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Wissenschaftspreis 2025 der Margaretha Lupac-Stiftung

Wir gratulieren Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pirker zum heurigen Wissenschaftspreis der Margaretha Lupac-Stiftung!

The REWI Research Awards 2024

The habilitated members of our faculty have voted and decided whose scientific achievements at REWI University Graz stood out in particular in the past calendar year. This time, we are honoured to present awards to four winners:

LAWCONRESC 2025: Europeanization and Peace-Building in Focus at YSU

LAWCONRESC 2025, co-hosted by Yerevan State University and the University of Graz, brought together scholars and experts from July 7–11 at YSU’s campus in Yerevan.

Interview: Herr Mühlbauer und die Disteln

Josef Mühlbauer ist Friedensforscher und Friedensjournalist und seit Kurzem als Universitätsassistent im Fachbereich Global Governance am Institut für Rechtswissenschaftliche Grundlagen tätig. Wir haben unseren neuen Kollegen, der sich als Brückenbauer zwischen akademischer Forschung und der breiten Öffentlichkeit versteht, zum Interview getroffen und unter anderem erfahren, was Friedensforschende mit Disteln gemeinsam haben (sollten).

Quo Vadis, Belarus?

Global Governance lecture by Marylia Hushcha (International Institute for Peace) Moderation and Discussion by Ksenia Radchenkova (Graz University)

Governance of a Party-state: Modus Operandi of the Chinese Communist Party

Book Presentation held by Dr. Ling Li (University of Vienna) at the University of Graz Discussion by Prof. Joseph Marko (Graz University) Moderation by Dr. Ksenia Radchenkova (Graz University)

REWI-Fakultätstag 2025

Pax Europeana. Wie regeln wir den Frieden?

Spring Conference of the Austrian Commission of Jurists

As part of the spring conference of the Austrian Commission of Jurists in May 2025, Jürgen Pirker moderated a panel on the challenges posed to democracy by populists and on strategies for safeguarding democracy in the future.

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The conference to mark 70 years of Article 7 of the State Treaty of Vienna

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pirker was invited to the conference as a speaker by the Carinthian Slovenian Lawyers' Association and the Austrian Ethnic Groups…

Friedensarbeit in Zeiten der Klimakrise

Tagungsbericht über eine interdisziplinäre Konferenz des Netzwerks für Friedensforschung und Konfliktbearbeitung in Österreich (NEFKÖ), des…

„Ohne die Aussicht auf einen Palästinenserstaat wird es kaum noch Zugeständnisse geben“

Maximilian Lakitsch: Interview mit Kleine Zeitung

Der CPDC trauert um Peter Kostelka

The Conflict Peace Democracy Cluster is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Peter Kostelka on 17 April 2025. As President of the Austrian…

Hello, Fellow: Filippo Costa Buranelli

Filippo Costa Buranelli joins us as Land Steiermark Senior Fellow - welcome!

Armenia: European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

Visit of the Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages to Armenia

Jürgen Pirker at the Roundtable on European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

Implementation Roundtable on the Fourth Evaluation Report on the Application of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages took place in…

Sovereignty Discourse Instrumentalization: Cases of Russia and China

Ksenia Radchenkova presenting her paper based on Doctoral Dissertation.