in: DIE Briefing Paper 3/2019.
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18. March 2019 | News
Documentary ‘Citzens Offline’ by EDP member Tina Freyburg nominated for the Golden Impala Award
The documentary ‘Citzens Offline’ by our EDP member Tina Freyburg of the University of St. Gallen and two of her colleagues, Veronique Wavre and Lisa Garbe, is nominated for the Golden Impala Award at the Amakula International Film Festival in Uganda on March 15th, where it will also be screened.
read more »15. March 2019 | News
Vera Van Hüllen reviews new handbook on peace, conflict and democracy research
Vera van Hüllen was recently invited to review the new handbook “Peace research, conflict research, and democracy research” edited by Gertraud Diendorfer, Blanka Bellack, Anton Pelinka and Werner Wintersteiner. Her review in the European Review of International Studies (Vol. 5, …
read more »15. March 2019 | EDP Wire
EDP Workshop Report: „Why to Fight against Dictatorship at high personal costs?”
Under the direction of two of our network members, Sonja Grimm (University of Konstanz / University of Basel) and Annika Elena Poppe (PRIF), the EDP network organized a workshop on January 17–18 on “Why to fight against dictatorship at high …
read more »8. March 2019 | EDP Wire
Gemeinnützigkeit in Deutschland: Karneval und Religion ja, Politik und Menschenrechte nein
In einem Aufsehen erregenden Urteil hat der Bundesfinanzhof die Entscheidung des Hessischen Finanzgerichts verworfen, das den Trägerverein des globalisierungskritischen Netzwerks Attac als gemeinnützig eingestuft hatte. Die Entscheidung hat weit über den Einzelfall hinaus Brisanz, insofern sie dem politischen Engagement zivilgesellschaftlicher Organisationen klare Grenzen setzt.
read more »1. March 2019 | Publication
Credible Commitments? Explaining IGO Suspensions to Sanction Political Backsliding
28. February 2019 | News
EDP member Tina Freyburg participated in annual DDLGN agenda meeting of the Swiss Agency for Development in Bern
Our EDP member Tina Freyburg joined the annual agenda meeting of the Network on Democratisation, Decentralisation and Local Governance (DDLGN) of the Swiss Agency for Development (SDC) on January 24, 2019 in Bern, Switzerland. In this meeting, the annual review of 2018 as well as the outlook on 2019 were presented and discussed.
read more »26. February 2019 | News
Solveig Richter is granted Teaching Excellence Awards
Our network member Solveig has received four awards for her excellent teaching skills by the Faculty of Law, Social Sciences and Economics at the University of Erfurt. The “Teaching Excellence Awards” are given to lecturers and professors of the university who receive the highest scores in students’ evaluation.
read more »19. February 2019 | EDP Wire
Democracy Promotion in the Americas
In this last piece of our EDP Wire Series, Jonas discusses the problems of the regional system of democracy promotion in the Americas. He argues that the region has one of the most advanced regimes of democracy and human rights protection world-wide, but that there are no regional actors that have sufficient credibility, capacity and political will to respond to the serious challenges to, and in part open crises of, democracy that can be observed in the region.
read more »18. February 2019 | Publication