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How can peace be built while violence remains active? TraCe welcomes David Luquetta as a TraCe Visiting Fellow. He focuses on urban violence, territorial transformations of armed conflict & emerging approaches to peacebuilding in the Colombian Caribbean. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/news-1/de...

Can Feminist Strategic Litigation advance Indigenous rights and gender equality in Canada? Lara Zieß & Sabine Mannitz explore the tension between law as a tool of oppression and as a potential means of transformation in the new TraCe Working Paper No. 10. 👉 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

What sources do people draw from to endure political violence? Our new Associate Fellow Sebastian Köthe (jlugiessen.bsky.social) investigates the interplay of political violence and practices of survival. Welcome to TraCe! 👉 learn more: www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

10 Sept

How does colonial violence interlink with international institutions? New TraCe Working Paper No. 9 by @linaschne.bsky.social & Lisbeth Zimmermann examines how international institutions have addressed colonial violence & how their role has changed over time. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/publikatione...

24 Aug

📚 From internationalized civil wars & digital technologies to the role of institutions, memory & language: How are forms, institutions & interpretations of political violence changing? The “Routledge Handbook on Transformations of Political Violence“ offers a comprehensive overview – out now! 🎉

routledge.comRoutledge Handbook on Transformations of Political ViolenceThis new handbook explores, organizes, and analyzes current research on political violence in a changing global context. Drawing from diverse disciplines—political science, sociology, anthropology, an...

24 Aug

Published by @routledgebooks.bsky.social & edited by @tbonacker.bsky.social, Christopher Daase, Jonas J. Driedger, Nguyễn Phạm Lam-Phương & @jannikpfister.bsky.social. 🔗 Available Open Access: www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...

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24 Aug

Politische Gewalt im Wandel: Neues Routledge Handbook bündelt Forschung des hessischen Forschungsverbunds TraCe zu Formen, Institutionen und Deutungen von Gewalt in interdisziplinärem Überblick: https://www.trace-center.de/veranstaltungen/de... weiterlesen

gjia.georgetown.eduWar, Erasure, and the Politics of Culture in Sudan - Georgetown Journal of International AffairsTwo millennia of inhabitation by indigenous groups, immigrant and diaspora communities, and many others who made the land their home have shaped Sudan’s cultural legacy along the two Niles. Today, ove...

17 Aug

The war in Sudan is an urgent humanitarian crisis that threatens the country’s cultural heritage. In her article “War, Erasure, and the Politics of Culture in Sudan,” Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann (TraCe & @prif.org) explores the erasure of cultural identities. 🔗 gjia.georgetown.edu/human-rights...

15 July

📕 Der Krieg ist zurück in Europa – das Recht des Stärkeren auch? Das diskutiert hendrikpsimon.bsky.social in seinem neuen Buch „Das Recht der Gewalt. Warum Waffen allein keinen Frieden schaffen“. Jetzt neu im @reclamverlag.bsky.social. 👉 www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...

@hendrikpsimon.bsky.social

14 July

Russia, China, & the US – examples of a “New Interventionism”?On July 8, Lisbeth Zimmermann, Raphaël Cahen, @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social, Barry de Vries & Katja Schöberl discussed this recent development and violations of international law @jlugiessen.bsky.social. ➡️ www.trace-center.de/en/news-1/de...

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Hendrik Simon

13 July

📰Gilt jetzt das Recht der Gewalt? Meine kurze Antwort: Nein! Das Völkerrecht bleibt resilient. Eine längere Antwort habe ich in der @faznet.bsky.social vom vorvergangenen Samstag entwickelt. cc @fgz-risc.bsky.social @prif.org @trace-center.de @reclamverlag.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social

23 June

🏳️‍🌈 Out now: “Joy, Reflections, Resistance – LGBTIQ+ Lived Realities in Africa. Scholarly and Activist Perspectives”, co-edited by @marielreiss.bsky.social & Ayodele Sogunro. The volume explores violence, resistance, solidarity, & queer lives across Africa. www.trace-center.de/en/news-1/de...

16 Apr

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: This last highlight publication by Nicolai Hannig and Julia Engelschalt (both @tuda.bsky.social) examines the Congolese Sapeur Movement – using fashion to protest the Western clothing bans of the Mobutu regime. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

14 Apr

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: This highlight publication, TraCe Working Paper No. 6 – a collaboration with @kunsthallegiessen.bsky.social – unites interdisciplinary perspectives of researchers on the (in)visibility of violence. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

9 Apr

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: This highlight publication by @marielreiss.bsky.social and Ayodele Sogunro explores LGBTIQ+ lived realities in African contexts at the intersections of knowledge-production and -transfer. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

7 Apr

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In @journalgenocide.bsky.social, Kaya de Wolff and Jephta Nguherimo explore the ongoing struggle of Ovaherero and Nama for restorative justice for the colonial genocide committed by Germany in 1904 to 1908 in Namibia. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

2 Apr

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: This highlight publication – a @manchesterup.bsky.social book – explores memory politics and its impact on the quality of peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

1 Apr

We are happy to welcome Esin Gülsen, our newest Associate Fellow from @goetheuni.bsky.social & Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform! Esin examines the transmission of intergenerational memories of violence in the Kurdish diaspora in Germany. 👉 www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

31 Mar

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: This Cultural Dynamics Special Issue examines perspectives on the cultural memory of political violence by researchers from @prif.org, @goetheuni.bsky.social & @unimarburg.bsky.social, focusing on museums. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

27 Mar

🎉 4 years of research on political violence! As TraCe concludes its first funding phase, we reflected on our journey at our retreat in Lollar. This graphic recording by Christa Fajen captures our research, exchange, and activities. Ready for the next chapter! 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/news-1/de...

26 Mar

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: TraCe Working Paper No. 5, written by a multi-disciplinary team of TraCe researchers, reflects on “memory before violence” by analyzing six case studies. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

25 Mar

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In this symposium, @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social (@fgz-risc.bsky.social & @prif.org) and Juan Pablo Scarfi started on @voelkerrechtsblog.org, the authors examine what the Monroe Doctrine stands for today. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

19 Mar

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In this highlight publication, @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social (@fgz-risc.bsky.social & @prif.org) & Lothar Brock @goetheuni.bsky.social examine the reciprocal relationship between war justifications & international order. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

18 Mar

🎉 Looking back & looking ahead: During a two-day internal retreat on March 12–13 in Lollar, the TraCe network revisited four years of collaboration, bid farewell to colleagues moving on & discussed TraCe’s research agenda for the upcoming years. 👉 www.trace-center.de/en/news-1/de...

17 Mar

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: This highlight publication by Rafael Quishpe Contreras @jlugiessen.bsky.social, Mónica Salazar, Juan E. Ugarriza & Diana C. Acuña examines the transition of former rebel organizations into political parties. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

16 Mar

🌈 New TraCe Working Paper “The Long Shadow of Colonial Violence Against LGBTIQ+ Kenyans” @marielreiss.bsky.social & Āryā Jeipea Karijo argue that current anti-LGBTIQ+-violence in Kenya is rooted in norms & legislation introduced by British colonialism. 📝 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

12 Mar

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In the @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social, @hannapfeifer.bsky.social and @reginesonja.bsky.social analyze conflict zones in West Asia and North Africa to examine the binary of state and non-state actors in civil wars. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

10 Mar

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In this edited volume by Barry de Vries, Thilo Marauhn (jlugiessen.bsky.social) reflects two perspectives on the strengthening of norms against chemical and biological weapons.🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

5 Mar

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: Juliana González Villamizar and Stefan Peters (both @jlugiessen.bsky.social) take a closer look at Colombia’s Truth Commission – analyzing how its work also aims to challenge structural inequalities (in Spanish). 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

3 Mar

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: On @lseblogs.bsky.social, @benchristian.bsky.social, Johanna Speyer (@prif.org), and Lisbeth Zimmermann (@goetheuni.bsky.social) argue that favoring powerful states undermines the rules-based international order. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

2 Mar

We warmly welcome our newest Associate Fellow Tobias Ide from @tuda.bsky.social & @prif.org! Tobias examines causes and consequences of political violence in the context of climate change and environment. 👉 www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

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blog.prif.orgMore Gradualism than Shock? Observations on how Syria’s New Islamist Rulers Are Building a State - PRIF BLOGWhen Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its allies swept into Damascus in December 2024, many observers feared a replication of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. After all, HTS was a group with roots...

26 Feb

📢 New #PRIFblog: Syria's political transition is driven by gradual institution-building rather than revolutionary zeal. As @reginesonja.bsky.social, Ammar Hassan and Samer Massoud argue, this approach’s success will be decisive for the country's stability. ➡️ blog.prif.org/2026/02/26/m...

26 Feb

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In @coco-journal.bsky.social, Frederik Schissler, @hannapfeifer.bsky.social, Constantin Ruhe, @reginesonja.bsky.social & Jonas Wolff take a closer look at the trend of internationalized intrastate armed conflicts. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

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blog.prif.orgFrieden trotz Trump? Stand und Zukunft des Russland-Ukraine-Kriegs an seinem vierten Jahrestag - PRIF BLOGVor fast vier Jahren, am 24. Februar 2022, begann die russische Vollinvasion der Ukraine. Über diesen Zeitraum haben die USA diesen Krieg maßgeblich mitgeprägt. Unter Präsident Biden unterstützten sie...

19 Feb

Zum vierten Jahrestag der russischen Vollinvasion zieht Jonas J. Driedger Bilanz: Wie hat sich die zweite Amtszeit von Trump auf das Kriegsgeschehen ausgewirkt? Und welche Perspektiven gibt es im fünften Jahr für Frieden in der Ukraine? Jetzt auf dem #PRIFblog blog.prif.org/2026/02/19/f...

19 Feb

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In her forthcoming monograph, @reginesonja.bsky.social takes a closer look at the complex relationships between rebel groups in multiparty civil wars. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

18 Feb

Welcome Danica Trifunjagić, our new TraCe Associate Fellow at @tuda.bsky.social @machtgeschichte.bsky.social! Danica explores the the intertwining of social movements, culture, and political violence, with a particular focus on the (post-)Yugoslav region. 👉 www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

17 Feb

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In the Journal of Conflict Resolution, @reginesonja.bsky.social, Werner Krause & Samer Massoud show how targeting civilian infrastructure in Syria backfired and caused rebels to respond with increased violence. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

12 Feb

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: Markus Lederer, Verena Lasso Mena, Jens Marquardt, Timo Richter & Dorothea Elena Schoppek (all @tuda.bsky.social) analyze the use of civil disobedience by radical climate movements & their attempted delegitimization. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

11 Feb

🌎 Accountability for Ecocide? In the new TraCe Policy Brief, Verena Lasso Mena & Markus Lederer (both @tuda.bsky.social) trace the emergence of the concept “ecocide” as a political and legal idea and discuss why it matters for policymakers today. www.trace-center.de/publikatione...

10 Feb

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In @icsjournal.bsky.social, Laura Guntrum & Verena Lasso Mena (both @tuda.bsky.social) analyze violence against environmental and human rights defenders in northern Colombia. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

6 Feb

📚 Language as a tool of domination in the war against Ukraine? The new TraCe Policy Brief by Liudmyla Pidkuimukha shows how language & cultural symbols – central to the “Russian World” agenda – are used to dismantle Ukrainian identity. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

5 Feb

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights on the change of forms, causes, and consequences of political violence. In @acmtochi.bsky.social, Laura Guntrum & Christian Reuter (@peasec.de) analyze how activists cope with technology-facilitated violence. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

4 Feb

📣Welcome, Priska Daphi – our new TraCe Associate Fellow at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Priska is interested in transformations of political conflict, focusing on civil society, protest, political participation, and the dynamics of polarization and exclusion. 👉 www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

3 Feb

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights on the change of forms, causes, and consequences of political violence. In the Journal of Peace Research, Juan Albarracín, Rodrigo Moura Karolczak, and Jonas Wolff analyze the killing of social activists in Brazil. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

30 Jan

Intrastate armed conflicts have increasingly internationalized. In TraCe Working Paper No. 7, Frederik Schissler, @felixbethke.bsky.social, @hannapfeifer.bsky.social, Constantin Ruhe, @reginesonja.bsky.social & Jonas Wolff systematically assess this trend. 👉 www.trace-center.de/publikatione...

28 Jan

Join us for the final session of this year’s TraCe lecture series Part 2: Elisabeth Wood, Visiting Professor @prif.org, will speak on “Sexual Violence during War: Patterns and Policy”. 📅 Feb 4, 12h | @goetheuni.bsky.social. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...

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blog.prif.orgDemocracy Can’t Be Imported - PRIF BLOGIn the outpouring of recent commentary on the US intervention in Venezuela in defiance of international law, little attention has been paid to the conditions under which a democratic transition might ...

16 Jan

💡Now on #PRIFblog & IPG journal: Under which conditions could a democratic transition in Venezuela prove feasible? Jonas Wolff and colleagues stress the need for a far-reaching transformation - beyond mere cosmetic changes at the top of government. Learn more ⬇️

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blog.prif.orgZwischen Feigenblatt und politischer Perspektive: Regime Change in der Kontroverse um die US-Intervention in Venezuela - PRIF BLOGDas Argument, dass der US-Militärschlag zu einer demokratischen Transition in Venezuela führen könnte, verleiht der völkerrechtswidrigen US-Intervention keine Legitimität. Viele Venezolaner:innen hoff...

19 Jan

📣Neuer #PRIFblog: Während ein Regimewandel in Venezuela für Trump bislang kaum eine Rolle zu spielen scheint, hoffen Angehörige der venezolanischen Diaspora auf Demokratie. ➡️ Jonas Wolff und @solveigrichter.bsky.social darüber, wie Europa jetzt einen demokratischen Wandel unterstützen kann:

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Anika Oettler

@anikaoettler.bsky.social

15 Jan

die entwicklungen in venezuela sollten nicht vom radar der öffentlichen aufmerksamkeit verschwinden. über die aktuellen kräfteverhältnisse und die bedingungen einer demokratischen transition habe ich mit stefan peters und jonas wolff nachgedacht. www.ipg-journal.de/regionen/lat...

ipg-journal.dePakt oder PattDie US-Intervention stürzte Maduro – doch Demokratie entsteht nicht von außen. In Venezuela ist der Kampf innerer Machtblöcke entscheidend.