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Peace price of the Albert-Oswald-Foundation for Sadako Ogata
On December 6, Sadako Ogata, former UN High Commissioner for Refugees and Co-Chair of the Human Security Commission received the peace price of the Albert-Oswald-Foundation in the Parliament of Hessen…
Presentations on Iran and arms control in Moscow
Oliver Meier articipated in two events on nuclear arms control and non-proliferation in Moscow, organized by the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation. On 5 December, he spoke at a seminar for members of the…
Meeting with Foreign Minister Westerwelle
Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle met with a small group of Afghanistan experts on 28 November 2011. The meeting served as preparation for the International Afghanistan Conference in Bonn on 5…
Lecture on EU Police Missions
On the 29th of November Isabelle Maras gave a lecture on "The EU Police Missions: The 'European Way' to Address Policing Issues in a Post-Conflict Context" to American students enrolled in the…
A Balance of Fear: Asymmetric Threats and Tit-for-Tat Strategies in Gaza
Margret Johannsen
A Balance of Fear: Asymmetric Threats and Tit-for-Tat Strategies in Gaza, in: Journal of Palestine Studies, Jg. 41, Nr. 1 (Autumn 2011), S. 45-56.
Cooperation with East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai
In the framework of a cooperation agreement between the Faculty for Economics and Social Science of the University of Hamburg Michael Brzoska gave lectures at the Center for European Studies at ECNU.…
Roundtable on confidence-building measures for tactical nuclear weapons
On 16-17 November, IFSH together with the Arms Control Association and the British American Security Information Council organized an international roundtable on „Improving transparency on tactical…
The `Dark´ Side of Normative Argumentation in Counterterrorism
Fromthe 18th to the 19th of November 2011, the Centre for European Peace and Security Studies (ZEUS) at the[nbsp] Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg hosted…
"Global Zero: Perhaps not in my Lifetime"
The program proclaimed by Barack Obama in Prague in 2009 to free the world of nuclear weapons has met with resistance. Although the danger of international proliferation and hence an erosion of the…
Presentation at PRIF-Conference on Global Crime Governance
Patricia Schneider took part in a conference organized by PRIF and the cluster of excellence “Normative Orders” at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main from November 4-5, 2011. She presented the topic…