Peace and conflict studies is a burgeoning field. Yet, it still needs to tackle the legacies of colonialism and its hierarchies; the historical trajectories of conflicts and their embeddedness in global entanglements. In the six episodes of the podcast, we question dominant narratives in dialogue with a diversity of voices within and beyond academia and critically engage with theories and research practices. Join us in our journey of confronting hierarchies.
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Episode 6 - Confronting Genocide. German Colonialism and African Struggles for Justice
Saison 1 · Épisode 6
jeudi 16 octobre 2025 • Durée 01:01:07
In Episode 6, we talk with transnational activist and poet, Jephta Nguherimo about his work for restorative justice and reparations for the German genocide against the Ovaherero and Nama peoples in today’s Namibia. Jephta is part the Ovaherero tribe and will throughout the conversation share insights from decades of fighting for justice both through court rooms, art and poetry. Together, we will touch upon the historical trajectories of reparations, the bigger and smaller success, and everything there still is to fight for. The challenges are still many, and up until today only some people are invited to the table of negotiations meanwhile, German civil society’s awareness of the country’s colonial past remains small. Staytuned to hear why Jeptha nevertheless continues to fight with optimism for what the future and new generations have to bring.
Bio
Jephta U. Nguherimo is a reparation activist, poet and a former professional labor negotiator of Herero-descent based in Washington D.C. Jephta Nguherimo has been instrumental in the reparation movement for the OvaHerero and Nama genocides, over the last three decades. He was the co-founder of the OvaHerero, Ovambanderu, and Nama Genocide Institute in the US. He organized conferences and other platforms that eventually forced the German government to confront and acknowledge the Genocide of 1904-08.
de Wolff, K. A., & Nguherimo, J. U. (2025). The Ovaherero and Nama People’s Struggle for Restorative Justice: An Activist-Scholar Lens. Journal of Genocide Research, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2025.2559463
Episode 4 – Interrogating the Potential of Resistance.
Épisode 4
jeudi 21 août 2025 • Durée 01:12:08
Together with Hanna Al-Taher and Firoozeh Farvardin, this episode explores a wide range of topics, including authoritarianism, collective mobilization, epistemic hierarchies, and the relationship between resistance, praxis, and academia. Drawing on the fascinating work of our guests, we highlight insights from decolonial and critical feminist perspectives.
Further Information & Reading:
Al-Taher, H., & Younes, A.-E. (2023). Lebensraum, geopolitics and race—Palestine as a feminist issue in German-speaking academia. Ethnography, 25(2), 142-168. https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381231216845
Al-Taher, H. (2024). Deutsche Staatsräson und die Verunmöglichung palästinensischer Realität. PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur, 44(2–2024), 250–259. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v44i2.08
Farvardin, F. (2024). Other Feminisms: A Subversive Gift to the World. In International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies & kollektiv orangotango (eds.), Beyond Molotovs – A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies (S. 286–295). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839470558-045
Farvardin, F. & Talebi, N. (2024). Challenges of Southern Knowledge Production. In I. Dulley & Ö. E. İşcen (eds.), Displacing Theory Through the Global South (S. 57–77). ICI Berlin Press. https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-29_05
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Episode 5 - Postcolonial Europes.
Épisode 5
mardi 22 avril 2025 • Durée 01:05:13
Episode 5 is an invitation to shift the gaze and think about Europe as a postcolonial space. Together with Miguel Cardina and Gerlov van Engelenhoven, we delve into the implications that colonialism has had (and continues to have) on Europe’s identities and current realities, as well as contestations thereof. We also address the issue of (post)colonial memory, exploring both its meaning and its relevance for what is commonly assumed to make Europe “Europe”.
Bios:
Miguel Cardina is a historian and a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He was an European Research Council (ERC) Grantee - project: «CROME - Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence. The Colonial-Liberation Wars in Postcolonial Times» (2017-2023). He is the author or co-author of several books, book chapters or papers on colonialism, anticolonialism and the colonial wars; political ideologies in the sixties and seventies; and the dynamics between history and memory.
Gerlov van Engelenhoven is an assistant professor at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). His research concerns postcolonial memory and heritage, law and culture, and cultural interaction. He also teaches various courses on these topics. His research methodology combines participatory research with discourse analysis and (auto)ethnography.
Episode 3 - Reimagining the classroom. Postcolonial Feminism, Masculinities and Security in university settings.
Épisode 3
vendredi 11 octobre 2024 • Durée 01:26:05
In Episode 3, we will explore what it means to challenge (post)colonial hierarchies in the classroom together with Amya Agarwal and Swati Parashar. The classroom is a space which can serve to promote critical thinking, a space that not only provides the possibility of reimagining the fundamentals of academic disciplines but that also allows for critical students and radical scholarship to emerge and thrive.
Bios:
Amya Agarwal is a lecturer of International Relations at the University of Sheffield, UK. Prior to moving to the UK, she was a senior researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg, Germany (2021–2023) and a postdoctoral fellow in Duisburg, Germany (2019–2021). She received her PhD from the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, India in 2017. In the past, she has held teaching positions in the University of Delhi, South Asian University, University of Freiburg and University College Freiburg. Amya's research lies at the intersection of gender, conflict and security. In particular, she studies and writes about masculinities, motherhood, art and aesthetics in times of violence and resistance.
Swati Parashar is a Professor of Peace and Development at the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden. Her teaching and research have led to academic appointments and fellowships in India, Singapore, the UK, the US, Ireland, Australia, and Sweden. She has also taught at the University of Rwanda in Kigali and at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. Swati is a member of the Swedish Development Research Network and has served on the Scientific Advisory Board of
SIDA. Her research interests include feminism, postcolonialism, research methodologies, gender-based violence, famines, and development in South Asia and East Africa. She has published numerous journal special issues, articles, policy papers, and popular media pieces. In 2025, she will be honored as the Distinguished Scholar of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section at the ISA Convention in Chicago.
Episode 1 (Part 2) – Coloniality, Peace & Conflict – An introduction with Susanne Buckley Zistel & Siddharth Tripathi
Saison 1 · Épisode 1
mercredi 6 mars 2024 • Durée 49:30
In Episode 1, part 2 we discuss the Postcolonial Hierarchies Competence Network (which this podcast is a part of) and the network’s project of confronting coloniality/modernity dynamics in peace and conflict studies with....
Siddharth Tripathi - Senior Research Fellow at University of Erfurt. As part of his research at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels, he has conducted extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Berlin and Brussels. He edited the Rowman and Littlefield Handbook on Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South (s) which is a collaborative endeavour of scholars from the Global North and the Global South
...and Susanne Buckley-Zistel - Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Executive Director of the Center for Conflict Studies at the Philipps University Marburg. Her main interests lie in (transitional) justice, memory, gender, space and post-colonialism.
Episode 1 (Part 1) – Coloniality, Peace & Conflict – An introduction with Manuela Boatcă
Saison 1 · Épisode 1
mercredi 6 mars 2024 • Durée 31:45
In Episode 1, part 1 of our podcast, we focus on coloniality and knowledge production with Manuela Boatcă - Professor of Sociology and Head of the Global Studies Programme at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Manuela has published widely on world-systems analysis, decolonial perspectives on global inequalities, gender and citizenship in modernity/coloniality, and the geopolitics of knowledge in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Her co-authored book, with Anca Parvulescu, titled “Creolizing the Modern. Transylvania Across Empires” was published last year. It has received different international awards and will be available not only in English, but soon also in German, and Romanian.
Links:
Marx & Engels (1848): Manifesto of the Communist Party
The episode was moderated by Abdul Karim Ibrahim from the institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.
We also want to thank our team behind the scenes for the collaboration and contributions. We want to thank Abdul Karim Ibrahim for the introduction to this episode, Aurelio Cossar for the illustration of the cover and Harry and Tom Parfitt for the Jingle. It was inspired by Sheriff Ghale’s piece called “Nni Yeli”.
Episode 2 - Why coloniality? Plural approaches to big buzzwords with Layla Brown & Filiberto Penados
Saison 1 · Épisode 2
jeudi 5 octobre 2023 • Durée 01:26:27
In Episode 2, we discuss the "big buzzwords" of postcolonial theory and decolonial thought: what they mean, why and when to use them, and the plurality and diversity within their origins. The guests for this episode were Layla Brown & Filiberto Penados.
Bios.:
Layla D. Brown is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies and affiliate faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Layla’s research focuses on Pan-African, Socialist, and Feminist social movements in Venezuela, the US, and the broader African Diaspora. She is working on completing her first book manuscript entitled An Anthropology of Pan-Africanism in the 21st Century, an ethnographic exploration of the rise of Pan-African/Feminist activism and social movements in Venezuela and the United States. Layla is also the co-host of a new podcast, “Life. Study. Revolution.” with Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly.
Dr. Filiberto Penados is a Co-Founder of CELA Belize and a Maya scholar whose work focuses on indigenous education and development. Dr. Penados has a long history of engaged scholarship with indigenous and local communities in Belize and a wealth of experience leveraging this involvement to create unique learning experiences.
Dr Penados has served as a professor at the University of Manitoba, University of Toronto, Galen University, and the University of Belize. He teaches courses on Sustainable Development, Natural Resource Management, and Education, and related fields. He also loves to play the guitar.
Decoloniality: coloniality and modernity as two sides of the same coin: See e.g. Walter Mignolo:
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The episode was moderated by Abdul Karim Ibrahim from the institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.
We also want to thank our team behind the scenes for the collaboration and contributions. We want to thank Abdul Karim Ibrahim for the introduction to this episode, Aurelio Cossar for the illustration of the cover and Harry and Tom Parfitt for the Jingle. It was inspired by Sheriff Ghale’s piece called “Nni Yeli”.
For the preparation and recording of the podcast, we want to thank Miriam Bartelmann and Harry Parfitt. Furthermore we want to express our gratitude for the assistance on this podcast to Nora Wolf.
The equipment was provided by the media center of the University library in Freiburg, while Florian Laurösch from Radio Dreyeckland postproduced the podcast - thank you for the help and collaboration.
For the preparation and recording of the podcast, we want to thank Miriam Bartelmann and Harry Parfitt. Furthermore we want to express our gratitude for the assistance on this podcast to Nora Wolf.
The equipment was provided by the media center of the University library in Freiburg, while Florian Laurösch from Radio Dreyeckland postproduced the podcast - thank you for the help and collaboration.
The episode was moderated by Abdul Karim Ibrahim from the institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.
We also want to thank our team behind the scenes for the collaboration and contributions. We want to thank Abdul Karim Ibrahim for the introduction to this episode, Aurelio Cossar for the illustration of the cover and Harry and Tom Parfitt for the Jingle. It was inspired by Sheriff Ghale’s piece called “Nni Yeli”.
For the preparation and recording of the podcast, we want to thank Rebecca Schmidt, Kristine Dünkelsbühler and Miriam Bartelmann. Furthermore we want to express our gratitude for the assistance on this podcast to Adrién Francoise and Johanna Unewisse.
The equipment was provided by the media center of the University library in Freiburg, who also postproduced the podcast – thank you for the help and collaboration.
