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:
  • 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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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 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