What are the causes and the consequences of labour provisions in preferential trade agreements?
What are the constraints and opportunies linked to migration for adolescent girls ? How do they affect their capacity to choose and to act to determine their future opportunities ?
What are the major factors shaping, preventing or enhancing human rights-based approaches in the world heritage system?
What are the interactions between agroecological and indigenous territories – potential collaborations and possible conflicts?
How do emotions and cultural differences affect communication in multi-linguistic negotiations?
How can historical research data contribute to a better understanding of health services? How can this knowledge contribute to the development of sustainable health systems in developing countries?
How can a neurological look at the dynamics of emotions in general and fear in particular help finding better strategies in conflict prevention and / or resolution?
When and how does increasing market power translate into regulatory power to shape the rules of international trade?
What are the factors that shape the institutional design of recently adopted migration partnerships at a international, national and regional level?
What are the driving factors behind the (lack) of response of the health sector to violence against women and girls in Tirana, Albania and Minas Gerais, Brazil?
What are the effects of the financialisation of the commodity trading on local lives and what are the policy recommendations to be drawn for Swiss and international regulatory actors?
What are the specific needs of users, especially women, with regard to water, sanitation and hygiene service provisions in public health facilities in India and Uganda?
How do European countries’ decisions to return Syrian refugees impact the refugee returns in regional host states?
What are the conditions under which deaths in custody should be investigated and how can they be prevented?
Can violent conflict caused by inequality motivate those in power to reduce income and asset disparities?
Which types of international environmental cooperation are likely to have long-term prospects in democracies and which will not?
What are the effects of Social Impact Bonds on the social service programs they finance?
What are the corporate citizenship approaches of Swiss medium sized enterprises and large multinational corporations in their participation to the UN Global Compact?
What are the political orders put in place by rebel movements and how do they influence the post-war state formation?
To what extent does the fit between personal values and the organizational values of an IO foster the working motivation of its employees and volunteers?