At the beginning of May, the research network African Non-military Conflict Intervention Practices (ANCIP) came together to kick off the second funding phase granted by the German Ministry for Research, Technology, and Space (BMFTR). The network is now coordinated by PRIF, which hosted the two-day workshop on May 7 and 8, 2026, organized by Antonia Witt and S. Elisabeth Warnck. Workshop discussions focused on intensifying cross-institutional ANCIP cooperation and on developing strategies to consolidate ANCIP's research agenda. The network planned new meeting formats, conceptualized concrete knowledge-transfer formats, and planned conference panels.
Over the next two years, the ANCIP network's research will build on findings from the past four years and take into account the profoundly changed global geopolitical moment. At the heart of the second phase is the extension and sustainability of the ANCIP database. It will be extended temporally and spatially, and by adding additional source material. The database project also seeks to further develop the visualizations of intervention data initiated in the first phase through an interactive dashboard. This is coordinated between PRIF and Leipzig University.
For the second phase, S. Elisabeth Warnck has joined PRIF as a postdoctoral researcher. Previously, she worked at Leipzig University on the ANCIP database. At PRIF, she will build on data and findings from the first phase. Specifically, the sub-project based at PRIF examines the intersections between military and non-military interventions and their respective practices.
Another sub-project coordinated by the project partners at the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) in Duisburg focuses on researching how African regional organizations adapt their non-military conflict intervention practices in light of shifting global power constellations and an increasingly contested geopolitical environment.