The German Association for Peace and Conflict Research (AFK) is a scientific association that brings together peace researchers from a wide range of disciplines in German-speaking countries. Its interdisciplinary nature is reflected in the various areas that deal with the concepts of peace and conflict and extend far beyond political science. In particular, the AFK promotes academic work, concepts and models that are intended to contribute to an understanding of the causes and consequences of war and peace. In this way, a broad multidisciplinary basis can be created for a political practice orientated towards peaceful coexistence.
Between Co-existence and Reconciliation: Islands of Peace in Ongoing Violent Conflicts Under the guest editorship of Rosario Figari Layus, Assistant Professor of Reconciliation Studies at the Department of Sociology, Rheinische...
The Bonner Center for Reconciliation Studies (BZV) of the University of Bonn and the Bonn International Centre on Conflict Studies (bicc) are pleased to announce the First Colloquium on Peace,...
Five doctoral positions and three postdoctoral positions in various subprojects are now being advertised for the research group ‘The Promise of Security in Catastrophic Times’ at the University of...
The annual AFK Colloquium are a particularly important event for German-speaking peace and conflict research and are an integral part of the AFK’s work. In addition to academic exchange, they serve in particular to raise public awareness of the approaches and content of peace and conflict research. The individual colloquia each focus on a highly relevant topic and thus indirectly address social dynamics.
The Young AFK Working Group is aimed at all researchers who are active in the interdisciplinary field of peace and conflict research.
In this context, ‘young academics’ refers to all researchers across all generations who have only been working in the field for a short time.
The Christiane Rajewsky Prize is aimed at young academics who have made an outstanding contribution to peace and conflict research through their research. One master’s thesis and one dissertation are honoured.
