Mattersburger Kreis für Entwicklungspolitik

*Deadline for abstract submission: October 31st, 2025* Special Issue Editors: Monika Austaller and Mina Lahlal Since the beginning of 2025, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was forced to end more than 80 % of their programs in development cooperation and humanitarian aid (Debusmann 2025). Staff has been reduced from 10.000 to 15

Technological advancement is often coupled with increased material and energy consumption – including where it claims to be ‘green’. Yet the environmental burden does not stop there: the uneven geographical distribution of extraction, processing, and waste disposal risks exacerbating global inequalities and creating new forms of social injustice. Electric vehicles, AI data centres, and renewable

Intersectionality has become an integral part of international and German-language gender studies. The concept is firmly established, particularly in research fields that address global inequalities or issues of social and cultural difference(s) and heterogeneity(ies)—despite differences in theoretical frameworks and methodological and practical applications. The aim of this issue is to reflect on different approaches and

Masculinities are closely entangled with global crises, such as the ecological crisis, the crisis of social reproduction or the crisis of liberal democracies in authoritarian times. Through practices, discourses or by being efficacious within institutions, they co-condition the lives of women, LGBTIQ+-persons, and other men across the globe. This double entanglement of men and masculinities,

With around 260 participants, in November 2025 at the University of Innsbruck, we have discussed recent development-political topics close to the overall topic of “peace, justice and strong institutions”, have connected and shared ideas, learned and experienced. You can find the entire documentation of the conference here. (German only) For more than two decades, the