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On October 1st and 2nd 2021, the workshop "Critical Life Sciences – Responsibilities, Reflections, and the Political under Conditions of 'Post-Truth'" took place at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). The joint event was hosted by Laura Schnieder, Tino Plümecke, Veronika Lipphardt, and Anelis Kaiser Trujillo (all University of...

International conference to be held at the Center of Methods in Social Sciences (Qualitative Methods) on 9-10th February 2018, Göttingen This interdisciplinary and international conference offers an opportunity for discussion and exchange between scholars engaged in research on violence and those engaged in biographical research, from their different academic perspectives....

Griff nach den Daten (Symbolbild) – Hand: Pixabay; Laptop: DataBase Center for Life Science (CC BY 4.0 Deed); Montage: netzpolitik.orgBei der Hausdurchsuchung gegen den Journalisten Fabian Kienert hat die Polizei seinen Laptop, Handys und USB-Sticks mitgenommen und gespiegelt. Kienert wurde inzwischen freigesprochen. Was passiert jetzt mit den kopierten Daten?

Was wird aus den gespiegelten Laptopdaten? (Symbolbild) – CC-BY 4.0 Laptop: DataBase Center for Life Science (CC BY 4.0 Deed); Montage: netzpolitik.orgBei einer Razzia gegen einen Journalisten des Freiburger Senders Radio Dreyeckland hat die Polizei auch einen dienstlichen Laptop mitgenommen. Die Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte will nun per Eilantrag verhindern, dass Beamt*innen "zehntausende vertrauliche Mails der Redaktion" auswerten.

My name is dr. Dániel András Karsai. I am a human rights attorney. I am also terminally ill. In August 2022, I was diagnosed with ALS. ALS is a so-called motor neurone disease. ALS leads to an extremely humiliating life situation, increasingly depriving you of independence. For reasons unknown to medical science, this disease causes nerve cells that move the muscles to deteriorate, leading to muscle atrophy and ultimately complete paralysis. At the end of the disease, respiratory functions also cease, resulting in death by asphyxiation. The final stage of the disease is virtually a vegetative existence, without any possibility of conscious activity or communication. For me, this form of existence is devoid of all meaning and dignity. In this situation, I firmly believe in the arguable claim to demand the right to end my life with dignity instead of enduring meaningless suffering.

German debates about the Israel-Gaza war often get caught up in polarising terminology. This applies in particular to the dispute whether a genocide is occurring. Apart from the legal assessment currently being made by the International Court of Justice, a parallel, polemical discussion about the concept of genocide distracts from actual priorities for action. The war has already cost tens of thousands of lives, and many more Palestinians will die as a direct and indirect consequence of the war. The mass violence against civilians and the destruction of conditions of life in Gaza must end immediately – regardless of whether the legal conditions for genocide are met.
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Hanna Pfeifer



Prof. Dr. Hanna Pfeifer ist Professorin für Politikwissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Radikalisierungs- und Gewaltforschung in Kooperation mit der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt und Leiterin der Forschungsgruppe "Terrorismus" am PRIF. Sie forscht u.a. zu staatlichen und nicht-staatlichen Gewaltformen und –akteuren in der MENA-Region. // Prof. Dr Hanna Pfeifer is Professor of Political Science with a Focus on Radicalisation and Violence Research at PRIF and Goethe University Frankfurt, as well as head of PRIF's research group "Terrorism". Her research interests include, inter alia, state and non-state violence and actors in the MENA region. | Twitter: @hanna_pfeifer

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Der Beitrag Israel–Gaza Beyond the Concept of Genocide: End Mass Violence Against Civilians Now erschien zuerst auf PRIF BLOG.