Laura Kotzur is a researcher and PhD candidate in the research group “Transnational Conflicts”. Her research focuses on struggles for historical justice and reparations in the United Kingdom. She holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology and Human Geography from the University of Erlangen and graduated from the Center for Conflict Studies in Marburg with an M.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies. She’s also a founder and editor of the UNEINS Magazine for new perspectives on peace and conflicts. 

Research interests:

• transitional justice, memory studies and historical justice

• abolition and transformative justice

• reparations and reparative justice after colonialism and empire

• anticolonial thought and resistance