Die Kämpfe in der Ukraine, die eskalierende Gewalt in Gaza, zunehmende Spannungen im südchinesischen Meer, der sich regional ausweitende Bürgerkrieg in Syrien, die Gewalt im Irak, aber auch die Erinnerung an den Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs vor einhundert Jahren machen einmal mehr die Notwendigkeit deutlich, nach den Ursachen, Dynamiken und Präventionsmöglichkeiten von Kriegen zu fragen.

The Berghof Foundation is offering a grant for supervised PhD social science research starting on 1 January 2015, on the topic of "Nonviolent Resistance".

Particularly welcome are proposals that deal with:

In the ever broadening field of Transitional Justice the Arts have received scant attention. Yet, it is frequently artists, authors and intellectuals who are to be found at the forefront of civil society efforts to come to terms with a troubled past. Be it in Serbia, Lebanon, Cambodia, Argentina or South Africa, literature, film, theatre, visual arts, music and popular culture are deeply marked by the violent conflicts of the past and the present.

This year the University of Groningen celebrates its 400th anniversary. A short, but remarkable episode in that long history has been coloured by three decades of peace research at the Polemological Institute (1962-1993), based in the Faculty of Law. Its origins and end seem to symbolize the Cold War period, and global concerns about nuclear weapons. Yet, its agenda was much wider, including peace education, conflict management and development studies.

This year the Berghof Foundation invites interested candidates with a research focus on Nonviolent Resistance. The Georg Zundel Scholarship is a grant for supervised PhD social science research and will commence on 1 January 2015. We invite interested applicants to submit proposals that meet the criteria and thematic focus of our details of this Call for Proposals.

Prozesse der Herstellung, Reproduktion und Infragestellung sozialer Ordnungen verlaufen regelmäßig über die Auseinandersetzung um Grenzen. Grenzen werden meist durch die Differenzierung gegenüber einem Außen gesetzt, um so Ordnung im Inneren herzustellen. Unterschiedliche Ordnungen werden wiederum in Konflikten oft dadurch herausgefordert, dass ihre Grenzen verschoben, durchlöchert, überlagert oder dekonstruiert werden. Diese können z.B. zwischen Freund und Feind, Recht und Verbrechen, Allgemeinwohl und Partikularinteresse verlaufen.

How do students prepare themselves for the practicalities of being an academic? The platforms related to peace and conflict studies that expose students to a thorough peer review and publication process are limited. Eight bachelor- and master students from the Department of Peace and Conflict Research (DPCR) detected there is room for improvement and established the first DPCR student journal: the PAX et BELLUM Journal.

In Erinnerung an Hans-Peter Dürr, der am 18.