ZIB Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen

The relationship between peace research and security studies has changed. The conceptual distinction is blurred. Peace research can be divided into critical peace research and peace and conflict research, while security studies can be divided into...

The war on Ukraine and the bifurcated discourses (political and academic) around it across different geographies are just one of the myriad manifestations of hierarchies, postcolonial continuities and contestations guiding global politics. The...

Has peace become obsolete as a guiding concept in the discipline of International Relations (IR)? This is the guiding question of this introduction: While research into the causes of war and, above all, Strategic Studies continue to flourish in the...

Social media have both negative (escalating, conflict-stabilizing) and positive (transformative, de-escalating) effects with regard to peacebuilding, an argument that has been widely established in IR and Peace and Conflict Studies. However, the...

In peace and conflict research, processual understandings function as alternatives to too narrow and too broad concepts of peace. Instead of understanding peace as a substantial condition, for example defined by the absence of violence or the...

This contribution shows that peace is a critical concept in parallel to the concept of emancipation in critical theory. Such concepts work as regulative ideals and cannot offer solutions to practical problems. Alas, these principles of critical...