Researchers

 

Oliver Jütersonke
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Oliver Jütersonke
Head of Research
   
Contact: Email:  oliver.jutersonke (at) graduateinstitute.ch
Phone : +41 (0)22 908 57 36
   
Field(s)of Interest:
  • Peacebuilding and the complex relationships between security and development, with a focus on sovereignty, statebuilding and the politics of intervention;
  • The social and spatial dynamics of urban violence, and linkages with security perceptions, institutional design, and security sector governance;
  • The history of the field of International Relations, and its relation to the social sciences, law and philosophy – with a particular focus on political realism;
  • Epistemology and research methods in the context of basic and applied projects in international affairs and development.

  

 


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Imène Ajala
Post-doctoral Researcher
   
Contact: Email: imene.ajala (at) graduateinstitute.ch
   
Field(s)of Interest:
  • Comparative politics
  • Foreign policy analysis
  • Multiculturalism
  • Muslims in Europe
  • Diaspora studies and Ethnic studies

 

 

 


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Susanna Campbell
Post-doctoral Researcher
   
Contact: Email: susanna.campbell (at) graduateinstitute.ch
   
Field(s)of Interest:
  • Africa
  • Peacebuilding
  • Statebuilding
  • Conflict Prevention
  • International Organizations
  • Organizational and Institutional Theory
  • International Relations

 

 

 


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Moncef Kartas
Researcher
   
Contact: Email:  moncef.kartas (at) graduateinstitute.ch
Phone : +41 (0)22 908 44 69
   
Field(s)of Interest:
  • Critical theory and field research
  • Critical approaches to the study of conflict, security and development
  • Conflict transformation and peace-building (with a special focus with problems of social order and reconciliation)
  • Conflict and politics through the lens of religion (notably Buddhism)
  • Decolonisation, colonial policies towards the ‘transfer of power’, and the role of the security forces in post-colonial politics.

  

 

Thania Paffenholz
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Thania Paffenholz
Senior Researcher
   
Contact: Email:  thania.paffenholz (at) graduateinstitute.ch
Phone : +41 (0)22 908 57 42
   
Field(s)of Interest:
  • Peacebuilding Theories and Intervention Strategies
  • Civil Society and Peacebuilding
  • Development- Peace-Conflict Nexus
  • Evaluation in Peacebuilding

  

 


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Achim Wennmann
Researcher
   
Contact: Email:  achim.wennmann (at) graduateinstitute.ch
Phone : +41 (0)22 908 58 04
   
Field(s) of Interest:
  • Dynamics of violent conflict and peacemaking
  • Armed groups and conflict financing
  • Conflict prevention and armed violence reduction
  • State fragility and hybrid political orders
  • The private sector in complex markets
  • Natural resource management in peacebuilding contexts