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Research Center “Transformations of Political Violence” | collaboration of @prif.org, @goetheuni.bsky.social, @tuda.bsky.social, @jlugiessen.bsky.social & @unimarburg.bsky.social. Funded by the BMFTR. https://www.trace-center.de/

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 3w ago

📕 Der Krieg ist zurück in Europa – das Recht des Stärkeren auch? Das diskutiert hendrikpsimon.bsky.social in seinem neuen Buch „Das Recht der Gewalt. Warum Waffen allein keinen Frieden schaffen“. Jetzt neu im @reclamverlag.bsky.social. 👉 www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...

Buchcover „Das Recht der Gewalt. Warum Waffen allein keinen Frieden schaffen“ von Hendrik Simon

TraCe @trace-center.de · 3w ago

Russia, China, & the US – examples of a “New Interventionism”?On July 8, Lisbeth Zimmermann, Raphaël Cahen, @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social, Barry de Vries & Katja Schöberl discussed this recent development and violations of international law @jlugiessen.bsky.social. ➡️ www.trace-center.de/en/news-1/de...

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Hendrik Simon @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social · 3w ago

📰Gilt jetzt das Recht der Gewalt? Meine kurze Antwort: Nein! Das Völkerrecht bleibt resilient. Eine längere Antwort habe ich in der @faznet.bsky.social vom vorvergangenen Samstag entwickelt. cc @fgz-risc.bsky.social @prif.org @trace-center.de @reclamverlag.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social

TraCe @trace-center.de · last mo.

🏳️‍🌈 Out now: “Joy, Reflections, Resistance – LGBTIQ+ Lived Realities in Africa. Scholarly and Activist Perspectives”, co-edited by @marielreiss.bsky.social & Ayodele Sogunro. The volume explores violence, resistance, solidarity, & queer lives across Africa. www.trace-center.de/en/news-1/de...

Cover of book "Joy, Reflections, Resistance - LGBTIQ+ Lived Realities in Africa" by Mariel Reiss and Ayodele Sogunro. The cover is purple and shows a collection of edited pictures in the lower half including photos of a scale, two men kissing, two people embracing and others.

TraCe @trace-center.de · 4mo ago

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: This last highlight publication by Nicolai Hannig and Julia Engelschalt (both @tuda.bsky.social) examines the Congolese Sapeur Movement – using fashion to protest the Western clothing bans of the Mobutu regime. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

TraCe Highlight Publication: Hannig, Nicolai/Engelschalt, Julia (2024): Fashion, Mobility, and Protest: The Sapeur Movement in Congo, in: Historical Social Research, 49: 4, 120–134, DOI: https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.49.2024.38.

TraCe Highlight Publication: Emerging as a fashionable protest against Western clothing bans in dictatorial Congo in the second half of the twentieth century , the sapeur movement used flamboyant European styles to defiantly subvert high-society norms. By analyzing international media from the 1970s to today, this article seeks to understand the sapeur as an interloper between several spheres.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 4mo ago

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: This highlight publication, TraCe Working Paper No. 6 – a collaboration with @kunsthallegiessen.bsky.social – unites interdisciplinary perspectives of researchers on the (in)visibility of violence. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

TraCe Highlight Publication: Ahlheim, Hannah/Cramer, Tina/Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana/Guntrum, Laura/Ismail, Nadia/Mannitz, Sabine/Marauhn, Thilo/Lasso Mena, Verena/Oettler, Anika/Schwab, Regine/Spittler, Sara-Luise/Wolff, Jonas (2025): (Un)Sichtbarkeit von Gewalt, Frankfurt/Main, TraCe Working Paper No. 6, DOI: 10.48809/PRIFTraCeWP2506.

TraCe Highlight Publication: What mechanisms determine the visibility or invisibility of violence? Written in the context of the exhibition “(In)Visibility of Violence” (KUNSTHALLE GIESSEN, 2025), this TraCe Working Paper examines forms, geographical contexts, and both historical and contemporary conditions of violence. The paper is a prime example for TraCe’s knowledge transfer: It connects artistic and academic perspectives on violence and makes them accessible to a non-academic audience through numerous examples and pictures.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 4mo ago

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: This highlight publication by @marielreiss.bsky.social and Ayodele Sogunro explores LGBTIQ+ lived realities in African contexts at the intersections of knowledge-production and -transfer. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

TraCe Highlight Publication: Reiss, Mariel/Sogunro, Ayodele (2026) (Hrsg.): Joy, Reflections, Resistance - LGBTIQ+ Lived Realities in Africa. Scholarly and Activist Perspectives, Leverkusen, Deutschland: Verlag Barbara Budrich.

TraCe Highlight Publication: Building on the themes of violence, resistance, and solidarity, this book explores intersections of knowledge-production and -transfer between diverse scholarly and activist spheres and herewith contributes to methodological, conceptual, and normative aspects of centring LGBTIQ+ rights and lived realities in manifold African contexts. The chapters discuss the longer historical developments of homo- and transphobic bills, legislations, and de jure practices as well as their effects for LGBTIQ+ persons (until) today.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 4mo ago

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In @journalgenocide.bsky.social, Kaya de Wolff and Jephta Nguherimo explore the ongoing struggle of Ovaherero and Nama for restorative justice for the colonial genocide committed by Germany in 1904 to 1908 in Namibia. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

TraCe Highlight Publication: De Wolff, Kaya/Nguherimo, Jephta (2025): The Ovaherero and Nama People’s Struggle for Restorative Justice: An Activist-Scholar Lens, in: Journal of Genocide Research, 1–18, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2025.2559463.

TraCe Highlight Publication: This article explores the ongoing struggle of the Ovaherero and Nama struggle to obtain an apology and reparations for the colonial genocide committed by German troops in 1904 to 1908 in Namibia. By co-publishing this article in tandem as a German academic scholar and a Namibian reparation activist, the authors move from an extractivist practice of scholarship to a form of mutually beneficial knowledge production.

TraCe Highlight Publication: All publications can be found on our website.

TraCe @trace-center.de · 4mo ago

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: This highlight publication – a @manchesterup.bsky.social book – explores memory politics and its impact on the quality of peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Citation of the book "Peace and the Politics of Memory".

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 4mo ago

We are happy to welcome Esin Gülsen, our newest Associate Fellow from @goetheuni.bsky.social & Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform! Esin examines the transmission of intergenerational memories of violence in the Kurdish diaspora in Germany. 👉 www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

TraCe @trace-center.de · 4mo ago

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: This Cultural Dynamics Special Issue examines perspectives on the cultural memory of political violence by researchers from @prif.org, @goetheuni.bsky.social & @unimarburg.bsky.social, focusing on museums. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Special Issue: Displaying and Processing Political Violence in Museum Spaces, Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann & Sabine Mannitz (Hrsg.) (2025), Cultural Dynamics, 37: 1–2, DOI: 10.1177/09213740251323352

This issue of the journal Cultural Dynamics brings together contributions by scholars from PRIF, Goethe University, and the University of Marburg. Their research on the cultural memory of political violence is focused here in particular on interpretive frameworks through which museums communicate these histories to a broader public.

Read more: All publication highlights can be found on our website: www.trace-center.de/en/publications/highlights

TraCe @trace-center.de · 4mo ago

🎉 4 years of research on political violence! As TraCe concludes its first funding phase, we reflected on our journey at our retreat in Lollar. This graphic recording by Christa Fajen captures our research, exchange, and activities. Ready for the next chapter! 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/news-1/de...

The Graphic recording shows a lettering in the center of the picture that says “four years of research on political violence”. At the top of the lettering, there’s a visualization of the four TraCe Research Fields in form of a directional sign. Every field is structured in themes with small drawings and the research question addressed there. Below the lettering there’s a chronological structured map, that shows the TraCe events and conferences, as well as knowledge transfer facts and figures.

TraCe @trace-center.de · 4mo ago

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: TraCe Working Paper No. 5, written by a multi-disciplinary team of TraCe researchers, reflects on “memory before violence” by analyzing six case studies. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Kaya de Wolff, Astrid Erll, Sybille Frank, Nicolai Hannig, Sabine Mannitz, Mariel Reiss, Jona Schwerer, Sara-Luise Spittler & Monika Wingender (2024). Memory Before Violence. TraCe Working Paper No. 5, DOI: 10.48809/PRIFTraCeWP2405.

In this working paper, TraCe researchers from various fields (including the social sciences and the humanities, history, media studies, and linguistics) reflect on “memory before violence.” The working paper suggests turning around the temporal perspective on the memory-violence nexus. In six case studies, authors address “memory before violence” – in Brazil, in Canada, in Uganda and Kenya, in Russia and Ukraine, and in Germany.

TraCe @trace-center.de · 4mo ago

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In this symposium, @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social (@fgz-risc.bsky.social & @prif.org) and Juan Pablo Scarfi started on @voelkerrechtsblog.org, the authors examine what the Monroe Doctrine stands for today. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Juan Pablo Scarfi & Hendrik Simon (2023); ReflectiÖns on 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine; Völkerrechtsblog, 18.12.2023, DOI: 10.17176/20231218-111106-0.

What does the Monroe Doctrine – or perhaps better: the multiple Monroe Doctrines since 1823 – actually stand for today? How can we look back on it 200 years after its first appearance? In this blog post, authors build on discussions of a TraCe conference on the Monroe Doctrine in Frankfurt, December 2023.

This research agenda will be pursued further in a forthcoming edited volume by Raphaël Cahen, León Castellanos-Jankiewicz, and Hendrik Simon.

TraCe @trace-center.de · 5mo ago

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In this highlight publication, @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social (@fgz-risc.bsky.social & @prif.org) & Lothar Brock @goetheuni.bsky.social examine the reciprocal relationship between war justifications & international order. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Hendrik Simon & Lothar Brock (2023) | Transformation(en) der Gewaltrechtfertigung? Zum Verhältnis von Kriegslegitimation und internationaler Ordnungsbildung in Geschichte und Gegenwart | TraCe Working Paper No. 2, DOI: 10.48809/PRIFTraCeWP2302

Die Geschichte politischer Gewalt ist zugleich eine Geschichte ihrer Rechtfertigung und Kritik: Seit jeher wird politische Gewalt von Theorien und Praktiken ihrer (De-)Legitimation begleitet – auf nationaler wie auch auf inter- und transnationaler Ebene. Das zweite TraCe Working Paper untersucht, wie sich diese Praktiken gewandelt haben und ob Kontinuität oder Brüche dominieren.

TraCe @trace-center.de · 5mo ago

🎉 Looking back & looking ahead: During a two-day internal retreat on March 12–13 in Lollar, the TraCe network revisited four years of collaboration, bid farewell to colleagues moving on & discussed TraCe’s research agenda for the upcoming years. 👉 www.trace-center.de/en/news-1/de...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 5mo ago

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: This highlight publication by Rafael Quishpe Contreras @jlugiessen.bsky.social, Mónica Salazar, Juan E. Ugarriza & Diana C. Acuña examines the transition of former rebel organizations into political parties. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

TraCe Highlight Publication: Acuña, Diana C./Quishpe, Rafael C./Salazar, Mónica A./Ugarriza, Juan E. (2023): Transitioning Guerrillas: An Analysis of the Internal Cohesion of the Former FARC in their Transition from War to Democracy, in: Latin American Politics and Society, 66: 3, 79–106, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2023.37.

TraCe Highlight Publication: Ex-rebel political parties often emerge after peace accords but frequently fragment and disappear, increasing the risk of renewed political violence. Using quantitative data on former FARC guerrillas in Colombia who joined a newly founded legal political party, the authors' findings suggest that supporting organizational reengineering efforts among former rebels – with a focus on cohesion – can mitigate the negative consequences of rebel party collapse.

TraCe Highlight Publication: All publication highlights can be found on our website.

TraCe @trace-center.de · 5mo ago

🌈 New TraCe Working Paper “The Long Shadow of Colonial Violence Against LGBTIQ+ Kenyans” @marielreiss.bsky.social & Āryā Jeipea Karijo argue that current anti-LGBTIQ+-violence in Kenya is rooted in norms & legislation introduced by British colonialism. 📝 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Cover of TraCe Working Paper No. 8: The Long Shadow of Colonial Violence Against LGBTIQ+ Kenyans | Mariel Reiss & Āryā Jeipea Karijo.

TraCe @trace-center.de · 5mo ago

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In the @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social, @hannapfeifer.bsky.social and @reginesonja.bsky.social analyze conflict zones in West Asia and North Africa to examine the binary of state and non-state actors in civil wars. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

TraCe Highlight Publication: Pfeifer, Hanna/Schwab, Regine (2023): Re-examining the State/Non-state Binary in the Study of (Civil) War, in: Civil Wars, 25: 2–3, 426–449, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2254654.

TraCe Highlight Publication: One of the fundamental distinctions informing studies on civil war is that between state and non-state actors as parties to an armed conflict. As TraCe authors argue, this binary has come under increased scrutiny in light of recent developments in armed conflicts. Drawing on examples from conflict zones in West Asia and North Africa, they investigate phenomena in civil wars that uncover the tenuity of state/non-state distinction.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 5mo ago

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In this edited volume by Barry de Vries, Thilo Marauhn (jlugiessen.bsky.social) reflects two perspectives on the strengthening of norms against chemical and biological weapons.🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Highlight Publication: Marauhn, Thilo (2025): Multi-normativity and Multi-level Governance: Fresh Perspectives on the Strengthening of Norms against Chemical and Biological Weapons, in: Barry de Vries (ed.), Chemical and Biological Weapons, Leiden, Niederlande: Brill | Nijhoff, 1–12, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004739192_002.

TraCe Highlight Publication: The bans on chemical and biological weapons are foundational to global disarmament and international security. However, these regimes are under increasing strain due to recent violations and broader institutional challenges. This book introduction reflects on two concepts helpful to explain the complexities of multilateral regulations: the established notion of multi-level governance and the more recent notion of multi-normativity.

TraCe @trace-center.de · 5mo ago

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: Juliana González Villamizar and Stefan Peters (both @jlugiessen.bsky.social) take a closer look at Colombia’s Truth Commission – analyzing how its work also aims to challenge structural inequalities (in Spanish). 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

TraCe Highlight Publication: González Villamizar, Juliana/Peters, Stefan (2025): Los enfoques diferenciales desde una vocación transformadora: El trabajo de la Comisión de la Verdad en Colombia, in: Una mirada a la Comisión de la Verdad de Colombia. Aprendizajes, reflexiones y siete desafíos contemporáneos, Bogotá, Colombia: Edición Planeta, 115–136.

TraCe Highlight Publication: This book chapter examines the transformative use of differential approaches in the work of Colombia’s Truth Commission, focusing on how diverse social positions and experiences of violence are incorporated into truth-seeking processes. It analyzes how these approaches aim not only to document harm but also to challenge structural inequalities and promote inclusive recognition of victims.

TraCe @trace-center.de · 5mo ago

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: On @lseblogs.bsky.social, @benchristian.bsky.social, Johanna Speyer (@prif.org), and Lisbeth Zimmermann (@goetheuni.bsky.social) argue that favoring powerful states undermines the rules-based international order. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Ben Cristian, Johanna Speyer & Lisbeth Zimmermann (2024); The rules-based international order will not survive if its institutions only work in powerful states’ interests. LSE Blog, 11.12.2024

The current international order is in crisis, but what action to take to address this is hotly debated. Countering a suggestion to reform global institutions by giving more power to already powerful states, this blog post argues that this path would deepen the existing crisis: The rules-based international order which rests on multilateral cooperation will fail if its institutions are reformed to work even more in the interest of powerful states.

TraCe @trace-center.de · 5mo ago

We warmly welcome our newest Associate Fellow Tobias Ide from @tuda.bsky.social & @prif.org! Tobias examines causes and consequences of political violence in the context of climate change and environment. 👉 www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

PRIF @prif.org · 5mo ago

📢 New #PRIFblog: Syria's political transition is driven by gradual institution-building rather than revolutionary zeal. As @reginesonja.bsky.social, Ammar Hassan and Samer Massoud argue, this approach’s success will be decisive for the country's stability. ➡️ blog.prif.org/2026/02/26/m...

More Gradualism than Shock? Observations on how Syria’s New Islamist Rulers Are Building a State - PRIF BLOG

When Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its allies swept into Damascus in December 2024, many observers feared a replication of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. After all, HTS was a group with roots...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 5mo ago

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In @coco-journal.bsky.social, Frederik Schissler, @hannapfeifer.bsky.social, Constantin Ruhe, @reginesonja.bsky.social & Jonas Wolff take a closer look at the trend of internationalized intrastate armed conflicts. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

TraCe Highlight Publication: The internationalization of intrastate conflict: A network perspective on empirical evidence and theoretical explanations, in Cooperation and Conflict, forthcoming

TraCe Highlight Publication: In this paper, TraCe researchers from Goethe University and PRIF introduce a network-based framework to conceptualize the internationalization of intrastate armed conflict.
Empirically, they show that intrastate conflicts have indeed become more internationalized in recent years and identify and evaluate likely
drivers of this trend. A preprint version of the forthcoming paper has been published as TraCe Working Paper No. 7.

PRIF @prif.org · 6mo ago

Zum vierten Jahrestag der russischen Vollinvasion zieht Jonas J. Driedger Bilanz: Wie hat sich die zweite Amtszeit von Trump auf das Kriegsgeschehen ausgewirkt? Und welche Perspektiven gibt es im fünften Jahr für Frieden in der Ukraine? Jetzt auf dem #PRIFblog blog.prif.org/2026/02/19/f...

Frieden trotz Trump? Stand und Zukunft des Russland-Ukraine-Kriegs an seinem vierten Jahrestag - PRIF BLOG

Vor fast vier Jahren, am 24. Februar 2022, begann die russische Vollinvasion der Ukraine. Über diesen Zeitraum haben die USA diesen Krieg maßgeblich mitgeprägt. Unter Präsident Biden unterstützten sie...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 6mo ago

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In her forthcoming monograph, @reginesonja.bsky.social takes a closer look at the complex relationships between rebel groups in multiparty civil wars. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Sharepic Highlight Publication: Armed Group Constellations: Patterns of Cooperation and Conflict in Multiparty Civil Wars.

Highlight Publication Sharepic: Internationalized multiparty civil wars are an increasingly relevant phenomenon, but we lack understanding of the internal dynamics of these conflicts. Based on in-depth field work of the Syrian conflict and case studies of Ethiopia and Myanmar, this book develops a new understanding of the complex relationships between rebel groups in multiparty civil wars that goes beyond binary notions of cooperation and conflict.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 6mo ago

Welcome Danica Trifunjagić, our new TraCe Associate Fellow at @tuda.bsky.social @machtgeschichte.bsky.social! Danica explores the the intertwining of social movements, culture, and political violence, with a particular focus on the (post-)Yugoslav region. 👉 www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

TraCe @trace-center.de · 6mo ago

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In the Journal of Conflict Resolution, @reginesonja.bsky.social, Werner Krause & Samer Massoud show how targeting civilian infrastructure in Syria backfired and caused rebels to respond with increased violence. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Sharepic Highlight Publication: The Bombing of Hospitals and Rebel Responses in Civil War. Evidence from Syria.

Highlight Publication Sharepic: This publication researches an increasingly prominent form of political violence, the targeting of civilian infrastructure, and its effects on local violence dynamics. Concretely, the paper shows that the targeting of medical facilities by pro-government forces in the Syrian civil war leads to increased rebel violence rather than suppressing resistance.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 6mo ago

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: Markus Lederer, Verena Lasso Mena, Jens Marquardt, Timo Richter & Dorothea Elena Schoppek (all @tuda.bsky.social) analyze the use of civil disobedience by radical climate movements & their attempted delegitimization. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Cover and citation of the Highlight Publication on Radical Climate Movements.

Description of the Highlight Publication on Radical Climate Movements.

Link to the highlight publications on the TraCe website.