From August 26-29, @charlottemeier.bsky.social participated in the ECPR General Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece. There, she presented a paper co-authored with Sushobhan Parida, entitled “Constructing a Generational ‘We’: Generational Identity Formation in the Fridays for Future Movement.”

This summer, @solveigrichter.bsky.social & @malniss.bsky.social co-taught a seminar at ‪Leipzig University ‬on memory & reconciliation after violence. Together with students from @brandtschool.bsky.social, our students travelled to Bosnia-Herzegovina for an intensive study trip.

Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in the KAPAZ Summer School on “Dealing with Hostility in Science Communication” at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (@hiigberlin.bsky.social) in Berlin.

I had the pleasure of having @richardstupart.com join my seminar last week for a guest lecture. He spoke to us about "Injustice, Witnessing and Journalism", helping us understand why journalists feel compelled to report on crises and conflicts and how they manage practical and ethical obligations.

🎓 Panel discussion and student exchange this Thursday! The Unfulfilled Promise of Peace in Colombia? 🗓 26 June | 🕒 13:30–14:30 CEST | 📍 NSG S203 With Prof. Eduardo Pastrana & students of Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá and Prof. Dr. Solveig Richter, in cooperation with the DAAD

⏰ Kleiner Reminder für den Gastvortrag morgen Mittag mit Dr. Ralf J. Leiteritz!

Letzte Woche war Andrea Thies, ehemalige Programmkoordinatorin der OSZE-Missionen in Kosovo und Kirgistan sowie Head of Mission Support in EUPOL, Afghanistan, für einen Gastvortrag zum Thema "Einblicke in die Arbeit internationaler Friedensmissionen” bei uns zu Gast.

📣 Und direkt die nächsten Eventankündigung! Gastvortrag am 12. Juni mit Dr. Ralf J. Leiteritz zur Transformation der Weltwirtschaft im 21. Jahrhundert, 11:00 - 13:00 im GWZ 📆

Kleiner Reminder für den morgigen Gastvortrag mit Andrea Thies, ehemalige Programmkoordinatorin der OSZE-Missionen in Kosovo und Kirgistan sowie Head of Mission Support in EUPOL, Afghanistan!

We're so proud of your excellent work Kamal - keep it up!

📢 Gastvortrag am 5. Juni: "Einblicke in die Arbeit internationaler Friedensmissionen" mit Andrea Thies, ehemalige Programmkoordinatorin der OSZE-Missionen in Kosovo und Kirgistan sowie Head of Mission Support in EUPOL, Afghanistan. 🕚 11–13 Uhr | 📍 NSG S202

Taking place today!

The IR Team had a packed March, attending multiple conferences to present exciting research and connect with fellow scholars! 🧵

@solveigrichter.bsky.social gave a keynote on the importance of interdisciplinarity in research to integrate diverse perspectives on nature as part of the panel “Local communities and their importance for protecting biodiversity”, organized by iDiv and CAPAZ. Read the full recap of the panel here 👇

Prof. Solveig Richter (@solveigrichter.bsky.social) hat mit der ZEIT über die eskalierende Gewalt in Kolumbien und den schwächelnden Friedensprozess gesprochen: tinyurl.com/3kxze28c

Our colleague @kamalchomani.bsky.social gave an excellent interview on Öcalan's call for peace and a democratic society in Turkey, analyzing how realistic this call is and what implications it may have. Check out the full interview in @derfreitag.bsky.social: www.freitag.de/autoren/sham...

This International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the power of women in political science—researching, analyzing, and shaping the policies that drive our world forward. A special shoutout goes out to the women of our IR team at @unileipzig.bsky.social! Together, we are unstoppable!

What's going on with USAID? Solveig Richter (@solveigrichter.bsky.social) and colleagues analysed the current situation on the PRIF Blog - a very worthwhile read!

The IR team would like to invite you to an online panel discussion on ‘Indigenous peoples and local communities and their importance for protecting biodiversity - Perspectives from COP 16’.

A great opportunity for all IR and poli sci students to learn about possible career paths in the field! You can register for the online career fair here: www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/karriere/...

Season's greetings from the whole IR Team at Leipzig University! "We will live. We will kiss the sun and we will fill the world with vitality and hope. We will win." Narges Mohammadi, Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2023

From 18.11.24 to 22.11.24 Tamim Karadamur (@tamimkara.bsky.social), PhD student at our chair, participated in the Model NATO Germany 2024 at the Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS) in Berlin (@baks.bund.de).

From October 9 to 11, our Chair participated in the Zentrumstage 2024 and conference „Historicities of Peace and Security“ at Marburg University, where some of our team members presented their current research and doctoral projects.

On Nov 29, our research associate Charlotte Meier (@charliemeier.bsky.social) presented her paper on generational populism in the Fridays for Future movement at the ÖGPW annual conference in Vienna, receiving great feedback and connecting with like-minded scholars. We love to see our team in action!

Our colleague Kamal Chomani (@kamalchomani.bsky.social) recently published a book review titled "Between Diplomacy and Non-Diplomacy: Foreign Relations of Kurdistan-Iraq and Palestine" in the Kurdish Studies Journal. You can check out his review here: brill.com/view/journal....

On Dec. 4th, we had the privilege of welcoming Prof. Janina Dill (@janinadill.bsky.social) from the University of Oxford (@ox.ac.uk) for a guest lecture titled "International Law in Gaza: Belligerent Intent and Provisional Measures“, organized by Prof. Solveig Richter (@solveigrichter.bsky.social).