Facts and Figures
This Was 2025
PRIF in the Media
401interviews, op-eds and articles by and with PRIF researchers
54different researchers were represented in the media
118different media outlets and channels, 83 of them in Germany and 35 internationally
Top Issues in the Media
Publications
Teaching
34university courses
Dissertations
Diane Schumann Successfully Completes Her PhD
On February 19, 2025, Diane Schumann, a former doctoral candidate in the Research Department International Institutions, successfully defended her dissertation titled “Between Independence and Interference: The G20 Engagement Groups as Arenas of Legitimation Discourse.”
Dissertation Award for Linda Schlegel
On December 5, 2025, Linda Schlegel was awarded the Hessian Doctoral Prize for Democracy Research—presented for the first time by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art, and Culture (HMWK)—for her dissertation “Storytelling Against Extremism.”
Publications: Highlights 2025
Rule and Resistance in the Nuclear Order
Sascha Hach’s monograph examines the subversive tactics of resistance that led to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, thereby challenging the existing nuclear order.
Hach, Sascha: Rule & Resistance in the Nuclear Order. The Subversive Struggle for a Nuclear Weapons Ban, transcript, 2025.
Israeli–Turkish Relations at the End of the Cold War
Eldad Ben Aharon’s monograph analyzes the covert cooperation between Israel and Turkey in the 1980s.
Ben Aharon, Eldad: Israeli–Turkish Relations at the End of the Cold War: The Geopolitics of Denying the Armenian Genocide, Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Non-Military Conflict Intervention Practices in Africa
This anthology from the ANCIP network offers a timely and comprehensive examination of how conflicts in Africa are resolved through means other than military action..
Witt, Antonia/Hartmann, Christof/Engel, Ulf (Eds.): African Non-Military Conflict Intervention Practices, Routledge, 2025.
New Realities of AI in Global Security
The CNTR Monitor 2025 focuses on the impact of artificial intelligence on global security and examines both the opportunities and risks.
Göttsche, Malte/Reis, Kadri/Daase, Christopher (Eds.): New Realities of AI in Global Security. CNTR Monitor – Technology and Arms Control, 2025.
Storytelling Against Extremism
The book, which is based on Linda Schlegel’s dissertation, applies research on storytelling and narrative persuasion to the prevention of extremism.
Schlegel, Linda: Storytelling Against Extremism. Advancing Theory and Practice of Digital Narrative Campaigns against Extremism, Springer VS, 2025.
Further Publication Highlights
| Authors | Title | Publication | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albarracín, Juan/Moura Karolczak, Rodrigo/Wolff, Jonas | Violence Against Civil Society Actors in Democracies: Territorialization of Criminal Economies and the Assassination of Social Activists in Brazil | Journal of Peace Research 62(5), 2025, 1411–1427 | 10.1177/00223433251347784 |
| Birchinger, Sophia/Jaw, Sait Matty/Witt, Antonia | Neighbours as Peacekeepers: Senegal and the Ambivalence of Proximity in African Regional Interventions | Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2025, 1–24 | 10.1080/17502977.2025.2533720 |
| Brackmann, Maximilian/Jakob, Una et al. | Assessing Readiness of International Investigations into Alleged Biological Weapons Use | Emerging Infectious Diseases 31(7), 2025, 1294–1299 | 10.3201/eid3107.240841 |
| Driedger, Jonas J./Krotz, Ulrich/Di Mauro, Danilo | War as External Cause. Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, the Theorising of European Integration and EU Politics, and the EU’s Arduous Formation in Foreign and Security Policy | Journal of European Public Policy, 2025 | 10.1080/13501763.2025.2566346 |
| Flamm, Patrick/Shibata, Akiho | ‘Ice Sheet Conservation’ and International Discord: Governing (Potential) Glacial Geoengineering in Antarctica | International Affairs 101(1), 2025, 309–320 | 10.1093/ia/iiae281 |
| Franken, Jonas/Reinhold, Thomas/Dörnfeld, Timon/Reuter, Christian | Hidden Structures of a Global Infrastructure: Expansion Factors of the Subsea Data Cable Network | Technological Forecasting and Social Change 215, 2025 | 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124068 |
| Junk, Julian (Ed.) | Strengthening Extremism Prevention, Democracy Promotion and Civic Education through Evaluation. Results and Recommendations from the PrEval Network | PrEval Monitor, 2nd Edition 2025, Frankfurt/M. | 10.48809/PrEvalMon25e |
| Kurzwelly, Jonatan | Reified Identities and Politics of ‘Authenticity’: A Critical Commentary on Verbuyst’s Metaphysics and Politics | Anthropological Theory, 25(4), 2025, 413–420 | 10.1177/14634996251368086 |
| López Álvarez, Santiago/Barrios Sabogal, Laura/Wolff, Jonas | Sharing Community Life After a Civil War: Intergroup Contact and Social Distance | Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2025 | 10.1177/07388942251382732 |
| Mannitz, Sabine/Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (Eds.) | Displaying and Processing Political Violence in Museum Spaces | Cultural Dynamics 37 (1.2), Special Issue, SAGE Publications, 2025 | 10.1177/09213740251323352 |
| Michelini, Sidney | Drought Impacts on Armed Conflict Primarily Explained by Pre-existing Conflict Risk | Environmental Research Letters 20(11), 2025, 114088 | 10.1088/1748-9326/ae16c0 |
| Peez, Anton/Bethke, Felix S. | Does Public Opinion on Foreign Policy Affect Elite Preferences? Evidence from the 2022 US Sanctions against Russia | International Studies Quarterly 69(1), 2025, 1-11 | 10.1093/isq/sqae145 |
| Polianskii, Mikhail/Dembinski, Matthias/Schrenk Willi | Nuclear Weapons in Crisis Situations: Present Challenges and Lessons from the Past | Journal of Applied History (JOAH), Online First, 2025, 1–26 | 10.1163/25895893-bja10046 |
| Schwab, Regine/Krause, Werner/Massoud, Samer | The Bombing of Hospitals and Insurgent Responses in Civil War. Evidence from Syria | Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2025 | 10.1177/00220027251407077 |
| Stephanblome, Isabelle | Entgrenzte Wehrhaftigkeit? Der deutsche Anti-Terror-Diskurs und die Bundestagsdebatten zum Umgang mit der „Letzten Generation“ | Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung 14, 2025, 159–188 | 10.1007/s42597-024-00133-2 |
We Are PRIF
Staff
112number of staff in 2025
23new employees
Composition by Status Groups/Departments
Equal Opportunities
| Status group | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|
| Permanent research staff | 8 | 8 |
| Permanent staff in administration and science communication | 14 | 4 |
| Management functions in research | 5 | 9 |
| Management functions in administration and science communication | 1 | 1 |
| Fixed-term research staff | 33 | 25 |
| Fixed-term staff in administration and science communication | 14 | 6 |
| Doctoral researchers | 14 | 7 |
Global Network
Global Network: International cooperations, Visiting Fellows and research stays of PRIF in 2025.
Data: Natural Earth/OpenStreetMap. Max Kohler/PRIF
Our Visiting Fellows 2025
| Name | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Cheryl Hendricks (Visiting Professor) | Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) | South Africa |
| Dirk A. Moses (Visiting Professor) | City College of New York | USA |
| Orwa Ajjoub | University of Malmö | Sweden |
| Anna Lisa Antonello | Università di Bologna | Italy |
| Suparna Banerjee | independent researcher | |
| Serena Bernstein | University of Chicago | USA |
| Heidi Campana Piva | University of Turin | Italy |
| Alexandra Homolar | University of Warwick | United Kingdom |
| Tobias Ide | Murdoch University | Australia |
| Kathryn Langat | Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Addis Abeba | Ethiopia |
| Julian Neef | University of Sussex | United Kingdom |
| Marzena Oliveira Ribas | Université Libre de Bruxelles | Belgium |
| Cornell Overfield | CNA, Arlington, Virginia | USA |
| Federica Persico | University of Genoa | Italy |
| Meredith Whye | University of Wisconsin-Madison | USA |
Sponsors
| Sponsor | Funded project |
|---|---|
| Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) | A New Role for NATO – Walter Benjamin post |
| Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) | Chinese Adaptation to Conflict Risks in the Era of the Belt and Road Initiative |
| Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) | Contradictions in Processes of Deradicalization |
| Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) | Democracy beyond Legitimate Coercion: Deadly Use of Force by the Police in the Philippines and Brazil |
| Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) | Everyday Political Subjectification and the Rise of Regressive Politics. Downward Mobility, Urbanization and the Production of Space in Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig |
| Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) | ‘Jewish Foreign Policy’ and the Exodus of the Syrian Jews: Zionism, Migration, and the Diaspora (1948–1990) |
| Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) | Local Perceptions of Regional Interventions: AU and ECOWAS in Burkina Faso and The Gambia |
| Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) | Seeing Antisemitism through Law |
| Diligentia Foundation | How Germany’s Peaceful Revolution in 1989 and its Remembrance Affect Democracy Today |
| European Union | Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium (E-Learning Course; Internships) |
| European Union – Horizon Europe | VORTEX – Coping with Varieties of Radicalization into Terrorism and Extremism |
| Federal Foreign Office | Cluster for Natural and Technical Science Arms Control Research (CNTR) |
| Federal Foreign Office | Conducting an impact assessment of feminist foreign policy in the area of arms control |
| Federal Foreign Office | Doctoral program for young researchers in the areas of arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation |
| Federal Ministry of the Interior | PrEval |
| Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space | African Non-Military Conflict Intervention Practices (ANCIP) – Special Envoys and Civil Society |
| Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space | Compliance with and Enforcement of the Norms against CBW |
| Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space | KURI – Configurations of Social and Political Practices in Dealing with Radical Islam |
| Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space | RADIS – Transfer Project Social Causes and Effects of Radical Islam in Germany and Europe |
| Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space | RadiGaMe – Processes of Radicalization on Gaming Platforms and Messenger Services |
| Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space | Research Center “Transformations of Political Violence” (TraCe) |
| Fondation Avec et Pour Autres | Coercion in Peacebuilding |
| German Foundation for Peace Research | Peace Report 2025 |
| German Foundation for Peace Research | Effects and Modes of Effects of Humanitarian Military Interventions |
| Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts | Conference “Democratic Cohesion” |
| Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts via Goethe University Frankfurt | ConTrust: Trust in Conflict |
| Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts | LOEWE Top Professorship |
| Justus Liebig University Gießen | The Post-Agreement from a Gender Perspective: Differential Perceptions of the Peace Process and the Reincorporation of Former FARC-EP Combattants in Rural Communities in Colombia |
| Leibniz Association | Leibniz Lab: Disruptions and Transformations |
| Leibniz Association | Leibniz Research Alliance “Value of the Past” |
| Leibniz Association | Leibniz Research Network China |
| Leibniz Association | Leibniz Research Network “Earth & Societies” |
| Leibniz Association | Leibniz Research Network “Environmental Crises – Crisis Environments” |
| Leibniz Association | PATTERN – How does Past Matter? The Russian War of Aggression and the Cold War |
| Leibniz Association | Strategy Fund: Participation in the work shadowing program |
Organization
Board of Trustees
Chair
Timon Gremmels, Hessian Minister of State for Science and the Arts
Members
- Boris Rhein, Minister-President of Hesse
- Ulrich Scharlack, Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space
- Dr. Christina Norwig, Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space
- Mike Josef, Mayor of the City of Frankfurt
- Prof. Dr. Enrico Schleiff, President of Goethe University Frankfurt
- Dr. Paula Macedo Weiß
- Martin Kobler, Ambassador (rtd)
Participants in the meeting in an advisory capacity:
- Prof. Dr. Tanja Börzel, Chair of PRIF's Scientific Advisory Board
- Dr. Jonas J. Driedger, Chair of PRIF's Research Council
Executive Board
Executive Director
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff
Deputy Director
Prof. Dr. Christopher Daase
Administrative Director
Susanne Boetsch
Permanent members
- Prof. Dr. Tobias Ide
- Dr. Stefan Kroll
- Dr. Sabine Mannitz
- Prof. Dr. Jonas Wolff
Members elected by the academic staff
- Dr. Irene Weipert-Fenner
- PD Dr. Simone Wisotzki
Staff units of the Executive Director and Executive Board
Advisors to the Executive Director
Sabrina Groß, Helena Hirschler
Head of IT
Florian Bärmann (interim)
Advisors to the Executive Board
- Yvonne Blum
- Laura Friedrich
Research Council
Chair
Dr. Jonas J. Driedger
Vice Chairmanship
- Dr. Linda Schlegel
- Dr. Johanna Speyer
Scientific Advisory Board
Chair
- Prof. Dr. Tanja Börzel, Berlin
Vice Chairmanship
- Prof. Dr. Bernhard Zangl, München
Members
- Prof. Dr. Matthias Basedau, Hamburg
- Prof. Dr. Annika Björkdahl, Lund
- Prof. Dr. Benedikt Korf, Zürich
- Prof. Dr. Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Warwick
- Prof. Dr. Maria Rost Rublee, Melbourne
- Prof. Dr. Arlene Tickner, Bogotá
- Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wagner, Amsterdam
- Prof. Dr. Daniel Ziblatt, Berlin
Research Department 1International Security
Head
Prof. Dr. Christopher Daase
Anchored Research Groups
RG Biological and Chemical Disarmament and Security
Dr. Una Jakob (Head)
RG Emerging Disruptive Technologies
Dr. Niklas Schörnig (Head)
RG Science for Nuclear Diplomacy:
Prof. Dr. Malte Göttsche (Head)
Research Department 2International Institutions
Head
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff
Anchored Research Groups
RG United Nations Peacekeeping and Conflict Management
Dr. Xinyu Yuan (Head)
RG Public International Law
Prof. Dr. Thilo Marauhn (Head)
LOEWE-RG World Orders in Conflict
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff (Head)
Research Department 3Transnational Politics
Head
Prof. Dr. Tobias Ide
Anchored Research Groups
RG Ecology, Climate and Conflict
Dr. Patrick Flamm (Head)
RG Radicalization, Terrorism and Extremism Prevention
- Prof. Dr. Julian Junk (Head)
- Dr. Jonatan Kurzwelly (Head)
Research Department 4Intrastate Conflict
Head
Prof. Dr. Jonas Wolff
Anchored Research Groups
RG Regime Competition
- Dr. Irene Weipert-Fenner (Coordination)
- Dr. Pascal Abb (Coordination)
Research Department 5Local Peace Orders
Head
Dr. Sabine Mannitz
Anchored Research Groups
RG African Intervention Politics
Dr. Antonia Witt (Head)
Science Communication Department
Head
Dr. Stefan Kroll
Berlin Office
Sarah Brockmeier-Large (Head)
Library
Dr. Andreas Heinemann (Head)
Administration
Head
Susanne Boetsch (Budget Officer)
Library
Inventory
- 66.398 books including 5.017 e-books (excluding national licenses), ca. 8.850 bound volumes of journals and over 40.000 documents of gray literature. Additional access to 44.000 more e-books and over 1.300 electronic journals.
New Acquisitions
- New acquisitions: 284 titles in print and 648 e-books
Open Access
- Peer reviewed journal articles in open access: 43, which means 80% could be published in open access
- 3 books in open access
PRIF Budget
€7.181.831Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts:
€34.000City of Frankfurt
€5.816.625third-party funding, ca.