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Events

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May

1945-2025: 80 years of narratives about the end of World War II

Event Monday, 19. May 2025 – Tuesday, 20. May 2025

13th European History Forum
Livestream
26

May

Berlin Forum on Global Cooperation 2025

Conference Monday, 26. May 2025 in Berlin

From Disruption to Transformation
Livestream
26

May

Sustainable development and the crisis of US hegemony

Lecture Monday, 26. May 2025 in Berlin

With Adam Tooze - Historian, publicist and co-editor of the business magazine Surplus
Livestream
27

May

The Self-deception Trap

Book presentation and discussion Tuesday, 27. May 2025 in Berlin

On dependencies and the vision of equal partnership
02

June

Those tempered at daybreak: LGBTQ* eyewitness reports of the war in Ukraine

Exhibition Monday, 02. June 2025 – Monday, 30. June 2025 in Berlin
04

June

The future of international law - an anchor in a crumbling world order?

Event Wednesday, 04. June 2025 in Berlin

Livestream

Regions

Gender agenda: The big conundrum in the general elections in Kenya and Senegal

Analyse

In the months of July and August, Senegal and Kenya will hold their general elections. However, the big question remains: Where do Senegalese and Kenyan women stand on their quest to parliamentary mandates and political offices?

By Dr Saliou Ngom, Dr Selly Ba, Caroline Kioko and Nicola Egelhof

Windfall profits in energy markets: acute symptoms of structural problems

Analysis

Energy prices in Europe have soared to new highs since the autumn of 2021, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine amplifying the trend. This study shows that whilst electricity prices rose, so did the profits of energy companies.

By Suzana Carp

All Regions

In the second half of the 1980s, with the beginning of the Armenian-Azerbaijani military escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani residents of Kyzyl-Shafag, a village in northern Armenia, and Armenian residents of Kerkenj, a village in central Azerbaijan, met through their own initiative to negotiate a peaceful exchange of their villages.

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Perspectives Southeastern Europe #9: Women in Western Balkans - Rights and Fights

Magazine

This issue of Perspectives is about women. Their rights and struggles for gender equality, which have existed for generations in the Western Balkans, are presented by authors who are themselves part of the feminist struggles.

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"Get Lost!": European Return Policies in Practice

Study

Current EU migration policies' increased focus on returns raises concerns on the adequacy of such measures with EU standards and fundamental rights. This publication highlights the problems and difficulties returnees face in Afghanistan, Syria, Tunisia, Senegal and Kosovo.

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Plastic Atlas

Agriculture Atlas 2019

The Ocean Atlas

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Publication Series

All Issues of Perspectives Asia

All Issues of Perspectives Africa

All Issues of Perspectives Latin America (Spanish)

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All Issues of Perspectives Southeastern Europe

All Issues of Perspectives Middle East & North Africa

Portals & Institutes

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GreenCampus is our further education academy with offers in political management, personnel development as well as gender and diversity management.

Go to Heimatkunde

Heimatkunde is the migration policy portal of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Go to the GWI

The Gunda Werner Institute at the Heinrich Böll Foundation (GWI) pools gender policy and feminist topics.

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We declare our full solidarity with Ukraine. We stand by the side of our Ukrainian partners and colleagues and, at the same time, by the side of our partners in Russian civil society who are beset by harsh repression.

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Events

1945-2025: 80 years of narratives about the end of World War II

Berlin Forum on Global Cooperation 2025

Sustainable development and the crisis of US hegemony

The Self-deception Trap

Those tempered at daybreak: LGBTQ* eyewitness reports of the war in Ukraine

The future of international law - an anchor in a crumbling world order?

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