► Impact of geopolitical changes on conflict dynamics, peace, and security governance
► Nuclear arms control, non-proliferation, and disarmament 
► Regional approaches to the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction [broader: conflict interventions by regional actors]
► Non-military intervention practices and peace operations
► Norm implementation, norm contestation, and norm change 
► Paths of politico-religious mobilization

This research area examines how current upheavals in the international order are affecting peace, security, and practices of securing peace. It focuses on analyzing changes in conflict dynamics resulting from geopolitical change, the erosion of multilateral institutions and norms, tendencies toward autocratization and polarization, and their repercussions on peacekeeping instruments. Against this backdrop, the research area analyzes how these changes affect the effectiveness and legitimacy of instruments of securing peace, including arms control, non-proliferation, disarmament, peace missions, and non-military intervention practices. Using a multiscale approach, the research area explores the interactions between institutions, norms, and heterogeneous actors at different levels (local, national, regional, global), particularly in the Global South. State and civil society actors are considered alike in order to identify political opportunities for conflict prevention, regulation, and transformation.

Research Projects

► African Non-Miltary Conflict Internvention Practices (ANCIP)

► Peace Report

► Protest Groups in the Aftermath of Mass Protest Campaigns against the State

► Verification in a Complex and Unpredictable World: Social, Political and Technical Processes (VeSPoTec)

Recent Publications

► Hartmann, Christof 2026: From Liberal Peace to Stabilization? The Future of Multilateral Peace Operations, in: Ulbert, Cornelia / Kaplan, Marcus (eds.): Global Trends: Prospects for Development and Peace, Vol 1: Multilateral Cooperation for People and Planet, Opladen/Berlin/Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 59-80. https://doi.org/10.3224/84743197.

► Wunderlich, Carmen 2025: On the Concept of Norm Clusters, in: Gholiagha, Sassan /  Phil Orchard / Wiener, Antje (Hrsg.): The Oxford Handbook of Norms Research in International Relations. Oxford University Press, 2025, online edn, Oxford Academic, 18 Dec. 2025), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198915874.013.0011.

► Wunderlich, Carmen 2025: The Many Moving Pieces of Nuclear Order, The Loop, No. 31 in a series on the Nuclear Politics Paradox.

► Bandarra, Leonardo / Wunderlich, Carmen 2025: Faith and fear: a cognitive framework for why countries establish nuclear-weapon-free or nuclear-deterrence-based security orders, in: Nonproliferation Review, 31:4-6, 211–236. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10736700.2025.2569147

► Lenzen, Manfred / Debiel, Tobias 2025: Can Sanctions Backfire?, in: Defense and Peace Economics, 1-20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2025.2540303

► Bandarra, Leonardo 2025: "A verification cotton between three crystal glasses”: ABACC and Alternative Nuclear Verification Mechanisms in South America (1967-1992), in: Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 68:1, 1-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7329202500108

► Daase, Christopher / Debiel, Tobias / Deitelhoff, Nicole / Kahl, Martin / Rinck, Patricia / Schröder, Ursula / Vüllers Johannes 2025: Fokus. Vorsicht ansteckend! Die Zerstörung politischer Ordnung unter US-Präsident Trump, in: Frieden retten! Friedensgutachten 2025. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 26-41. 

► Dany, Charlotte / Debiel, Tobias (Koordination) / Grimminger, Anna / Schetter, Conrad / Schmitz, Jasmin / Thielbörger, Pierre / Vüllers, Johannes (Koordination) / Wisotzki, Simone 2025: Nachhaltiger Frieden. Völkerrechtliche Mindeststandards als Gebot von Friedenspolitik, in: Frieden retten! Friedensgutachten 2025. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 67-85.

► Saalfeld, Jannis 2025: Party Competition and Collective Jihadist Radicalization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Forschung DSF 65. Osnabrück: Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung.

▶ Saleh, Mona 2025: Why Maintaining EU-ECOWAS Partnership is Important in Uncertain Times (ANCIP Policy No. 2). Leipzig: ANCIP Project.

▶ Witt, Antonia / Hartmann, Christof / Engel, Ulf (2025) Studying African Non-Military Conflict Intervention Practices, African Non-Military Conflict Intervention Practices (ANCIP), ANCIP Working Papers No. 2. 

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