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The new India Competence Centre of JMU (ICCUW) will be officially opened today. Prof. Ummu Salma Bava, Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, visited the Chair of International Relations and European Studies at IPS, with which she has been cooperating for a long time.

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Am 9. und 10. Mai 2025 simulierten 74 Studierende der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg sowie 18 Schüler:innen von fünf Gymnasien aus Würzburg und Aschaffenburg Verhandlungen in den Organen der Vereinten Nationen (Sicherheitsrat, Generalversammlung und UNESCO).

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Die Bayerische Wissenschaftsallianz für Friedens-, Konflikt- und Sicherheitsforschung (FoKS) hat mit der Fellow Assembly am 13. und 14. Februar 2025 einen erfolgreichen Auftakt gefeiert. Die Veranstaltung versammelte 55 der aktuell 80 Fellows der Allianz, unter ihnen Prof. Sonja Grimm, Dr. Elena Dück und Dr. Philipp Gieg vom IPS. Ein besonderes Highlight war das Side Event der Wissenschaftsallianz bei der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz (MSC).

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Dr. Philipp Gieg, together with Soumita Basu (South Asian University, New Delhi) and Peace Medie (University of Bristol), has edited a special issue of the journal Women's Studies International Forum. Entitled "(Re)Writing Global Gender Norms: The Role of Southern Actors", the issue brings together six articles demonstrating how Global South actors have informed globally negotiated gender norms.

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Civil disobedience, sexualized violence, climate protests, the war in Ukraine – just some of the topics addressed by the students' posters, which were exhibited and presented at the Forum at Wittelsbacherplatz.

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