Every year, armed conflict (or war) shatters the lives of millions of people. Peace and non-violent approaches to resolving political conflict are critical to achieving development. Without peace, all the other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), from empowering women to tackling climate change and water, energy and food scarcity, will be impossible to achieve.
We are dedicated to understanding the processes that lead to different political phenomena, such as non-violent protests, riots, civil disobedience, and armed conflict. We shed light on the dynamics of political protest, online and offline, as well as conflict escalation, and conflict resolution. We focus on the drivers of post-conflict stability and the impact of wartime victimisation on the political trajectories of post-conflict states. Furthermore, our research places an emphasis on national and international institutions and corporations, seeking to understand their role in shaping the dynamics of contentious politics
Full Professor of Comparative Politics
Doctoral researcher
Postdoctoral researcher
Christoph Steinert, Ph. D.:
(2024) Christoph Steinert (Postdoc at the Department of Political Science, HSG) und Christoph Dworschak (University of York) were awarded the 2024 NEPS Medal for their paper “Political Imprisonment and Protest Mobilization: Evidence from the GDR” by the Network of European Peace Scientists.
(2023) Unequal Access to UN Human Rights Bodies
Center for Security Studies | ETH Zürich
Spring 2022: Öffentliche Vorlesungen im Frühjahrssemester 2022 by Universität St.Gallen - Issuu
#FREEMYINTERNET — A GRAPHIC JOURNEY FROM INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE TO SHUTDOWNS |
SNF Agora (rolling grant), 01.12.2020–31.03.2021 |
Team: Tina Freyburg, Lisa Garbe & Véronique Wavre, with illustrator Pia Valär |
The project aims to create gif-animated graphic short stories accessible via the Internet that are told from the perspective of a researcher and are intended to help readers better understand the architecture of the Internet and its effects on their daily Internet use. To order the free printed brochure FreeMyInternet (only in German) send us an email to ipw@unisg.ch. |