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Research Center “Transformations of Political Violence” | collaboration of @prif.org, @goetheuni.bsky.social, @tuda.bsky.social, @jlugiessen.bsky.social & @unimarburg.bsky.social. Funded by the BMFTR.
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Out now! We are very happy to share our newest publication: the "Handbook of Peace & Conflict Studies. Perspectives from the Global South", edited by our Siddharth Tripathi and Solveig Richter.

Check out the book here - it's open access!
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November 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🌍 Climate Change and the Future of Peace and Security

Nina von Uexkull will give the next lecture on TraCe Lecture Series @goetheuni.bsky.social. This lecture organized in collaboration with the Comparative Politics Speaker Series.

📅 Dec 2, 2025, 16h (c.t.)
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November 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
How are new weapon technologies changing warfare?
Our new Associate Fellow Anja-Liisa Gonsior @peasec.de @tuda.bsky.social explores how emerging disruptive technologies challenge traditional arms control & how new regulation develops. Welcome to TraCe! 🎉 www.trace-center.de/ueber-uns/te...
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
📺 Gewalt in Zeitlupe

Das Dialogpanel eröffnet am 19.11., 18h die vierte TraCe Jahreskonferenz @zfk-mr.bsky.social. Wir freuen uns auf Theresa Deichert, Carla Hinrichs, Jakob Simmank, @anikaoettler.bsky.social & @vmischitz.bsky.social.

In Marburg und auf YouTube:
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Gewalt in Zeitlupe – Fehlende Aufmerk­samkeit für schleichende Zer­störung
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November 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🛰️ Satellite Data for Understanding and Monitoring Armed Conflict

Join the first session of this term's TraCe Lecture Series @goetheuni.bsky.social with Valerie Sticher from @ethz.ch on Nov 11, 16:15h (co-organized with the Comparative Politics Speaker Series).

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November 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Zwei Tage voller intensiver Diskussionen zum #Wissenstransfer – Eindrücke vom Abschluss-Workshop unseres Verbunds in Augsburg
October 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
📢 Join us for a public keynote taking place as part of the Workshop “Urban Violence” @tuda.bsky.social: TraCe Fellow Gruia Bădescu explores “Violence in/against the city: Making sense of urban violence from urbicide to feral cities.”
🗓 13 Oct 2025, 18:15
📍 Room S3|13 30, TU Darmstadt
October 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
💬 TraCe Policy Brief on violence against social activists in the Brazilian Amazon also published in Portuguese!

“Violência contra ativistas sociais na Amazônia
brasileira: o papel do desmatamento“
– Agora também em português como TraCe Policy Brief No. 11:

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September 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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A Amazônia brasileira é perigosa para ativistas sociais que lutam pelos direitos à terra e pela proteção ambiental. Juan Albarracín, Rodrigo Moura Karolczak e Jonas Wolff analisam por quê. Agora também em português no #PRIFblog (e @trace-center.de Policy Brief). ⬇️
blog.prif.org/2025/09/25/v...
Violência contra ativistas sociais na Amazônia brasileira: o papel do desmatamento - PRIF BLOG
A Amazônia brasileira é um lugar perigoso para ativistas sociais, especialmente aqueles que lutam por direitos fundiários e pela proteção ambiental. Em nosso estudo recente, publicado no Journal of Pe...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
🏢 We welcome Gruia Bădescu as TraCe Visiting Fellow @tuda.bsky.social & look forward to his perspectives on violence in urban spaces!

He is interested in the relationship between urban reconfigurations and the societal processing of difficult pasts:

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September 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
📣 Welcome back to TraCe, @leoncastjan.bsky.social!

Based at @jlugiessen.bsky.social, León returns as a TraCe Visiting Fellow from September to November 2025 – investigating European rearmament policy from the perspective of legal accountability.

Learn more: www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...
September 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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We're really thrilled to share the program of our upcoming @trace-center.de conference on slow violence @zfk-mr.bsky.social including keynotes by Eyal Weizman and Rachel Pain. Check it out and register here:
www.trace-center.de/en/events/an...
TraCe: 2025: Beyond the Spectacle
The fourth TraCe annual con­ference ‘Beyond the Spectacle: Inter­disciplinary Approa­ches to Slow Violence and Political Harm’ from November 19 until 21, 2025 in Marburg, aims to expand research on vi...
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August 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Registration is still open until today. We look forward to seeing you there.
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📢 Register until September 10 for our Annual Conference “Colonial Pasts and Contemporary Search for Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Restitution and Redress for Colonial Violence”! With @trace-center.de & @valuepast.bsky.social, Sep. 25–26.
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September 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Am 17. September spricht Jani Silva mit Laura Barrios Sabogal und Juliana González über ihre Erfahrungen und gemeinschaft­liche Praktiken zum Schutz der Umwelt, lokale Kämpfe für Frieden und Menschenrechte. 📅 18–21 Uhr,📍@institutocervantes.bsky.social Frankfurt/M. ⬇️

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September 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
📣 Welcome to our newest Associate Fellow: Frederik Schissler from @prif.org!

External actors increasingly internationalize intrastate conflicts. Frederik Schissler explores their different forms of involvement in civil wars & the resulting transformation.

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September 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
📢 TraCe Annual Conference 2025

Join our fourth annual conference “Beyond the Spectacle: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slow Violence and Political Harm”, from November 19–21 in Marburg @zfk-mr.bsky.social!

📝 Registration: eveeno.com/slow-violence
🔗 Program: www.trace-center.de/en/events/an...
September 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Danke KUNSTHALLE GIESSEN für den bewegenden Abend!

Am 22.08. eröffnete die von Theresa Deichert, Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann @prif.org & Nadia Ismail kuratierte Aus­stellung „(Un)Sichtbarkeit von Gewalt“ mit mehr als 100 Besucher:innen & eindrücklichen Redebeiträgen.

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September 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Verschwindenlassen ist eine drastische Form unsichtbarer Gewalt. Zum Internationalen Tag der Opfer von Verschwindenlassen diskutieren Tina Cramer & Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann im #PRIFblog dessen verschiedene Formen. ⬇️ blog.prif.org/2025/08/30/z...
August 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
📃The Brazilian Amazon is a dangerous place for social activists. In TraCe Policy Brief No. 10, Jonas Wolff @prif.org, Juan Albarracín, and Rodrigo Moura Karolczak examine the linkage between violence against social activists & deforestation:

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August 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The 2015 Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada report documented the devastating legacy of the Indian Residential School System. In the new TraCe Policy Brief, Rita Kopp (@prif.org) examines the Commission’s work, political progress & ongoing challenges.
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August 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Welche Mechanismen bestimmen die Sichtbarkeit oder Unsichtbarkeit von Gewalt?

Pünktlich zur Eröffnung der gleichnamigen Ausstellung heute um 19h in Gießen erscheint #TraCe Working Paper 6 „(Un)Sichtbarkeit von Gewalt“ in Kooperation mit kunsthalle-giessen.de.

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August 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
📺 TraCe Lecture Series – Part 1 now on YouTube
This year’s lecture series explored how political violence is remembered, institutionalized & contested. Part 2 kicks off in the upcoming winter semester @goetheuni.bsky.social!
▶️ Watch now on Youtube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
TraCe Lecture Series “Transformations of Political Violence: New Perspectives” - YouTube
This lecture series showcases new approaches to the changing forms, institutions, and interpretations of political violence as they are studied within TraCe....
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August 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
📣 Welcome to TraCe, Elspeth Oppermann!
She will spend her Fellowship from mid-August to mid-November 2025 @zfk-mr.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social. Her research focuses on ethics & politics of heat stress risks arising from global heating.
👉Learn more: www.trace-center.de/ueber-uns/te...
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
📣 Welcome to TraCe, Liudmyla Pidkuimukha!
Our new Visiting Fellow @jlugiessen.bsky.social explores how language becomes a target, a tool and a site of resistance in the context of the full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war. ⬇️
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August 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
📣 Welcome to TraCe, Ayşe-Martina Böhringer. Our new Associate Fellow joins from @jlugiessen.bsky.social. In her research, she explores questions of collective security & and how international law can contain armed violence.
Learn more: www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...
August 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM