The numerous armed conflicts around the world repeatedly raise the question of whether and how military intervention reduces or exacerbates violence. Such missions have sparked considerable political and academic controversy. Funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research, PRIF hosted a workshop on humanitarian military interventions and peacekeeping in ongoing armed conflicts. The call for the workshop generated so much interest that the organizing team could not even accept every seventh proposal. Over two days in September 2025, the participants discussed papers by:
- Alexandra Cook, University of Amsterdam, & Jakob Landwehr-Matlé, TU Chemnitz
- Linnéa Gelot, Swedish Defence University & Prabin B. Khadka, University of Essex
- Thorsten Gromes, PRIF
- Nikandros Ioannidis, Cyprus University of Technology & Iosif Kovras, University of Cyprus
- Lucas Kori Leonhard, PRIF
- Christian Oswald, Center for Crisis Early Warning (CCEW), Universität der Bundeswehr München, Christoph Dworschak, DEval – German Institute for Development Evaluation, Jenniina Kotajoki, Uppsala University & Marcella H. Morris
- Melanie Sauter, Universität Mannheim
The workshop was organized by Thorsten Gromes, Lucas Kori Leonhard, and Sarah Pauly as part of the project Effects and Modes of Effect of Humanitarian Military Interventions, also funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research. Based on the Dataset on Humanitarian Military Interventions Sincer 1945, the project examines whether and under what conditions these operations escalate or de-escalate violent conflicts.