Participation at the AFK Methods Workshop
6 October 2025
On September 29 and 30, 2025, the annual workshop of the Working Group “Empirical Methods in Peace and Conflict Research” of the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (AFK) took place at Goethe-University Frankfurt (Main). During the two-day event, participants presented and discussed their diverse research projects, covering a wide range of quantitative and qualitative methods.
From the Center for Crisis Early Warning (CCEW), two of our research associates, Lena Runge and Christian Oswald, took part and presented different research projects. Lena Runge shared preliminary findings from her PhD project on the withdrawal of international peacekeeping operations from a forecasting perspective, while Christian Oswald presented on the use of large language models (LLMs) to generate additional variables from text data in conflict research.
The interdisciplinarity of the participants, along with the diversity of methodological, theoretical, and empirical expertise, proved to be an enormous enrichment for the discussions and provided valuable impulses. The AFK Methods Workshop thus represents an important opportunity for networking and advancing research at the CCEW.
Picture:© KompZ KFE, Lena Runge
