Institute for Conflict Management

How can German integrated peace engagement leverage its full potential with greater impact – both in principle and in light of a fundamentally shifting global conflict landscape?

This question and many others on the topic of peace engagement and stabilisation are at the heart of the Impact Hub that has recently begun its work. Together with consortium partners from IFSH, SCRIPTS FU Berlin and the Federal Foreign Office, the ICM is working in the areas of conflict mediation, democracy and resilience promotion and security sector reform (SSR). Particularly relevant regions such as the Western Balkans, West Africa, Ukraine and the Middle East will be worked with and analysed in the project until 2026.

Conflict and co-existence: How do we deal with the current challenges?

Dr Anne Holper will be giving an interactive lecture at the Brandenburg State Archive on 10 May 2025 from 16:30-17:30 as part of the Potsdam Day of Science. The aim is to work with visitors to find out which dilemmas in politics, society, work or family particularly concern them, which analytical and solution approaches exist for them and how these methods can be applied to different cases. How can these dilemmas be better understood? How do you find out whether they can be solved? And how do you actually get to grips with them?

Further information on the event can be found here.

Simply teaching better - with minimum effort for maximum impact

In the summer semester 2025, Viadrina lecturers will have the opportunity to exchange ideas on various topics relating to their role as lecturers within the framework of so-called Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs).

Mario Clemens from the Institute for Conflict Management offers an FLC in which lecturers learn about and discuss didactic interventions based on findings from teaching and learning research. A noticeable improvement in teaching can be achieved with minimal effort.

Where are the limits of what can be said at universities and how can these spaces be used as a place of exchange beyond academia? Political scientist Dr Anja Hennig and historian and mediator Dr Christian Hochmuth discuss this in an interview in the Viadrina Logbuch.

Anne Holper and Lars Kirchhoff describe how the “Peace Summit” in Switzerland can contribute to a genuine peace process and what is needed to avoid further social polarization in their German guest article for Focus Online, published on 13 June 2024.

How to make decisions in seemingly intractable conflicts? The recently published Viadrina Logbook article provides insights into the Viadrina Applied Peace and Conflict Studies (ViAPACS) certificate programme. The application deadline for the 3rd year ended on 30 November 2024.