Institute for Development and Peace

The Institute for Development and Peace (German abbreviation: INEF) is a research institute of the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen. It was founded in 1990 on the basis of a cooperation agreement between the Peace and Development Foundation (German abbreviation: SEF) in Bonn and the former Gerhard Mercator University Duisburg. With its research focus at the interface between peace studies and development research, the Institute is quite unique in Germany and is virtually in a class of its own. It combines basic research with applied and policy-related research in the following areas: Global Governance and Human Security, Fragile States, Crisis Prevention and Civilian Conflict Management, Human Rights, and Corporate Social Responsibility.