Public Lectures
Upcoming Lectures
Gen. Heinrich Brauß - Former NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning - Global Security Shifts: from the post-Soviet space to the Middle East and East Asia. A political-military perspective - 13 (Thursday) June 2024
Prof. Dr. James Gelvin - Professor of History from UCLA - Historical Background of the Gaza Conflict - 19 (Wednesday) June 2024
Prof. Dr. Tom Dannenbaum - Associate Professor of International Law at the Tufts University - Gaza: international humanitarian and criminal law - 26 (Wednesday) June 2024
Past Lectures
Christopher Brucker MA - Bougainville: The World’s Next Independent State? Conflict, Peacebuilding, and Secession in the South Pacific - 15 November 2023
Dr. Felix Schulte - Sparking Events, Emotional Climates, and Cascades of Cultural Identity Conflicts - 13 December 2023 - Online
Dr. Sebastian von Münchow - The Domestic-International Security Nexus: Fighting Radicalization and Terrorism in the Middle East, the Balkans and Central Europe - 20 December 2023
Dr. Dana Schirwon - International Legal Perspectives on Feminist Climate Foreign Policy | 14 June 2023
Dr. Hugo Slim - The Humanitarian Profession: Its Past, Present, Future | 24 May 2023
Dr. Hans Ulrich-Seidt - Zwischen den Mächten: Afghanistans Kampf um Selbstbestimmung in Geschichte und Gegenwart | 12 January 2023
Dr. phil. Astrid Sahm, Vladzimir Astapenka - Belarus: Challenges for Democratic Changes and Regional Security - IOCM Lecture Series | 17 May 2022
Colonel Wolfgang Richter - Military Strategy of Russia in the Ukraine War - 19 October 2022
Prof. Dr. Rafael Biermann/Dr. André Haertel/Moritz Gathmann - War in the Ukraine. A panel discussion on the causes of conflict. | 5 May 2022
Nico Fasola - "Russia and the Conflict in Syria: Strategic Goals and the Use of Military Force" | 26 January 2022
dr Sebastian Münchow - "Terrorism - Trends, Challenges and Outlook" | 11 Janaury 2022
Thomas Bagger - "Straighter, Smarter, Stronger? Crisis Management and German Foreign Policy after Afghanistan" (IOCM-Inauguration) | 16 December 2021
Prof. Dr. Stefan Wolff - "The Conflict-Solving Mechanisms and Negotiation Formats for the Protracted Conflicts in the OSCE Region: Comparative Perspectives" | 8 December 2021
Prof. Dr. Vello Petai - "International Organizations and the Management of Minority Conflicts" - IOCM Lecture Series | 24 November 2021
PD dr Matthias Kettemann - Key Crises on the Internet: Power and Law, Players and Layers | 1 June 2021
Wolf-Christian Paes - The United Nation's Sanction Regime and the War in Yemen | 27 January 2021
Prof. Dr. Torsten Bonacker - Universities as Peacebuilders | 16 January 2020
Christoph Matschie (Member of the Bundestag) - The global pact for safe, orderly and regular migration. Germany's commitment between foreign policy responsibility and domestic policy dynamics 22 May 2019
Marietta König (Office of the Secretary General, OSCE) - Diplomatic Challenges in a multilateral Environment: EU and OSCE Engagement in the Post-Soviet Region | 8 May 2019
dr Johannes Gold - Mixed methods in practical application | 2 April 2019
dr Benedetto Zaccaria (Research Associate at the European University Institute in Florence) - Yugoslavia's Road to Western European Integration: Actors, Questions, Limits | 13 December 2018
Prof. Mohammed Dajani (Palestine) - Challenging Taboos in Search of Peace in the Middle East Conflict | 13 December 2018
dr Andreas Umland - Was Russia's annexation of Crimea historically justified? | 21 June 2018
Damian Szacawa - Poland's Foreign Policy | 06/14/18; NATO's presence in the Baltic Sea Region | 13 June 2018
dr Zora Popowa (European Center for Minority Issues, Flensburg) - Nationalism and national Minorities | 26 April 2018
Andrea Schneiker - Private Military and Security Companies: Mercenaries or Ordinary Entrepreneurs? | 20 December 2017
Sebastian von Münchow - Countering Terrorism | 20 December 2017
Former ambassador Ulrich Brandenburg - strategies and protection of interests in our foreign policy practice | 12 June 2017