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Conflict and Cooperation in Eastern Europe

The research network “Cooperation and Conflict in Eastern Europe: The Consequences of the Reconfiguration of Political, Economic, and Social Spaces since the End of the Cold War” (KonKoop) comprises six academic institutions from across Germany and is associated with many partners worldwide. It examines various conflict constellations and dynamics of cooperation in Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus. Our aim is to understand and explain interactions and integrate the expertise available in Germany

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Pre-conference Workshop

CfA: EuroCarto 2024 – Multiperspective Cartography in Conflict Visualisation

The workshop explores approaches, potentials and limitations of visualising multiple perspectives in peace and conflict cartography.
Organisation: Mela Žuljević, Sofia Gavrilova, Jana Moser (IfL) Vincent Joshua Schober (U of Leipzig)

DataLab BLOG: Protest event data sets on Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

Whereas this type of research was rare in the 1980s and 1990s, in the last three to four years alone at least 14 data sets on protest events have been developed.

PANEL at PECSRL 2024: Borderscape Legacies: Tracing afterlives of conflict demarcation lines in the landscape

Panel at PECSRL (Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscapes) 2024 “BORDERSCAPES – PAST AND FUTURE”
9-15. September 2024 in Lublin and Zamość, Poland

Organised by Sabine von Löwis (ZOiS), Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda (HNEE) and Mela Žuljević (IfL)

PAPER at ASN: Nikola Gajić & Gwendolyn Sasse

Nikola Gajić (IOS) & Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS) will present papers at ASN 16-18 May in New York

Gwendolyn Sasse: Identity, War Trauma, and Political Attitudes on Thursday, 16 May at 10.00 (local time)

Nikola Gajić: “I Solemnly Declare that I...

PANEL at ASN: Post-Soviet Conflict Landscapes: Unpacking Security, Agency and Social Responses

Panel at ASN Convention in New York
16.05.2024 -10.00 (local time)
with: Jan C. Behrends, Alyona Bidenko, Lena Pieber, GĂ©za Tasner, Sofia Gavrilova

ZOiS-REPORT: New Arctic Realities: Between Conflicting Interests and Avenues for Cooperation – by N. Douglas et al.

with Serafima Andreeva, Klaus Dodds, Christoph Humrich, Thomas Nawrath
ZOiS-Report 1/2024
Published 14.03.2024

 

ARTICLE: Conceptualizing Patron-Client Relations in Secessionist Conflict. A Research Agenda – by R. Biermann

In: Territory, Politics, Governance, 2024.

Published online: 13 Mar 2024.

WORKSHOP: Researching living with/in difference creatively

Closed Workshop at ZOiS
19 – 20 March 2024
Convenors: Tsypylma Darieva & Piotr Goldstein (ZOiS)

WORKSHOP: The Risks of Decoupling: Post-Soviet Critical Infrastructure Legacies, New Challenges and the Societal Dimension

Closed online Workshop at ZOiS
29. February 2024
Organisation: Nadja Douglas (ZOiS)

WORKSHOP: From a Centralised Energy Supply to Decentralised Sustainability

Online Workshop
28 February 2024 – 12.30
Organisation: Beril Ocaklı (ZOiS), Martin Welp (HNEE), Sabine von Löwis (ZOiS), Kerstin Bischl (ZOiS)

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