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Transformations of Political Violence (TraCe)

Current trends in violence research show that there is no question of overcoming organised violence. In fact, the intensity of global conflicts is increasing. Globalisation and technological change are enabling new forms of warfare and terrorism. Disregard for the laws of war is becoming more widespread, leading to greater ruthlessness and the targeted use of sexual violence, enslavement and outlawed weapons in warfare. Nationalist movements around the world are openly challenging the basic principles of peaceful conflict resolution within and between states. These developments point to processes of transformation that challenge existing norms and practices for containing political violence. TraCe addresses these issues by critically scrutinising the transformation of political violence from different disciplinary perspectives, levels of analysis and methods.

The Regional Research Centre Transformations of Political Violence (TraCe) is a cooperation project between the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Goethe University Frankfurt, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Technical University Darmstadt and Marburg University. In Marburg, the project team is working primarily on the following research areas: “Interpretations of Political Violence” and “Synergies: Theoretical Innovations”.

Project Period: 2022-2026
Funding: Federal Ministry for Education and Science
Marburg Team: Prof. Dr. Felix Anderl, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bonacker, Prof. Dr. Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Lam-Phuong Nguyen Pham, Prof. Dr. Anika Oettler, Dr. Mariel Reiss, Lara Diedrigkeit, Ekaterina Kipiatkova, Simona Zanini

Publications

Anderl, Felix & Michael Hißen 2023. How Trust is Lost: The Food Systems Summit 2021 and the delegitimation of UN food governance. European Journal of International Relations 30 (1), pp. 151–175. DOI: 10.1177/1354066123117355

Anderl, Felix (2022). Broken Solidarities: How Open Global Governance Divides and Rules. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Anderl, Felix (2024) Rice Against Communism: The Politicization of Agriculture from Above and Below. Global Environment 17 (1), pp. 47-72. DOI: 10.3828/whpge.63837646622482

Anderl, Felix (ed.) (2024) Epistemologies of Land. Rowman and Littlefield. DOI: 10.5771/9781538176467

Bechtum, Alexandra & Felix Anderl (2022). Externalisierte Rechenschaftspflicht: Wie sich Entwicklungsbanken und Rohstoffunternehmen durch Vermittlungsinstanzen der Kritik entziehen. Diskurs 8 (1), pp. 70-85. DOI: 10.17185/diskurs/81688

Fickel, Thomas & Felix Anderl (2024) Markt, Macht und Affekt: Ein Erklärungsversuch der widersprüchlichen Landwirtschaftsproteste in Deutschland. Soziale Bewegungen 37 (2), pp. 174–195. DOI: 10.1515/fjsb-2024-0018

Haaf, Johannes & Felix Anderl (2024) A Right to Solidarity: World Ordering from the Margins Through International Law? Global Studies Quarterly 4 (3), ksae070. DOI: 10.1093/isagsq/ksae070

Haudenschild, Daniel, Christin Stühlen & Felix Anderl (2023) Infrastrukturen der Gewalt: Lützerath, Dannenröder Forst und die Klimagerechtigkeitsbewegung. Wissenschaft und Frieden 2023 (2), pp. 10-13.

Kocks, Johanna & Felix Anderl (2024) Critical Ethnography’s Sense of Direction: Imagining Social Justice in Sacrifice Zones of Capital. Public Anthropologist 6 (1), pp. 38-46. DOI: 10.1163/25891715-06010003

Stühlen, Christin and Felix Anderl (2024) Transnational Companies in Environmental Conflicts: Rio Tinto, Anti-mining Resistance in Serbia, and the Contradictions of Europeanization. Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung 13 (2), pp. 243–268. DOI: 10.1007/s42597-024-00114-5

Bonacker, Thorsten & Eva Froneberg (2024) Der Konfliktbegriff in der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. In: Ines-Jacqueline Werkner (eds.) Handbuch Religion in Konflikten und Friedensprozessen. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 217–228. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-44929-2_18

Bonacker, Thorsten (2024) Violent Conflicts in Central Asia. In: Jakob Lempp & Sabine Mayer (eds.) Central Asia in a Multipolar World: Internal Change, External Actors, Regional Cooperation. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 217–228. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-63727-8

Bonacker, Thorsten 2022. Trusteeship as Affective Arrangement: Exploring Affective Practices of an International Bureaucracy. In: Jan Lüdert, Maria Ketzmerick & Julius Heise (eds.) The United Nations Trusteeship System: Legacies, Continuities, and Change. Milton Park/New York: Routledge, pp. 190-212. DOI: 10.4324/9781003185260.

Bonacker, Thorsten and Werner Distler (2023) Das Militär im Statebuilding aus interventionssoziologischer Perspektive. In: Nina Leonhard and Ines-Jacqueline Werkner (eds.) Militärsoziologie – eine Einführung. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 241–262. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-531-93456-3_7

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (2022) Raum und internationale Politik. In: Frank Sauer, Luba von Hauff & Carlo Masala (eds.) Handbuch Internationale Beziehungen. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 1-18. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-531-19954-2_52-1

Buckley-Zistel, Susanne, Kaya de Wolff, Astrid Erll, Sybille Frank, Nicolai Hannig, Sabine Mannitz, Mariel Reiss, Jona Schwerer, Sara-Lusie Spittler & Monika Wingender, 2024. Memory Before Violence. TraCe Working Paper No. 5. DOI: 10.48809/PRIFTraCeWP2405.

Björkdahl, Annika & Susanne Buckley-Zistel (2022) Space for Peace: a Research Agenda. In: Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 16 (5). DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2022.2131194

Forbriger, Ida & Felix Anderl (2024) Responding to “Land Grabs” in Rural Eastern Germany: Emancipatory Agrarian Politics in the Context of Authoritarian Populism. Journal of Peasant Studies 51 (7), pp. 1584–1605. DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2024.2317212

Mannergren, Johanna, Annika Björkdahl, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Stefanie Kappler, & Timothy Williams (2024) Peace and the Politics of Memory. Manchester: Manchester University Press. DOI: 10.7765/9781526178329

Oettler, Anika & Amada Carolina Pérez Benavides (2025) Encoding and Decoding a Postcolonial Constellation: Challenges for the National Museum of Colombia. Cultural Dynamics 37 (1-2), pp. 53-70. DOI: 10.1177/09213740251323379

Oettler, Anika & Mariel Reiss (2023) Weltweit auf dem Prüfstand: die Rechte von LSBTIQ*-Personen. Wie die deutsche Politik gefordert ist. TraCe Policy Brief No. 3. DOI: 10.48809/PRIFTraCePB2303

Oettler, Anika, Serrano Amaya, José Fernando, García Gómez, Leandro Carlo and Emma Pritchard (2024) ”La verdad es arcoíris”. Punto de llegada y de partida para los activismos LGBTIQ+ en Colombia. Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

Reiss, Mariel & Monica Tabengwa (2024) Tug-of-war: LGBTIQ+ rights in the African human rights architecture. African Human Rights Law Journal 24, pp. 472–501. DOI: 10.17159/1996-2096/2024/v24n2a4

Reiss, Mariel (2024) LGBTIQ+ activism and solidarity in action. Interview with human rights defender and activist Njeri Gateru. Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien 30, pp. 21-26. DOI: 10.3224/fzg.v30i1.02

Reiss, Mariel (2024) U.S. Presidential Elections and their Impact on LGBTIQ+ Communities and Activism across the African Continent. In: Melanie Kreitler & Greta Olson (eds.) Diversity Issues in the USA: Transnational Perspectives on the 2024 Presidential Elections. Bielefeld: Transcript, pp.221–242. DOI: 10.1515/9783839474730-013

Tekath, Miriam & Thorsten Bonacker (2022) Konzepte der Gewalt: Ein Überblick. In: J. Christopher Cohrs, Nadine Knab & Gert Sommer (eds.) Handbuch Friedenspsychologie, pp. 3-9. DOI: 10.17192/es2022.0023