Course directors
:
Zoran Kurelić , University of Zagreb, Croatia
Wolfgang Heuer , Free University of Berlin, Germany
Vlasta Jalušič , University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Waltraud Meints-Stender , University of Applied Sciences Niederrhein, Germany
Cristina Sánchez , Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Course
description:
Politics and war are irreconcilable opposites when they take on a radical form - as a civic, pluralistic form of self-determination on the one hand and total annihilation on the other. There are also diverse forms such as authoritarian politics and war as politics by other means. Their positive relationship to violence is risky, however, because violence as a means to an end all too easily takes on a life of its own. The current national and international crises promote the acceptance of violence. They raise the questions of whether these are crises of democracy or of governance in complex societies in general, what institutional populist, expertocratic or grassroots democratic alternatives are offered, and what role identity discourses play - whether for the social emancipation of minorities, for the ethno-nationalist dominance of politics or for the mobilization for war and its justification.
Course
lecturers:
Martin Baesler , University of Freiburg, Germany
Thiago Dias , The State University of Campinas, Brazil
Antonio Gomez Ramos , University Carlos III - Madrid, Spain
Wolfgang Heuer , Free University of Berlin, Germany
Vlasta Jalušič , University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Rafael Kasper , The Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Gorazd Kovačič , University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Zlatan Krajina , University of Zagreb, Croatia
Zoran Kurelić , University of Zagreb, Croatia
Waltraud Meints-Stender , University of Applied Sciences Niederrhein, Germany
Ringo Rösener , University of Leipzig, Germany
Cristina Sánchez , Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Anja Vida , University of Zagreb, Croatia
Lana Zdravković , Peace Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
