A new article by Samantha Ruppel, a research associate at the Rhineland-Palatinate Peace Academy, and Lucas Steinbach, a research assistant at the Peace Academy, has been published on the Peace Academy blog. In the post“Why Scholars Under Pressure Should Learn from Each Other,” the authors critically examine the international discourse on academic freedom and explore how researchers confront political and structural restrictions. They describe how academic freedoms are restricted and then expanded again in the context of political change, and how scholars affected by restrictions resist and build resilience. Samantha Ruppel and Lucas Steinbach emphasize that these scholars should not be viewed by the academic community as victims in need of support, but rather as experts with their own forms of knowledge. Mutual exchange and learning from one another therefore lead to better protection against restrictions.

A new article by Samantha Ruppel, a research associate at the Rhineland-Palatinate Peace Academy, and Lucas Steinbach, a research assistant at the Peace Academy, has been published on the Peace Academy blog. In the post“Why Scholars Under Pressure Should Learn from Each Other,” the authors critically examine the international discourse on academic freedom and explore how researchers confront political and structural restrictions. They describe how academic freedoms are restricted and then expanded again in the context of political change, and how scholars affected by restrictions resist and build resilience. Samantha Ruppel and Lucas Steinbach emphasize that these scholars should not be viewed by the academic community as victims in need of support, but rather as experts with their own forms of knowledge. Mutual exchange and learning from one another therefore lead to better protection against restrictions.