NETWORKING IN BAVARIA
As a regional center for peace and conflict research, the network promotes interdisciplinary collaboration in Bavaria (and beyond). For this, we organize networking events, provide communication channels, and support early-career researchers.
Networking
To foster networking in Bavaria, we regularly organize workshops within peace and conflict research – for example, on postcolonial perspectives, knowledge transfer, or resilience in times of rearmament. The participants also comprise politicians, representatives of civil society, journalists, and other key stakeholders.
Furthermore, members of our network are involved in the Bavarian Science Alliance for Peace, Conflict, and Security Research (FoKS). FoKS provides – also with our participation – a framework for research collaboration, policy advice, and public outreach.
In Bayreuth, our network supports the newly established C³ – Conflict, Crisis, and Change Research Center. It connects researchers at the University of Bayreuth, organizes the Bayreuth Peace Talks, and promotes both teaching and early-career researchers in the field of peace, conflict, and security research. The C3 evolved from the UBT Peace and Conflict Research Network, which was initiated by the Bayreuth team of Conflicts.Meanings.Transitions in October 2022.
Furthermore, our network hosts a regional mailing list (“Peaceandconflict-Bayern”) that allows colleagues from Bavaria and beyond to share news, event annoucements, and ideas for collaboration. You can subscribe by sending a brief message to info@conflicts-meanings-transitions.de.
Teaching & promotion of young scholars
The network furthers the exchange and cooperation for developing practice-oriented teaching concepts in Peace and Conflict Research. For this, the cooperation of lecturers within the network is enhanced, amongst others for the cooperative development of teaching formats and sequences for university courses as well as for educational work outside campus.
To anchor Peace and Conflict Research more broadly in Bavaria, the network promotes young scholars. Most importantly, we offer young scholar workshops to facilitate networking and interdisciplinary exchange of doctoral students and senior lecturers in the field of Peace and Conflict Research in Bavaria.
