Joint Institute for Conflict Analysis, Conflict Regulation and Democratic Education (CONCREDE)
The Joint Institute for Conflict Analysis, Conflict Regulation and Civic Education (Concrede) was jointly founded by the Universities of Duisburg-Essen and Münster in 2023 to provide a common umbrella and forum for a variety of research projects and scholars from both universities who study conflicts in pluralist societies.
The researchers involved in Concrede come from the humanities, social sciences and education. They share a common interest in the theoretical and empirical analysis of conflicts in contemporary pluralist societies and in possible ways of regulating them. Concrede focusses specifically on institutions and processes of socialisation and education, since both are understood as sites of the (re)production of conflict, but also as possible points of intervention for conflict regulation.
The establishment of Concrede as a virtual institute is intended to facilitate interdisciplinary and inter-university cooperations and to make research results more widely accessible to the public.