Volume 14 (2025), Edition 3

Diplomacy can be understood as conflict management between representatives of states. In this respect, conflict management continues the tradition of diplomacy as the art of negotiation, but with scientific methods. Strategic diplomacy, on the other...

Julia von Dobeneck sheds light on the methodological and factual differences between diplomacy and mediation in a conversation with the former German ambassador Rüdiger König. They discuss how to deal with self-interests of mediating states, the...

Since the 1990s, peace mediation has become highly professionalized and differentiated from traditional diplomacy. Influenced by the liberal peace paradigm, a norm-based approach dominated for a long time by primarily Western actors, and favored by...

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) according to Marshall Rosenberg is increasingly recognised as a resource for international conflict transformation. This focus article explores its potential not merely as a communication technique, but as an attitude...

In Eastern Germany, trust in the effectiveness of democracy and its institutions is declining. The question arises as to what extent feelings of being left behind undermine support for democracy. Many regions in Eastern Germany are affected by...

How can conflicts between younger and older people be resolved? And how can we establish new forms of dialogue between different generations? As a social lab, GenerationenCampus25 explores new forms of intergenerational work at the municipal level....

There are many risks of undesirable psychosocial processes and effects in conflict management and mediation and their interrelationships. By means of database research, we have determined the empirical state of research on the type and prevalence....