ABI expertise in civic education: Researchers share their expertise on conflicts in Africa, Central and South America

The ABI is committed to making its research accessible to the interested public. The German Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education, short: bpb) offers an important platform for science commmunication and civic education. For conflict portraits by the bpb, researchers at the ABI shared their expertise on current conflicts from several world regions. Each contribution gives an overview on the current situation, on causes and backgrounds, on coping and solution approaches and the history of the conflicts. The portraits discuss conflicts in the Global South, many of which are not addressed in their full complexity in German reporting. All conflict portraits are only available in German.

The contributions of the ABI in 2024:

Viviana García Pinzón explains the context and current developments of autocratization under president Nayib Bukele in El Salvador. She also has published a blog entry for Urban Violence (EN) on this topic.

Chad expert Helga Dickow gives an overview on the continuing system of oppression under Idriss Déby and now his son Mahamat Déby in Chad. She has shared her knowledge and assessment of the situation in the country in numerous media outlets – among them The Conversation and the BBC.

In another conflict portrait, she and Tim Glawion explain the conditions of violence in the Central African Republic. In a DFG funded project, Tim Glawion explores the monopoly of violence and security paradoxes in the country. 

He also shares his expertise in conflict portraits on the unstable peace after the civil war in South Sudan and the spiral of political mismanagement, poverty and violence in Haiti.