The PRIF Review 2024 has been published. The report offers insights into the institute’s activities over the past year in ten editorial articles: These include book publications, completed research projects, a new Research Group focused on natural science peace research, and an international youth summit. The articles are supplemented by a review of the year’s publications, media work, completed doctorates, and interesting facts and figures about the institute.
The geopolitical situation remained tense in 2024, which the Institute’s work also reflected. The article on last year’s Peace Report discusses the Russian war in Ukraine and the war in Gaza. A detailed report summarizes the first project phase of the cooperation project with the Federal Foreign Office, “Perspectives on Arms Control.” Another article presents the work of the new Research Group, “Science for Nuclear Diplomacy,” which is researching the technical foundations of nuclear arms control.
At the same time, last year PRIF also focused on topics that are often at risk of being forgotten by the media. For instance, the article “How Control Institutions Fail” highlights the dramatic increase in lethal police violence in Brazil and the Philippines. Ariadne Natal and Peter Kreuzer investigated this issue in their recently completed project, “Democracy beyond Legitimate Coercion: Deadly Use of Force by the Police in the Philippines and Brazil.” Another article focuses on a recently completed research project examining perceptions of interventions by the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Burkina Faso and The Gambia. In an interview, Antonia Witt and Sophia Birchinger discuss the research process and results.
Other articles focus on highly commended book publications by Daniel Mullis and Hendrik Simon; the Global House of Young Voices transfer project; the Leibniz Association’s “WorkNew” cooperation project; and PRIF’s Berlin office. The work of the institute over the past year is further illuminated by the introductory words by Nicole Deitelhoff and Christopher Daase, as well as a comprehensive data section. This section includes publication highlights, focal points of media and public relations work, global networking, and guest researchers, among other things.
The PRIF Review 2024 is published in two languages in print and online.