Eritrea-Archiv im Aufbau
Dank Nachlässen und zugänglich gemachten Forschungsmaterialien nimmt das Eritrea- und Dritte-Welt-Archiv des Felsberger Institutes Form an. Unter den Beiträgern sind u.a. Friederike Kemink, Wolbert Smidt and Günter Schröder. Das wachsende Archiv wird nach und nach digitalisiert und soll sowohl dem vertiefenden Studium historischer und zeitgenössischer Fragen dienen als auch den interdisziplinären regionalwissenschaftlichen Diskurs fördern.
Associate Prof McKanders, University of Tennessee, College of Law, co-authored a respective article on “Refugee Reception and Perception: U.S. Detention Camps and German Welcome Centers” in the Fordham International Law Journal, 40(2), No. 4, 2017 (https://ssrn.com/abstract=2942965). Together with her teaching fellow, Valeria Gomez, she compares the detention of refugees in the United States with her experience visiting refugee reception centers in Germany. Her co-author worked as a volunteer lawyer at a detention facility in the US around the same time of McKander’s visit at Felsberg Institute. While a lot has changed since her visit in December 2015, the stark comparison between the two systems of receiving refugees and asylum seekers is still relevant.
International Consortium for Research on Violence (ICRoV) Conference on: Rebuilding War Societies Continuities and
New Beginnings International Conference in Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region of Iraq
October 17-21, 2016
organised by the Felsberg Institute (FI) in cooperation with the University of Sulaimani and the Center for Iraq Studies (CIS) at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Vom 17.-21. Oktober 2016 fand die ICRoV-Jahreskonferenz in Sulaimani im Nordirak statt. Bereits seit 2010 organisiert das Felsberg Institut gemeinsam mit internationalen und lokalen Partner einmal pro Jahr eine Workshop-Konferenz im Iraq. Erstmals im Jahre 2012 lag der Schwerpunkt auf dem Thema Gewaltforschung, seitdem wurde dieser Schwerpunkt beibehalten. Seit der Gründung des International Consortium for Research on Violence in 2013 werden diese Veranstaltungen gemeinsam mit dem Center for Iraq Studies (CIS) an der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg organisiert.
The international conference “Rebuilding War Societies: Continuities and New Beginnings” will be held at the university of Sulaimania, Iraq from October 17-21, 2016. The conference is an opportunity for academics, practitioners, and students to exchange ideas and explore emerging issues in the field of violence research.
Coping with situations of violent conflict resolution has become part of the every-day life reality of an increasing number of societies in the 21st century. The boundaries between war situations and non-peace constellations have become fluent and in many cases, the rebuilding of societies has to take place in the course of an ongoing violent conflict, and in an increasing number of cases, violent conflict resolution does not result in a change of system, but rather in a redistribution of power and access to resources. The reconfiguration of the military as well as the economic sector coincides with a pragmatic realization of a change of the political system. The conference aims to create a better understanding of the complex challenges of rebuilding war societies in post-conflict and ongoing conflict situations. It aims to look critically at the core concepts underpinning aims and strategies for rebuilding, reconstruction and reconfiguration.
