Volume 38 (2020), Edition 4

The extensive research on climate change and violence over the last 15 years has resulted in many important but also contested results. The diversity of results is in part due to epistemological and methodological questions. Thus, the conditions...

Armed conflicts resulting from a broken social contract are protracted, intricate, and often systemic. When they finally end, negotiations alone do not eliminate the underlying causes of violence. In the past, many negotiated solutions failed...

Discussions about migration and security are often characterized by emotions and symbolic images, for example of capsizing, overcrowded boats with desperate people or of seemingly unmanageable queues of migrants in front of border crossings. State...

The author gives an overview of the development of the journal S+F. In 38 volumes more than 1,300 articles have discussed a wide range of topics, from the peace movement, peace education, peace logics, peacebuilding, pacifism, human rights as well...

Whether or not, and how, ‘security’ and ‘peace’ go together has always been an issue of discussion among peace researchers. The focus on peace instead of on (military) security was constitutive for early German ‘critical peace research’....