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OVGU at PRIO roundtable discussing crisis and deglobalization in the humaitarian sector

26.05.2025 -

 

Two weeks ago, Professor Kristina Roepstorff along with other researchers and stakeholders gathered at PRIO for a collaborative discussion on what’s at stake when it comes to Humanitarian Aid.

This roundtable gathering has discussed humanitarian aid, development cooperation, migration governance and multilateralism which have long been declared to be ‘in crisis’, but are currently experiencing unprecedented systemic shocks. 

Find the blogpost about this gathering in the Link

 

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New Article: Breaking the Mould: Economic Utopias as Pathway to Peace

29.04.2025 -

 

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Our colleague Jonas Rusche has published his latest research article in 
Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2025.2485704 

 

In this paper, he develops an anarchist utopian epistemology and presents one exemplary historical anarchist economic utopia in response to the body of literature that criticizes neoliberal economic policies without offering alternative economic policies.

 

Abstract of the Paper

Extensive research shows how neoliberal economic policies, enforced through international peacebuilding interventions, exacerbate inequality and undermine their intended goal of fostering peace. Yet, the same body of literature makes no concerted effort to develop alternative economic policies. In response, this article develops an anarchist utopian epistemology and presents one exemplary historical anarchist economic utopia. Highlighting three key elements of this economic utopia, namely workers’ self-management, abandonment of private property, and council federalization, as possible alternatives to neoliberal peacebuilding. By employing utopia, scholarship can develop a repository of possibilities, pluralizing options for post-conflict communities to design policy outside hegemonic capitalist orders.

 
 

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New Article: Internal Displacement and the Framing of InsURGENCY: A Predicate Analysis of Media Reporting on Boko Haram in Nigeria

02.04.2025 -

 

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Prof. Dr. Alexander Spencer, along with our colleague Emeka Okoye and Adegboyega Adedolapo Ola have published their latest research article in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political Journal https://doi.org/10.1177/03043754251330395 

 

In this paper they explore the indirect connection between insurgency and internal displacement, specifically on the role of media reporting on insurgency.

 

Abstract of the Paper

 

Research on the connection between insurgency and internal displacement either considers a direct link between the two phenomena where one leads to the other or an indirect connection in which insurgency contributes to the creation of a certain environment which is then conducive to internal displacement. This research note is predominantly interested in the later and focuses specifically on the role of media reporting on insurgency. It calls for research on how the predicative framing of urgency in media reporting can contribute to a feeling of insecurity in the population which contributes to internal displacement. In a plausibility probe of the media reporting on Boko Haram in Nigeria, it will indicate that predicates of urgency potentially contribute to the increase of internal displacement in situations of insurgency. By employing a discourse analytical method of predicate analysis to Twitter/X posts by Nigerian newspapers between 2011 and 2019 and combining it with data on the levels of violence and internal displacement it will show that it is the levels of urgency in media reporting rather than the actual level of violence which correlate with levels of internal displacement.

 

 

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Commented Lecture Directory - Summer Term 2025

25.03.2025 -

In the link you will find the commented lecture directory for the summer term 2025

You can simply click on the name of the class and it will automatically lead you to the respective page in LSF. Nevertheless, please check LSF yourself as information might be updated. This document is just a guideline to give a a bit of an overview. 

If you find any discrepancies or have any questions please send an email to  

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