📝Why does #Uganda accept #asylum seekers from the #US? ABI staff member @franziscaz.bsky.social and Ronald Kalyango Sebba analyze the migration agreement between Uganda and the US for @theconversation.com. ▶️ Find their article here: 🔗 theconversation.com/refugee-prot...

📚 „Black History – Die vergessene Geschichte Afrikas” bei @chbeckliteratur.bsky.social ist unser #ABIBookofMonth: Amat Levin erzählt Afrikas Geschichte aus schwarzer Perspektive und macht vergessene Kulturen und Stimmen sichtbar. Die ABI Bibliothek entdecken: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/bibliothek

📆Vom 26. bis 27.9.25 findet die #Africa Week Germany 2025 in #Freiburg statt unter dem Motto: „Sichtbar / Unverzichtbar“. -> Rolle der afrikanischen #Diaspora in Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Kultur @abi-freiburg.bsky.social @franziscaz.bsky.social german-africainsight.de/einladung-in...

📚🔍 New project starts at ABI: PhotoTogo Under the coordination of @richardlegay.bsky.social, a collection of colonial photographs from #Togo held at the Museum Natur und Mensch in #Freiburg will be critically examined. ▶️ Find out more on the project: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/projects/...

📖🎉 New Monograph by Anas Ansar Anas Ansar's first monograph, “Rohingyas and the Geographies of Precarity in Exile: Everyday Life in Bangladesh and Malaysia,” has been published with De Gruyter. The ABI congratulates him on this! ▶️ Find out more: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/new-...

📝Analyse: Kamerun vor Präsidentschaftswahlen Für das Magazin iz3w hat ABI-Direktor @mehler.bsky.social aufgeschrieben, warum die Wahlen in #Kamerun im Oktober spannend werden - der 92-jährige Präsident tritt noch einmal an! www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/news/die-lag...

Arrived in #Accra #Ghana for a 4month stay with @miasa-ug.bsky.social Together with scholars from all over Africa +Eur we will discuss ways of comparing peace and conflict qualitatively. Join the discussion - what are your thoughts, projects, fav reads, best practices? @abi-freiburg.bsky.social

📚 New encyclopaedia entry: #Decolonial Peace & #Resistance Theory Nijmeh Ali reframes #peace through a decolonial lense, centering #justice, historical redress, and indigenous epistemologies. ▶️ rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/08/18/d...

🎙️ @postcolh.bsky.social release 4th podcast episode! Guests Hanna Al-Taher and Firoozeh Farvardin explore a range of topics, including authoritarianism, collective mobilization, epistemic hierarchies, and the relationship between resistance, praxis, and academia. ▶️ open.spotify.com/episode/1FA4...

🤝Helga Dickow continues at ABI as associate Her first contract with us was in 1988! Having completed 21 years as a senior researcher at the ABI, Helga Dickow now joins the ranks of associates and continues her work on #Tchad and the #Sahel region. www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/helg...

The copies of 'Public History in Global Perspective: Inquiry, Exchange and Practice' have arrived! 🎉📔 Very pleased to have in my hands this edited volume we've been working on for several years with @smythh.bsky.social , @ciaranon.bsky.social and @geolug.bsky.social

📝Bangladesch ein Jahr nach dem Sturz der Regierung Anas Ansar im Interview mit der @fr-zeitung.bsky.social ABI-Mitarbeiter Ansar gibt Einblicke in die gesellschaftliche Stimmung, innenpolitische #Herausforderungen und die #Sicherheitsfrage in #Bangladesch www.fr.de/politik/vor-...

🎤Jamila Hamidu à la Deutsche Welle Guerres de succession dans les partis politiques #ivoiriens "Il n’y a pas une forme d'unité parmi l'opposition et ça, ça pose un problème en ce qui concerne comment contester contre l'inéligibilité de Monsieur Gbagbo." www.dw.com/fr/guerres-s...

🥳 New Project on #WaronDrugs in the #Americas! Starting 2026, @zif-bielefeld.bsky.social will fund the the network on "Dimensions of Regulation: Conceptualizing the Popular in the Drugs/Violence Nexus"! At ABI, @alkejenss.bsky.social will coordinate. www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/new-...

Der Gemeinschaftskunde Leistungskurs des Angell Gymnasiums Freiburg war zu Besuch am ABI @abi-freiburg.bsky.social Prof. Arnold Bergstraesser war in den 1950er Jahren einer der Initiatoren des Fachs Gemeinschaftskunde in Baden-Württemberg.

🤝 María Belén Garrido visits the ABI Garrido, director of @noviolenciala.bsky.social, discussed potential collaborations with ABI researchers, exchanging ideas about research on nonviolent action and conflict transformation in the Global South. ▶️ See: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/visi...

🚴🌳 #STADTRADELN 2025 From June 28th to July 18th, the ABI team participated in the nation-wide initiative "STADTRADELN" - and was able to save about 500 kg CO2 in the process! Find out more: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/abi-...

📚 "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" by Omar El Akkad is our #ABIBookofMonth of July - a powerful memoir on disillusionment with the West’s promises of freedom and justice for all. Browse through the ABI library and its latest acquisitions: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/bibliothek

📆 Afrikanisches Erbe in Europa - Aufführung von #Dahomey &"If Objects could speak", Diskussion mit #KokouAzamede & @richardlegay.bsky.social 👉24.7. um 19.30 Uhr im Kommunalen Kino #Freiburg @abi-freiburg.bsky.social @decolonialitynow.bsky.social www.koki-freiburg.de/dahomey-if-o...

🌍 Categorizing People on the Move in Africa On July 9–10, 2025, the PolMig Team led by @franziscaz.bsky.social at ABI hosted an authors’ workshop for a special issue to be published in Comparative Migration Studies. ▶️ Read the report on the ABI website: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/spec...

💐🤝 Farewell of Alexander Makulilo The ABI says goodbye to Professor Alexander Makulilo. He is leaving the ABI to pursue a professorship at the University of Dar es Salaam. The ABI congratulates him on this success and wishes him all the best! ▶️ www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/fare...

You can now find a selection of the zines my students made in our course 'Can Europe come to terms with its colonial past?' Many thanks to @vivigarciap.bsky.social, Miriam Bartelmann & Su Gökyokuş (@abi-freiburg.bsky.social) for putting it together! rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/07/14/c...

📆 Open lecture: Presidential Breakdowns: The Actions of Public Forces Against #Nonviolent Movements in #Ecuador (1997, 2000, and 2005) Join @fabriciorodriguez.bsky.social and his guest Maria Belén Garrido via Zoom! July 17, 4pm Germany, 9am in Ecuador. www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/events/op...

➡️ From Campus to Confrontation: Youth Movements against #Authoritarianism in #Asia - 15 researchers from 10 countries Read about our Author's Workshop, hosted by ABI and the International Quarterly for Asian Studies. Funded by @boelleu.bsky.social www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/auth...

📚 Sudan is facing one of the world’s most devastating yet underreported humanitarian crises. ABI staff member Dina Wahba and Millicent Hughes have compiled a reading list on the past and present of Sudan. The reading list is available for download at: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/read...

📆 „Koloniale Gewalt und postkoloniale Identität: auf der Suche nach Selbstbestimmung in Westafrika“ Vortrag von Dr. Kokou Azamede, Université de Lomé, Togo 08.07.2025 von 20:15 bis 21:45 HS 1228 im KG I @uni-freiburg.de 👉 lmy.de/zFWyc @decolonialitynow.bsky.social @abi-freiburg.bsky.social

📖 Privatizing the #energy sector in #CostaRica? Alke Jenss and Hanna Schnieders discuss Costa Rica's proposed energy sector reform in this article at @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, outlining what it could mean for the role of the state and energy #justice. ▶️ www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ene...

💡 How objective is political neutrality? Dina Wahba calls for German academics to recognize that a refusal to engage is a political act that typically favours the status quo - especially regarding the shrinking spaces for open debate on #Palestine. ▶️ Read more on: qantara.de/en/article/g...

Studierende der UFreiburg @pwunifreiburg.bsky.social und der RUB informierten sich im @bmz.de über aktuelle Trends der deutschen Entwicklungspolitik. Die vom @abi-freiburg.bsky.social organisierte Exkursion fand in Zusammenarbeit mit der RUB und dem GSI-Bonn statt.

📚 Die Verhältnisse begreifen heißt, ihnen weniger ausgeliefert sein. Unser #ABIBookofMonth "Monster Verstehen" von Mario Candeias diskutiert grundlegende transformatorische Themen - die Aufgabe: eine mögliche #Zukunft erarbeiten. Die ABI Bibliothek entdecken: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/bibliothek

💡Internship at ABI? Apply now! We offer internships to students in the Social Sciences for an insight into the work of the institute. The application deadline for an internship in the period September to February is June 30th, 2025. Find out more: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/appl...

👩‍🎓 Call for applications: Freiburg Rising Stars Academy 2025–26, hosted by @uni-freiburg.de ➡️For outstanding PhD candidates, postdocs, and early career researchers from around the world for collaborative research and international exchange Deadline: 15.7. ➡️https://uni-freiburg.de/frsa/application/

📖 Policy Paper: « Restes humains » dans les collections universitaires — Un héritage de la violence coloniale à traiter d’urgence Richard Tsogang Fossi et @mehler.bsky.social Une coopération entre @actunifreiburg.bsky.social et @postcolh.bsky.social rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2025/05/30/p...

Heute Abend in #Freiburg: Prof. em. Dr. Jürgen Rüland Weniger abhängig von #China? Südostasien und sein Stellenwert für deutsche „De-risking“-Strategien Von @bpb.de BaWü, @pwunifreiburg.bsky.social & Carl-Schurz-Haus/Deutsch-Amerikanisches-Institut e.V. www.studiumgenerale.uni-freiburg.de/cp/ev

💡 From June 4-6, the Emmy Noether Group on ‘Renewable Energies, Renewed Authoritarianisms?’ organized a workshop on ‚Energy Imperialism and social movements in the Middle East & North Africa: Annihilation, climate change and resistance’. ▶️ Find out more: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/work...

👏 ABI-Mitarbeiter @fabriciorodriguez.bsky.social hat gemeinsam mit zwei unserer Praktikant*innen (Isaac Lanan & Robin Dietz) für die aktuelle Ausgabe der iz3w über die Wahlen in #Ecuador geschrieben. ▶️ Der gesamte Artikel ist auf der Webseite der iz3w mit Abo verfügbar: www.iz3w.org/artikel/wahl...

🎥Video out now! Following the visit of the Bana Group for Peace and Development at the ABI, @postcolh.bsky.social has published an interview with Ilaaf Alaaeldin and Mai Ali Shatta from the group, giving insights into the Sudan War and feminist Peacebuilding. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKXG...

📅 Next Monday in #Freiburg! The Rule of Law and the “Many Democracies” Speaker: Edwin Etieyibo, Professor of Philosophy, University Witwatersrand (South Africa) Moderation: @mehler.bsky.social www.act.uni-freiburg.de/de/was-wir-t... ➡️ @actunifreiburg.bsky.social & @pwunifreiburg.bsky.social

😍 @philippwa.bsky.social & @etiennehoera.d-64.social in @megatrends-afrika.de Read why they argue for more research on the political and economic corollaries of large-scale infrastructure projects such as #undersea cables between the #EU and #NorthAfrica . www.megatrends-afrika.de/publikation/...

🤓 Reading recommendation: Our associates Rosa Lehmann and Rafael Hernandez Westpfahl's latest article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social: Contested #mining, state selectivities, and the reform of the mining law in #Mexico #openaccess www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Many thanks to French Politics for publishing our research with @mehler.bsky.social at the @abi-freiburg.bsky.social on Franco-German memory politics and colonial past! The article is available online here: doi.org/10.1057/s412... And as a pdf upon request! #publichistory #memory #colonialhistory

📆 Save the date: June 26th, 9:30am ABI and the International Quarterly for Asian Studies invite to a public lecture by Samina Luthfa: "Unmasking the Politics of Identity in the July Uprising in #Bangladesh". ▶️ Find out more on the event and registration: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/events/un...

📚 Out now: ABI Working Paper No. 28 This collection of student essays, developed in a 2024 University of Freiburg course led by @timglawion.bsky.social, explores the intersection of external intervention and local ownership of #peace processes. ▶️ www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/new-...

📝Jahresbericht 2024 erschienen Eine Übersicht unserer Forschung, unserer Veranstaltungen und Publikationen - das Wachstum unseres Instituts bietet viel zu entdecken! Hier gibt's das PDF: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/news/jahresb...

🕊️💥 Auch im Lostopf: Die Forschungsgruppe „Postcolonial #Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict“ (@postcolh.bsky.social). Dort sind Forschende der Universitäten @unibayreuth.bsky.social, @unierfurt.bsky.social und des @abi-freiburg.bsky.social aktiv. Mehr zum Team: 👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/projekte/...

📣 We're #hiring: You successfully completed your #PhD and are motivated to research and teach in #InternationalRelations? Consider joining our lovely team at @uni-freiburg.de in Germany's sunniest region. 🌞 More info 👇 @sdestradi.bsky.social @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social @abi-freiburg.bsky.social

🎉👏 @vivigarciap.bsky.social's book 'Trajectories of Governance' was selected as best book 2024 by the section 'Defense, Public Security and Democracy' of the Latin American Studies Association. Congratulations! For more information, check out this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSVG...

📆 Save the date: 26.05.2025, 19:30 Uhr, in #Freiburg Lesung und Diskussion mit Journalist Bartolomäus Grill: „Auf nach Europa. #Migration – eine der großen Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts“ Für mehr Informationen: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/veranstaltun...

Call for Papers: Current Perspectives on Populism in Authoritarian Regime Contexts Together with @dvpw.bsky.social & #IRex and der @unituebingen.bsky.social we are inviting your abstracts until June 9! www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/call...

📅Next week in #Freiburg: Exciting Research from DR #Congo and the #CAR Central African Republic! Join @timglawion.bsky.social , Dr Marius Crépin Mouguia & Josaphat Musamba for a qualitative comparison on state and security! May 21, 5pm, also via Zoom www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/events/ex...