The Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), which was founded in 1990, is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen. We combine basic with applied research contributing to academic debates as much as to political discussions. We work on issues at the interface of development, security and peace. Empirically, we specifically focus on the situation of vulnerable groups in the Global South and structures of violence, poverty and lack of rights.
