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Classification of the IFSH as an “Undesirable Organization” in Russia

Statement of the IFSH Executive Board, 4 November 2026

Symposium on Co-Creative Approaches in Peace and Conflict Research

Kaliningrad’s Future and Nuclear Signalling

IFSH Researcher Moderates Panel at the Warsaw Security Forum

25 Years of Peace and Security Studies: New Cohort Begins its Studies at IFSH

New participatory research project: REFUGEES CARE!

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International workshop on European security futures

What’s new in Security and Climate Research?

IFSH Researcher Becomes Young Academy Fellow at Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg

International Workshop on Militarised Masculinities and Human Rights Investigations

IFSH Researchers Attend EISA Pan-European Conference in Lisbon

IFSH researcher awarded European Research Council grant for democracy research project

Embracing the Diversity in Peacebuilding

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Guest researcher from Algeria is conducting research at IFSH

Launch of the Digital Exhibition "Climate No Future?"

Workshop: Missing Peace Initiative on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

Kick-off Meeting: DFG Research Network on Qualitative Studies of Public Opinion

Roundtable in Vienna on Strengthening the OSCE

New book series: Masculinities in Global Politics

Editor is IFSH researcher Dr Philipp Schulz.

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IFSH co-organised PEACE workshop on the European Security Architecture

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The 2026 Peace Report Warns of a World of Warlords

Innovative teaching on peace and security in times of AI

IFSH Hosts Visiting Fellow from Bolivia

Christiane Rajewsky Award goes to MPS student

Russia's Hybrid Warfare in Germany

Panel discussion at memorial Point Alpha

The Future of European Defence Policy

Student Group Visits the IFSH

"Europe must become more capable of action"

Hamburg Speech on the Future of Europe with Paolo Gentiloni

Apply now for the Master’s degree programme Peace and Security Studies

The New START arms control treaty is ending. Is a new nuclear arms race about to begin?

Interviews and other articles from our IFSH researchers about this topic

Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance tour the U.S. military's Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, Friday, March 28, 2025. (Jim Watson/Pool via AP)

From Venezuela to Greenland: The Consequences of US Hemispheric Policy

IFSH Brief Analysis by Tobias Fella, published 9 January 2026.

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Venezuela and the Folly of the US War on Drugs

IFSH Brief Analysis by Cornelius Friesendorf, published Januar 5, 2026.

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Dr Philipp Schulz is a Associate Researcher at IFSH. (c) IFSH

IFSH researcher Dr Tobias Fella (left), head of the research project "Deep Cuts", moderated a high-ranked panel at the Warsaw Security Forum. (c) private

The 25th cohort of the “Peace and Security Studies” master's programme began in early October at the IFSH. (c) IFSH

How do forcibly displaced people practise and experience care? (c) Celine Ly | Unsplash

For two days in Hamburg, the workshop participants discussed the future of European security. (c) IFSH

Dr Joanna Drake (fifth from the left) and Senator for Science Maryam Blumenthal (right next to her) visited the IFSH in Hamburg in mid-September to learn about the latest findings and trends in security and climate research. (c) IFSH

Dr. Sabine Mokry researches, among other things, the security connections between authoritarian states at IFSH. (c) IFSH

The workshop on militarised masculinities and human rights investigations brought together experts from academia and practice in Genevea in September. (c) IFSH

They presented their research at the international EISA conference in Lisbon (from left to right): Dr Benjamin Hofbauer, Franziska Stärk, Dr Delf Rothe, PD Dr Hendrik Hegemann, and Lukas Mengelkamp. (c) IFSH

Dr. Julia Leser (c) Marcus Held

The research project "Local Peace in Central Eurasia" led by Dr Anna Kreikemeyer has been successfully completed. (c) private

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Head of the Research Area Societal Peace and Internal Security, Dr Hanna Pfeifer and guest researcher Faouzia Zeraoulia. (c) IFSH

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The photo exhibition "Climate no Future?" grew out of the SECIMA research project. (c) IFSH

The international network of the Missing Peace Initiative gathered in Oxford in late June 2026 to discuss current research on conflict-related sexual violence. © Samuel Ritholtz, University of Oxford

19 early career researchers form the DFG network "Qualitative Studies of Public Opinion: Renewing a Classical Tradition to Understand the Current Crises of Democratic Politics". (c) MPI MMG

Researchers and diplomats discuss the future of OSCE field operations during the roundtable in Vienna on 19 June 2026. (c) IFSH

Dr. Philipp Schulz (c) IFSH

In May 2026, members of the “Europe, Peace and Security” working group of the European research network PEACE met at Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania. (c) Ainus Lašas

On 8 June, the directors of Germany’s leading peace and conflict research institutes presented the 2026 Peace Report at the Federal Press Conference in Berlin. From left to right: Prof. Dr Ursula Schröder (IFSH), Prof. Dr Nicole Deitelhoff (PRIF), Prof. Dr Conrad Schetter (bicc) and Prof. Dr Tobias Debiel (INEF). (c) PRIF

All the projects are clearly presented on the seminar’s website. (c) IFSH

In mid-March, the Bolivian academic Dr Leonardo D. Villafuerte-Philippsborn gave a lecture on epistemic justice at the IFSH in Hamburg. (c) IFSH

Award winner Christopher David (left) and IFSH researcher PD Dr Hendrik Hegemann are delighted to receive the award during a ceremony in Leipzig. (c) IFSH

The panelists and organisation team of the event from left to right: Philipp Metzler (Board member Point Alpha Stiftung), Lieutenant Colonel Thilo Geiger (IFSH), Michelle Rödel (Conference chairwoman of the Political Education Forum Thuringia, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung), Johannes Steger (Author "Deutschland im Ernstfall"). (c) Point Alpha Stiftung

The Konrad Adenauer Foundation university group exchanged views with IFSH experts on the challenges of European defense policy at the IFSH at the end of February. (c) IFSH

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The protagonists of the evening (from left to right): Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur (President Europa-Kolleg Hamburg, Scientific Director of the Hamburg-Vigoni Forum), Prof. Dr. Ursula Schröder (Director of the IFSH and Professor für Political Scienes at Universität Hamburg), Paolo Gentiloni (former Italian Prime Minister and European Commissioner for Economy), Liv Assmann (State Secretary and Plenipotentiary of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg to the Federation, to the European Union, and for Foreign Affairs), Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren (President of the Universität Hamburg), Luigi Mattiolo (President, German-Italian Center for European Dialogue Villa Vigoni) and Dr. Roberto Luppi (Employee of the Hamburg-Vigoni Forum) (c) UHH | Esfandiari

The Master's degree programme in Peace and Security Studies is run in cooperation with the Universität Hamburg. (c) UHH | von Wieding

Nuclear shelters were built during the height of the Cold War. (c) unsplash

Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance tour the U.S. military's Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, Friday, March 28, 2025. (Jim Watson/Pool via AP)

U.S. Vice President JD Vance during a visit to a U.S. militar base in Greenland in March 2025.
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US President Donald Trump watches Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's capture unfold in Washington, DC on January 3, 2026. (c) picture alliance / Anadolu | Donald Trump's Truth Social Account

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