Teacher stands with two students at a whiteboard and explains a diagram
© Simone Reukauf
Books by authors from the Center for the Study of Conflict and Peace spread out on a table
© Claudia Neve
Tor zur alten Pufferzone der UN auf Zypern mit blauem UN-Logo am Tor, dahinter ein verfallenes Gebäude
Institute building photographed from below with focus on the seminar room cube
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Studying Conflict and Peace
 Our Master's program in Conflict Studies & Peacebuilding
Writing about Conflict and Peace
 Our publications at CeCoP
Researching Conflict and Peace
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Welcome to CeCoP!

Center for the Study of Conflict & Peace

Welcome to CeCoP!

CeCoP combines research, teaching, and science communication on current issues in the context of violent conflicts and international and intra-societal peace processes. Since 2021/22, CeCoP has been offering the international master's program in  Conflict Studies and Peacebuilding, which aims to familiarize students with interdisciplinary approaches from peace and conflict research as well as with professional fields of practice. With our work, we want to make a contemporary contribution to Osnabrück's portrait as a “city of peace.” As a research center, CeCoP is part of the  Institute for Social Sciences and cooperates with other research institutions at the Osnabrück University.

Study Peace in the City of Peace!

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A destroyed house in Ukraine following a Russian missile strike
© European Union, 2023, Photographer: Oleksandr Rakushnyak via flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Events Research

Russia's War of Aggression and Future (In)security

Ulrich Schneckener, Nicole Deitelhoff and Gwendolyn Sasse discuss the implications of Russia’s ongoing war of aggression for peace and conflict studies and for global conflict dynamics in the new episode of the Roundtable Osteuropa podcast by ZOiS.

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Profile pictures of the three guest lecturers: from left to right: Steiner, Anderson, Havrylyuk. The logos of the IfS and CeCoP are also visible.
© Hannes Kohlhoff
MA CSP Research

War rhetoric, mediation, and the psychology of prejudice and violence

CeCoP is delighted to welcome new visiting lecturers from Ukraine, Sweden, and the USA in the summer semester of 2026. In addition to joint work and international exchange, their own seminars will enrich teaching in our MA programs.

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Dr. Maéva Clément stands between the large letter sculptures on a square in Cape Town that spell out the city's name, “Cape Town.”
© Maéva Clément
Research

Gender, Peacebuilding and Community Reconciliation

How do gender and peacebuilding interact? Maéva Clément conducts interviews with experts, practitioners, and community activists in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

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Events

Guest Lecture: Geoeconomics - Anatomy of the New World Order

Tariffs, export controls, industrial policy: Is the era of neoliberal globalization coming to an end? To understand the emerging world order, we must view it from a geo-economic perspective. Join the discussion on November 10!

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Prof. Ulrich Schneckener in a group photo with Ukrainian students from the seminar in Chernivtsi; in the background, you can see the PowerPoint slides with the Ukrainian flag.
Events Research

Teaching, research and partnership in times of war

Together with Ukrainian students, Prof. Ulrich Schneckener explored the question of Ukraine's EU prospects under the title "Linking Security and Enlargement in times of War: The EU and Ukraine".

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Panel discussion in Chernivsti: Ulrich Schneckener and three other speaker sit on a small stage. In the front, guests are sitting close to each other and are taking notes.
Events

EU membership perspectives for Ukraine

Ulrich Schneckener holds political talk with former Member of the European Parliament Rebecca Harms (B90/Die Grünen) and Prof. Anatoliy Kruglashov, political scientist at Chernivtsi National University.

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