News
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Online talk ‘War and peace in Europe’
Watch online conversation between Vlasta Jalušič, a political scientist from the Peace Institute in Ljubljana, and the Bulgarian political scientist Ivan Krastev, one of the most important European public...
Annual report 2021
We published an overview of our work in 2021. The 2021 operation review of the Peace Institute makes us optimistic. After all, our work has been awarded several times...
The fourth Symposium of the programme group
The fourth symposium organized as part of our research program aimed at highlighting selected relevant topics that are currently in focus of our research.
Online talk: Resisting militarisation, advocating pacifism
Online talk with peace activists from Ukraine, UK and Croatia.
An open appeal for PEACE
An open appeal for peace by winners of awards and recognitions for the promotion of peace, non-violence and human rights ‘Krunoslav Sukić’ (2009 - 2021).
Statement by the Peace Institute on the military attack on Ukraine
We express our strong support for the people of Ukraine in their self-defence and/or eventual peace agreement.
Projects
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Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity in Europe “From Below”: Local Initiatives, Intersectional Strategies and Transnational Networks [ECSEuro]
The research project takes up the question of how new approaches can be identified at the local scale vis-à-vis the longstanding challenges for Europe to establish cross-border cooperation.
Empowering Migrant Voices on Integration and Inclusion Policies – EMVI
Enabling and upscaling the participation of migrants in the design and implementation of policy areas that directly affect them and to bring issues to local, national and EU decision...
Hate speech in contemporary conceptualizations of nationalism, racism, gender and migration
To address the contemporary challenge of polarization of societies in Slovenia as well as in Europe that has increasingly become attributed by certain actors to immigration by analysing hate...
Citizenship and discrimination: intersectional approach to research social exclusion
We will analyse narrations, policies and representations through the prism of sexual and ethnic discrimination and then apply the results to the field of researching citizenship.
Transnationalisation of eldercare – diversities, recruitments, inequalities (TE-DRI)
The research will provide empirical evidence and develop theoretical interpretation of diverse care mobilities that have intensified in eldercare in Slovenia in last decade.
Populist Backlash, Democratic Backsliding, and the Crisis of the Rule of Law in European Union
The project aims to inform strategies to increase democratic resilience by studying the mechanisms “exclusionary populists” use to increase their power by undermining the Rule of Law.
Publications
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Dimensions of Care Work
The book 'Dimensions of Care Work' reflects on the concept of care, its social conditions and consequences in an integral and complex manner.
Populism and the Web: Communicative Practices of Parties and Movements in Europe
New book about the role of the Web for right-wing populist political parties and movements across Europe edited by Mojca Pajnik and Birgit Sauer (Routledge).
Razor-Wired. Reflections on Migrant Movements through Slovenia in 2015
The goal is to present facts, explain changes in state policies and procedures used to “process” the refugees, and to analyse state, media and the general public’s responses.
Feminism and Islam. Turkish Women between the Orient and the West
The author presents the critical views of women themselves, thereby unveiling the critical potential of plural life in Turkey.
Imagination Castrated: Critical Rethinking of the Civil Society (Organisation) in Contemporary Society
The publication brings together texts – the products of the debate on the civil society condition today.
War and Peace. Reflections of the Last Twenty Years
The critical views on the functioning of the Institute, questions of war and peace in the former Yugoslavia and contemporary problems intermingling of peace and war.