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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict
The focus is on historically evolved postcolonial hierarchies and their continued impact in contemporary conflict dynamics as well as the resulting implications for future sustainable conflict transformation. What role do historically generated postcolonial hierarchies play in contemporary conflict dynamics? How do postcolonial hierarchies persist in current concepts and practices of violence containment, peacebuilding and conflict transformation? How do postcolonial hierarchies manifest themselves in epistemologies and in the production of knowledge in peace and conflict research?
The competence network “Postcolonial Hierarchies” is a joint project of the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (Freiburg), the University of Bayreuth, the University of Erfurt and the Marburg University.
Duration: 2022-2026
Funding: Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space
Marburg Team: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bonacker, Prof. Dr. Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Dr. Selbi Durdiyeva, Sophie Falschebener, Prof. Dr. Anika Oettler, Prof. Dr. Miquel Pellicer, Prof. Dr. Benedikt Stuchtey, Dr. Tareq Sydiq, Laura Reisser, Ilsa Hameed, Yaas Bahmani, Judith Braun
Publications
Avram, Kristine Andra, Susanne Buckley-Zistel & Alexandra Engelsdorfer (2025) Challenging Peacebuilding from a Postcolonial Perspective. In: Siddharth Tripathi & Solveig Richter (eds.) Handbook on Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South(s). New York: Rowman and Littlefield International.
Bonacker, Thorsten & Tareq Sydiq (2025) Looking beyond Peace and Conflict Studies: The Global South(s) in Other Disciplines. In: Siddharth Tripathi & Solveig Richter (eds.) Handbook on Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South(s). New York: Rowman and Littlefield International.
Buckey-Zistel, Susanne (2022) Frieden – Persönliche Sehnsucht – Politische Utopie. radioWissen, Bayern 2, 21.09.2022. (Interview)
Buckey-Zistel, Susanne (2022) Brücken bauen: Friedens- und Konfliktforscherin Susanne Buckley-Zistel im Interview. Dialog-Magazin, August 2022. (Interview)
Buckey-Zistel, Susanne (2023) Frauen für Frieden. Alumniportal Deutschland, 20.03.2023. (Interview)
Buckey-Zistel, Susanne (2023) What caused the Rwandan Genocide? , TED-Ed, June 2023. (script writer / educator)
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne & Teresa Koloma Beck (eds.) (2022) Special Forum: Dekolonisiert Euch! Kritische Betrachtungen der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung 11(2), pp. 229–241. DOI: 10.1007/s42597-023-00098-8
Basli, Priya, Susanne Buckley-Zistel & Teresa Koloma Beck (2022) On remembering, unlearning, and creating new stories: an interview with Priya Basil conducted by Susanne Buckley-Zistel and Teresa Koloma Beck. Zeitschrift für Friedens-und Konfliktforschung 11(2). DOI: 10.1007/s42597-022-00084-6
Durdiyeva, Selbi (2022) Children of the Gulag, Long Road to Justice: The Challenges and Limitations of Reparations in Russia. International Journal of Transitional Justice 16(3), pp. 380-395. DOI: 10.1093/ijtj/ijac019
Durdiyeva, Selbi (2023) “Not in Our Name:” Why Russia is Not a Decolonial Ally or the Dark Side of Civilizational Communism and Imperialism. SAIS Review of International Affairs, 29 May.
Durdiyeva, Selbi (2023) “The Virus of Truth” – Protests and Documentation as an Impetus for Transitional Justice in Belarus. Oxford Belarus Observatory. (Blog)
Durdiyeva, Selbi (2023) The Role of Civil Society in Transitional Justice Processes: The Case of Russia. Abingdon: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003293873
Durdiyeva, Selbi (2023) Transitional Justice. A Call for Decolonisation. Working group for peace and development (FriEnt), 10 January 2023. FriEnt.
Durdiyeva, Selbi (2024) Towards decolonial agenda for transitional justice: “The old is dying and the new cannot be born.” In Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan and Anvitha V Shenoy. (eds.) The wretched of the Global South: Critical approaches to international human rights law. Springer Singapore, pp. 71-88. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-9275-1_4
Collins, Cath & Selbi Durdiyeva (2025) “Too Long a Sacrifice?” Post-transitional Justice and the Afterlives of Authoritarianism. International Journal of Transitional Justice, pp. 183–192. DOI: 10.1093/ijtj/ijae048
Pellicer, Miquel & Tareq Sydiq (2025) Youth political mobilization in Arab countries. In: Dana El Kurd (eds.) Handbook on Arab Authoritarianism. Bloomsbury.
Stuchtey, Benedikt (2023) Postkoloniales Denken: Aufarbeitung der Geschichte und Konfrontation mit der Gegenwart. Die Politische Meinung, 68(579), pp. 84-88.
Sydiq, Tareq (2022) Das Pendel schwingt weiter. Wissenschaft & Frieden, 4 October 2022.
Sydiq, Tareq (2022) Nicht erst seit heute revolutionär. IPG Journal, 20 October 2022.
Sydiq, Tareq (2022) Warum Irans Führung die Hände gebunden sind. Zenith, 28 June 2022.
Sydiq, Tareq (2023) A Fork In The Road For Khamenei. Zenith, 10 February 2023.
Sydiq, Tareq (2023) Aufbegehren ist ansteckend. 24 January 2023. welt-sichten.
Sydiq, Tareq (2023) Competing to Govern: Opportunities and Regime Responsiveness to Civilian Protests During the Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan. In: Ibrahim Fraihat & Abdalhadi Alijla (eds.) Rebel Governance in the Middle East. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, pp. 319-345. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-1335-0_11.
Sydiq, Tareq (2023) Entgrenzung von Gewalt in autoritärer Herrschaft. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 36(2), pp. 269-282. DOI: 10.1515/fjsb-2023-0023
Sydiq, Tareq (2023) Exploring transterranean activism as a research site beyond local protest sites. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 41(7), pp. 1424-1440. DOI: 10.1177/23996544231188833
Ghoutschi, Sara Kolah, Mariam Salehi & Tareq Sydiq (2022) Für die Protestbewegung im Iran bedeutet Stabilität ein Leben in Unfreiheit. Frankfurter Rundschau, 28 December 2022.
Ketzmerick, Maria & Tareq Sydiq (2022) Europa dezentralisieren als Strategie – Was bedeutet „nicht-westlich“ in der und für die Friedens- und Konfliktforschung? Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung 11(2), pp. 165-182. DOI: 10.1007/s42597-023-00092-0