Violence and Security

The goal of the profile initiative is to create a space for the development of cross-faculty research collaborations, which should lead to the successful acquisition of collaborative research projects in the medium term. To this end, an exchange process between the faculties has been initiated in order to identify areas of overlap and research questions.

Since questions of violence and security research play an essential role in the Faculty of Humanities, it is strengthening and expanding the previous diverse activities within the framework of the profile initiative. The research on phenomena of violence anchored at the Faculty presents a wide range of different objects of investigation, diverse approaches, topographical and temporal spaces. Individual disciplines form the basis, whose respective boundaries are also crossed, not only in collaborative research projects. The reflections of the participating scientists can be assigned to three research fields:

1. Cultures of Memory,
2. Resources and Violence,
3. Transformations of violence.