Past projects
Cluster project “ConTrust – Trust in conflict”
Cluster project
Project duration: 2021 to March 2025
Heisenberg Fellowship “Space, Agency and Practices in the Postnational Constellation”
PD Dr. Daniel Lambach
Project duration: September 1, 2018 to November 14, 2023
The political difference of life. A new conception of the crisis of state and society
Dr. Jonas Heller
Dr. Marina Martinez Mateo
Prof. Dr. Christoph Menke
Project duration: January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2021
VICTOR-E Visual Culture of Trauma, Obliteration, and Reconstruction in Post-War Europe
Prof. Dr. Vinzenz Hediger
Project duration: May 1, 2019 to April 30, 2022
Working group 2: Coercion and sanction
In all political systems of rule, coercion is used to deal with conflicts. Against this backdrop, the working group poses the key question of how coercion contributes to the production of trust or mistrust in and through conflicts. It examines how selected forms of coercion (legal, military, etc.) can be traced back to positive and negative experiences of conflict, influence the course of conflicts and thus produce trust in and through conflicts over the course of time.
more information ›Working group 3: Market
The working group analyzes the complex relationship between trust and forms of economic conflict. While markets are generally seen as a guarantor of economic trust, most decisions are not made in an institutional vacuum, but within the framework of formal and informal institutions. At the heart of the group’s empirical work program are two projects, one on how the COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping the relationship between the state and the economy, and one on how crises are changing the gendered division of labor in the household.
more information ›Working group 4: Knowledge
The working group investigates the role of knowledge and knowledge-based institutions (epistemic authorities) for the emergence of trust and mistrust in social conflicts. Knowledge about the preferences of others, but also about the social and natural world, is an essential resource for managing conflicts productively. Where knowledge is shared, trust develops and stabilizes. However, this stabilizing power itself depends on epistemic trust, the exact form and role of which has yet to be determined by the working group’s research.
more information ›Working group 5: Media
The working group examines how media create trust in pluralistic societies and thereby enable the productive resolution of conflicts and at the same time reflect these processes. Based on the findings of the increasing digitalization of communication, the working group examines the operational and formal aspects of mass media (press, TV), film, literature, telecommunications and social media as well as functional media in law, business and politics in their formal and informal use. The working group’s methodological approach goes beyond content-, text- and technology-centered analyses and takes aesthetic, legal and economic factors into account.
more information ›Communities under suspicion – Do proactive security policies and extremism prevention have unintended racist side effects?
INRA_A04 – Project of the FGZ Frankfurt am Main
Prof. Dr. Christopher Daase
Project duration: October 1, 2021 to December 31, 2024
Towards a transnational theory of justice for the EU: The non-domination approach
Dr. Dimitrios Efthymiou
Project duration: 2019 to 2024