🆕 #policybrief on European-Tunisian energy cooperation ABI staff member @philippwa.bsky.social is currently visiting #fellow in the Middle East and North Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (#ECFR) Read his policy advice: ecfr.eu/publication/...

📚 Recommendation: Our reading list on #Sudan – to understand the current developments in al-Fasher, we must engage critically with current and historical context. Our staff members have collected valuable literature. Available on our website: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/read...

🏆Arnold Bergstraesser Prize 2025 This year's Arnold Bergstraesser Prize was awarded to Elena Fred Fellner for their doctoral thesis on "Protesting Heroes, Heroic Protesters. Anti-Regime Online Spaces in Iran and the Arab World" ▶️ www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/arno... @uni-freiburg.de

🌍 Der Kampf um #Klimagerechtigkeit in #Tunesien ABI Mitarbeiter @philippwa.bsky.social beleuchtet im Online-Magazin @dis-orient.bsky.social weshalb seit Mitte Oktober tausende Menschen in der tunesischen Küstenstadt #Gabès auf die Straße gehen. ▶️ Ganzer Artikel: www.disorient.de/magazin/prot...

🤓 Do you want to know how the first meeting of our PolMig-Team with their advisory board went? @franziscaz.bsky.social & team received valuable critique and encouragement. Read their report: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/polm...

💡 Reimagining Peace Across Borders ABI staff member @fabriciorodriguez.bsky.social contributed to the 2nd International Peace Forum 2025: "Violence and Peace – Tensions and Opportunities toward a Common Humanity". ▶️ Find the full report here: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/reim...

📆 Reminder: Film Screening & Discussion of "The Battle for Laikipia" with our staff member Edwin Mutyenyoka on November 7th! @ Greenmotions Film Festival, Kommunales Kino Freiburg

🎧 New episode of "Confronting Hierarchies" out now! @postcolh.bsky.social have released the last episode of their podcast series. This time: "Confronting #Genocide. German Colonialism and African Struggles for Justice" with Jephta Nguherimo. ▶️ Listen here: rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/podcasts/

💡 #Gen-Z Protests in #Asia In this interview with @jungle.world, ABI staff member Teresa Jopson shares her expertise on youth uprisings and movements in Nepal, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Myanmar, and other countries. ▶️ Find out more: jungle.world/artikel/2025...

📆 Save the Date: 2nd "Freiburger Migrationsforum" on December 19th, 2025! This time, the topic will be "Dealing with and understanding experiences of racism", with inputs by Christian Mair, Samson Ajagbe, Rafaela Tosin & Erkan Tümkaya. ▶️ Registration via www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/events/de...

🥳 New DAVO elections: ABI represented by Benjamin Schuetze and Dina Wahba! At the annual conference of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), Benjamin Schütze & Dina Wahba took on responsibility. Read more about their roles: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/new-...

🗓️Join Dina Wahba for a Discussion on Arab Feminisms: Resistance and Resilience! Saturday, Oct 25 in Berlin - Panel on Nawal Al Sadaawi Revisited: Women‘s Rights, Body Rights More information and registration link: campaign-statistics.com/browser_prev...

📝The network @postcolh.bsky.social concludes its first phase! Read the report in their concluding conference in #Tunis. www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/inte...

🤝Join us on Wednesday online! Meet the filmmaker, a survivor from Senegal, and scientist who work on the West-Atlantic-Route! The event will be translated between #English and #French www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/events/fi...

📅Film screening & discussion: colonial legacy in land disputes in Kenya Save the Date! 7.11.2025 in Freiburg - our staff member Edwin Mutyenyoka will discuss the implications of the dynamics highlighted in the documentary 🤝 Part of #greenmotions festival www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/events/fi...

🥳 Dr. Franzisca Zanker appointed deputy director at ABI @franziscaz.bsky.social is a longstanding member of the ABI's research staff and a #migration #expert. She has now been appointed Deputy Director of the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute in #Freiburg. www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/fran...

Today it has been 500 days since researcher/humanitarian Joseph Figuera Martin has been unjustly imprisoned in the Centr. Afr. Republic. We call for his immediate release: www.demorgen.be/meningen/hum... And we must talk about researcher safety! @kristoftiteca.bsky.social @abi-freiburg.bsky.social

ABI-Direktor @mehler.bsky.social übernimmt Geschäftsführung des Seminars für Wissenschaftliche Politik Unterstützt wird er dabei von @fabriciorodriguez.bsky.social Mehr zu ihren neuen Aufgaben: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/news/abi-dir...

🆕 IQAS Issue: Reclaiming Voice – Afghan Women and the Politics of Knowledge Production The contributions combine academic analysis with poetry and art. The issue asks: Whose knowledge is considered valuable? www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/iqas...

🥳 We congratulate our colleague Anas Ansar to his Junior Professorship at North South University in Dhaka, #Bangladesh Read more about his motivation and his life between Dhaka and Freiburg: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/anas...

Deadline approaching - #DAAD #fellowships for the interdisciplinary MSc #Environmental Governance Programme at the @uni-freiburg.de Deadline: 15.10.2025 @abi-freiburg.bsky.social

📚 "La Lucha", edited by Carolina Orloff, is October's #ABIBookofMonth. The collection explores feminism in Latin America, touching on reproductive health, environmentalism, anti-colonialism and more. Browse through the ABI library and its latest acquisitions: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/library

🎞️Film Screening: (Re)Contextualizing the West-Atlantic Route On 22nd October 2025 at 6pm CEST: Screening of "Bracelets" and a panel discussion on #migration, #exploitation, and #self-empowerment along the West Atlantic Migration Route. Find out more: 🔗 www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/events/fi...

💡TODAY AT ABI & online: Lloyd George Banda: Policy Development in Unitary Subsystems: The Case of Access to Information Act in Malawi, 1999 – 2020 Dr. Nneka Okechukwu: The International Legal Order in Times of Geopolitical Splintering: A Subaltern African Review uni-freiburg.de/act/africa-r...

🤝ABI's @timglawion.bsky.social is at MIASA in #Accra from August to December as part of an interdisciplinary fellow group. They aim to develop a novel approach to comparative research in the field of peace and security studies. www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/abi-...

📚 The ongoing #war in #Sudan and its consequences for the civilian population are a recurring topic of discussion within the ABI team and a subject of numerous publications. We therefore recommend:

📝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...