News
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News from the Research Project “Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity in Europe”
4th issue of the newsletter shares insights into urban practices of solidarity and struggles for social justice.
Living Peace 14: Letters of Wars and Peace
Through public letters, we aim to amplify the voices that advocate for peace, reject violence, and uphold equal rights for all. You are invited to read the 14th letter...
Emotional solidarity: social movements’ framing of migration
The journal Social Movement Studies has published an article by Mojca Pajnik and Marko Ribać on emotional solidarity within social movements in the field of migration.
Living Peace 13: Letters of Wars and Peace
Through public letters, we aim to amplify the voices that advocate for peace, reject violence, and uphold equal rights for all. You are invited to read the 13th letter...
Rule of Law Report 2025
»Decline of Democracy Deepens, EU Tools Toothless”.
Living Peace 12: Letters of Wars and Peace
Through public letters, we aim to amplify the voices that advocate for peace, reject violence, and uphold equal rights for all. You are invited to read the 12th letter...
Projects
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Citizens’ Action for Democracy – CitiDem
CitiDem’s strategic objective is to promote and enhance citizen engagement and participation.
Peace Research Community Europe (PEACE)
The main challenge for the PEACE Action is to improve our understanding of contemporary challenges concerning peace and security on the European continent and beyond.
Target research project Stimulating and inhibiting factors of international students studying in Slovenia
This project is based on a systematic research approach focusing on a specific student group—international students who come to Slovenia for their studies.
Working conditions and job quality in hospitality and tourism: A comparative analysis with recommendations
The project provides new knowledge on the working conditions and quality of jobs in the hospitality and tourism sector in Slovenia and proposes solutions to the shortage of staff...
Policy coherence for (sustainable) development – assesment of the effects of Slovenian national policies on developing countries and on the sustainable development of the Republic of Slovenia
The purpose of the research project, which is carried out in partnership with the Faculty of Social Sciences, is the preparation of systemic solutions for enforcing the principle of...
Empowering Ecosystems of Civil Society Organisations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia and Slovenia (PROSECO)
Promoting EU values and rights by building national and transnational ecosystems of cooperation that protect civic space and increase the resilience of civil society.
Publications
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Article / Emotional solidarity: social movements’ framing of migration
The journal Social Movement Studies has published an article by Mojca Pajnik and Marko Ribać on emotional solidarity within social movements in the field of migration.
Article / Authoritarian populism and structural limitations on journalism in selected European countries
A comparative article on the structural limitations of authoritarian populism on journalistic practices in Eastern and Central Europe.
Book / What Kind of Government? Rethinking Contemporary Forms of Government after the Break in Tradition
Springer has published the book What kind of government? Rethinking Contemporary Forms of Government after the Break in Tradition, edited by Vlasta Jalušič and Wolfgang Heuer.
Chapter / Multiple interacting migration patterns in senior care on Europe’s semi-periphery
The authors argue that semi-peripheral countries act as complex nodes of care migration where emigration, transit and immigration interact.
Article / Borderless fear? How right-wing populism aligns in affectively framing migration as a security threat in Austria and Slovenia
The findings point to a worrying convergence of anti-migration discourse across borders and to the potential spread of a right-wing populist bloc unified by fear of migration.
Chapter / Care Migration in Care Homes for Older People in the European Semi-Periphery Between Slovenia and Former Yugoslav Countries
The authors note that the political economy of care in neoliberal capitalism needs borders and their ambiguity - it needs borders that are both porous and exclusionary.