Prof. Dr. Susanne Buckley-Zistel

Office hours take place online. Please contact me for an appointment.
In winter term 2026/27 I will be on a research leave.

Transitional Justice and Dealing with the Past
Memory studies
Refugee studies
Peacebuilding
Gender and feminism
Spatial theory
Postcolonial theory

"Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict" Network (collaborative project of the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (Freiburg), the University of Bayreuth, the University of Erfurt, and the University of Marburg, BMBF 2022-2028)

The Research Center "Transformations of Political Violence" (regional research network of The Peace Research In­stitute Frankfurt (PRIF), the Goethe University Frankfurt, the Justus Liebig University Giessen, the Technical University of Darmstadt, and the University of Marburg, BMBF 2022-2028)

"Menschenrechtsverbrechen, Norm-Entrepreneure und die Umsetzung des Weltrechtsprinzips in Deutschland" (Human Rights Violations, Norm Entrepreneurs and the Implementation of Universal Jurisdiction in Germany; the project is part of the research group "Menschenrechtsdiskurse in der Migrationsgesellschaft" (MeDiMi, Human Rights Discourses in Migration Society), DFG 2022-2030)

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne. (2026). Memory and the Interpretation of Political Violence: Exploring the Politics of Memorial Aesthetics in Paris over Time. In T. Bonacker, C. Daase, J. J. Driedger, N. P. Lam Phương & J. Pfister (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook on Transformations of Political Violence (pp. 315-31). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003635024 (Open Access)

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne. (2026). Memory and Justice in a Postcolonial World. Rewriting Peace and Conflict, 18 June 2026. https://rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/2026/06/18/memory-and-justice/

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne, Mina Ibrahim & Maria Hartmann. (2026). Expanding and Contesting Human Rights Discourses in Syrian Diaspora Communities. Universal Jurisdiction Cases against the Assad Regime in Germany. International Journal of Human Rights. (in print).

Ibrahim, Mina, Maria Hartmann & Susanne Buckley-Zistel. (2026). Intersecting Injustices: Diasporic (Dis-)Engagement in Syrian Justice Struggles. In T. Destrooper & E. Evrard (Eds.), Handbook of Victims Participation (pp. 209–221). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009671378.020

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne, Jürgen Bast & Laura Holderied. (2026). Humanrightization of Migration Discourses: A Conceptual Framework. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 18(1), online first. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huaf044 (Open Access)

Avram, K. Andra, Susanne Buckley-Zistel & Alexandra Engelsdorfer. (2025). Challenging Peacebuilding from a Postcolonial Perspective. In S. Tripathi & S. Richter (Eds.), The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South (pp. 393–407). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia?docid=b-9798881842390  (Open Access)

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne, Kaya de Wolff, Astrid Erll, Sybille Frank, Nicolai Hannig, Sabine Mannitz, Mariel Reiss, Jona Schwerer, Sara-Luise Spittler & Monika Wingender (2024). Memory Before Violence. Frankfurt/Main: TraCe Working Paper No. 5. https://www.trace-center.de/fileadmin/DatenTrace/Publikationen/2024_12_05_Working_Paper_5_Memory_Before_Violence.pdf

Johanna Mannergren, Annika Björkdahl, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Stefanie Kappler, and Timothy Williams (2024). Peace and the Politics of Memory. Manchester: University Press. https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526178329/9781526178329.xml (Open Access)