This section is a platform for interdisciplinary discourse on global peace and conflict, united in the endeavour to discuss possible solutions to pressing security problems.
Jonathan Rummel, a second-year Public Policy student currently on a Professional Year in the United States, offers a break-down of last night’s Presidential Debate from home. The trending hashtag #NOHANDSHAKE almost perfectly sums up the… [Read more]
Founded in 2014, Kiron Open Higher Education assists refugees with free and fast access to higher education. Founders Markus Kressler and Vincent Zimmer on navigating the realm between politics and social entrepreneurship and how start-ups… [Read more]
Few Hertie students are aware that the name Hertie originated from the Jewish-German Tietz family, forced out of business in Nazi Germany. A former employee of the Tietz’, Georg Karg, profited greatly from their loss. His heirs later… [Read more]
In their piece, Markus Jachtenfuchs and Nico Krisch depart from the observation that global governance consists of a multitude of international institutions. They problematize, however, the relationship between those institutions on the one hand, and… [Read more]
Taking European citizens’ concerns about ’the foreign’ seriously does not imply uncritically adopting them. Especially in times of change it is important to confront citizens’ fears with facts in order to establish a respectful dialogue… [Read more]
The 2016 U.S. Presidential Primary cycle demonstrates more than ever the need for a proportional representation electoral system. Our current winner-takes-all framework encourages two broadly based parties, disenfranchising important social movements and discouraging political participation… [Read more]
Last week’s controversial EU-Turkey migrant summit resolved to send back all migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey without documents. Is this a humanitarian solution? Over 1,012,100 migrants set sail for Europe from Turkey last year. Most… [Read more]
In the past few months, major powers involved in the Syrian crisis have met in Vienna in the hope of agreeing on a solution that will bring an end to the Syrian conflict. Meanwhile,… [Read more]
It is by no means a revolutionary idea that education is the key to integration and independence – yet so many refugees struggle to gain access to it. Asking young people who have recently left… [Read more]
Hertie School students Jekaterina Grigorjeva (Latvia) and Kevin Müller (Germany) were selected as two of the three Junior Ambassadors for the 2016 Munich Security Conference (MSC), under the chairmanship of Hertie School Professor Wolfgang Ischinger.… [Read more]