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The Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) awards the best monograph in
international peace research published between 2023 and 2025
The Peace Research Institute Frankfurt invites submissions for the Ernst-Otto Czempiel Award for peace research. The award, in honor of PRIF’s former director, is endowed with 5,000 Euros and will be given for the best monograph published in the field of international peace research between 2023 and 2025. In addition to typical academic books, shorter monographs as well as books oriented at a broader, non-academic readership are also very welcome. Published Ph.D. theses are excluded.
Nominations and self-nominations are possible. Every nomination should contain the name, full address and e-mail address of the author and the title of the book. In the case of self-nominations, the application should also contain a CV, a list of publications, and a copy of the book (digitally). The deadline for nominations is December 1, 2025.
The winner will be selected by a scientific jury comprising Prof. Dr Charlotte Dany, Prof. Dr Senghaas-Knobloch, and Prof. Dr Jonas Wolff.
The previous award winners are:
• 2023: Prof. Roger Mac Ginty, „Everyday Peace: How So-Called Ordinary People Can Disrupt Violent Conflict“
• 2020: Kerstin von Lingen, “‘Crimes against Humanity’: Eine Ideengeschichte der Zivilisierung von Kriegsgewalt 1864–1945”
• 2018: Simon Koschut, "Normative Change and Security Community Disintegration. Undoing Peace"
• 2016: Birgit Bräuchler, "The Cultural Dimension of Peace: Decentralization and Reconciliation in Indonesia"
• 2014: Piki Ish-Shalom, "Democratic Peace. A Political Biography"
• 2012: Elke Krahmann, "States, Citizens and the Privatization of Security"
• 2010: Rita Schäfer, "Frauen und Kriege in Afrika – ein Beitrag zur Genderforschung"
• 2008: Guy Ben-Porat, “Global Liberalism, Local Populism: Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland”
Please send nominations and self-nominations to Cornelia Heß, hess@prif.org.
https://www.prif.org/en/dialogue-education/awards/ernst-otto-czempiel-award Link to PRIF website
Criteria of this press release:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Politics
transregional, national
Contests / awards, Scientific Publications
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