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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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🌍 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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Sharepic shows TraCe, Goethe University and BMFTR Logos. Text reads: "Transformations of Political Violence: New Perspectives": Lecture Series at Goethe University Frankfurt (Part 2). 02.12.25, 16:15. Climate Change and the Future of Peace and Security. Nina von Uexkull. Universität Konstanz. Campus Westend, PEG 2.G121.
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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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...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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🛰️ 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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Sharepic shows TraCe, Goethe University and BMFTR Logos. Text reads: "Transformations of Political Violence: New Perspectives": Lecture Series at Goethe University Frankfurt (Part 2). 11.11.25, 16:15h. Satellite Data for Understanding and Monitoring Armed Conflict. Valerie Sticher. Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Campus Westend, PEG 2.G121.
November 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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📢 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
Event Poster Workshop Urban Violence and Promotion of Keynote on 13th October, 6:15 PM at TU Darmstadt.
October 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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💬 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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TraCe Policy Brief No. 11
September 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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🏢 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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Portrait of Gruia Bădescu.
September 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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📣 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.

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September 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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📣 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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Portrait of Frederik Schissler.
September 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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📢 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...
Text reads: Beyond the Spectacle. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slow Violence and Political Harm. TraCe Annual Conference Marburg, November 19 – 21, 2025. DIALOGPANEL (in GERMAN) Gewalt in Zeitlupe: Fehlende Aufmerksamkeit für schleichende Zerstörung Theresa Deichert (Kunsthistorikerin & Kuratorin), Carla Hinrichs (Klimaaktivistin), Anika Oettler (Soziologin) & Jakob Simmank (Gesundheitsjournalist) Moderation: Verena Mischitz SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE (IN ENGLISH) with more than 40 presenters on 8 panels and keynotes from Rachel Pain (Newcastle University) & Eyal Weizman (Forensic Architecture). Logos of Center for Conflict Studies, Marburg University, TraCe and the BMFTR are displayed. Picture shows a close-up of mold in black and white.
September 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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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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Sieben Personen posieren für ein Gruppenfoto vor einer schwarzen Wand.
September 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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📃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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Cover of TraCe Policy Brief No. 10: Violence against Social Activists in the Brazilian Amazon: The Role of Deforestation Juan Albarracín, Rodrigo Moura Karolczak & Jonas Wolff Photo shows a misty rainforest with smoke rising between the trees.
August 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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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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Cover of TraCe Policy Brief No. 9 titled Truth Spoken, Progress Delayed: Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
August 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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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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Cover des TraCe Working Papers No. 6. Abbildung zeigt: Ein elektrischer Stuhl steht in der Mitte eines kahlen Raumes. Auf der linken Seite ist ein rechteckiger Ausschnitt in der Wand, in der sich die Uhr, die hinter dem Stuhl an der Wand hängt spiegelt. (Un)Sichtbarkeit von Gewalt Hannah Ahlheim | Tina Cramer | Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann | Laura Guntrum | Nadia Ismail | Sabine Mannitz | Thilo Marauhn | Verena Lasso Mena | Anika Oettler | Regine Schwab | Sara-Luise Spittler | Jonas Wolff Sonderausgabe in Kooperation mit der KUNSTHALLE GIESSEN.
August 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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📣 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.
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Elspeth Oppermann
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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📣 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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Liudmyla Pidkuimukha; © Heide Fest
August 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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📣 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/...
Ayşe-Martina Böhringer
August 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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📣 We warmly welcome our new Associate Fellow Markus Bayer!

As part of TraCe, he investigates the collective & individual knowledge in Germany regarding its colonial history in Namibia. He leads the project “Echoes of the Past” @prif.org.

Learn more: www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...
A portrait of Markus Bayer, a man with brown hair and beard, who wears glasses. 
August 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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📢 KUNSTHALLE GIESSEN in Kooperation mit TraCe: Ausstellung zu „(Un)Sichtbarkeit von Gewalt“

Diese Gruppenausstellung nimmt vor allem oft unsichtbare Facetten wie strukturelle Gewalt in den Blick. Eröffnung: 22.08.2025, 19 Uhr

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Image: Lucinda Devlin
Auf dem Bild ist ein weißer mit einem verspiegelten Fenster auf der linken Seite und einer Uhr an der rechten Wand zu sehen. Im Zentrum steht ein Elektrischer Stuhl, der einem Holzstuhl ähnelt, der auf einer leicht erhöhten Plattform steht.
July 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Beyond Crises: Resilience & (In)stability – TraCe at MSA

2025 marks a year of collective remembrance, raising questions about how societies recall turning points. Several TraCe members contributed to this year’s @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference in Prague: www.trace-center.de/en/news-1/de...
A wood-panelled hall with a statue on the left and some flags on the right. People sit in rows to the right, listening to a speaker at the podium in front of them at the center of the picture. A picture of A. Dirk Moses (right), Sabine Mannitz (middle) and Sally Ghattas (left). Sabine Mannitz speaking at a podium at the left of the picture, while a presentation is projected at the wall behind her. Kaya de Wolff stands at the left next to Jephta Nguherimo and speaks into a microphone, while a presentation is projected next to them on a screen.
July 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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🌏Ecocide as Political Violence?

On June 30, TraCe @tuda.bsky.social hosted a TraCe research colloquium, inviting practitioner's perspectives from @stopecocide.bsky.social & Ecocide Law Alliance to discuss Ecocide's legal, political, and economic dimensions.

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A room full of people sitting with their backs to the photographer. A woman is sitting at the front in the center, speaking to the group. Behind her, a presentation can be seen on a screen. In the center of the picture is a man gesticulating in front of a screen.
July 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Sally Ghattas (University of Sydney) joined us for a lunch talk @prif.org on Australia's genocide discourse & Aboriginal politics, with comments by @dirkmoses.bsky.social.

Both co-authored TraCe Working Paper No. 4, together with Sabine Mannitz & Núrel Reitz: www.trace-center.de/fileadmin/Da...
Over the heads of the audience, you can see Sally Ghattas standing and speaking. In the background is her presentation projected on a screen on the wall. Four people stand next to a TraCe roll-up banner: A. Dirk Moses and Núrel Reitz on the left and Sabine Mannitz and Sally Ghattas on the right.
July 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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What is “home”? And when does a home cease to be a home?

On July 1, @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social ‬visited @prif.org for an interesting presentation of her book “The Home I worked to make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora”, organized and moderated by TraCe member @reginesonja.bsky.social.
Wendy Pearlman with her book and Regine Schwab standing next to each other to the right of a TraCe pull-up banner, smiling at the camera. A group of people seated at u-shaped tables, facing a screen on the wall to the left.
July 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Am 8. Juli diskutierten @sabanurcheema.bsky.social,
@dirkmoses.bsky.social sowie Gäste der Brunnenpassage Wien, @neuengamme-mem.bsky.social & @zfk-mr.bsky.social
„Die Zukunft des Erinnerns“ mit Moderator & Organisator
@jannikpfister.bsky.social.

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Vor einer Bücherwand sitzt eine Frau neben Menschen auf dem Podium und spricht in ein Mikrofon.
July 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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📢 Final TraCe Lecture for this semester

Don't miss the lecture of our current visiting fellow @adamkochanski.bsky.social (University of Guelph) titled “Practicing Norm Localization in the International Human Rights Regime” on July 9, 12h @goetheuni.bsky.social.

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Text reads: Transformations of Political Violence: New Perspectives | Lecture Series at Goethe University Frankfurt (Part 1) | 09.07.25 | 12:00 | Practicing Norm Localization in the International Human Rights Regime Adam Kochanski University of Guelph, Canada | Campus Westend, Seminarhaus 2.101. Logos of TraCe, Goethe University and funder (BMBF) are displayed.
July 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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We welcome Adam Kochanski @adamkochanski.bsky.social as TraCe Visiting Fellow!

He will research the circulation of local norms and ideas in world politics. Join his presentation of the TraCe lecture series on July 9 at @goetheuni.bsky.social.

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Portrait of Adam Kochanski.
July 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM