Award of the Third International Science Prize 2025 of the HGBS on the Theme:
“Impacts of Wars and Global Environmental Change and Climate Change on Food Insecurity, Hunger and Migration"
on 9 October 2025 in Mosbach/Baden in Southwest Germany

Detailed Programme International Science Prize Award, 9 October 2025

Press reports 2025

Stadtanzeiger Mosbach
24. July 2025,
Nr. 30, p. 11

HGBS Press Releases on International Science Prizes 2025

• In English [I]
• In German [II]
• In French [III]
• In Spanish [IV]

Three HGBS International Recognitions 2025

• In English [V]
• In German [VI]
• In French [VII]
• In Spanish [VIII]

Angela J. Lederach is Assistant Professor of Peace and Justice Studies at Chapman University in Southern California, USA. Her research examines the intersection of political and ecological violence in Colombia. Based on over a decade of participatory and ethnographic research in Montes de María, Colombia, Lederach focuses on the narratives, theories, and strategies of grassroots organizers working to transform violent conflicts and create a more just and livable world. She is the author of Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia (Stanford University Press 2023) and co-author of When Blood and Bones Cry Out: Journeys Through the Soundscape of Healing and Reconciliation (Oxford University Press 2010). As a cultural anthropologist and scholar and practitioner in the field of peace studies, Lederach has worked on peacebuilding and environmental justice processes in Sierra Leone, the Philippines, Colombia, and the United States

In Feel the Grass Grow, Lederach draws on nearly a decade of participatory research in Colombia to develop a robust theory of “slow peace.” Lederach traces the cross-generational struggle of the campesinos to defend their lives, land, and territory in the face of political and ecological violence, showing how the campesinos' call for “slowness” refocuses attention on the grassroots practices of ecological peacebuilding rooted in the collective struggle for the liberation of their territory. The call for “slow peace” gives priority to everyday life, in which relationships are deepened, memories of ancestors are recovered, and ecosystems are regenerated.

Previous Award Winners of the International
Science Prize in Mosbach in Germany
First Award on 14 July 2023 to Prof. Dr. Tobias Ide
Murdoch University, Perth, Australia

Second Award on 10 October 2024 to
Prof. Dr. Gregory Thaler (Oxford Univ.) and
Dr. Victor Tsilonis (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Dr. Matthew Gillett is a senior lecturer (associate professor) at the University of Essex and vice-chair and rapporteur of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. He worked in The Hague for over 15 years, including as a trial lawyer at the International Criminal Court and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He also served as human rights officer for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and as senior legal adviser to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. He has authored numerous publications on international law and environmental protection, including his award-winning monograph “Prosecution of Environmental Damage before the International Criminal Court” (Cambridge University Press, June 2022).

The threat of man-made environmental damage is becoming more urgent every year. Human activities are destroying the natural environment worldwide and contributing to potentially irreversible climate change. This book examines how the International Criminal Court can effectively prosecute those who cause or contribute to serious environmental destruction. Written by an international lawyer who has prosecuted cases of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, it offers insights into the procedures, laws, and techniques that can lead to convictions of environmental offenders.

The International Science Prize 2025 was supported by a generous grant of the Foundation of the

State Bank of Baden-Württemberg

• Dr. Bárbara Magalhães Teixeira (Brazil) from Lund University (Sweden) for her work: The Nature of Peace and Persistent Violence in Environmental Conflicts.
  
  
• 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;
  
  
• Dr. ASM Mostafizur Rahman (Bangladesh) from Heidelberg University for his work on: Garments and Growth - State, Ideas, Political Learning, and Globalization in Bangladesh.

Dr. Anselm Vogler is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH). His research examines political responses to the climate-security nexus. He previously held postdoctoral positions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard University. In his cumulative PhD thesis, Dr. Anselm Vogler examined the emergence of climate-related insecurities and governmental responses to them. So far, four chapters have been published in leading journals, including International Studies Review, Political Geography, Journal of Global Security Studies, and Global Environmental Change.

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