Award of the IANUS Prizes for Peace and Conflict Research
2024/12/12
The winners of the IANUS Prize 2024 were honoured at the TU Darmstadt. The prize was awarded to four outstanding diploma theses on topics of scientific-technical peace and conflict research. The award winners come from various disciplines at TU Darmstadt.
Dr.-Ing. Sara Al-Sayed was honoured for her Master's thesis in the Technology and Philosophy programme entitled 'Citizen Monitoring and the Entrenchment of the Nuclear Order: Foucault's “Panopticon” and Winner's “Autonomous Technology” as Two Approaches to Understanding Their Relationship'.
Dr rer. nat. Thomas Reinhold was honoured for his dissertation at the Department of Computer Science on de-escalation and arms control in cyberspace, in which he developed technical measures for the peaceful use of cyber weapons.
Dr Anjuli Franz received the prize for her dissertation at the Department of Law and Economics on social and emotional factors influencing IT security behaviour, while Philipp Rall, M.Sc. was honoured for his innovative analysis of the connection between online and offline protests using the example of the South African #FeesMustFall movement as part of his master's thesis at the Department of Computer Science.
TU Darmstadt's IANUS Award, which is endowed with 1,000 euros, honours interdisciplinary work that contributes innovative approaches to scientific and technical peace and conflict research.
Nominations, including self-nominations for the IANUS Prize 2025, can be submitted from now until 31 July 2025 to ianus-preis@peasec.de with the subject ‘IANUS Prize’.
