Commenting on the Nobel Peace Prize Awards has become a nice anual tradition. After my comment on the Tunisian Dialogue Quartett in2015 and the Colombian Peace Process, together with Josefina Echavarría Alvarez in 2017, I wrote about the Award International Campaign to Abbolish Nuclear Weapons together with my colleague  Martin Senn this year.

Together with Wolfgang Dietrich and Norbert Koppensteiner I attended the annual Meeting of the Working Group Curriculum and Didactics of the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies, hosted by the Chair for Political Science and Peace Studies at the University of Augsburg. We are very much looking forward to hosting this event in Innsbruck…

Together with Clara Maier I published a newspaper article on the topic of Gender and peace building in Libya in the Tiroler Tageszeitung. In this text we focus on the courageous work of Zahra Langhi who delived the 51st Innsbruck Gender Lecture with a comment by Josefina Echavarria A., moderated by Lena Drummer. Click here, to…

From November 9th – 12th I attended this year’s  Hammamet Conference in Tunisia on „Building Peaceful and Inclusive Societies“ as part of theEgyptian delegation . In my presentation „Reintegrating former Combatants: A Conflict Transformation Perspective“ in the Panel on „Reintegration and Social Cohesion“ I proposed an elicitive approach to conflict transformation that focuses on relational…

Nach über zehn Jahren nationaler Spaltung haben sich die beiden verfeindeten palästinensischen Fraktionen Fatah und Hamas vergangene Woche darauf geeinigt, ein bereits 2011 ausgearbeitetes Versöhnungsabkommen in Kraft zu setzen. Dieser Schritt wurde auf den Straßen von Gaza mit Jubelszenen gefeiert. Was bedeutet dies aber nun für den Nahost-Konflikt? Um das Potenzial dieser neuen Situation von…

  „In Europe, History—and the Populist Politics Over Muslim Women’s Dress—Repeats Itself: It appears no Austrian party could afford to stand up against the nation’s controversial new veil ban“ Masoud Hayoun from the Pacific Standard interviewed me about the new Austrian Law, banning face-veils in Austrian public; „The entire debate is held over Muslim women,…