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Event Announcement: The Politics of Digital Humanitarianism
Humanitarian actors increasingly rely on digital technologies such as satellite remote sensing, drones and Artificial Intelligence in the governance of international crises. NGOs such as the Red Cross…
Digital Kick-Off for the ZUSE-Project
Since the start of the project in February, the members of the BMBF-funded research network Solidarity through Security? Discourses, Interactions and Practices of European Solidarity in the Field of…
New IFSH Policy Brief: Advancing Peacebuilding from the Ground up
Karolina Kluczewska, Anna KreikemeyerInternational peacebuilding has struggled for years with problems in implementing local ownership. Despite claims of prioritizing local ownership in peacebuilding, top-down approaches still dominate…
Update Available - Societal Actors Advancing Peace and Security in Cyberspace
Dr. Mischa Hansel, Dr. Jantje SilomonWithout adequate cyber security, essential services and basic supplies are put at risk in our ever increasingly digital societies. This became abundantly clear in May 2021, when a ransomware attack in…
The IFSH Celebrates 50 Years - Senate Reception at Hamburg City Hall (Video)
Impressions from the celebration on 11 June 2021“Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.” This dictum from Willy Brandt is our mandate and our motivation. For 50 years, we have been researching the mutually dependent…
Why Germany and France still have different views on security policy - New Policy Brief
Barbara Kunz contributed the article “Paris and Berlin: still no strategic convergence, while the big questions return” to the Security Policy Library of the Norwegian Atlantic Committee. She…
50 Years IFSH: Anniversary Ceremony at the City Hall
"Peace is not everything, but everything is nothing without peace". This dictum of Willy Brandt is our mission and our drive: For 50 years, we have been researching from Hamburg and, since 2019,…Peace Report 2021 Published
"Europe can do more!" This is the rallying cry of the four leading German Peace research institutes call for in their current Peace Report, which they have presented today at the Federal Press…
Statement by the Deep Cuts Commission on nuclear arms control
Statement der Deep Cuts Commission
Turning the tide: NATO, the United States and Russia need to agree on an ambitious arms control agenda
After a series of arms control setbacks in recent years,…