Pushing Back the Pushback? WPS, Power Politics, and Liberal Retreat
Twenty-five years after its adoption, the Women, Peace and Security agenda is operating within a...
Disarmed but Not Invisible: Former FARC-EP Combatants Shaping Peace Beyond WPS Frameworks
In Colombia, former combatants from the FARC-EP rebels are building peace in ways that fall...
Reimagining the UN’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda: Climate Resilience and Women’s Peacebuilding in Lake Chad
As Lake Chad’s waters shrink and droughts intensify, pastoralists and farmers clash over the...
China’s Response to the EV Dispute: What it Tells us about the China–EU Rivalry
At first glance, Europe’s trade conflict over battery electric vehicles (BEVs) with China may...
Violence in a Warming World
Organized violence influences both the impacts of climate change and the politics of its...
Resisting the Pushback: Worldwide Activism Against Femicide
The number of femicides is rising globally. Yet, perpetrators often face reduced sentences,...
Just Lay People’s Views? Learning from citizen perspectives for people-centered peace and security governance
In line with the vision of an ‘ECOWAS of the People’, this Spotlight argues that ECOWAS must more...
Thirty Years of Onion Politics: Bosnia and Herzegovina on the 30th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Agreement
The Dayton Peace Agreement ended the Bosnian War, establishing the constitutional framework of...
Verblassende Erinnerungen der Hoffnung – Warum das Gedenken an die Friedliche Revolution gestärkt werden muss
36 Jahre nach der sogenannten Friedlichen Revolution von 1989 wurde in Leipzig der Grundstein für...
Who Gets to Mourn? Rethinking Grief, Resistance and the Everyday Politics of Peace in Colombia
What does it mean to resist when there are no slogans, no marches, no chants, only grief? This...