Claudia Baumgart-Ochse, Melanie Coni-Zimmer, Annegret Flohr, Svenja Gertheiss, Stefanie Herr, Andreas Jacobs, Anja P. Jakobi, Konstanze Jüngling, Klaus Dieter Wolf

Against the background of the increasing importance of private actors in International Relations, the Working Paper "The Relevance of Private Actors in the Transnational Sphere for Just Peace Governance" by the members of Research Department III conceptualizes the roles of these non-state actors in conflicts over issues of recognition, procedural or distributive justice.

Rebel groups, organized crime, transnational corporations, civil society organizations or ethnic diasporas - on the one hand, these actors add to the multiplication of justice claims in the transnational realm; on the other hand, they often contribute to new and innovative forms of governance in order to regulate justice conflicts. In the Working Paper, the question is posed under which conditions the inclusion of private actors' justice claims may promote or hamper peaceful conflict resolution. This basic ambivalence of private actors is conceptualized with a view to all three central concepts of the new research program: peace, governance, and justice.