Ernst Otto Czempiel Prize
The Ernst Otto Czempiel Prize is an award worth 5,000 euros. It has been awarded every two years since 2008 in honor of the long-standing director of the Hessian Peace and Conflict Research Foundation (PRIF), Ernst-Otto Czempiel , at PRIF's annual conference. With the award, PRIF honors the best post-doctoral monograph in international peace research . The book versions of dissertations and books by authors who were 45 years or older at the time of publication are excluded.
jury
The winner is selected by a three-person jury. This consists of (as of 2016):
- Harald Müller , Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main , chairman of the jury, executive board member of PRIF
- Eva Senghaas-Knobloch , University of Bremen
- Dirk Messner , German Development Institute (DIE), Scientific Advisory Council of the Federal Government on Global Change (WBGU)
Award winners
- 2008: Guy Ben-Porat for "Global Liberalism, Local Populism: Peace and Conflict in Israel / Palestine and Northern Ireland"
- 2010: Rita Schäfer for "Women and wars in Africa - a contribution to gender research"
- 2012: Elke Krahmann for "States, Citizens and the Privatization of Security"
- 2014: Piki Ish-Shalom for “Democratic Peace. A Political Biography "
- 2016: Birgit Bräuchler for "The Cultural Dimension of Peace: Decentralization and Reconciliation in Indonesia"
- 2018: Simon Koschut for “Normative Change and Security Community Disintegration. Undoing Peace "
- 2020: Kerstin von Lingen for "'Crimes against Humanity': A history of ideas about civilizing the violence of war 1864-1945"