PIER Conflict and Coordination

Wars, climate change, pandemics, and increasing global economic tensions pose major global challenges to peace and security. PIER Conflict and Coordination addresses relevant research questions in these areas and brings together research into peace, security, violence, and conflict by both university and independent actors within the wider Hamburg research community. Interdisciplinary research is hugely important here: the expertise of actors in the fields of natural sciences, humanities, social sciences, and law is combined to achieve comprehensive, differentiated research results.

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Overview

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Collaborative research

The PIER Conflict and Coordination profile provides the overall framework for the various research activities conducted in Hamburg in the area where “coordination” and “conflict” intersect. Under the leadership of the Universität Hamburg, the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and the MPI for Comparative and International Private Law Hamburg, PIER Conflict and Coordination, together with the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH) and the Leibniz Institute for Media Research Hans-Bredow-Institut, tackle research questions dealing with subjects such as:

conflicts, fragility, violence
international peace and security orders
democracy, social peace, and domestic security
arms control
IT security of interlinked systems, critical infrastructures.

Research activities

Democratising Security in Turbulent Times

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Research training group Democratising Security in Turbulent Times

In this interdisciplinary research training group, doctoral researchers study new security dynamics in turbulent times. Against the backdrop of global challenges such as the pandemic and the rise of anti-democratic forces, they analyze the complex relationship between security and democracy.

Research Training Group Democratising Security in Turbulent Times website

CBWNet

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CBWNet

This collaborative project identifies possibilities for comprehensively strengthening the norms prohibiting chemical and biological weapons. Following detailed analysis of contesting norms in regimes under prohibition, suggestions will be made for countering the dangers of weakening norms and for increasing resilience.

CBWNet website

Local Peace in Central Eurasia

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Local Peace in Central Eurasia—Studying Peace Formation in Customary and Patronal Contexts

This project focuses on how peace arises at the local level and to what extent informal groups and associations contribute to it. The linguistically-skilled researchers focus especially on the sociocultural meanings of traditional world-views and peaceful everyday activities.

IFSH website

KURI

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KURI—Configurations of Social and Political Practices in Dealing with Radical Islam

Researchers are studying the tensions between prevention and criminal proceedings against radical Islam. How do the state and society respond adequately to the challenge? KURI is analyzing the possibilities for action, concepts, political practices, and perceptions in Germany and Europe.

KURI (IFSH) website

Times of Violence

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Times of Violence research group

This research group is looking at the significance of temporality in collective violence from antiquity to the present. The inter-epochal research tandem are focusing on 5 temporal types of violence: sieges, the occupation of cities, raids, war, and pogroms.

Times of Violence website (German only)

Collective Decision-Making

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German Research Foundation Research Training Group Collective Decision-Making

This research training group focuses on expanding our knowledge of collective decision-making in various contexts, for example, in politics and law by bringing together shared, interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical research.

Research Training Group Collective Decision-Making website

Urban Future-Making

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Urban Future-Making

This research program aims to understand the strategies of experts that impact urban futures. Mobility systems, energy provision, and material use are viewed as mutually dependent fields of activity with a view towards best serving transformative change.

Urban Future-Making website

GEM STONES

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GEM STONES

This research program looks at how the EU can navigate the complex global system in light of its increasing interaction and interdependence. This interdisciplinary training program focuses on the extent this strengthens or weakens the ability of the EU to interact.

GEM STONES website

Transfer

In times of crisis (or crises), many of the academics involved become sought-after discussion and interview contributors in the media as well as in public discussions on a range of themes, most recently in the context of the Ukraine war. In addition to the scholarly examination of these crises, several of the institutions involved also strive to keep politicians and the public informed about assessments and evaluations from an academic perspective by publishing policy papers and shorter statements (including IFSH and GIGA).

Scientific direction

Profile spokesperson

Prof. Dr. Cord Jakobeit
(UHH)

Deputy profile spokesperson

Prof. Dr. Ursula Schröder
(IFSH)

Profile board

Prof. Dr. Cord Jakobeit (UHH, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences)
Prof. Dr. Ursula Schröder (IFSH)
Dr. Christian von Soest (GIGA)
Prof. Dr. Ralf Michaels (MPI-Privatrecht)
Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur (UHH, Faculty of Law)
Prof. Dr. Hannes Federrath (UHH, MIN Faculty)