The ABI team from the "Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict" network has been shortlisted for the “Best Research Environment 2024” award from the Junge Akademie and the VolkswagenStiftung.
ABI staff member Anas Ansar and Eva Gutensohn from südnordfunk spoke with Azaher Uddín, an activist, about the young generation in Bangladesh, the possibilities for a new beginning, and what the generation now expects of the new government.
The ABI welcomes Sophia Stille, Jamila Hamidu and Edwin Mutyenyoka as new staff members in the PolMig project!
Now open: Call for Papers for a workshop on populism in authoritarian regimes. The workshop will also address the increasingly blurred line between democratic and authoritarian regimes.
To mark its fifth anniversary, the ACT is hosting a five-part series of events in cooperation with interesting partners from Freiburg: “Five years - five perspectives”.
Richard Tsogang Fossi and Andreas Mehler have written a policy paper on dealing with the colonial legacy in university practice and research, published in the Virtual Encyclopaedia "Rewriting Peace and Conflict" of the Postcolonial Hierarchies Network.
Together with Hanna Al-Taher, Benjamin Schütze published a guest commentary on German Middle East policy. Their verdict: mendacious and lost. Now an Arabic translation of the article is available at Al-Ittihad.
Viviana García Pinzón and Fabricio Rodríguez, together with activists from Santiago de Chile and Cali, have reflected on the formative protests of recent years - the result is a collaborative knowledge production of social movements, art and science in the form of this report.
For the video "Peace and Conflict in Latin America. Insights from Critical Perspectives", the network Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict invited a group of scholars to discuss the colonial legacies and continuities in the region.
At ABI, Dina Wahba will do research on Protest Movements and the Sociology of Emotions. Her research focuses on the Middle East and North Africa, with a special focus on Egypt.
