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Video: Presentation of the project results and interactive website
Körber Strategic Stability Initiative - A joint project with the Körber FoundationHow can we prevent competition between great powers from escalating into open military conflict? In cooperation with the IFSH, the Körber Strategic Stability Initiative developed 19 policy…
New publication: Security, Peace, Conflict, and the Anthropocene
The new journal article by Dr Judith Nora Hardt analyses the connections between peace, conflict and security with the geological age of the Anthropocene. The author also examines the challenges…
The Deep Cuts Project introduces its new young commission
The global arms control architecture is crumbling, arms control treaties are eroding, and a new arms race is well underway – including nuclear modernization and armament. This is why the Deep Cuts…
Event Announcement: Europe can do more
Digital discussion event of the FES and the EKD Brussels Office on the occasion of the presentation of the Peace Report 2021.The European Union faces fundamental challenges in the area of foreign, security and defence policy. Relations with Russia have reached a new low. China is gaining ground in the game of the great…
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…