On Monday, 7 March 2022, Cooperadio hosts Janine Herbert and Julia Fleck spoke with peace researchers Professors Tobias Debiel and Herbert Wulf, about their analysis of the causes and motivations behind the Russian invasion of Ukraine, how to get out of the spiral of escalation, what possible scenarios for an end of the war could look like, and the consequences of the current confrontation for the future of the European security architecture and the international system as a whole. 

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Tobias Debiel is Deputy Director of the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) and Co-Director of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, both at the University of Duisburg- Essen. There, he is also Professor for International Relations in the Department of Political Science since 2006. His research interests lie in the areas of state failure and global governance; state building and violent conflicts; and structures of violence and development chances in times of globalization.

Herbert Wulf is a Professor of International Relations and former Director of the Bonn International Center for Conflict Studies (BICC). Between 2012 and 2013, he was Senior Expert Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/ Centre for Global Cooperation Research. He is presently a Senior Fellow at BICC, an Adjunct Senior Researcher at the Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg/Essen, Germany, and a Research Affiliate at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand. He serves on the Scientific Boards of SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, and the Centre for Conflict Studies of the University of Marburg, Germany.