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Studying Everyday Order and Peace from the Ground Up - Workshop Report published
Dr. Anna KreikemeyerThe German Foundation for Peace Research has published Anna Kreikemeyer's report on an IFSH-workshop on peace formation in Central Eurasia. This report summarizes regional expert‘s findings on the…
More credibility in climate security efforts - a blog post
Prof. Dr. Michael Brzoska, Dr. Nora Judith Hardt and Alina ViehoffEven after Germany's membership in the United Nations Security Council, the German government should strive to keep the issue of climate change on the international agenda. Judith Nora Hardt, Michael…
New Policy Brief: Reforming UNCCW Decision-Making
Prof. Dr. Elvira RosertIn the past decades, the United Nations Conference on Certain Conventional Weapons (UNCCW) has heavily struggled to pass legally binding treaties. With the current process on the use of autonomy in…
Deep Cuts Issue Brief #15: The TPNW and the NPT
Lina-Marieke Hilgert, Angela Kane and Anastasia MalyginaOn 22nd January 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) enters into force. The UN Secretary-General will convene a first meeting of states parties within one year. Also in 2021,…
Virtual conference: Security Perspectives for Northern Europe
Dr. Ulrich KühnSince the conflict in Ukraine and Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 the Baltic states fear of a military attack by Russia is increasing. Adding to this fear is a growing military presence in the…
Zero-case strategy to lead Germany out of the Corona crisis
Prof. Dr. Elvira RosertThe pandemic must end and it can end - this is the message of a strategy paper presented by an interdisciplinary team of researchers. They suggest a new direction: Containment efforts should pursue…
How We Became What We Are: 50 Years of the IFSH
A brief outline of the Institute's history"War is obviously rooted less (...) in the minds of individuals than in the orders and disorders of communities. Its causes are not only private but political, despite the respective war profiteers.…
Our MPS Programme: A Success Story
Dr. Patricia SchneiderThe year 2021 marks both the 50th anniversary of the IFSH and, in October, the 20th anniversary of the Master's programme in Peace and Security Studies (or MPS for short) as well!
In 2002, the IFSH…Back to the Future? The New Missile Crisis
Dr. Ulrich KühnIn his contribution peace researcher and head of the Arms Control and Emerging Technologies project at the IFSH, Ulrich Kühn, offers the reader a historical summary of the INF-Treaty up to the current…