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TraCe @trace-center.de · 01/10/2026

What sources do people draw from to endure political violence? Our new Associate Fellow Sebastian Köthe (jlugiessen.bsky.social) investigates the interplay of political violence and practices of survival. Welcome to TraCe! 👉 learn more: www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 10/09/2026

How does colonial violence interlink with international institutions? New TraCe Working Paper No. 9 by @linaschne.bsky.social & Lisbeth Zimmermann examines how international institutions have addressed colonial violence & how their role has changed over time. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/publikatione...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 24/08/2026

📚 From internationalized civil wars & digital technologies to the role of institutions, memory & language: How are forms, institutions & interpretations of political violence changing? The “Routledge Handbook on Transformations of Political Violence“ offers a comprehensive overview – out now! 🎉

The SharePic includes the title and editors of the handbook on the left and the handbook's cover on a 3D book mockup on the right.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 15/07/2026

📕 Der Krieg ist zurück in Europa – das Recht des Stärkeren auch? Das diskutiert hendrikpsimon.bsky.social in seinem neuen Buch „Das Recht der Gewalt. Warum Waffen allein keinen Frieden schaffen“. Jetzt neu im @reclamverlag.bsky.social. 👉 www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...

Buchcover „Das Recht der Gewalt. Warum Waffen allein keinen Frieden schaffen“ von Hendrik Simon

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 14/07/2026

Russia, China, & the US – examples of a “New Interventionism”?On July 8, Lisbeth Zimmermann, Raphaël Cahen, @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social, Barry de Vries & Katja Schöberl discussed this recent development and violations of international law @jlugiessen.bsky.social. ➡️ www.trace-center.de/en/news-1/de...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 23/06/2026

🏳️‍🌈 Out now: “Joy, Reflections, Resistance – LGBTIQ+ Lived Realities in Africa. Scholarly and Activist Perspectives”, co-edited by @marielreiss.bsky.social & Ayodele Sogunro. The volume explores violence, resistance, solidarity, & queer lives across Africa. www.trace-center.de/en/news-1/de...

Cover of book "Joy, Reflections, Resistance - LGBTIQ+ Lived Realities in Africa" by Mariel Reiss and Ayodele Sogunro. The cover is purple and shows a collection of edited pictures in the lower half including photos of a scale, two men kissing, two people embracing and others.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 16/04/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: This last highlight publication by Nicolai Hannig and Julia Engelschalt (both @tuda.bsky.social) examines the Congolese Sapeur Movement – using fashion to protest the Western clothing bans of the Mobutu regime. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

TraCe Highlight Publication: Hannig, Nicolai/Engelschalt, Julia (2024): Fashion, Mobility, and Protest: The Sapeur Movement in Congo, in: Historical Social Research, 49: 4, 120–134, DOI: https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.49.2024.38.

TraCe Highlight Publication: Emerging as a fashionable protest against Western clothing bans in dictatorial Congo in the second half of the twentieth century , the sapeur movement used flamboyant European styles to defiantly subvert high-society norms. By analyzing international media from the 1970s to today, this article seeks to understand the sapeur as an interloper between several spheres.

TraCe Highlight Publication: Read more highlights on our website.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 14/04/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: This highlight publication, TraCe Working Paper No. 6 – a collaboration with @kunsthallegiessen.bsky.social – unites interdisciplinary perspectives of researchers on the (in)visibility of violence. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

TraCe Highlight Publication: Ahlheim, Hannah/Cramer, Tina/Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana/Guntrum, Laura/Ismail, Nadia/Mannitz, Sabine/Marauhn, Thilo/Lasso Mena, Verena/Oettler, Anika/Schwab, Regine/Spittler, Sara-Luise/Wolff, Jonas (2025): (Un)Sichtbarkeit von Gewalt, Frankfurt/Main, TraCe Working Paper No. 6, DOI: 10.48809/PRIFTraCeWP2506.

TraCe Highlight Publication: What mechanisms determine the visibility or invisibility of violence? Written in the context of the exhibition “(In)Visibility of Violence” (KUNSTHALLE GIESSEN, 2025), this TraCe Working Paper examines forms, geographical contexts, and both historical and contemporary conditions of violence. The paper is a prime example for TraCe’s knowledge transfer: It connects artistic and academic perspectives on violence and makes them accessible to a non-academic audience through numerous examples and pictures.

TraCe Highlight Publication: Read all publications on our website.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 09/04/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: This highlight publication by @marielreiss.bsky.social and Ayodele Sogunro explores LGBTIQ+ lived realities in African contexts at the intersections of knowledge-production and -transfer. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

TraCe Highlight Publication: Reiss, Mariel/Sogunro, Ayodele (2026) (Hrsg.): Joy, Reflections, Resistance - LGBTIQ+ Lived Realities in Africa. Scholarly and Activist Perspectives, Leverkusen, Deutschland: Verlag Barbara Budrich.

TraCe Highlight Publication: Building on the themes of violence, resistance, and solidarity, this book explores intersections of knowledge-production and -transfer between diverse scholarly and activist spheres and herewith contributes to methodological, conceptual, and normative aspects of centring LGBTIQ+ rights and lived realities in manifold African contexts. The chapters discuss the longer historical developments of homo- and transphobic bills, legislations, and de jure practices as well as their effects for LGBTIQ+ persons (until) today.

TraCe Highlight Publication: Read more on our website.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 07/04/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In @journalgenocide.bsky.social, Kaya de Wolff and Jephta Nguherimo explore the ongoing struggle of Ovaherero and Nama for restorative justice for the colonial genocide committed by Germany in 1904 to 1908 in Namibia. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

TraCe Highlight Publication: De Wolff, Kaya/Nguherimo, Jephta (2025): The Ovaherero and Nama People’s Struggle for Restorative Justice: An Activist-Scholar Lens, in: Journal of Genocide Research, 1–18, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2025.2559463.

TraCe Highlight Publication: This article explores the ongoing struggle of the Ovaherero and Nama struggle to obtain an apology and reparations for the colonial genocide committed by German troops in 1904 to 1908 in Namibia. By co-publishing this article in tandem as a German academic scholar and a Namibian reparation activist, the authors move from an extractivist practice of scholarship to a form of mutually beneficial knowledge production.

TraCe Highlight Publication: All publications can be found on our website.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 02/04/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: This highlight publication – a @manchesterup.bsky.social book – explores memory politics and its impact on the quality of peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Citation of the book "Peace and the Politics of Memory".

Link to the TraCe Website to read more about the highlight publications.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 01/04/2026

We are happy to welcome Esin Gülsen, our newest Associate Fellow from @goetheuni.bsky.social & Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform! Esin examines the transmission of intergenerational memories of violence in the Kurdish diaspora in Germany. 👉 www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 31/03/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: This Cultural Dynamics Special Issue examines perspectives on the cultural memory of political violence by researchers from @prif.org, @goetheuni.bsky.social & @unimarburg.bsky.social, focusing on museums. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Special Issue: Displaying and Processing Political Violence in Museum Spaces, Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann & Sabine Mannitz (Hrsg.) (2025), Cultural Dynamics, 37: 1–2, DOI: 10.1177/09213740251323352

This issue of the journal Cultural Dynamics brings together contributions by scholars from PRIF, Goethe University, and the University of Marburg. Their research on the cultural memory of political violence is focused here in particular on interpretive frameworks through which museums communicate these histories to a broader public.

Read more: All publication highlights can be found on our website: www.trace-center.de/en/publications/highlights

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 27/03/2026

🎉 4 years of research on political violence! As TraCe concludes its first funding phase, we reflected on our journey at our retreat in Lollar. This graphic recording by Christa Fajen captures our research, exchange, and activities. Ready for the next chapter! 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/news-1/de...

The Graphic recording shows a lettering in the center of the picture that says “four years of research on political violence”. At the top of the lettering, there’s a visualization of the four TraCe Research Fields in form of a directional sign. Every field is structured in themes with small drawings and the research question addressed there. Below the lettering there’s a chronological structured map, that shows the TraCe events and conferences, as well as knowledge transfer facts and figures.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 26/03/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: TraCe Working Paper No. 5, written by a multi-disciplinary team of TraCe researchers, reflects on “memory before violence” by analyzing six case studies. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Kaya de Wolff, Astrid Erll, Sybille Frank, Nicolai Hannig, Sabine Mannitz, Mariel Reiss, Jona Schwerer, Sara-Luise Spittler & Monika Wingender (2024). Memory Before Violence. TraCe Working Paper No. 5, DOI: 10.48809/PRIFTraCeWP2405.

In this working paper, TraCe researchers from various fields (including the social sciences and the humanities, history, media studies, and linguistics) reflect on “memory before violence.” The working paper suggests turning around the temporal perspective on the memory-violence nexus. In six case studies, authors address “memory before violence” – in Brazil, in Canada, in Uganda and Kenya, in Russia and Ukraine, and in Germany.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 25/03/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In this symposium, @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social (@fgz-risc.bsky.social & @prif.org) and Juan Pablo Scarfi started on @voelkerrechtsblog.org, the authors examine what the Monroe Doctrine stands for today. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Juan Pablo Scarfi & Hendrik Simon (2023); ReflectiÖns on 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine; Völkerrechtsblog, 18.12.2023, DOI: 10.17176/20231218-111106-0.

What does the Monroe Doctrine – or perhaps better: the multiple Monroe Doctrines since 1823 – actually stand for today? How can we look back on it 200 years after its first appearance? In this blog post, authors build on discussions of a TraCe conference on the Monroe Doctrine in Frankfurt, December 2023.

This research agenda will be pursued further in a forthcoming edited volume by Raphaël Cahen, León Castellanos-Jankiewicz, and Hendrik Simon.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 19/03/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In this highlight publication, @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social (@fgz-risc.bsky.social & @prif.org) & Lothar Brock @goetheuni.bsky.social examine the reciprocal relationship between war justifications & international order. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Hendrik Simon & Lothar Brock (2023) | Transformation(en) der Gewaltrechtfertigung? Zum Verhältnis von Kriegslegitimation und internationaler Ordnungsbildung in Geschichte und Gegenwart | TraCe Working Paper No. 2, DOI: 10.48809/PRIFTraCeWP2302

Die Geschichte politischer Gewalt ist zugleich eine Geschichte ihrer Rechtfertigung und Kritik: Seit jeher wird politische Gewalt von Theorien und Praktiken ihrer (De-)Legitimation begleitet – auf nationaler wie auch auf inter- und transnationaler Ebene. Das zweite TraCe Working Paper untersucht, wie sich diese Praktiken gewandelt haben und ob Kontinuität oder Brüche dominieren.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 18/03/2026

🎉 Looking back & looking ahead: During a two-day internal retreat on March 12–13 in Lollar, the TraCe network revisited four years of collaboration, bid farewell to colleagues moving on & discussed TraCe’s research agenda for the upcoming years. 👉 www.trace-center.de/en/news-1/de...

A group photo of 22 people standing on a staircase in front of a brick house, posing for a photo.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 17/03/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: This highlight publication by Rafael Quishpe Contreras @jlugiessen.bsky.social, Mónica Salazar, Juan E. Ugarriza & Diana C. Acuña examines the transition of former rebel organizations into political parties. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

TraCe Highlight Publication: Acuña, Diana C./Quishpe, Rafael C./Salazar, Mónica A./Ugarriza, Juan E. (2023): Transitioning Guerrillas: An Analysis of the Internal Cohesion of the Former FARC in their Transition from War to Democracy, in: Latin American Politics and Society, 66: 3, 79–106, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2023.37.

TraCe Highlight Publication: Ex-rebel political parties often emerge after peace accords but frequently fragment and disappear, increasing the risk of renewed political violence. Using quantitative data on former FARC guerrillas in Colombia who joined a newly founded legal political party, the authors' findings suggest that supporting organizational reengineering efforts among former rebels – with a focus on cohesion – can mitigate the negative consequences of rebel party collapse.

TraCe Highlight Publication: All publication highlights can be found on our website.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 16/03/2026

🌈 New TraCe Working Paper “The Long Shadow of Colonial Violence Against LGBTIQ+ Kenyans” @marielreiss.bsky.social & Āryā Jeipea Karijo argue that current anti-LGBTIQ+-violence in Kenya is rooted in norms & legislation introduced by British colonialism. 📝 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Cover of TraCe Working Paper No. 8: The Long Shadow of Colonial Violence Against LGBTIQ+ Kenyans | Mariel Reiss & Āryā Jeipea Karijo.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 12/03/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In the @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social, @hannapfeifer.bsky.social and @reginesonja.bsky.social analyze conflict zones in West Asia and North Africa to examine the binary of state and non-state actors in civil wars. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

TraCe Highlight Publication: Pfeifer, Hanna/Schwab, Regine (2023): Re-examining the State/Non-state Binary in the Study of (Civil) War, in: Civil Wars, 25: 2–3, 426–449, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2254654.

TraCe Highlight Publication: One of the fundamental distinctions informing studies on civil war is that between state and non-state actors as parties to an armed conflict. As TraCe authors argue, this binary has come under increased scrutiny in light of recent developments in armed conflicts. Drawing on examples from conflict zones in West Asia and North Africa, they investigate phenomena in civil wars that uncover the tenuity of state/non-state distinction.

TraCe Highlight Publication: Read more on TraCe Website

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 10/03/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In this edited volume by Barry de Vries, Thilo Marauhn (jlugiessen.bsky.social) reflects two perspectives on the strengthening of norms against chemical and biological weapons.🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Highlight Publication: Marauhn, Thilo (2025): Multi-normativity and Multi-level Governance: Fresh Perspectives on the Strengthening of Norms against Chemical and Biological Weapons, in: Barry de Vries (ed.), Chemical and Biological Weapons, Leiden, Niederlande: Brill | Nijhoff, 1–12, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004739192_002.

TraCe Highlight Publication: The bans on chemical and biological weapons are foundational to global disarmament and international security. However, these regimes are under increasing strain due to recent violations and broader institutional challenges. This book introduction reflects on two concepts helpful to explain the complexities of multilateral regulations: the established notion of multi-level governance and the more recent notion of multi-normativity.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 05/03/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: Juliana González Villamizar and Stefan Peters (both @jlugiessen.bsky.social) take a closer look at Colombia’s Truth Commission – analyzing how its work also aims to challenge structural inequalities (in Spanish). 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

TraCe Highlight Publication: González Villamizar, Juliana/Peters, Stefan (2025): Los enfoques diferenciales desde una vocación transformadora: El trabajo de la Comisión de la Verdad en Colombia, in: Una mirada a la Comisión de la Verdad de Colombia. Aprendizajes, reflexiones y siete desafíos contemporáneos, Bogotá, Colombia: Edición Planeta, 115–136.

TraCe Highlight Publication: This book chapter examines the transformative use of differential approaches in the work of Colombia’s Truth Commission, focusing on how diverse social positions and experiences of violence are incorporated into truth-seeking processes. It analyzes how these approaches aim not only to document harm but also to challenge structural inequalities and promote inclusive recognition of victims.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 03/03/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: On @lseblogs.bsky.social, @benchristian.bsky.social, Johanna Speyer (@prif.org), and Lisbeth Zimmermann (@goetheuni.bsky.social) argue that favoring powerful states undermines the rules-based international order. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Ben Cristian, Johanna Speyer & Lisbeth Zimmermann (2024); The rules-based international order will not survive if its institutions only work in powerful states’ interests. LSE Blog, 11.12.2024

The current international order is in crisis, but what action to take to address this is hotly debated. Countering a suggestion to reform global institutions by giving more power to already powerful states, this blog post argues that this path would deepen the existing crisis: The rules-based international order which rests on multilateral cooperation will fail if its institutions are reformed to work even more in the interest of powerful states.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 02/03/2026

We warmly welcome our newest Associate Fellow Tobias Ide from @tuda.bsky.social & @prif.org! Tobias examines causes and consequences of political violence in the context of climate change and environment. 👉 www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 26/02/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In @coco-journal.bsky.social, Frederik Schissler, @hannapfeifer.bsky.social, Constantin Ruhe, @reginesonja.bsky.social & Jonas Wolff take a closer look at the trend of internationalized intrastate armed conflicts. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

TraCe Highlight Publication: The internationalization of intrastate conflict: A network perspective on empirical evidence and theoretical explanations, in Cooperation and Conflict, forthcoming

TraCe Highlight Publication: In this paper, TraCe researchers from Goethe University and PRIF introduce a network-based framework to conceptualize the internationalization of intrastate armed conflict.
Empirically, they show that intrastate conflicts have indeed become more internationalized in recent years and identify and evaluate likely
drivers of this trend. A preprint version of the forthcoming paper has been published as TraCe Working Paper No. 7.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 19/02/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In her forthcoming monograph, @reginesonja.bsky.social takes a closer look at the complex relationships between rebel groups in multiparty civil wars. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Sharepic Highlight Publication: Armed Group Constellations: Patterns of Cooperation and Conflict in Multiparty Civil Wars.

Highlight Publication Sharepic: Internationalized multiparty civil wars are an increasingly relevant phenomenon, but we lack understanding of the internal dynamics of these conflicts. Based on in-depth field work of the Syrian conflict and case studies of Ethiopia and Myanmar, this book develops a new understanding of the complex relationships between rebel groups in multiparty civil wars that goes beyond binary notions of cooperation and conflict.

Highlight Publication Sharepic: read more on TraCe website.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 18/02/2026

Welcome Danica Trifunjagić, our new TraCe Associate Fellow at @tuda.bsky.social @machtgeschichte.bsky.social! Danica explores the the intertwining of social movements, culture, and political violence, with a particular focus on the (post-)Yugoslav region. 👉 www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 17/02/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In the Journal of Conflict Resolution, @reginesonja.bsky.social, Werner Krause & Samer Massoud show how targeting civilian infrastructure in Syria backfired and caused rebels to respond with increased violence. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Sharepic Highlight Publication: The Bombing of Hospitals and Rebel Responses in Civil War. Evidence from Syria.

Highlight Publication Sharepic: This publication researches an increasingly prominent form of political violence, the targeting of civilian infrastructure, and its effects on local violence dynamics. Concretely, the paper shows that the targeting of medical facilities by pro-government forces in the Syrian civil war leads to increased rebel violence rather than suppressing resistance.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 12/02/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: Markus Lederer, Verena Lasso Mena, Jens Marquardt, Timo Richter & Dorothea Elena Schoppek (all @tuda.bsky.social) analyze the use of civil disobedience by radical climate movements & their attempted delegitimization. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Cover and citation of the Highlight Publication on Radical Climate Movements.

Description of the Highlight Publication on Radical Climate Movements.

Link to the highlight publications on the TraCe website.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 11/02/2026

🌎 Accountability for Ecocide? In the new TraCe Policy Brief, Verena Lasso Mena & Markus Lederer (both @tuda.bsky.social) trace the emergence of the concept “ecocide” as a political and legal idea and discuss why it matters for policymakers today. www.trace-center.de/publikatione...

Cover of TraCe Policy Brief No. 14: “From Genocide to Ecocide:
Confronting Political Violence Against the Environment” by Verena Lasso Mena & Markus Lederer

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 10/02/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights: In @icsjournal.bsky.social, Laura Guntrum & Verena Lasso Mena (both @tuda.bsky.social) analyze violence against environmental and human rights defenders in northern Colombia. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Highlight Publication: Guntrum, Laura/Lasso Mena, Verena (2025): Unmasking digital threats in the pursuit of human rights and environmental defense in La Guajira, North Colombia, in: Information, Communication & Society, 1–22, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2503444.

Highlight Publication Forms: Change and Continuity of Political Violence: This article shows how environmental and human rights defenders in northern Colombia are targeted by different forms of technology-facilitated violence (TFV) that intersects with physical threats and structural violence. It argues that excluding TFV from broader violence frameworks leads to an incomplete understanding of defenders’ experiences and exposes gaps in existing protection mechanisms.

Highlight Publication: Read more. All publication highlights can be found on our website.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 06/02/2026

📚 Language as a tool of domination in the war against Ukraine? The new TraCe Policy Brief by Liudmyla Pidkuimukha shows how language & cultural symbols – central to the “Russian World” agenda – are used to dismantle Ukrainian identity. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Cover TraCe Policy Brief No. 13 by Liudmyla Pidkuimukha

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 05/02/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights on the change of forms, causes, and consequences of political violence. In @acmtochi.bsky.social, Laura Guntrum & Christian Reuter (@peasec.de) analyze how activists cope with technology-facilitated violence. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Highlight Publication Sharepic: Laura Guntrum & Christian Reuter (2025). Activists’ Strategies for Coping with Technology- Facilitated Violence in the Global South. in: ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 32: 6, 1–38, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3762811

TraCe Highlight Publication Sharepic: This article shows how activists from seven countries in the Global South develop situated coping and protection strategies in response to technology-facilitated violence. Coping mechanisms and responses ranged from self-censorship and withdrawal to various forms of resistance, including the adoption of selective, low-threshold digital security practices such as encryption.

TraCe Highlight publication sharepic: Activists’ digital security behaviors often diverged from universalized IT security recommendations, underscoring the importance of situating protection strategies within activists’ specific threat models and lived contexts.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 04/02/2026

📣Welcome, Priska Daphi – our new TraCe Associate Fellow at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Priska is interested in transformations of political conflict, focusing on civil society, protest, political participation, and the dynamics of polarization and exclusion. 👉 www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 03/02/2026

📣 Explore the TraCe publication highlights on the change of forms, causes, and consequences of political violence. In the Journal of Peace Research, Juan Albarracín, Rodrigo Moura Karolczak, and Jonas Wolff analyze the killing of social activists in Brazil. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/publicati...

Highlight Publication Sharepic: Albarracín, Juan/Karolczak, Rodrigo Moura/Wolff, Jonas (2025): Violence against Civil Society Actors in Democracies: Territorialization of Criminal Economies and the Assassination of Social Activists in Brazil, in: Journal of Peace Research, 62: 5, 1411–1427, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433251347784.

TraCe Highlight Publication Sharepic: This article analyzes a type of political violence particularly prevalent in democracies of the Global South: the assassination of social activists. The authors develop a theoretical framework that bridges debates on criminal governance and socio-environmental conflict and show how it helps explain subnational variation in activist killings across Brazil’s Amazon region.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 30/01/2026

Intrastate armed conflicts have increasingly internationalized. In TraCe Working Paper No. 7, Frederik Schissler, @felixbethke.bsky.social, @hannapfeifer.bsky.social, Constantin Ruhe, @reginesonja.bsky.social & Jonas Wolff systematically assess this trend. 👉 www.trace-center.de/publikatione...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 28/01/2026

Join us for the final session of this year’s TraCe lecture series Part 2: Elisabeth Wood, Visiting Professor @prif.org, will speak on “Sexual Violence during War: Patterns and Policy”. 📅 Feb 4, 12h | @goetheuni.bsky.social. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...

Sharepic for the last session of the TraCe Lecture Series at Goethe University Frankfurt with Logos of TraCe, Goethe University and the BMFTR.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 09/01/2026

💡Neuer Policy Brief zur US-Militärintervention in Venezuela @anikaoettler.bsky.social (@zfk-mr.bsky.social), Stefan Peters (@jlugiessen.bsky.social) und Jonas Wolff (@prif.org @goetheuni.bsky.social) betrachten Trumps „Imperialistische Gewalt im ‚Hinterhof'“. 📝 www.trace-center.de/fileadmin/Da...

Cover von TraCe Policy Brief No. 12: Imperialistische Gewalt im „Hinterhof“: Hintergründe und Implikationen der US-
Militärintervention in Venezuela. Anika Oettler | Stefan Peters | Jonas Wolff. Foto: Donald Trump steht am Redepult der US-Pressekonferenz und gestikuliert. Links neben ihm steht Marco Rubio. Im Vordergrund des Bildes sind gehobene Hände der Pressevertreter:innen zu sehen.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 26/11/2025

🌍 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.) 🔗 www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...

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.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 18/11/2025

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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TraCe @trace-center.de · 07/11/2025

🛰️ 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). www.trace-center.de/en/events/de...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 06/10/2025

📢 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.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 26/09/2025

💬 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: www.trace-center.de/fileadmin/Da...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 19/09/2025

🏢 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: www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 15/09/2025

📣 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. Learn more: www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 04/09/2025

📣 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. 🔗 www.trace-center.de/en/about-us/...

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 03/09/2025

📢 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.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 01/09/2025

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. www.trace-center.de/veranstaltun...

Sieben Personen posieren für ein Gruppenfoto vor einer schwarzen Wand.

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TraCe @trace-center.de · 28/08/2025

📃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: www.trace-center.de/fileadmin/Da...

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.

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