Here you can find an overview of the 39 work packages being addressed in the current funding period of RISC (2024 – 2029).
For an overview of the 109 research projects that were implemented during the first funding period (2020 – 2024), please refer to our German website.
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A_03 - Polarization and Political Legitimacy
06/2024 – 05/2029
By addressing the relationship between polarization and political legitimacy, this work package (WP) subjects the widespread thesis that tendencies toward polarization inevitably endanger the legitimacy of political institutions to critical scrutiny. Its aim is to specify more precisely…
» View detailsA_04 - Policies of Social Cohesion in Africa: Entangled Governance in Post-Trauma Societies and the Role of International Organizations
06/2024 – 05/2029
As part of the focus area on cohesion policies and the conditions of political legitimacy, this work package (WP) empirically examines top-down and bottom-up governance strategies and practices for producing social cohesion in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and South Africa. In all three countries,…
» View detailsD_03 - Racist West and Antisemitic Rest? Global Cohesion at the Tension between Postcolonial Critique and Critiques of Antisemitism
06/2024 – 05/2029
The relationship between postcolonial critique and critiques of antisemitism has long been marked by tension. In recent years, however, the two approaches appear increasingly irreconcilable. This is evident in memory-political controversies over the relationship between colonialism and…
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