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Submit your essay: Second edition of the successful OSCE-IFSH Essay Competition launched
Show your writing skills and share your policy proposals: How can conventional arms control be reinvigorated, how can confidence- and security-building measures be strengthened? Students and young…MPS students are honoured with Germany scholarships
Dr. Patricia SchneiderOn 18 February 2021, the University of Hamburg welcomed its Germany Scholarship holders at a digital 2021 award ceremony. Among the more than 200 participants of the ceremony were also the selected…
Apply now for the new year of Peace and Security Studies (M.A.) 2021/2022
Prof. Dr. Ursula Schröder (head) / Dr. Patricia Schneider (coordination)Are you interested in the connections between peace research and security policy? You want to learn more about strategies for avoiding or reducing violent conflicts and what conclusions politics…
Between rejection and accession: Germany and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Dr. Oliver MeierOn 22 January 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into force. The 54 states parties are prohibited from possessing nuclear weapons as assisting nuclear weapons…
Baudissin's Legacy, Peace Research and the Bundeswehr
Prof. Frank ReininghausBaudissin: the name still resonates when considering the IFSH’s founding and its first dozen years. Who was Wolf Graf von Baudissin, or rather – to use his full title – who was retired Lieutenant…
Mikhail Gorbachev at the IFSH
Dr. Margret JohannsenMikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and pioneer of German reunification, celebrates his 90th birthday today, 2 March. Almost exactly 29 years ago he was a guest at IFSH. IFSH Senior…
New report: Using the OSCE More Effectively – Ideas and Recommendations
Dr. Wolfgang ZellnerUnpublished paper for the Federal Foreign Office
The jumping-off point for this report was the observation that, on the one hand, nearly all of the parameters of European security – the military…
50 Years of Peace Research in Hamburg — The IFSH Celebrates Its Anniversary
Reducing nuclear weapons stocks, supporting peace in Europe, confronting propaganda and hate on the internet, and examining the effects of climate change on conflicts and war — since 1971, we have…
NATO Watch Report
Prof. Dr. Michael Brzoska, Dr. Hans-Georg EhrhartTwo of the IFSH’s senior research associates, Michael Brzoska and Hans-Georg Ehrhart, contributed to an assessment of the December 2020 NATO expert group report , “NATO 2030: United for a New Era”.…
Together in search of peace from below
Dr. Anna KreikemeyerRoundtable at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg
On February 16, 2021, Dr. Oleg Korneev, Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg invited to a roundtable…