Research Areas of the Center for
Conflict Studies
The following research areas have been
established at the CCS:
The underlying emphasis of the research area „Theories and Methods
in Peace and Conflict Studies“ is on different theoretical conflict
perspectives in the social sciences. Theories which are suitable
for interdisciplinary research play a particular role as do theories
which link peace and conflict studies with other relevant research
areas such as globalisation or world society research, International
Relations theories and post-structuralist perspectives. Furthermore the
aim is to evaluate and develop methods of conflict analysis and
research methods for regions in crisis.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bonacker and
Prof. Dr. Susanne Buckley-Zistel
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Peace and conflict studies are generally concerned with violent
conflicts between groups. Researchers in the field of „intergroup
research and violence“ of the Center for Conflict Studies empirically
analyse the structural and individual predictors, mediators and
moderators of violent intergroup processes. The results are used to
derive prevention measures against intergroup violence.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Wagner
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Migration processes may be a cause as well as a consequence of very
different conflict constellations. Here in Marburg the research focus
"migration processes and conflict dynamics" refers to those dynamics
where ethnicity may become more or less relevant to immigrant
minorities and various forms of religious diaspora. Likewise research
is conducted on the reaction of the majority in a society, for example
concerning patterns of prejudice.Migration processes and conflict
dynamics
Contact: Prof. Dr. Mathias Bös
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The aim of the research focus is to analyze possibilities and
conditions for preventing violence i.e. how conflicts can be managed
non-violently. In this context it is important to consider under what
conditions an avoidance of personal violence coincides with an increase
of symbolic violence and which methods can be employed to counter
this.
Contact: Dr. Lars Schmitt
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The research area Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice explores
the interrelation of the (re-) establishment of justice following
violent conflicts and the possibility of a sustainable and stable peace
(-building) in post-conflict societies. In this context
Peacebuilding is concerned with the establishment of sustainable
mechanisms to overcome violence and starting a process of societal and
political restructuring of post-conflict countries.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bonacker,
Prof. Dr. Susanne Buckley-Zistel, and
Julia Viebach
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Without taking into account the particular conflict situation actors
in development cooperation often act on the assumption that their
projects will, in any case make a contribution to preventing violence
and consolidating peace. The Center for Conflict Studies works
together with those actors to promote these issues in the German
development community, to offer expertise and to enable the transfer of
scientific insights in order to make them useful in practical
work.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Susanne Buckley-Zistel and
Sina Schüssler
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The research at the Centre of Conflict Studies with regard to civil
society in conflicts is focused on the role of civil society actors in
ethno-political conflicts, the role of international non-governmental
organisations in promoting norms in post-conflict societies and the
contribution of non-governmental organisations to the process of
international political decision-making.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bonacker and
Sina Schüssler
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Even after the end of the cold war interstate violence in the
international system has not been overcome yet; on the contrary, wars
have even emerged in the European periphery. In the guise of
humanitarian, preventive or pre-emptive interventions and increasingly
in the form of “civil-military cooperation”, military violence remains
a dominant factor in international politics. An interdisciplinary group
of researchers investigates the consequences of war in the former
Yugoslavia/Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Contact:
PD Dr. Johannes M. Becker
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