Summer School Organization
The Institute of Political Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen is one of the major Germany university departments covering a wide range of research fields and teaching, offering one Bachelor and two Master programs. At the Institute of Political Science, the Chair of International Relations and Development Policy focusses on research in the field of International Relations and also holds regional expertise, mainly for Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), which was founded in 1990, is an institute of the University of Duisburg-Essen (Faculty of Social Sciences). INEF is the only German research institute working on questions at the intersection of peace and development and combines basic with applied research and public policy consulting. It closely collaborates with the Development and Peace Foundation (SEF), Bonn, established on the initiative of former German chancellor and Nobel prize winner Willy Brandt in 1986.