Peace, political conflict and war

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The Peace, Political Conflict and War Cluster aims to make the various activities at the university in this subject area visible in teaching and research. In addition, it sees itself as a platform for networking and developing new joint projects both at the Graz institutions (in particular the Conflict - Peace - Democracy Cluster) and together with regional, national, international and transnational research. Thematically, the cluster focusses on conflicts and their regulation processes as well as peace-building strategies: from local communities and states to the international community. One focus is therefore on inter- and transnational relations in the area of tension between war as the highest level of conflict on the one hand and dispute resolution and peacemaking on the other. In addition, the cluster is also interested in the domestic and intra-societal level, which is analysed as a place of power, distribution and interpretation conflicts and their (violent or regulated) resolution in the context of political systems and political cultures. The interdependence of both perspectives is taken into account. The cluster sees itself as fundamentally interdisciplinary: from peace research and history to international relations and political science, law, sociology, anthropology, psychology and theology.