CPD Policy Blog

CPD Policy Blog

Linking academia and policy. Contributing to social progress. Enabling sustainable politics. Connecting the dots. Thinking ahead.
Cooperation
The CPD Policy Blog is a project of the Austrian Conflict, Peace and Democracy Cluster (CPDC) and is supported by the University of Graz, Institut für Konfliktforschung (IKF), Demokratiezentrum Wien, ASPR as well as Shabka.
Research
Peace and conflict research deals with violence and violent conflicts in the broadest sense. It thus seeks to formulate strategies to overcome these forms of violence in the short, medium and long term.
CPD Cluster
The CPD Cluster seeks to bundle the competence existing in Austria in the areas of conflict, peace & democracy. It thus contributes to the peaceful, non-violent and non-discriminatory development of society.

Focus Topic

Post-Mali: The Future of UN Peacekeeping Missions

The termination of the UN Peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA, raises many questions. These concern the dynamics of international cooperation, its impact on global security, and, most of all, the future of UN peacekeeping missions in general.
The Future of UN Peacekeeping
The Future of UN Peacekeeping
In light of the uncertainty around the role UN peacekeeping will play in future, the UN Secretary-General’s New Agenda for Peace that was released in...
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An Image Tarnished? Anti-UN Protests and the Future of Peacekeeping
An Image Tarnished? Anti-UN Protests and the Future of Peacekeeping
Have protests against peacekeepers in Mali and the DRC demonstrated the failure of UN peacekeeping? Anti-UN protests are not a new phenomenon, but they have...
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Reversed Roles, the Future of Partnership Peacekeeping?
Reversed Roles, the Future of Partnership Peacekeeping?
Partnership peacekeeping – meaning the parallel deployment of United Nations (UN) and non-UN peacekeepers in the same conflict – has been a common and, as...
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Bilder des Krieges: Eine kritische Analyse der Metaphorik in der Propagandasprache während des Kriegs in der Ukraine

Oksana Pavlychko

Die Analyse der Metaphorik und Propagandasprache im Kontext des russischen Angriffs auf die Ukraine verdeutlicht die zentrale Rolle von Kommunikation und Framing in modernen Konflikten. Propaganda 2.0 und 3.0 nutzen …

Von Klima-Kleber*innen und Protestkulturen: Klimawandel und Konflikt als Thema der transformativen Politischen Bildung

Lara Kierot

Aktuell polarisieren und politisieren das Thema Klimawandel sowie dazugehöriger Protest und Aktivismus. Dabei konzentrieren sich die Diskussionen vor allem auf die sogenannten Klima-Kleber*innen des Bündnisses Letzte Generation und die Meinungen …