Staff

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:
  • Changing notions of sovereignty in international law and politics, with an emphasis on the notion of “conditional sovereignty” inherent in the contemporary discourse of a “responsibility to protect (R2P)”.
  • Peacebuilding and the security-development nexus, with a particular focus on stabilization agendas, state-building, and institutional design.
  • The social and spatial dynamics of urbanization and their impact on humanitarian and development practices;
  • The history of the field of International Relations, and its relation to the social sciences, law and philosophy.

  

 

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Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli
Research Assistant
   
Contact: Email: leslie-anne.duvic (at) graduateinstitute.ch
Phone: +41 (0)22 908 58 87
   
Field(s)of Interest:
  • International law and international organizations, with a focus on the interconnection between law and politics
  • International environmental law
  • Law of the sea
  • Maritime security (including boundary disputes, piracy and Arctic security)
  • Defense and security policy (policy and operational developments amongst major navies)
  • East Asian security
   

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Zuzana Hudáková
Research Assistant
   
Contact: Email:  zuzana.hudakova (at) graduateinstitute.ch
Phone : +41 (0)22 908 57 38
   
Field(s) of Interest:
  • Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
  • Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • Peace, conflict, and security
  • Terrorism and political violence
  • EU foreign policy
  • Social movements
  • Environmental issues

 

 


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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

  



 
Sandra Reimann
Project Administrator
   
Contact: Email:  sandra.reimann (at) graduateinstitute.ch
Phone: +41 (0)22 908 57 41
   
Field(s)of Interest:
  • Terrorism and counter-terrorism, and the impact on human rights
  • Conflict prevention
  • Financial and budgetary management
  • Treasury and taxation
  • Human resources
  • Employment and social security in international environnement

 

 


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Matthias Rieger
Research and Teaching Assistant
   
Contact: Email:  matthias.rieger (at) graduateinstitute.ch
Phone : +41 (0)22 908 59 49
   
Field(s)of Interest:
  • Impact evaluation
  • Field experiments and behavioral games
  • Applied microeconometrics
  • Free trade agreements
  • Refugees and illegal migration
  • Landmines, civil war, terrorism
  • Dynamics of child health
  • Community-driven development
  • Witchcraft

  


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Achim Wennmann
Researcher
   
Contact: Email:  achim.wennmann (at) graduateinstitute.ch
Phone : +41 (0)22 908 57 41
   
Field(s)of Interest:
  • Dynamics of armed conflict and violence
  • The political economy of conflict and armed groups
  • Peace processes and armed violence reduction
  • Conflict economies and transnational crime networks
  • War-to-peace transitions and post-conflict economic recovery
  • State fragility and hybrid political orders