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On 11 February 2026, the Conflict, Crisis, and Change (C³) Research Center was officially founded at the University of Bayreuth. The C³, following up on our UBT Peace and Conflict Research Network, formalizes our research, teaching, and public outreach activities on peace and conflict matters.

The C³ supports cross-faculty research and teaching in peace and conflict studies at the University of Bayreuth and enables knowledge transfer. It brings together the expertise of different academic disciplines to study crises, conflict, (in)security, and transitions to peace, with a particular focus on change dynamics, knowledge production, and questions of justice. Promoting inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration, the C³ will generate and disseminate relevant findings for academia, society, and policymakers.

The C³ will have three core research areas:

• Contested hierarchies & knowledge
  
• Violence and conflict transformation in times of transition
  
• Infrastructures and planetary future

Please bear with us, as we are currently creating the institutional infrastructure and updating the website.