Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate
- Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate
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Academy for Crisis Prevention and Civil Conflict Management
The Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate seeks to promote and strengthen strategies of crisis prevention and civil conflict management, further peace research, inspire the political discourse and train those that are faced with potentials for conflict and violence in their professional or volunteer work. As a unique interface institution in Rhineland-Palatinate, it promotes the mutual exchange between academic research and civil society actors.
- Press Releases
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Nov 05, 2020
New Publication: A political ecology perspective on resource extraction and human security in Kenya, Bolivia and Peru
The papers shows through a comparative analysis of ‘glocal’ governance institutions in oil and gas extraction in Bolivia and Kenya as well as in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in Peru, that these institutions are rather ineffective in protecting the human security of local communities.
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Oct 14, 2020
Lively exchange at the stakeholder workshop "Conflicts over Democracy!?"
Last weekend, the Peace Academy RLP held a workshop on conflicts over democracy in the context of the so-called 'new Hambach Festival', an event with right-wing populist speakers that has been taking place at Hambach Castle for three years. Actors from civil society, local politics and castle administration came together to bring together their different perspectives on the conflicts and to develop possible next steps.
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Oct 05, 2020
Lecture: „Frieden und Sicherheit in Zeiten globaler Klima- und Umweltveränderungen“
In the context of the thematic focus "Climate Change" Jun. Prof. Schilling gave a lecture at the Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung (LpB) Rheinland-Pfalz on October 5th in Mainz.
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Dear visitors,
due to the current COVID-19 regulations no public face-to-face events will take place until further notice. Virtual and hybrid formats will be announced here, as usual. Stay healthy and get through this time well!
Your Team of the Peace Academy
- Upcoming Events
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Disputation von Julia Renner
On December 16th, Julia Renner, Associate of the Peace Academy, will defend her dissertation on "Water Conflicts in Kenya and Uganda". In her research she examines why water conflicts break out at water-rich lakes.
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Preview: Women-Peace-Environment
On April 22, 2021 we invite you to an interactive panel discussion with activists and scientists.
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Preview: Peace, Feminism and Colonialism
Talk by Melanie Hussak at the "Interdisciplinary International Conference on Women Empowerment –A key to sustainable development in Africa and Asia" at the Afro Asian Studies Promotion Association in cooperation with Philipps University Marburg.
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- friedensakademie-blog.eu
Northeast Nigeria: Conflict induced displacement is also motivated by environmental and socioeconomic factors
By Frederic Noel Kamta, Janpeter Schilling, and Jürgen Scheffran Northeast Nigeria faces many problems among which are the severe impacts of climate [...]
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