News
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Living Peace 2: Letters of Wars and Peace
Through public letters, we aim to amplify the voices that advocate for peace, reject violence, and uphold equal rights for all. You are invited to read the second letter...
Support for Student Protests in Serbia
The Peace Institute collective expresses its support to all who have been protesting against corruption, arrogance and authoritarianism of the ruling class in Novi Sad, Belgrade, Niš and other...
Living Peace: Letters of Wars and Peace
Through public letters, we aim to amplify the voices that advocate for peace, reject violence, and uphold equal rights for all. Having experienced war, they understand why it is...
International workshop on labour migration
We presented the interim results of our research on labour migration between Austria, Slovenia and BiH, and discussed the working and living conditions of labour migrants.
Thinking Peace 6: Human right to peace
Online lecture by Yurii Sheliazhenko, a peace activist from Ukraine. Please register your presence before December 5 (registration form in the post).
Book What Kind of Government?
Springer has published the book 'What kind of government? Rethinking Contemporary Forms of Government after the Break in Tradition', edited by Vlasta Jalušič and Wolfgang Heuer.
Projects
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Target research project Stimulating and inhibiting factors of international students studying in Slovenia
This project is based on a systematic research approach focusing on a specific student group—international students who come to Slovenia for their studies.
Working conditions and job quality in hospitality and tourism: A comparative analysis with recommendations
The project provides new knowledge on the working conditions and quality of jobs in the hospitality and tourism sector in Slovenia and proposes solutions to the shortage of staff...
Policy coherence for (sustainable) development – assesment of the effects of Slovenian national policies on developing countries and on the sustainable development of the Republic of Slovenia
The purpose of the research project, which is carried out in partnership with the Faculty of Social Sciences, is the preparation of systemic solutions for enforcing the principle of...
Empowering Ecosystems of Civil Society Organisations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia and Slovenia (PROSECO)
Promoting EU values and rights by building national and transnational ecosystems of cooperation that protect civic space and increase the resilience of civil society.
JUSTMIG: Sustainable and Socially Just Transnational Sectoral Labour Markets: Industrial Relations and Labour Market Adjustment to the Rise in Temporary Labour Migration
Project combines innovative research and data collection on labour market dynamics of migrant workers in both service and manufacturing sub-sectors across EU Member States and 3 EU candidate countries.
Data Matters: Sociotechnical Challenges of European Migration and Border Control (DATAMIG)
Project aims at supporting interdisciplinary research into the ways that the technological materialities inherent to the datafication of migration and border control may, on account of their black-boxed design,...
Publications
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Book / What Kind of Government? Rethinking Contemporary Forms of Government after the Break in Tradition
Springer has published the book What kind of government? Rethinking Contemporary Forms of Government after the Break in Tradition, edited by Vlasta Jalušič and Wolfgang Heuer.
Chapter / Multiple interacting migration patterns in senior care on Europe’s semi-periphery
The authors argue that semi-peripheral countries act as complex nodes of care migration where emigration, transit and immigration interact.
Article / Borderless fear? How right-wing populism aligns in affectively framing migration as a security threat in Austria and Slovenia
The findings point to a worrying convergence of anti-migration discourse across borders and to the potential spread of a right-wing populist bloc unified by fear of migration.
Chapter / Care Migration in Care Homes for Older People in the European Semi-Periphery Between Slovenia and Former Yugoslav Countries
The authors note that the political economy of care in neoliberal capitalism needs borders and their ambiguity - it needs borders that are both porous and exclusionary.
Article / Konec koncev: konec ali nov začetek? (The End of Ends: The End or a New Beginning?)
The text deals with the specific modality of the end, which manifests itself as a pervasive sense of the constant, imminent and real threat of total destruction of the...
Article / Squatting and direct care for urban space: the case of the Participatory Ljubljana Autonomous Zone (PLAC)
The article deals with the question of how the squatting community understands and implements direct care for urban space in the context of gentrification and elitization of the city.