New chapter: "Political Mobilization in Arab Countries: Grievances, Efficacy, and Identity" Our network member Tareq Sydiq, together with Miquel Pellicer, contributes to The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Authoritarianism in the Arab World, ed. Dana El Kurd. www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia...

The new entry “Memory and Justice in a Postcolonial World” explores how memory can become a driver of justice by connecting past injustices,present inequalities and future possibilities.Drawing on perspectives from memory studies, it approaches colonial legacies. #memory #coloniality #justice#utopia

On the 06.07 Marburg hosted the first event of the Short Speaker Series. The topic of the lecture was „Community Archives as Sites of Memory and Justice: Insights from the Middle East and its Diasporas“.

The new entry “Youth Perspectives on Peace” explores how young people understand peace, violence and social change in their everyday lives. Drawing on conversations with Brazilian students, it shows that peace is not only the absence of conflict. #brazil #youth #peace #power #empowerment

The new entry “Decolonial Solidarity” examines how solidarity can be rethought across unequal power relations. It highlights the tensions of acting “in solidarity” while calling for ethical and political commitments that challenge structures of domination. #solidarity #decolonisation #inequality

The new entry “Postconflict” explores how the concept of ‚post-conflict‘ can be reimagined beyond the end of war. It argues that lasting peace depends on confronting structural inequalities, epistemic violence and colonial legacies. #postconflict #pluriversality #coloniality #peacebuilding #justice

The new entry “Counter - Mapping in Peace and Conflict Research: Reflections from (South)Eastern Europe” explores counter-mapping as a critical approach to challenging dominant spatial narratives and exposing the power relations embedded in cartographic practices.

The Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict Network cordially invites you to the first Short Speaker Series on „Community Archives as Sites of Memory and Justice: Insights from the Middle East and Its Diasporas“.

The new entry “Afrocentrism as a postcolonial approach to understanding migration” explores Afrocentrism as a decolonial approach to migration studies.

On April 24 and 25, the exhibition “Extractivism & Resistance in the Ecuadorian Andes and Beyond” in Marburg offered visitors insights into global commodity supply chains, tracing them all the way to a community in northern Ecuador.

On 20 May 2026, the research network Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict held its first Virtual Think Lab of the second funding phase.

The research network “Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict Studies”, the Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) and the Forum Transregionale Studien open the call for contributions.

💡📝 New Virtual Encyclopaedia entry In this entry in "Rewriting Peace and Conflict" at @postcolh.bsky.social, ABI staff member Teresa Jopson draws from #decolonial perspectives to reimagine the concept of #postconflict. 🔎 Read the entry here: rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2026/04/29/p...

New milestone for the Virtual Encyclopaedia reached ! The Regional Video N°2: Plural Perspectives on Peace and Conflict in Asia was just released and is part of the video-series of the Virtual Encyclopaedia "rewriting peace and conflict".

In this post we highlight a selection of publications from 2025 by the Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict network. You can find an overview of all our publications on our website: www.postcolonial-hierarchies.net/publications/

🤓 New teaching/learning/inspiration resource: Plural Perspectives on Peace and Conflict in #Asia As part of the #virtualencyclopeadia "rewriting peace and conflict", a new video and teaching resource featuring 4 academic perspectives on Asia is now available: rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/videos/

Videos - Rewriting peace and conflict

Videos This video series will give insight into postcolonial dynamics of peace and conflict in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The episodes will feature interviews with researchers investigating regio...

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Herzliche Einladung zur Ausstellung "Extraktivismus & Widerstand in den Anden Ecuadors und darüber hinaus" in Marburg! Wir freuen uns auf alle, die am 24. April zur Eröffnung und anschließendem Austausch oder am 25. April zur offenen Ausstellung kommen.

2 #postdoc positions available at UBT: on South - South security arrangements and transnational security/aid professionals from the Global South and East. Happy to answer questions! www.uni-bayreuth.de/job-vacancy-... @postcolh.bsky.social @conf-mean-trans.bsky.social @africamultiple.bsky.social

Job advertisement of the University of Bayreuth - Chair for Sociology in Africa

Two Postdoctoral Positions (m/f/d)

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📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights on the change of forms, causes, and consequences of political violence. In @acmtochi.bsky.social, Laura Guntrum & Christian Reuter (@peasec.de) analyze how activists cope with technology-facilitated violence. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

The policy workshop examines how different forms of resistance can counter processes of autocratisation. It focuses on artistic, journalistic, academic, and legal perspectives on practices of resistance under conditions of shrinking civic space.

We would like to invite you to a guest lecture next week with Filipp Semyonov. We look forward to seeing you there, and feel free to share this widely !

I think there is alot more on the gound, up to date reporting happening on Iran that should be prioritized - but in case anyone is interested, here are some analytical takes that I think are as relevant today as they were three years ago, and some thoughts on what is different today.

We are happy to announce that the competence network Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict(Hierarchies) has been granted a two-year extension by the BMFTR, beginning 1 April 2026.

Bayreuth Peace Talk with Lina Benabdallah It will be discussed whether in today's geopolitical moment South-South cooperation is truly a path of alterity for Global South states or if it is indelibly caught in extractive and exploitative competition over resources and markets

We’ve surveyed ‘Non-Western Visions of International Order’ for Annual Review of Political Science vol 29 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Non-Western Visions of International Order

The scholarship on the concept of order has been expanding within international relations. The continuous upheaval of world politics first triggered a broad debate on the resilience of the liberal int...

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Just published in the new issue of Alternatives Humanitaires www.alternatives-humanitaires.org/fr/parution/...

Our Winter School "Inherited Futures: Ruptures and Contestations" is starting tomorrow in Basel! It's part of a EUCOR partnership between the universities of Basel, Strasbourg, and Freiburg, but everyone is welcome to the public sessions. Please contact the Basel organizers here tinyurl.com/bdfx8cj8

Out now! We are very happy to share our newest publication: the "Handbook of Peace & Conflict Studies. Perspectives from the Global South", edited by our Siddharth Tripathi and Solveig Richter. Check out the book here - it's open access! www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia...

Our new PI Dr. Alena Strohmaier has won this year’s teaching prize at the University of Marburg. The idea of the team of four was called „Mehr als Seminarraum: Über ein Semesterthema zur großen Studierendenkonferenz“. Congratulations ! www.uni-marburg.de/de/aktuelles...

🥁 Join us next Thursday, October 23, for the first lecture on on "Anti-colonial Social Theory and the Peripheral Gaze" by Sujata Patel, recipient of the @humboldt-foundation.de Research Award, hosted at the @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social of the @uni-freiburg.de for the duration of her stay 2025-2026!

Manuela Boatcă@manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🔔 Save the dates! Our GRK lecture series “Temporality of Imperial Violence” starts next week! 🗓️ Every Thursday, leading scholars will examine how imperial violence unfolds, persists & is remembered across time and space and will explore the temporal logics of empire in diverse historical contexts.