Trust Dynamics in the Context of Mass Protests

As part of the joint research initiative “ConTrust: Trust in Conflict. Political Coexistence under Conditions of Uncertainty” by Goethe University and PRIF, the project has been working on trust dynamics in the context of contentious politics, i.e. the interaction between protest movements and the state, since 2022. Firstly, the project brings together international research on the role of trust in and for social movements and develops a research agenda. The results appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology entitled “Trust and Social Movements”, which also contains case studies from different world regions and political contexts.   
Building on this, further case studies dealt with trust dynamics in revolutions in West Asia and North Africa, in post-revolutionary transformation processes using the example of Tunisia, and in conflicts over the introduction of indigenous justice in existing legal systems in the Andean region.