Latest Scientific Findings: GIGA Researchers Present their Work in Barcelona

On 22 and 23 February, scholars will meet at the Barcelona Institute for International Studies (IBEI) for a joint workshop, where they will present and discuss their research on the topics of security, conflict, and peace processes.

A total of nine panels will offer insight into exciting and pertinent topics, including:

Peace and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
Conflict and Post-Conflict Dynamics
Regime Stability in the Middle East and North Africa
Sanctions Regimes
The European Union in the World
International Security and External Interventions
The European Union’s Southern Neighbourhood
States and Violence
Human Rights and Peacebuilding

The event serves as a platform for researchers to benefit from international exchange, networking, and discussion. All workshop contributions by GIGA scientists can be found here:

GIGA Contributions to the IBEI-GIGA Workshop

Workshop | 22/02/2024 - 23/02/2024

Resource Mobilization and Regime Survival in Saddam Hussein's Iraq

IBEI-GIGA Workshop Security, Conflict and Peace, IBEI, Barcelona Prof. Dr. Eckart Woertz (Speaker)

Prof. Dr. Eckart Woertz

Director of the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies / Editor GIGA Focus Middle East

Workshop | 22/02/2024 - 23/02/2024

Blaming Nature: Regime Survival and Natural Disaster. Insights from Syria

IBEI-GIGA Workshop Security, Conflict and Peace, IBEI, Barcelona Dr. Christiane Fröhlich (Speaker)

Dr. Christiane Fröhlich

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Research Programme "Peace and Security"

Workshop | 22/02/2024 - 23/02/2024

MENA through Russian Eyes: Reshaping Security Architecture

IBEI-GIGA Workshop Security, Conflict and Peace, IBEI, Barcelona Olena Osypenkova (Speaker)

Olena Osypenkova

Doctoral Researcher

Workshop | 22/02/2024 - 23/02/2024

Audience-Sensitivity in the Legitimation of Repression

IBEI-GIGA Workshop Security, Conflict and Peace, IBEI, Barcelona Désirée Marlen Reder (Speaker)

Désirée Marlen Reder

Doctoral Researcher

Workshop | 22/02/2024 - 23/02/2024

Building Interreligious Peace: Determinants of Preferences for Interreligious Contact

IBEI-GIGA Workshop Security, Conflict and Peace, IBEI, Barcelona Dr. Julia Köbrich (Speaker)

Presentation of collaborative work with Tobias Stark, Borja Martinović, and Seyram Adiakpo engaging with the question what shapes individual preferences for intergroup contact focusing on changeable factors that can be targeted by interventions.

Dr. Julia Köbrich

Research Fellow / Spokesperson Working Group Processes of Peace and Conflict

Workshop | 22/02/2024 - 23/02/2024

IBEI-GIGA Workshop Security, Conflict and Peace

IBEI-GIGA Workshop Security, Conflict and Peace, IBEI, Barcelona Prof. Dr. Christian von Soest (Panelist)

Prof. Dr. Christian von Soest

Lead Research Fellow / Head of Policy Exchange and Berlin Office

Workshop | 22/02/2024 - 23/02/2024

Targeting - How the US and EU Use Individual Sanctions

IBEI-GIGA Workshop Security, Conflict and Peace, IBEI, Barcelona Prof. Dr. Christian von Soest (Speaker), Cecilia Natalie Strom (Speaker)

This paper analyzes the question: What conditions make it likely that particular individuals and/or entities are being listed by the US and the EU? We introduce a novel dataset on listings by the EU and US from 2021 to 2023 that are aggregated at the monthly level.