Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict

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The Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV) is a central research unit of the Ruhr University Bochum.

Geschichte

The Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (Institut für Friedenssicherungsrecht und Humanitäres Völkerrecht, IFHV) was established in 1988 as a central research unit ("Zentrale Wissenschaftliche Einrichtung") of the Ruhr University Bochum.

The institute works in close cooperation with different faculties, in particular the faculties of law, social science, geosciences and medicine.
The IFHV carries out research and teaching on the problems of peace and armed conflict from an inter-disciplinary perspective. Based on its strong international humanitarian law tradition, the IFHV is the only institute in Germany, and one of very few in Europe and the world, which is dedicated to the discipline of humanitarian studies.

The IFHV combines its strong emphasis on international humanitarian law, the law of peace and human rights law with sociological and political perspectives on humanitarian crises, actors and activities.