📣 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/...

📢 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...

📣 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...

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...

📣 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...

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/...

📣 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...

📣 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...

🌎 Accountability for Ecocide? In the new TraCe Policy Brief, Verena Lasso Mena & Markus Lederer (both @tuda.bsky.social) trace the emergence of the concept “ecocide” as a political and legal idea and discuss why it matters for policymakers today. www.trace-center.de/publikatione...

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In @icsjournal.bsky.social, Laura Guntrum & Verena Lasso Mena (both @tuda.bsky.social) analyze violence against environmental and human rights defenders in northern Colombia. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

📚 Language as a tool of domination in the war against Ukraine? The new TraCe Policy Brief by Liudmyla Pidkuimukha shows how language & cultural symbols – central to the “Russian World” agenda – are used to dismantle Ukrainian identity. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

📣 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...

📣Welcome, Priska Daphi – our new TraCe Associate Fellow at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Priska is interested in transformations of political conflict, focusing on civil society, protest, political participation, and the dynamics of polarization and exclusion. 👉 www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights on the change of forms, causes, and consequences of political violence. In the Journal of Peace Research, Juan Albarracín, Rodrigo Moura Karolczak, and Jonas Wolff analyze the killing of social activists in Brazil. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Intrastate armed conflicts have increasingly internationalized. In TraCe Working Paper No. 7, Frederik Schissler, @felixbethke.bsky.social, @hannapfeifer.bsky.social, Constantin Ruhe, @reginesonja.bsky.social & Jonas Wolff systematically assess this trend. 👉 www.trace-center.de/publikatione...

Join us for the final session of this year’s TraCe lecture series Part 2: Elisabeth Wood, Visiting Professor @prif.org, will speak on “Sexual Violence during War: Patterns and Policy”. 📅 Feb 4, 12h | @goetheuni.bsky.social. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...

💡Now on #PRIFblog & IPG journal: Under which conditions could a democratic transition in Venezuela prove feasible? Jonas Wolff and colleagues stress the need for a far-reaching transformation - beyond mere cosmetic changes at the top of government. Learn more ⬇️

📣Neuer #PRIFblog: Während ein Regimewandel in Venezuela für Trump bislang kaum eine Rolle zu spielen scheint, hoffen Angehörige der venezolanischen Diaspora auf Demokratie. ➡️ Jonas Wolff und @solveigrichter.bsky.social darüber, wie Europa jetzt einen demokratischen Wandel unterstützen kann:

die entwicklungen in venezuela sollten nicht vom radar der öffentlichen aufmerksamkeit verschwinden. über die aktuellen kräfteverhältnisse und die bedingungen einer demokratischen transition habe ich mit stefan peters und jonas wolff nachgedacht. www.ipg-journal.de/regionen/lat...

💡Neuer Policy Brief zur US-Militärintervention in Venezuela @anikaoettler.bsky.social (@zfk-mr.bsky.social), Stefan Peters (@jlugiessen.bsky.social) und Jonas Wolff (@prif.org @goetheuni.bsky.social) betrachten Trumps „Imperialistische Gewalt im ‚Hinterhof'“. 📝 www.trace-center.de/fileadmin/Da...

📣 Am 5. Dezember 2025 protestieren Schüler*innen bundesweit gegen eine mögliche Wiedereinführung der Wehrpflicht. 🎙️ Felix Anderl (ZfK) spricht bei Deutschlandfunk Kultur über Motive, Protestformen und das Bewegungspotenzial. 🔗hier reinhören: www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/schulstreiks...

Verstößt Deutschland mit seinen Rüstungsexporten nach Israel gegen Völkerrecht? Und welche Konsequenzen hat die deutsche Praxis für die Sicherheit in der Region? Im neuen PRIF Report analysieren @hannapfeifer.bsky.social und Matthias Goldmann die rechtlichen und politischen Dimensionen:

Zur Folge „Kunst und Konflikt – Kunst im Konflikt“ mit Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann von @trace-center.de: blog.prif.org/2025/12/18/p... Zur Folge „KI, Krieg und Kontrolle“ mit @niklasschoernig.bsky.social und @cntrarmscontrol.org: blog.prif.org/2025/12/18/p...

Hier habe ich einige Eindrücke von unserer vierten @trace-center.de Jahreskonferenz in Marburg @zfk-mr.bsky.social zusammengefasst. Auf der Konferenz wurde ein beeindruckender Bogen um die Bedeutung von slow violence gespannt. www.geistes-und-sozialwissenschaften-bmbf.de/de/News-TraC...

📣Neues Interview mit @anikaoettler.bsky.social (@zfk-mr.bsky.social) erschienen: Auf dem GSW-Portal des BMFTR blickt sie auf die vierte TraCe-Jahreskonferenz zu schleichender Gewalt zurück, erklärt, was hinter dieser Dynamik steckt und wie Wissenschaftler:innen sie erforschen. #GSW-Rahmenprogramm

Neuer #PRIFblog zur COP30: Ohne Entscheidungsmacht für diejenigen, die Wälder und Territorien verteidigen, bleibt globale Klimapolitik blockiert – Belém hat das gezeigt, aber nicht umgesetzt, so Verena Lasso Mena von @trace-center.de & @tuda.bsky.social blog.prif.org/en/2025/12/0...

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...

🌍 Climate Change and the Future of Peace and Security Nina von Uexkull will give the next lecture on TraCe Lecture Series @goetheuni.bsky.social. This lecture organized in collaboration with the Comparative Politics Speaker Series. 📅 Dec 2, 2025, 16h (c.t.) 🔗 www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...

How are new weapon technologies changing warfare? Our new Associate Fellow Anja-Liisa Gonsior @peasec.de @tuda.bsky.social explores how emerging disruptive technologies challenge traditional arms control & how new regulation develops. Welcome to TraCe! 🎉 www.trace-center.de/ueber-uns/te...

📺 Gewalt in Zeitlupe Das Dialogpanel eröffnet am 19.11., 18h die vierte TraCe Jahreskonferenz @zfk-mr.bsky.social. Wir freuen uns auf Theresa Deichert, Carla Hinrichs, Jakob Simmank, @anikaoettler.bsky.social & @vmischitz.bsky.social. In Marburg und auf YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/e-qbhHA...

🛰️ Satellite Data for Understanding and Monitoring Armed Conflict Join the first session of this term's TraCe Lecture Series @goetheuni.bsky.social with Valerie Sticher from @ethz.ch on Nov 11, 16:15h (co-organized with the Comparative Politics Speaker Series). www.trace-center.de/en/events/de...

Zwei Tage voller intensiver Diskussionen zum #Wissenstransfer – Eindrücke vom Abschluss-Workshop unseres Verbunds in Augsburg