PRCP Annual Review 2018

Are you wondering what we've been up to in the first year of our existence? We have prepared an Annual Review, where you will find all our major achievements and outcomes!

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Round table "Chinese model as a challenge to the West"

On Wednesday, we hosted a round table on the topic "Chinese model as a challenge to the West" which was linked to a paper published by two of our senior researchers Miloš Balabán and Michal Tomášek published in The Lawyer Quarterly.

You can read the article here

PRCP Policy Brief #005

Michal Parízek has written the fifth of our policy briefs. The title is "The Global Trade Regime in Crisis," and you can now find it in the Policy Briefs section on our website as well as in the Institute of International Relations Prague's Mezinárodní Politika.

We have a YouTube channel!

We are porud to anounce, that we have started a new YouTube channel where you will be able to find videos about us, our poeple and our research.

Have a look at our video where Michal Smetana, Carmen Wunderlich, Michal Parízek, Pavlína Bláhová, and Harald Müller introduce our Center and its research pillars.

Video edited by Gabriel Malík
Music composed and produced by Michal Smetana and Petr Tetal, (c) Tribal Vision Records 2018

PRCP Policy Brief #004

Our new external collaborator Ekaterina Ananyeva has written the fourth of our policy briefs. The title is "One Belt One Road Versus the Eurasian Economic Union," and you can now find it in the Policy Briefs section on our website as well as in the Institute of International Relations Prague's Mezinárodní Politika.

Call for Internship in the Frozen Conflict Project

We are looking for an intern!

► Ideal applicant should be either Bachelor or Master student in Social Sciences and Humanities
► The program is to run from November to January 2019 and can be prolonged if possible
► The intern is expected to work 25 hours per week

► Tasks of the intern:

• Analyzing several Frozen Conflicts with close guidance of the research team

• Learning and supporting the team in the build-up of a website featuring the results of the Frozen Conflict project

• Learning and maintaining the database on frozen conflicts and creating visualizations

• Encouraged to conduct own academic research supported by the research team

In case of interest, please submit your application to prcp@fsv.cuni.cz until the 28th of October

to learn more about the internship

Seminar: Korean Peninsula – Pathways to Peace and Security

The Peace Research Center Prague and the Embassy of the Republic of Korea to the Czech Republic cordially invite you to the seminar “Korean Peninsula – Pathways to Peace and Security”, which will take place on Thursday, 1st November 2018, from 09:30 to 13:00 at Charles University – Karolinum building, Ovocný trh 560/5, Praha 1.

The seminar will provide an excellent opportunity to discuss the recent developments and future directions of the process of denuclearization and establishing stable peace of the Korean peninsula.

We look forward to welcoming you.

Should you wish to attend, please RSVP to koreanembassy-seminar@seznam.cz

Please note the event capacity is limited.

Further information and program of the event

The event is organized in cooperation with the Center for Security Policy (Středisko bezpečnostní politiky, SBP) and the Political Science Club (Politologický klub, PK FSV UK), Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University.

New article in Security Studies journal

Our researcher Jan Ludvik has published (online first) a new article "Closing the Window of Vulnerability: Nuclear Proliferation and Conventional Retaliation" in the Security Studies journal.

Have a look at it at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09636412.2018.1508635

12th Pan-European Conference on International Relations

Last week, our researchers presented their new findings at the 12th Pan-European Conference on International Relations in Prague.

PRCP Policy Brief #003

Miloš Balabán has written third of our policy briefs. The title is "Is global politics approaching a perilous interregnum?" and you can now find it in the Policy Briefs section on our website as well as in the Institute of International Relations Prague's Mezinárodní Politika.

PRCP Policy Brief #002

Michal Onderčo has written second of our policy briefs. The topic is "Likely Impact of the Nuclear Ban Treaty on the NPT Review Process" and you can now find it in the Policy Briefs section on our website as well as in the Institute of International Relations Prague's Mezinárodní Politika.

PRCP Interns meeting

Last week, we held an initial meeting with our group of interns for the summer academic internships in the Frozen Conflicts team.