Start of the "Debate Series Peace Memorandum" on the Peace Academy blog with opening contribution by Christoph Picker and Christoph Weller
Against the backdrop of the new peace memorandum published by the Protestant Church in Germany in November 2025, the Peace Academy blog is accompanying two events this spring (in Landau and Augsburg) to discuss the peace ethics perspectives of the memorandum "World in Disorder - A Focus on Just Peace", bringing peace and conflict research into conversation with committed members of the Protestant Church.
The Peace Academy blog would like to make the contributions and perspectives of this event visible beyond the time and place of the conferences in a blog series. Christoph Picker, Director of the Protestant Academy of the Palatinate, and Christoph Weller, Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at the University of Augsburg, take up the invitation of the Peace Memorandum to examine positions and formulate questions in their opening contribution entitled "More dissent for just peace - questions and impulses for the necessary peace ethics debate" and focus on twelve subject areas that require further discussion and in which the recognition of dissent could make a valuable contribution to peace. The questions are intended to stimulate and structure the debate.
In this context, we invite you to write strong comments (500-700 words): What understanding of peace underlies the memorandum? Who is "protected from violence" and which forms of violence are considered? How can peace studies perspectives (e.g. peace logic, peacebuilding, civil conflict transformation) shed light on the controversies? The other contributions and comments will be published successively in order to enable mutual references between the participants.
The continuously published debate contributions can be followed from the end of January on https://rptu.de/friedensakademie/blog. Please send your own submissions to friedensakademie-blog[at]rPTU.de! Would you like to write a contribution but are not present at the events? Then please coordinate the topic with us(a.groppe[at]rptu.de) in advance.
Click here for the opening article by Christoph Picker and Christoph Weller.