart of all research processes.

Die Ethikleitlinien des Netzwerks Fluchtforschung stellen die Achtung der Menschenwürde und die Wahrung der Rechte und des Wohls aller Forschungsteilnehmer*innen, insbesondere, aber nicht ausschließlich derjenigen mit gelebter Fluchterfahrung, in den Mittelpunkt aller Forschungsprozesse.

Das Projekt "Religion für den Frieden: Bedingungen und Mechanismen für interreligiösen Frieden" untersuchte, wie interreligiöser Frieden geschaffen und erhalten werden kann. Diese illustrierte Zusammenfassung präsentiert die wichtigsten Ergebnisse und zeigt, was wir über interreligiösen Frieden und seine Herausforderungen gelernt haben.

This paper focuses on India’s multifaceted approach to its “China challenge” with and outside the climate regime. It examines whether this rivalry might lead to a breakdown of cooperation and an increased potential for conflict and weaponisation of seemingly disconnected issue-areas.

How does skills training impact the livelihood and employment situation of participants, and how accurate are implementers’ beliefs about program effectiveness? This study of a “best-case” training program in fashion for young women in Ghana finds gaps between realised and expected impacts.

How effective are skills training programs in sub-Saharan Africa at improving participants’ skills, employment perspectives and income? This systematic review analyses recent, randomized studies conducted between 2019 and 2024, painting a slightly more optimistic picture than earlier studies.

Shortages in Tunisia have not resulted in the overt politics of bread riots. Nevertheless, citizens made ethical claims regarding the just distribution of goods. While this does not preclude overt political unrest in the future, it suggests that the bread riot thesis, with its prioritising of claim-making against the state, has overlooked the market as an arena of social intervention.

It depends on the personalization of foreign policy and its use for mobilizing domestic support, argue Sandra Destradi and Johannes Plagemann, in their article that explores the case-studies of Bolivia (under Evo Morales), India (under Narendra Modi) and the Philippines (under Rodrigo Duterte).

Während interreligiöse Konflikte vermehrt untersucht werden, fehlt es an Konzepten und empirischen Untersuchungen interreligiösen Friedens. Dieser Artikel stellt ein Konzept für interreligiösen Frieden vor, das zwischen positiven und negativen Elementen sowie Einstellungs- und Verhaltensaspekten unterscheidet.

Der islamische Glaube als Einflussfaktor auf die Integration muslimischer Immigrantinnen und Immigranten in Westeuropa war Gegenstand zahlreicher Studien der Integrationsforschung. Das Working Paper prüft die bisherigen Forschungsergebnisse im außereuropäischen Kontext der multireligiösen Gesellschaften Guyanas und Surinams.

What are the repercussions of the Gaza war in the Middle East? The article argues that the war has taken the region “forward to the past,” e.g. by revitalizing “Palestine” as a central issue and by increasing the regimes-people divide. At the same time, “Palestine” today has broader global resonance than previous Arab and Islamic framings.

This article examines Saudi Arabia’s complex positioning in the Russia-Ukraine war, considering its adherence to the norm of equal sovereignty alongside its foreign-policy determinants.

This article translates Michael Mann’s notion of infrastructural power into the foreign policy realm and develops a conceptual framework that allows for the systematic treatment of states’ strategic efforts at mobilising domestic non-state actors.

Governments and tech companies worldwide periodically clash over what content is acceptable to post online and who gets to decide. As states exert legal, economic, and political pressure on social media platforms and users to control online conversations, the platforms frequently seek to push back.

Any discourse regarding the use by government officials, governance, or regulation of the internet in general, and social media in particular, must take ideology into account. Policymakers and stakeholders should question in which ways it is compatible with core democratic principles, especially free speech and minority rights.

This meticulously researched book offers a comprehensive analysis of strategic cooperation in authoritarian regimes, specifically focusing on Yemen’s Joint Meeting Parties—an alliance composed of diverse Islamist, Socialist, and Arab nationalist parties.

Social actors’ representative organisations and their effective participation in decision-making should be fostered through more collaborative governance institutions. Building mutual trust between different CSOs would also help here. This would prevent favouritism and provide more beneficial input to the state, both serving to promote more inclusive and sustainable growth for Tunisia.

Die Open-Access-Zeitschriften der GIGA Journal Family konnten auch 2023 ihre Reichweite und ihren Einfluss weiter steigern. Der Verlag Sage Publications verkündete die neuen Impact-Faktoren.

The Iraq War of 2003 has been described as a conflict over the meaning of Europe between a transatlantic and a more independent, “Carolingian” vision of the continent. As such, it highlighted the continued importance of a US-led NATO for defining such meaning.

Sometimes, people belonging to different religions do not get along well. In 2022 we travelled to Sierra Leone and Togo where interreligious relations were very peaceful. This comic depicts some examples of how to make interreligious peace: celebrating together, collaborating, being friends, and respecting each other despite differences.

The dynamics of the relationship between the United States and China have been shifting. This has prompted changes in strategic calculus and policy adoption by the friends and foes of each side. Iran, given its decades-long links with China, has made several.

Peace and conflict are not the same across territories and scales. Conceptualizing peace as a process based on three core functions of society and related norms allows us to identify variations in peacebuilding needs and perceptions. The entanglement of different scales shapes the diversity of peace and highlights the opportunities and challenges of peacebuilding and related norms, along with their diffusion and contestation.

Local actors should be involved in peacebuilding processes and security sector reforms (SSR). The book presents a feminist and intersectoral conceptualisation of SSR as well as quantitative and qualitative findings from 42 post-conflict societies as well as from Afghanistan and Colombia. Open Access until 11 December 2023!

„Sanktionen“ stellt fundiert, verständlich und anschaulich die Möglichkeiten und Fallstricke dieses zentralen Machtinstruments der internationalen Politik im 21. Jahrhundert vor und gibt einen Blick in die Zukunft: Wie werden Sanktionen künftig eingesetzt? Das Buch stellt Maßstäbe vor, die Europa und Deutschland bei der Verhängung ihrer Strafmaßnahmen in Zukunft leiten sollten.

Der Westen ist nicht mehr der Nabel der Welt. Stattdessen treten die Staaten des Globalen Südens mit neuem Selbstbewusstsein auf. Das Buch diskutiert, warum die Staaten des Globalen Südens so handeln, wie sie es tun, warum deren Skepsis gegenüber dem Westen so tief sitzt – und warum in der neuen Vielfalt auch Chancen liegen.

To what extent do minority grievances contribute to intrastate conflict? Based on a novel dataset on 771 religious minorities, the book offers new insights into classic debates on the influences of discrimination, deprivation, and inequality (DDI) on minority grievances and conflict behavior. DDI is a significant cause of minority grievances which, in turn, deeply influence their conflict behaviors.