Authors

Frank Asbrock, born 1975, studied psychology and received his doctorate in Bielefeld. Professor of Social Psychology at TU Chemnitz and Director of the Centre for Criminological Research Saxony. Research focus: threat, ideological attitudes, intergroup conflict and intergroup contact.

Address/contact: TU Chemnitz, Institute of Psychology. Wilhelm-Raabe-Str. 43, 09107 Chemnitz,

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Mareike Augsburger (*1989), head of research and development and emergency

psychologist at foundation Carelink . She studied psychology at the Philipps University

of Marburg. Her doctoral thesis focused on the role of traumatic experiences in the

perpetuation of violence in crisis regions (University of Konstanz, 2017). Her scientific

focus is on psychotraumatology and the prevention of PTSD . In addition , s he also

works as psychological counselor in her own practice.

Anna Baumert is Professor for Social and Personality Psychology at the University of Wuppertal and Leader of the Max Planck Research Group “Moral Courage” at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn. She obtained her PhD in 2009 from the University of Koblenz-Landau. In her research, she investigates the interplay of social and personality processes for the explanation of perceptions and reactions to social injustice.

Elfriede Billmann-Mahecha received her doctorate in psychology in 1982, with minors in philosophy and Ibero-Romance philology, at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, with a thesis on the philosophy of science. In 1988 she completed her habilitation with an empirical study in developmental psychology and was appointed Akademische Oberrätin. From 1991 to 1994 she was a lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy of Science and Science Studies at the University of Vienna, and she has been a university professor of psychology since 1994. From 2013 to 2020 she was Vice President for Teaching and Studies at Leibniz Universität Hannover. Billmann-Mahecha has been retired since 2021. Her research interests lie in philosophy of science and methodology, moral and identity development, aesthetic development, and development in institutional contexts.

Klaus Boehnke is Professor of Social Science Methodology at Jacobs University Bremen. From 2017 until 24 February 2022 he was also Deputy Head of the Centre for Sociocultural Research at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow. His work focuses mainly on socialisation research. Boehnke received his doctorate in psychology from TU Berlin in 1985 and subsequently worked at FU Berlin, HU Berlin and TU Chemnitz. He spent longer research stays at the Australian National University (1987), the University of Toronto (1997/98) and the National University of Singapore (2008/9). From 2018 to 2020 he was President of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP). From 2005 to 2013 he chaired the Forum Friedenspsychologie, and from 2007 to 2017 he was Pro-Dean of the graduate school BIGSSS, funded under the Excellence Initiative.

Dr. Nicole Bögelein works at the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cologne. She leads a project on the role of institutional racism in court. She studied sociology at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and received her doctorate in 2015 from the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Her research addresses fines and substitute custodial sentences, social inequality, radicalisation and methods of qualitative social research. Bögelein is co-editor-in-chief of the open-access online journal “Kriminologie – Das Online-Journal Criminology – The Online Journal”.

Dr. Thorsten Bonacker, born 1970, Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Centre for Conflict Studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg, studied in Marburg from 1990 to 1996 and received his doctorate in 1999 at Carl von Ossietzky University. His research and publications focus on violence and peace in world society, in particular on state-building processes in post-war and postcolonial societies, on how societies deal with violent pasts, and on sexual and reproductive rights as a global field of conflict.

Kea Sarah Brahms works as a counsellor in a radicalisation prevention programme focusing on Islamism. She is also a lecturer at the Centre for Conflict Studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg. After studying psychology in Osnabrück, she worked on research projects in Bremen and Tel Aviv and as an editor at VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

She is particularly interested in (cross-cultural) beliefs about justice, emotions in intergroup processes, and the question of why people turn to radical movements.

María Cárdenas is a German-Colombian researcher and lecturer at Goethe-University of Frankfurt (Germany). After extensive activist research in Colombia, she is now finalizing her dissertation on the decolonizing potential of ethnic(ized) agency within the transition period of armed conflicts. Her research interests include decolonial and anti-racist perspectives on peace research and practice. She also works as advisor for conflict-sensitive and decolonial peace and youth development and is active in the Colombian-diasporic and German peace movement. Since 2021, she is co-speaker of the working group “Critical Peace Research” of the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies.

apl. Prof. (retired) at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Heidelberg; studied applied linguistics (Mainz/Germersheim; Dipl. Übers.) and psychology (Heidelberg; Dipl. Psych.). Doctorate (1988) and habilitation (2000) at the University of Heidelberg. Work and publication focus: psychology of language, psychology of reading, text processing, text comprehensibility, argumentative integrity, figurative language (metaphor), framing.

Prof. Dr. Christopher Cohrs (PhD 2004 with dissertation on “Of Constructive Patriots and Black Sheep: National Identification and Engagement against Xenophobia”, University of Bielefeld) has been Professor of Social Psychology at Philipps University Marburg since 2017. Previously, he was Assistant Professor at Jacobs University Bremen and Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. Chair of the Peace Psychology Forum from 2013 to 2021. Founding Editor of the international open access Journal of Social and Political Psychology. Winner of the Peace Psychology Early Career Award of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence – Peace Psychology Division (Division 48) of the American Psychological Association in 2007. His research interests include prejudice, intergroup conflict and its social representations, political attitudes, attitudes towards war and, more recently, social psychological aspects of sustainability and climate change.

Niklas Cypris is a Research Fellow at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal

and an affiliated researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for

Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, as well as the Institute for Ethics

in Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Munich. He

studied at the University of Cologne and received his M.Sc. in psychology

in 2020. For his doctoral thesis, he investigates behavioral

effects of personalized interventions against online norm violations.

Dr. Werner Distler has been Assistant Professor of International Politics at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) since 2022, where he most recently led the project “Hidden Archives of Peace and Conflict”. From 2010 to 2022 he worked at the Centre for Conflict Studies and at the Collaborative Research Centre 138 “Dynamics of Security” at the University of Marburg. His dissertation focuses on the social practice of interventions. He studied political science at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.

Nadine Etzkorn, born 1990, studied educational science and psychology in Jena, Berlin and Copenhagen, PhD on the topic of international student mobility as a space for decolonial educational processes (funded by the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft/ Foundation of German Business), research and work focus: Education for sustainable development, global citizenship education, internationalisation of higher education

institutions, migration and education, educational theories and post- and decolonial theories, address/contact: Bielefeld University, AG 10 Migrationspädagogik und Rassismuskritik, Universitätsstraße 25, 33615 Bielefeld,

Wolfgang Frindte, Prof. i.R. Dr. phil. habil. (born 1951). Doctorate 1981, habilitation 1987 and appointment to the Chair of Social Psychology at FSU Jena. Head of the Department of Communication Psychology there from 2008 to 2017. Visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck 1998–2005. Fellow at the University of Haifa 2004. Since 2007 academic director of the “Human Communication” degree programme at DIU Dresden. Since 2017 spokesperson of the academic advisory board of the IDZ Jena. Research focus: research on terrorism, xenophobia, antisemitism, right-wing extremism, digital media.

Born 1991, studied psychology and political science in Maastricht, Rome and Zurich; since 2019 doctoral student at the University of Zurich, at the Chair of Social Psychology of Prof. Johannes Ullrich. Focus areas are intergroup processes, discrimination and social change.

Dr. Lena Frischlich leads the junior research group DemoRESILdigital: Democratic Resilience in Times of Online Propaganda, Fake News, Fear- and Hate Speech at the Department of Communication at the University of Münster (WWU). She studied psychology at the University of Cologne, where she also received her doctorate in 2016. Her research examines the staging, reception and effects of propaganda and related phenomena and analyses ways of fostering democratic resilience in digital communication environments.

Born 1977, studied psychology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, doctorate at the University of Potsdam, and habilitation at TU Berlin on “New ways of promoting sustainable consumption”. Professor at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development since 2025. Research and work focus: sustainable consumer behaviour and health, socio-ecological transformation of food culture.

Contact: HNEE; Professorship of Psychology and Marketing in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems, Schicklerstr. 5, 16225 Eberswalde

Born 1973, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist and deputy head of the Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology at Leipzig University. She studied psychology at Leipzig University and received her doctorate from FU Berlin in 2004. Together with Dr. Yuriy Nesterko, she leads the research group “Psychotraumatology and Migration Research” in this department, and for many years she has worked on the health consequences of traumatisation, especially in the context of armed conflict and of flight and displacement. She is editor of the journal “Trauma und Gewalt” and of the Handbuch Psychotraumatologie.

Leipzig University, Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, Philipp-Rosenthal-Str. 55, 04103 Leipzig, Tel.: 0341-9718811,

Professor emeritus of General and Cultural Psychology at the University of Cologne and honorary professor at the University of Heidelberg (General Literary Studies; General Psychology). Research focus: psychological anthropology (models of the subject), cognitive psychology (subjective theories), psychology of language and literature (text processing, reading socialisation), philosophy of science and methodology; empirical literary studies and peace psychology.

Born 1968, research associate at the Faculty of Social Science at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Studied social sciences at the University of Hannover, where he also received his doctorate, and completed his habilitation at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His research, teaching and publications are in the field of memory studies and violence research.

Susanne Guski-Leinwand, born 1968, Dipl.-Psych. and Dr. phil. at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in 1999 and 2007. Dr. habil. in 2014 at Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) Jena, venia legendi for psychology and history of psychology. Privatdozentin for psychology, history and ethics of psychology at FSU and acting professor of psychology at Fachhochschule Dortmund from 2014 to 2023. Project lead of the BMBF research network “Soul Work in Socialism: Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychiatry (SiSaP)” (funding number 01UJ1908BY; 2019-2023).

Born 1978, studied socio-economics and received her doctorate in economics at the University of Hohenheim, then worked for over ten years at Copenhagen Business School. Professor of Household and Consumer Economics since 2018 and Vice President for Research and Early Career Support at Justus Liebig University Gießen since 2024. Research and work focus: sustainable consumption, health behaviour and consumer policy, with a particular emphasis on nutrition and the societal effects of consumption decisions, as well as behaviour change.

Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Doctorate (1997) and habilitation (2008) at the University of Vienna. Areas of focus: anthropology of conflict, environmental anthropology, anthropology of the South American lowlands. Current research interests: anthropology of the Isthmo-Colombian region, social consequences of climate change, consequences of the Colombian peace process, graphic communication systems.

Christian Hartings, born 1990, currently works as a forensic psychologist in the State Protection Department of the State Criminal Police Office of North Rhine-Westphalia, in counter-terrorism. His work focuses on the risk assessment of dangerous individuals and other relevant persons in the field of politically motivated crime. His research interest lies in violent versus non-violent extremism.

Sebastian Hellmeier, born 1989, is currently a research associate in the research group “Transformations of Democracy” at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Previously he was a postdoc at the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at the University of Gothenburg and a research associate at the University of Konstanz, where he received his doctorate in 2019. His research addresses political protest, the comparison of authoritarian regimes, and processes of democratisation and autocratisation.

Dr. Nadja Jacob (*1981), therapeutic director of the Liestal day clinics (Psychiatry

Baselland). She studied psychology at the University of Konstanz ( PhD 2010).

Scientifically and clinically, she is concerned with the effects of cumulative traumatic

events on mental health and the dissemination of psychological trauma s cientifically

effective treatment methods to professionals.

Born 1989, studied psychology at FU Berlin, doctorate on sufficiency and clothing consumption at Copenhagen Business School. Since 2019 research associate at the Chair of Household and Consumer Economics at JLU Gießen. She researches psychological factors influencing sustainable and health-related behaviour and strategies for behaviour change, with a particular focus on sustainable and healthy eating.

Born 1978, studied psychology at the universities of Greifswald and Auckland; doctorate on the emergence of interethnic friendships at the University of Jena (2009). Research and work focus: group processes and intergroup relations, social development in the context of cultural diversity.

Address/contact: University of Duisburg-Essen, Professorship of Intercultural Psychology – Migration and Integration, Universitätsstr. 2, 45141 Essen,

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Dipl. Psych. 2006, University of Hamburg; Senior Lecturer at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand, since 2017. She completed her doctorate on trust building in 2012 at the University of Hamburg. She then worked as a postdoc at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, in the Intergroup Relations Lab with Professor Sidanius, where she further developed the Intergroup Trust Model. She works mainly on applied projects in the fields of trust building and reconciliation.

Prof. Dr. phil. habil., born 1947, is Professor emeritus of Psychological Methodology and Peace Research at the University of Konstanz. He has published numerous scholarly works on research methods, nonviolent conflict resolution, peace journalism and antisemitism. Since 2002 Prof. Dr. Kempf has been editor of the transdisciplinary journal conflict & communication online (www.cco.regener-online.de). In 2014 he published, together with the Israeli media scholar Dov Shinar, the book “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: War Coverage and Peace Journalism”. In 2015 his monograph “Israelkritik zwischen Antisemitismus und Menschenrechtsidee. Eine Spurensuche” (Criticism of Israel between antisemitism and the idea of human rights: tracing the evidence) appeared. Website: http://www.pfkn.regener-online.de/

Dr. Nadine Knab is a social and peace psychologist and currently chair of the German Peace Psychology Association. Her dissertation was conducted at University Koblenz-Landau and awarded the German Thesis Award in 2021 (2nd prize). During her academic work Nadine visited research institutes in the US, Russia and Israel. Currently, she is a postdoctoral fellow of the Azrieli Foundation at the Boris Mints Institute for Strategic Policy Solutions to Global Challenges at the Tel Aviv University in Israel and lecturer at the International Program for Conflict Resolution and Mediation.

Her research interests include intergroup relations and psychological determinants for conflict and cooperation. More here: www.nadine-knab.com

Prof. Dr. Helen Landmann has been Professor of “Applied Psychology for the 21st Century” at the University of Klagenfurt since March 2024. Her research focuses on environmental psychology (e.g. motivation for protest for and against the energy transition) and community psychology (e.g. success factors for intercultural coexistence), with an emphasis on emotional processes. She is spokesperson of the social psychology network on flight and integration (www.fachnetzflucht.de) and of the teaching cluster of the DGPs interest group Human – Climate – Sustainability.

Bernhard Leidner was Full Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program in

the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. He was internationally known for his research on intergroup violence, international conflict (reduction), and justice, primarily in the context of large social categories such as nations and ethnic groups.

Mengyao Li is a Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Queen’s University Belfast. Prior to joining Queen’s, Mengyao was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and obtained her PhD from the Peace and Violence Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research lies at the intersection of social, political, and peace psychology. It broadly focuses on the psychological processes of intergroup conflicts and their resolution, group-based violence, national and ethnic identity, transitional justice, as well as civil resistance and social change.

Carmen Lienen (Dr. rer. nat., Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2023) is a social psychologist who studies social representations of history and how they shape collective identities, political action and intergroup relations in the present. Further research areas are social-psychological aspects of migration and inequality. She holds a master's degree in Social and Cultural Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2017) and a bachelor's degree in psychology from the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (2016).

Jack Loughnane is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology at the University of Limerick, Ireland. His PhD studies are funded by the Irish Research Council. His primary research project investigates multiple group identification and intergroup attitudes from a cognitive consistency perspective.

Florence Maggs completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of Dundee, Scotland, in 2019. She then enrolled in the bilingual psychology programme at Jacobs University Bremen, with a focus on clinical, industrial and organizational, and intercultural psychology, and completed her Master of Science in summer 2022. Her research and interests centre on the clinical-therapeutic and political work of psychologists.

Pascal Merz (MA Social and Communication Sciences) is a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Department of Psychology at the University of Kaiserlautern-Landau (RPTU).

Main research interests: Social media influencers, political psychology, political communication, media effects research, environmental communication.

Research associate in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Doctorate (2020) at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Areas of focus: political anthropology, anthropology of the state, anthropology of conflict. Current research interests: state-population relations, civilian agency, peace processes and (in)security in conflict regions of Colombia and Guatemala.

Born 1984, leads the research group “Psychotraumatology and Migration Research” together with Prof. Dr. Heide Glaesmer at the Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology at Leipzig University and is also co-head of the Scientific Department at the Center ÜBERLEBEN in Berlin. He studied psychology at Leipzig University and received his doctorate from the Medical Faculty of Leipzig University in 2016. His work addresses migration and refugee research and the psychological consequences of traumatisation in this context. One focus of his work is research on sexualised wartime violence.

Claudia Niedlich, born in 1988, is an academic councillor in Economic Psychology at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau. Her research interests include stereotypes and discrimination in personnel selection and the topic of intersectionality.

Hannah Daria Nussmann, M.Sc. Psychology (*1993), is a research associate at Fachhochschule Dortmund and is working on a cooperative doctorate with Fachhochschule Dortmund and Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Her doctoral topic is psychological violence in the German Democratic Republic, focusing on approaches to psychological torture, repression and trauma processing. Further areas of work are the uses of academic psychology in the GDR and the forms and consequences of psychological violence.

Inga Pauls studied psychology at Radboud University Nijmegen and the University of Groningen. She conducts research at the Centre for Technology and Society at Technische Universität Berlin and at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Her research addresses motivations for collective action and group identities in the context of social injustice, as well as applied projects promoting democracy (e.g. deradicalisation and institutional racism).

Prof. Dr. Michaela Pfundmair, born 1984, is currently Professor of Intelligence Psychology at the Hochschule des Bundes in Berlin. Her research focuses mainly on the psychology of radicalisation and on the effects of social exclusion on experience and behaviour, particularly in the context of extreme reactions.

Born 1947, graduate psychologist and Professor of Educational Psychology. Studied psychology, social pedagogy and education. Lecturer at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Hamburg since 1976 (doctorate 1979). Research and teaching focus: communication, cooperation and conflict management.

Gerhard Reese, born 1981, studied (social) psychology at the universities of Erfurt, Jena and Canterbury/UK, PhD on intergroup processes at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (2010), research and work focus: Environmental psychology (climate and nature protection, nature and health) and socio-ecological transformation as well as social and global injustice, address/contact: University of Koblenz-Landau, Professor for Environmental Psychology, Fortstr. 7, 76829 Landau,

Jenny Roth is an Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She received her PhD from the University in Jena, Germany in 2010. Her research mainly investigates social identities and intergroup relations from a social cognitive perspective.

Julia Sasse is Professor for General Psychology and Media Effects at the Applied University Ansbach and affiliated researcher at the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence at TUM. She studied at the University of Düsseldorf and received her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Groningen in 2017. In her research, she investigates the functions of emotions in the context of norm transgressions and social conflicts in offline and online environments.

Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Julia Sasse, Applied University Ansbach, Residenzstrasse 8, 91522 Ansbach, Germany,

Studied at the University of Mannheim and received his doctorate at the University of Göttingen. He has taught and conducted research at the University of Jena, the University of Groningen, Lehigh University and the University of Queensland. Since 2008 he has been a research group leader at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien and a professor at the University of Tübingen. Kai Sassenberg's research addresses processes within and between groups against the background of theories of self- and emotion regulation.

Born 1982. Klaus Töpfer Junior Professor for Land Use Conflicts, Institute for Environmental Sciences, and Scientific Director of the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate University of Technology Kaiserslautern-Landau. Doctorate in geography in 2012 at the University of Hamburg. Focus areas: resource conflicts, climate change.

Manfred Schmitt is Professor emeritus of Psychological Assessment and Personality Psychology at the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Technology Kaiserslautern-Landau. Previously he held professorships in developmental psychology (Saarbrücken), methodology (Magdeburg) and social psychology (Trier). His research interests include emotions (jealousy, guilt, anger, fear, disgust, depressiveness), justice beliefs and sensitivity to injustice, the interplay of explicit and implicit personality traits in information processing and behavioural regulation, interactions between personality traits and situational features, objective personality tests, psychological contributions to environmental protection, and the influence of teachers' personality on the quality of instruction.

Julia Schnepf is Assistant Professor in the Department of Work and Social Psychology at Maastricht University. She studied political science, psychology and economics at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and received her doctorate at the University of Koblenz-Landau with a thesis on linguistic framing effects in different policy areas. She has also worked extensively on how the media portray social inequalities. Her current research focuses on media portrayals of violence against women.

(*1959 in Hamburg), studied ethnology, among other places in Cologne (M.A.); doctorate in 2009 at Coventry University; worked, among other roles, as programme director at Nonviolent Peaceforce; currently executive director of the Bund für Soziale Verteidigung (Federation for Social Defence) and research associate at the Institute for Peace Work and Nonviolent Conflict Transformation. Co-founder, editor and regular author of the journal FriedensForum. Her focus areas are civil conflict transformation, social defence, nonviolent intervention in violent conflicts and civilian peacekeeping. Numerous publications on nonviolence, civilian peacekeeping, social defence and the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.

Christian von Sikorski (PhD in Media and Mass Communication) is Junior Professor of Political Psychology (tenure-track) at the Department of Psychology at the University of Kaiserlautern-Landau (RPTU). After studying in Cologne and research stays in Hong Kong and New York City, he was a post-doc at the University of Vienna.

Research focus: Political psychology, political communication, media effects research with a focus on social media influencers, political scandals, misinformation and political polarization.

Prof. em. Dr. Gert Sommer was a professor of psychology with a focus on clinical psychology and community psychology (1977-2006) in Marburg. Co-founder of the Forum Friedenspsychologie (formerly Friedensinitiative Psychologie*Psychosoziale Berufe), Chairman 1986-2005. Member of the Krefeld Initiative. Board member of the interdisciplinary journal “Wissenschaft & Frieden” 1991-2014. Co-founder and repeated spokesperson of the Interdisciplinary Working Group for Peace and Disarmament Research (IAFA) at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Co-founder of the Centre for Conflict Studies (CCS), Marburg, member of the board of directors 2001-2016. Numerous publications on peace psychology, especially enemy image and human rights.

Educated in Germany, Great Britain and the USA; degrees: Bachelor of Arts (Sociology), Master of Arts (Sociology and Physical Anthropology). Doctor of Philosophy of the German Foundation for International Cooperation in Bonn (1966-1968). Staff member of the United Nations (1968-2000), with duty stations in Ghana, Pakistan, Turkey and New York (1968-1981); head of UN offices in Botswana, Pakistan and India; Director of the UNDP Office in Geneva (1982-1998); Assistant UN Secretary-General and UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq (1998-2000).

Melanie Caroline Steffens, born in 1969, is a professor of Social Psychology at the Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University (RPTU) Kaiserslautern-Landau and heads the Social, Environmental and Economic Psychology Unit. Her research focuses on group-related attitudes, social diversity and discrimination with a focus on gender.

Dr. Jost Stellmacher holds a doctorate and a diploma in psychology and is a senior teaching staff member (Oberstudienrat im Hochschuldienst) at Philipps-Universität Marburg. He has been a member of the Forum Friedenspsychologie for many years and, since 2008, has been responsible at the Department of Psychology in Marburg for coordinating and delivering teacher education in psychology. His research has so far focused on human rights education, research on prejudice, and aggression and violence among young people.

Miriam Tekath, born 1991, is a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Centre for Conflict Studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg. She previously studied at the universities of Bremen, Montreal, Osnabrück and Marburg. Her academic work lies at the interface between a political-science research interest and micro-sociological research approaches, in order to understand social conflicts and how they are dealt with in politically polarised societies.

Josephine Tröger, born 1985, studied psychology and literature-art-media at the Universities of Konstanz and Monterrey. Research and work focus: Sufficiency

orientation, attitude change, socio-ecological transformation, address/contact: Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, CC Energy Technologies and Energy Systems, Breslauer Straße 48, 76139 Karlsruhe,

Born 1977, studied psychology and received his doctorate in Marburg, habilitation in Frankfurt; Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Zurich since 2013. Focus areas are social cognition, intergroup processes and social change.

Johannes Vüllers, born 1982, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Previously he was Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University and a research associate at the University of Konstanz. His research deals with protest groups, protests in civil war contexts and the role of religion in conflicts.

Jürgen Wagner is executive board member of the Tübingen Information Centre on Militarisation (IMI).

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Prof. Dr. Ulrich Wagner was head of the Social Psychology research group in Marburg until 2017. His research areas are intergroup relations, violence prevention and the evaluation of social-science interventions.

Born 1993. Master's student in Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation, University of Greifswald. Focus areas: environmental ethics, land use conflicts.

Born 1987; Junior Professor of Insecurity Studies and Societal Order Formation, Universität der Bundeswehr München; doctorate at Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2017; research on the dynamics of violence in genocide with a focus on perpetrators, and on the politics of memory and coming to terms with the past after violence.

Studied psychology at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (2011-2016). He also completed his doctorate there in 2019, with a dissertation titled “Open mind for a different view: A cognitive approach to improve intergroup relations”. Since then he has worked as a research associate at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien in Tübingen (Social Processes research group). Kevin Winter's research addresses attitude change in intergroup contexts and beyond, and the cognitive processes underlying it.