Konfliktdynamik

Many German cities are confronted with a structural conflict: they are growing and need more housing and built infrastructure, but they also need to tackle climate change by unsealing areas and providing space for more blue-green infrastructure. The...

Municipal urban planning has to deal with »wicked« problems and must deal with diffuse problem definitions, competing interests and conflicting objectives. Based on an empirical case study in the Ruhr area, Germany, the article shows how the...

Academics and practitioners trained in disciplines across the natural sciences and liberal arts have applied Occam’s razor as a model for design and explanation. Considering the value of simplicity and parsimony in the multidisciplinary fields of...

Ethnic and religious conflicts are characterized by sudden waves of escalation. Existing approaches heavily focus on invariant structural factors and highlight the pivotal role of elite-driven mobilization. Existing works inadequately capture the...

Sustainable and political consumption in the fashion sector are gaining relevance and are seen as alternatives to mass consumption with its negative impact on the environment and human rights. Both forms have emerged against the backdrop of an...

The Victim-Offender Reconciliation (VOR), commonly applied to minor offenses in Germany, is rarely used in homicide cases. A reason for this is the restrictive interpretation of § 46a StGB by the Federal Court of Justice, which excludes sentence...

The following article introduces restorative justice in criminal matters. Following a theoretical approach and taking into account (inter)national developments, selected RJ are described, which have hardly been applied at all in Germany – in...

The idea of restorative justice is only being implemented to a limited extent in Germany. In this country, it is essentially about bilateral conflict mediation in criminal law conflicts to agree on compensation/redress and to reach a so-called...

Restorative justice projects in the form of discussion groups on the encounter between those affected by the crime and the inmates (not the same crime) have so far only rarely been carried out in German prisons, although the legal basis for this can...