INEF offers its doctoral students a special programme in International Relations / Peace and Development Research in cooperation with the Institute of Political Science and colleagues from the Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, and the University of Applied Sciences of Düsseldorf. Part of this programme consists of a series of workshops focused on methodological and theoretical issues related to the research work of the participants. In this programme, moreover, doctoral students are given the opportunity to embed their individual theses in the broader research frameworks of the participating institutes.