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Interdisciplinarity

The RTG pursues a genuinely interdisciplinary approach. Scholars from law, literary studies, religious studies, economics, peace and conflict studies, history, political science, sociology, and gender studies, jointly investigate the interactions between international criminal law, gender, violence, and social power structures. By combining diverse disciplinary perspectives and methodological approaches, the RTG generates new avenues of inquiry. Bringing together normative legal analysis with discourse and narrative theory, historical contextualisation, analyses of economic structures, and theological interpretations enables us to grasp violence, law, and gender not only in their respective dimensions but also in their mutual interdependence. Our goal is to develop a comprehensive understanding of gendering in the contexts of international criminal law and to make a lasting contribution to the gender-sensitive development of the field.