Annual Report 2011

Annual Report 2011 Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH) 20144 Hamburg . Beim Schlump 83 Contents IFSH Annual Report 2011 Contents 1. The work of the IFSH in 2011 – Director’s Foreword 2 1.1 Detlef Bald: Lecture on the 40th Anniversary of IFSH 40 Years of Hamburg Peace Research. IFSH (1971-2011 5 2. Current Topics in the Institute’s Work 2011 14 2.1 OSCE Initiative IDEAS 14 2.2 Understanding War 18 2.3 Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the Middle East 24 3. Research Units – Research and Consultancy Projects 30 3.1 Centre for OSCE Research (CORE) 30 3.2 Centre for European Peace and Security Studies (ZEUS) 34 3.3 Interdisciplinary Research Group on Disarmament, Arms Control and Risk Technologies (IFAR²) 42 3.4 Pan-Institute Projects 48 4. Comprehensive Activities 49 4.1 Working Group on the Research on the Effectiveness of International Institutions 49 4.2 Commission „European Security and the Future of the Bundeswehr” at IFSH 49 4.3 Research Group DemoS at IFSH 49 4.4 Selected Conferences, Events and Guests 50 4.5 Research Colloquium 2011 52 4.6. Lectures of Fellows and Staff (selection) 53 4.7 Functions of IFSH Staff in Professional Bodies 56 5. Teaching and Promotion of Junior Researchers 58 5.1 Degree Course „Master of Peace and Security Studies - (M.P.S.)” at the University of Hamburg 58 5.2 European Master’s Degree “Human Rights and Democratization” (Venice) 60 5.3 Teaching and Doctoral Cooperation with the East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai 61 5.4 The IFSH Doctoral Supervision Program 61 5.5 Teaching by IFSH Staff in 2011 61 6. Services 64 6.1 Public Relations 64 6.2 Peace Research Sponsoring Association (VFIF) 64 6.3 Library, Documentation and Homepage of the IFSH in 2010 65 7. Personnel and Bodies 67 7.1 Board of Trustees 67 7.2 Scientific Advisory Board 67 7.3 Institute Council 67 7.4 Gender equality 68 7.5 Staff Members at the IFSH 2011 68 8. Publications 71 8.1 IFSH Series 71 8.2 Peace Report 71 8.3. OSCE Yearbook 72 8.4 Publications by IFSH Members of Staff in 2011 74 9. Statistical Annex 85 1 IFSH Annual Report 2011 Director’s Foreword 1. On the Work of IFSH 2011 – Director’s Foreword In 2011, IFSH celebrated its fortieth anniversary. Its foundation in June 1971 was followed, in the fall of 1971, by the first staff members taking up their work with the founding director, Wolf Graf von Baudissin on the Falkenstein in Hamburg Blankenese. On the occasion of the anniversary, a celebratory event was held on 14 November 2011. In his commemorative speech, which is printed in this annual report, Detlef Bald particularly emphasized the relationship between the scientific work at IFSH and its political significance. This aspect was also dealt with in the podium discussion that followed in which, in addition to Egon Bahr, Alyson Bailes, the former SIPRI Director, Regina Mehl, the chairperson of the Peace and Conflict Research Association and Ex M.P. Winfried Nachwei took part. Beyond the celebratory event, the 40 year anniversary, also offered a good opportunity, in a series of thematic seminars and conferences, to reflect on the processes of change in the work over the last years as well as the further perspectives of IFSH. Since its founding, the basis of the work of the IFSH has been free scientific research. The IFSH should also – as stated unchanged in the Articles of Incorporation – deal “particularly with security policy problems within the framework of peace research”. IFSH thus has at heart a double mission, as its name suggests. It is expected to carry out scientific research with a sociopolitical, specific peace policy agenda. That there may be tensions between scientific research and sociopolitical requirements has been shown through different conflicts in the history of IFSH. But fundamentally, this tension is also, at the same time, productive and opens up great possibilities. These possibilities have already been well used by the IFSH. That is shown by, among other things, the impressive scope of political consultations by IFSH staff members which, for the first time, are quantitatively enumerated in this Annual Report (2011: Participation 115 times in hearings and internal discussions in Parliaments, Ministries and international organizations), the public demand for IFSH expertise, which is reflect- ed in, among other things, the statistics on interviews (2011: 183), lectures (139) and podium participation (33) and the role which the IFSH has taken in the organization of a series of international conferences with high level scientists and political participation, such as the Pugwash Annual Con- ference at the beginning of July in the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, a conference on “Challeng- es for Cybersecurity: Threats, Strategies & Confidence-Building” in December, also at the Federal Foreign Office, and the conference in Vienna on the “Development of OSCE Field Activities” in May. The IFSH is very well-positioned nationally and internationally for political consultation in some important thematic areas. Among these are topics such as the organization of security in Europe, questions of arms control and disarmament and questions about the use of military force. The current staff profits considerably from the social capital built up by their predecessors, above all, how- ever, the first three Directors of the IFSH Wolf Graf von Baudissin, Egon Bahr and Dieter Lutz. Effective political consultation needs the respect and the trust of the addressees – conditions which must be created and cultivated in the hard competition among those offering consultation. The central basis of well-founded political consultation is methodical and theoretically grounded scientific research. Its success is also the condition for sustainably securing the IFSH’s raison d’être. Beginning with the early years of its foundation, research was carried out at the IFSH. But the fun- damental conditions for research have changed. With them, the expectations and evidence of success in scholarship have also changed. The requirements for methodical and theoretical scrutiny and reflection have significantly increased. Since methods and theories are, as a rule, anchored in scientific disciplines, a visible connection to the respective state of research is of great significance for the power of persuasion of scientific work. For peace research, in which parallel or, even better, 2 Director’s Foreword IFSH Annual Report 2011 integrative employment of multiple disciplines makes sense, this is a great challenge. It strengthens the trend towards working in groups which, for a long time, has been the rule in natural sciences. Parallel to professionalization, which generally can be observed in peace research, the culture of evaluation of research work has changed. Also for applied research, which is central to the work of IFSH, quantitative and qualitative criteria, which come from basic research, are increasingly enlist- ed. Here the IFSH has made efforts in the last few years to increase the number of refereed publications. While further growth must continue to be aspired to, both in the refereed publications overall (2011: 34) and also in the list of those in particularly high-level journals (2011: 6 of the Thomson Reuters World of Knowledge-List), progress has been achieved compared to previous years. The increased attention to and anchoring of the changed conditions for scientific work are of great significance for the perspective of IFSH: the achieving of a quality level, that makes the prospects for an application for membership in the Leibniz Association (Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Leibniz, WGL) seem promising. In April 2011 the IFSH underwent a consultative evaluation by three ex- ternal experts under WGL conditions. The experts were unanimous that good and, in some cases, very good research was being carried out within the IFSH. At the same time, they found a number of weaknesses on which IFSH must work to have a promising WGL perspective. Among these are in particular, an increase in the number of high-level publications, as well as a better elaboration of and focus on the unique features of the IFSH. Active efforts were also made in 2011 for a stronger focusing of the work of the IFSH. The topics of the work program “Transnational Risks of Violence”, adopted in 2008, are increasingly the focus of attention. The work program reflects the fact that new security problems have come into the limelight. Their emergence and position on the political agenda have a great deal to do with the global changes over the last decades: with the end of the Cold War, globalization of the exchange of goods, communication and media attention. Security threats no longer stop at borders. They affect people directly more than they do states. The IFSH has, in the past, been very successful in securing third party funding for these thematic areas, inter alia for the two projects supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, PiraT and TERAS-INDEX. Since these projects are now being implemented, expenditures financed by third-party funding rose to 1,267 million Euros in 2011, while the amount of new funding was 0,829 million Euros, somewhat over half of the institutional support of 1,544 million Euros. Furthermore, initial ideas for a new IFSH work program, which were elaborated by three parallel working groups, were presented to the IFSH Scientific Advisory Board in November 2011. This will be the basis for further discussion. In the fall of 2012, a draft will be presented to the supervi- sory committees of the Institute. The goal is setting priorities which combine fundamentals of peace research and security policy and link them to both new theoretical considerations and selected political issues.

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