Fourth ISP Award (8 October 2026): Call will be issued here in January 2026 

Deadline for Nominations and Applications 31 May 2026 and Award Ceremony on 8 October 2026, 5pm: Town Hall of Mosbach, Germany.

Prize Winners of the 3rd International Science Prize 2025 

 Prize Winners of the 2nd International Science Prize 2024

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran, Hamburg University, Hamburg (Laudator); Mr. Julian Stipp, Lord Mayor of Mosbach; Dr. Hans Happes, former Head of the Nicolaus-Kistner Grammar School, Mosbach; Dr. Gregory Tsilonis, International Lawyer, Thessaloniki, Greece; Dr. Hans Günter Brauch, Founder and Chairman of the Foundation for Peace and Ecology in the Anthropocene, Mosbach; Dr. Achim Brötel, Landrat, Neckar-Odenwald District, Mosbach.

Prize Winner of the 1st International Science Prize 2023

Dr. Hans Günter Brauch, Founder and Chairman of the Foundation for Peace and Ecology in the Anthropocene, Mosbach; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tobias Ide, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia; Mr. Julian Stipp, Lord Mayor of Mosbach; Dr. Hans Happes, former Head of the Nicolaus-Kistner Grammar School, Mosbach.

 Third Call for ISP Award (9 October 2025) deadline: 31 May 2025

Second Call for ISP Award (10 October 2024) deadline: 31 May 2024

First Call for ISP Award (14 July 2023) deadline 31 January 2023

Award of the Second International Science Prize 2024 of the HGBS on the Theme:

Award of the First International Science Prize 2023 of the HGBS on the Theme:

Distinguished Global Scientific Publishers of Prize winning Book Awards 

2023:
 Tobias Ide: Catastrophes, Confrontations and Constraints – How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflict: MIT Press, 2023).  

2024:
Gregory M. Thaler: Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World - Conservation and Displacement in the Global Tropics (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2024).  

Victor Tsilonis (Greece): The Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024). 

 2025:
Angela Jill Lederach: Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023).

 Matthew G. Gillett: Prosecution of Environmental Harm before the International Criminal Court (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).

HGBS International Scientific Recognitions published in the Springer Book Series: The Anthropocene:  

	ASM Mostafizur Rahman: Garments and Growth State, Ideas, Policy Learning, and Globalization in Bangladesh (Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2026). <https://link.springer.com/ book/9783032048134>
Annet Adong: Armed Conflicts and Forced Displacements in the Anthropocene – Incentives and Consequences in the Great Lake Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, with a Special Focus on Northern Uganda (Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2026).

 Fourth (2026): not yet decided. Theme will be issued here in January 2026 

Third (2025): Impacts of Wars and Global Environmental Change and Climate Change on Food Insecurity, Hunger and Migration

Second (2024): Ecocide: Impacts of Wars and/or Climate Change on Food Security Since 1945

First (2023): Climate Change and Conflicts

 The Science Prize is awarded in cooperation with:

 sponsored by

•  Stiftergemeinschaft Sparkasse Neckartal-Odenwald in 2023 
• LB BW Stiftung Landesbank Baden Württemberg in 2024, 2025 
•  Peace Research and European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS), 2023-2025

Science Prizes were awarded for the following books 

Third HGBS Science Prize Book Award 

Dr. Angela Jill Lederach: Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023).

 Matthew G. Gillett: Prosecution of Environmental Harm before the International Criminal Court (Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 2022).

 Second HGBS Science Prize Book Award

Gregory M. Thaler: Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World - Conservation and Displacement in the Global Tropics (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2024). 

 Dr Victor Tsilonis (Greece): The Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024)

 First HGBS Science Prize Book Award 

Tobias Ide: Catastrophes, Confrontations and Constraints – How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflict published by MIT Press, 6 June 2023.

 Dates for HGBS Awards 2026

•  5th Grammar School Student Award, Friday, September 25, 2026, 5:00 p.m. 
• Student Music Awards for musical accompaniment of all awards 
• 4th International Science Award 2026, Thursday, October 8, 2026 
• 4th International Recognition for Doctorates with Publishing Contracts, Thursday, October 8, 2026 
• 2nd Mosbach Prize for Lifetime Achievement by Renowned Scientists and Anniversaries of Research Institutes on Peace and Ecology in the Anthropocene, Thursday, October 22, 2026

International Science Prize Recipient will receive Prize Money of 3000€

Recipients of International Recognitions will receive a free scientific book contract with a honoratium

• 100-300 pages (900€),
• 300-500 pages (1200€),
• More than 500 pages (1500€)

 International Science Prize Recipient (2025):

Dr. Angela Jill Lederach: Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023). 

Dr. Matthew G. Gillett: Prosecution of Environmental Harm before the International Criminal Court (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).  

 

International Science Prize Recipient (2024):

Prof. Dr. Gregory M. Thaler (USA/UK): Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World - Conservation and Displacement in the Global Tropics (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2024). 

 
Dr Victor Tsilonis (Greece): The Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024).

International Science Prize Recipient (2023):

 Tobias Ide: Catastrophes, Confrontations and Constraints – How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflict (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 6 June 2023).

Prof. Dr. Tobias Ide, Murdoch University, Perth; Hiroshima University; Braunschweig, Technical University.

Recipients of International Recognition

2023/1:
Dr. Tom Deligiannis, Wilfrid Laurier University, Faculty of Global Studies, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 

2023/2:
Ass. Prof. Dr. Richard Marcantonio, Assistant Teaching Professor, Notre Dame University, USA

1/2024:
Dr. Annet Adong, Makarere University, Kampala (Uganda), PhD, University of Bonn. Book will be published in December 2025.

2/2024:
Dr. Melissa Roxana Quispe-Zuniga (Peru), PhD, University of Bonn.

 3/2024:
Dr. Christo Idowu Odeymi (Nigeria, Australia, Japan)

 1/2025:
Dr. Bárbara Magalhães Teixeira (Brazil) from Lund University (Sweden) for her work: The Nature of Peace and Persistent Violence in Environmental Conflicts.

2/2025:
Dr. Anselm Vogler (Germany) from the University of Hamburg for a thesis entitled: Navigating between external and existential threats. Political responses at the national level for climate security.

 3/2025:
Dr. ASM Mostafizur Rahman (Bangladesh) from Heidelberg University for his work on: Garments and Growth - State, Ideas, Political Learning, and Globalization in Bangladesh. Book will be published in December 2025.