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No “Nice-to-Have”: European support to critical civil society and free media

Lorch, Jasmin (2025)
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Jasmin Lorch argues that European support to human rights NGOs, critical civil society and free media is not merely a “nice-to-have“. Instead, it directly serves European interests due to the important information function that these civil society actors perform.

African youth and the future of democracy

Nkansah, Godfred Bonnah / Christine Hackenesch (2025)
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Four futures for a Global development cooperation system in flux: policy at the intersection of geopolitics, norm contestation and institutional shift

Klingebiel, Stephan / Andy Sumner (2025)
Policy Brief 11/2025

This brief situates the crisis of Official Development Assistance (ODA) within a broader transformation of global development cooperation. Today’s challenge goes beyond shrinking aid budgets; it reflects deeper pressures on the post-Cold War development consensus and its institutional architecture.

Plural sustainabilities: reflections and ways ahead

Gilgan, Sandra / Dennis Avilés-Irahola / Kehinde Balogun / [...] / Michael Brüntrup / Marcelo Inacio Da Cunha et al. (2025)
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Network effects in household consumption patterns: evidence from Northern Ghana

Mellon Bedi, Shaibu / Lukas Kornher / Bekele Hundie Kotu/ Carlo Azzarri (2025)
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Menschenrechte: Warum die Unterstützung von NGOs im Sicherheitsinteresse Deutschlands liegt

Lorch, Jasmin (2025)
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Die Politikwissenschaftlerin Jasmin Lorch fordert ausreichend Unterstützung für Menschenrechtsverteidiger und kritische NGOs. Das sei im Sicherheitsinteresse Deutschlands, so Lorch.

Wehrhaftigkeit alleine schafft keine Sicherheit

Leininger, Julia / Bodo von Borries (2025)
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Deutschland soll einen nationalen Sicherheitsrat bekommen. Das ist gut, könnte aber die Debatte verengen. Denn wir müssen auch überlegen, wie wir friedensfähig werden.

Men’s participation in combating sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Zimbabwe

Jaji, Rose (2018)
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Navigating through research-fatigued communities

Jaji, Rose (2018)
Externe Publikationen

Successful research is not solely an outcome of one’s merit as a researcher; it is also a product of research participants’ grace and benevolence. I experienced these from people who had become fatigued or weary of research but appreciated the truth even when it was not what they would have wanted to hear.

Development cooperation at a tipping point: how, why and through what mechanisms do policy norms break?

Sumner, Andy / Stephan Klingebiel (2025)
Discussion Paper 29/2025

This paper applies the concepts and theories of ‘policy norms’ to the disruptive effects of the second Trump administration on global development cooperation.