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In preparation of the UN Climate Change Conference, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November of 2024, subsidiary bodies will meet 3-13 June at the Bonn Climate Change Conference to discuss which urgent issues shall be decided in Baku. Compared to the early years of the UN Climate Change Conferences that were established in the 1990s, it is no longer contested to see gender among the focal points. Gender has become an established topic to be addressed, and the necessity is recognized of implementing climate policies in gender-responsive ways. Nevertheless, related political practice still leave a lot to be desired.
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Sabine Mannitz



Dr. Sabine Mannitz leitet den Programmbereich "Glokale Verflechtungen", ist Vorstandsmitglied am PRIF und PI im Forschungszentrum "Transformationen politischer Gewalt" (TraCe). Sie forscht u. a. über Prozesse des Wandels politischer Kultur, soziale Identität und Erinnerungskultur/-politik. // Dr Sabine Mannitz is head of the research department "Glocal Junctions", a member of PRIF's executive board and PI in the Research Center "Transformations of Political Violence" (TraCe). Her research fields include processes of change in political culture, social identity and practices of remembrance/remembrance politics.

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Der Beitrag The 2024 Bonn Climate Change Conference: An opportunity to push gender responsive action erschien zuerst auf PRIF BLOG.

Across North America, May 5 is a day to commemorate the thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, two-spirit, and gender diverse people. Beyond giving space for remembrance and mourning, May 5 is connected to the aims of building knowledge, raising public awareness, stimulating solidarity and underlining the need for action to end the disproportionate deadly violence. While politics and the judicial system are reminded on this day to deliver rights and justice, another important factor for change should also gain attention: the collective imagery of the Indigenous needs to be decolonized to transform the systemic structures of violence.
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Sabine Mannitz



Dr. Sabine Mannitz leitet den Programmbereich "Glokale Verflechtungen", ist Vorstandsmitglied am PRIF und PI im Forschungszentrum "Transformationen politischer Gewalt" (TraCe). Sie forscht u. a. über Prozesse des Wandels politischer Kultur, soziale Identität und Erinnerungskultur/-politik. // Dr Sabine Mannitz is head of the research department "Glocal Junctions", a member of PRIF's executive board and PI in the Research Center "Transformations of Political Violence" (TraCe). Her research fields include processes of change in political culture, social identity and practices of remembrance/remembrance politics.

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Der Beitrag Time for True Stories: Stereotypes Absolve Gendered Violence against Indigenous in Canada erschien zuerst auf PRIF BLOG.

Since the end of the Cold War almost all European countries have reformed their armed forces, focusing on downsizing, internationalization and professionalization. This paper examines how these changes in security sector governance have affected the normative model underlying the military's relationship to democracy, using the image of the "democratic soldier" . Drawing on a comparative analysis of 12 post-socialist, traditional and consolidated democracies in Europe, the different dimensions of the national conception of soldiering are analysed based on the official norms that define a country's military and the ways in which individual members of the armed forces see their role. Cases converge around the new idea of professional soldiering as a merging of civilian skills with military virtues in the context of the military's new post-Cold War missions. Yet despite this convergence, research also shows that specific aspects of national traditions and context continue to influence the actual practice of soldiering in each case. The contradictions that result between these old and new visions of the role of the military and the soldier illustrate the tensions that exist between political goals and defence reform dynamics. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use.

Since the end of the Cold War almost all European countries have reformed their armed forces, focusing on downsizing, internationalization and professionalization. This paper examines how these changes in security sector governance have affected the normative model underlying the militaryâ s relationship to democracy, using the image of the â democratic soldierâ . Drawing on a comparative analysis of 12 post-socialist, traditional and consolidated democracies in Europe, the different dimensions of the national conception of soldiering are analysed based on the official norms that define a countryâ s military and the ways in which individual members of the armed forces see their role. Cases converge around the new idea of professional soldiering as a merging of civilian skills with military virtues in the context of the militaryâ s new post-Cold War missions. Yet despite this convergence, research also shows that specific aspects of national traditions and context continue to influence the actual practice of soldiering in each case. The contradictions that result between these old and new visions of the role of the military and the soldier illustrate the tensions that exist between political goals and defence reform dynamics.

This book examines the ways in which European democracies, including former communist states, are dealing with the new demands placed on their security policies since the cold war by transforming their military structures, and the effects this is having on the conceptualisation of soldiering. In the new security environment, democratic states have called upon their armed forces increasingly to fulfil unconventional tasks – partly civilian, partly humanitarian, and partly military – in most complex, multi-national missions. Not only have military structures been transformed to make them fit for these new types of deployments, but the new mission types highlight the necessity for democracies to come to terms with a new image and ethos of soldiering in defence of a transnational value community. Combining a qualitative comparison of twelve countries with an interdisciplinary methodology, this edited volume argues that the ongoing transformations of international politics make it necessary for democracies to address both internal and external factors as they shape their own civil-military relations. The issues discussed in this work are informed by Democratic Peace theory, which makes it possible to investigate relations within the state at the same time as analysing the international dimension. This approach gives the book a systematic theoretical framework which distinguishes it from the majority of existing literature on this subject. This book will be of much interest to students of civil-military relations, European politics, democratisation and post-communist transitions, and IR in general.

"This book examines the ways in which European democracies, including former communist states, are dealing with the new demands placed on their security policies since the cold war by transforming their military structures, and the effects this is having on the conceptualisation of soldiering"--Provided by publisher.

Selbst- und Lebensentwürfe von Heranwachsenden aus Migrantenkreisen werden bislang kaum im Licht der allgemeinen Spannung von spätmoderner Vergesellschaftung und Individualisierung diskutiert. Eher werden sie speziellen Kollektiven oder Problemen zugeordnet, die mit nationalen Herkunftsgruppen in Verbindung gebracht oder auf so genannte Kulturkonflikte zurückgeführt werden. Das Buch bricht mit dieser Perspektive und zeichnet in sechs Fallstudien individuelle Sozialisationsverläufe nach, die zwar der herrschenden Klassifikationsordnung unterliegen, diese in der sozialen Praxis aber zugleich für den biographischen Selbstentwurf transformieren. In diesen Prozessen lassen sich neuartige Formen der Integration komplexer Gesellschaften erkennen