At the 7th meeting of the Steering Committee of the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) at the University of Bonn, the proven CASSIS Executive Board was given the full confidence of the voting members of the Center Council and the three directors were re-elected unanimously and with great praise for their achievements. We warmly congratulate Prof. Dr. Volker Kronenberg (Spokesperson), Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schlie (Deputy Spokesperson) and Prof. Dr. Wolfram Hilz (additional member of the Board) and are already looking forward to the continuation of current and the establishment of new CASSIS projects!
At the same time, we are delighted to welcome two new voting members of the Center Council to CASSIS: Prof. Dr. Christine Schirrmacher and Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinemann-Grüder have been accepted into the circle of voting members of the Center Council. The CASSIS staff is looking forward to the in-depth cooperation with the well-known experts and the resulting fruitful projects in the field of security and strategic policy. Prof. Dr. Christine Schirrmacher is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Department of Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern Languages at the University of Bonn. She has already been involved in several high-level CASSIS events as an expert on topics including political Islam and the Hamas attack on Israel. Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinemann-Grüder is an adjunct professor at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology at the University of Bonn. His current CASSIS project, which is funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research, explores the question of how war can be thought of from a politically sustainable end and aims to identify conditions for ending wars that could be significant for the prospects of the war in Ukraine.