How can peace be built while violence remains active? TraCe welcomes David Luquetta as a TraCe Visiting Fellow. He focuses on urban violence, territorial transformations of armed conflict & emerging approaches to peacebuilding in the Colombian Caribbean. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/news-1/de...
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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/
Can Feminist Strategic Litigation advance Indigenous rights and gender equality in Canada? Lara Zieß & Sabine Mannitz explore the tension between law as a tool of oppression and as a potential means of transformation in the new TraCe Working Paper No. 10. 👉 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...
What sources do people draw from to endure political violence? Our new Associate Fellow Sebastian Köthe (jlugiessen.bsky.social) investigates the interplay of political violence and practices of survival. Welcome to TraCe! 👉 learn more: www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...
How does colonial violence interlink with international institutions? New TraCe Working Paper No. 9 by @linaschne.bsky.social & Lisbeth Zimmermann examines how international institutions have addressed colonial violence & how their role has changed over time. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/publikatione...
📚 From internationalized civil wars & digital technologies to the role of institutions, memory & language: How are forms, institutions & interpretations of political violence changing? The “Routledge Handbook on Transformations of Political Violence“ offers a comprehensive overview – out now! 🎉
Politische Gewalt im Wandel: Neues Routledge Handbook bündelt Forschung des hessischen Forschungsverbunds TraCe zu Formen, Institutionen und Deutungen von Gewalt in interdisziplinärem Überblick: https://www.trace-center.de/veranstaltungen/de... weiterlesen
The war in Sudan is an urgent humanitarian crisis that threatens the country’s cultural heritage. In her article “War, Erasure, and the Politics of Culture in Sudan,” Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann (TraCe & @prif.org) explores the erasure of cultural identities. 🔗 gjia.georgetown.edu/human-rights...
War, Erasure, and the Politics of Culture in Sudan - Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
Two millennia of inhabitation by indigenous groups, immigrant and diaspora communities, and many others who made the land their home have shaped Sudan’s cultural legacy along the two Niles. Today, ove...
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📕 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...
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...
📰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
🏳️🌈 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...
📣 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...
📣 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...
📣 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...
📣 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...
📣 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...
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/...
📣 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...
🎉 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...
📣 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...
📣 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...
📣 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...
🎉 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...
📣 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...
🌈 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...
📣 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...
📣 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...
📣 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...
📣 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...
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/...