Research & Publications

Research Project

I am currently leading a project on peace activism and anti-war mobilisations in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine (together with Priska Daphi). We are analysing conflicts of meaning within and between different peace groups: How is the term “peace” understood? How can pacifist ideas be defended in the face of a supposedly just war? What conflicts and differences of opinion exist between the groups? We explore these questions in in-depth interviews and focus groups with peace and anti-war activists throughout Germany.

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Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Dollbaum, Jan Matti, Meier, Larissa, Daphi, Priska and Haunss, Sebastian. Forthcoming. “Protest Types and Protester Profiles: testing meso-micro Associations between Event Characteristics and Participant Attitudes”. Acta Politica. 

Meier, Larissa. 2023. “Understanding Non-Participation in Armed Groups during the Sri Lankan Civil War”, Social Problems, online first.

Gregor Wiedemann, Jan Matti Dollbaum, Sebastian Haunss, Priska Daphi, and Larissa Daria Meier. 2022. “A Generalized Approach to Protest Event Detection in German Local News”. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association, pp. 3883–3891.

Meier, Larissa. 2022. “Between Coercion and Representation: Exploring Variation in Support Relations between Tamil Civilians and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)”. Participation and Conflict 15(1), pp. 157-174.

Meier, Larissa. 2022. “Spatiotemporal Variation in Armed Group Recruitment among Former Members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam”. Sociological Forum 37(2), pp. 510-532.

Peña, Alejandro, Meier, Larissa and Nah, Alice. 2021. “Exhaustion, Adversity, and Repression: Emotional Attrition in High-Risk Activism”. Perspectives on Politics 21(1), pp. 27-42. 

Meier, Larissa. 2020. “An Intersectional Approach to the Understanding of Patterns of Marginalization among Ex-combatants with Disabilities in Sri Lanka.” Conflict, Security & Development 20(4), pp. 441-465.

Meier, Larissa. 2019. “The Strategic Use of Emotions in Recruitment Strategies of Armed Groups: The Case of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam”, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 44(12), pp. 1148-1166.

Non-peer-reviewed articles and book chapters

Meier, Larissa; Dollbaum, Jan Matti; Daphi, Priska and Haunss, Sebastian. 2023. „Verdrängung oder Mobilisierung? Eine vergleichende Analyse zur Auswirkung erfolgreicher/prominenter Protestbewegungen auf urbane Protestaktivitäten am Beispiel von Pegida, Legida und Stuttgart 21”, in: Salheiser, Axel, Alexopoulou, Maria, Yendell, Alexander and Meier, Christian (eds.): Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt im Licht multipler Aus- und Einschlüsse – Perspektiven, Befunde, Tendenzen. Konstanz: Campus.

Meier, Larissa. 2023. „Gewaltdynamik und reziproke Eskalation im Protestgeschehen als Weg der Radikalisierung“. Bürger & Staat, 3/23. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, pp. 121-129.

Meier, Larissa and Daphi, Priska. 2022. „Friedensbewegung und Krieg: Warum konnte die Ostermarschbewegung kaum von der öffentlichen Empörung über den russischen Angriffskrieg auf die Ukraine profitieren?“, Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 35(4), pp. 580-595.   

Meier, Larissa; Daphi, Priska and Haunss, Sebastian. 2022. “Stoppt die Kriege – Abrüstung und Deeskalation jetzt!“ – Eine Befragung der TeilnehmerInnen am Ostermarsch in Bielefeld. ipb working paper series, #/2022. Berlin: ipb.

Meier, Larissa. 2022. “Vom ersten Ostermarsch zu Pegida – die vielfältige Protestgeschichte der Bundesrepublik“. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 35(3), pp. 567-571.

Meier, Larissa. 2016. “OSCE Peacekeeping”, in Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg/IFSH (ed.): OSCE-Yearbook 2015, Baden-Baden.

Meier, Larissa. 2015. “A Role for OSCE Peacekeeping: From the 1992 Helsinki Guidelines to the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine”, CORE Working Paper No. 27. Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg.