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Moncef Kartas wrote his doctoral dissertation on peacebuilding practices at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He holds a Magister Artium in political sciences, philosophy and international law from the University of Munich. Since 2007 he has been teaching regularly at the undergraduate level at the University of Potsdam on theories of International Relations, Conflict and Peace Studies, and on Methodologies in the Social Sciences. At the graduate level he is currently teaching at the University of Bethlehem and has held single lectures at the Graduate Institute on the history and practice of UN peacekeeping and peace-building. Moncef Kartas has also worked for the Geneva Center on the Democratic Control of Armed Forces and was a researcher for the micro-finance NGO, ENDA inter-arabe, working in the poor neighbourhoods of Tunis. Prior to ENDA Moncef Kartas worked for Transparency International in Berlin and in the private sector as a consultant for German companies in Tunisia.
Currently, Moncef Kartas is the co‐editor of the 2013 special issue of the Graduate Institute’s International Development Policy Series on religion and development, published both in French and English. He is also conducting field research in Kigali as part of the joint project of the CCDP and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on urban resilience and chronic violence, focusing on the interaction of formal and informal institutions in coping with stress factors. He was also the lead researcher for the Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) for Madagascar, for which the CCDP was mandated by the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in Antananarivo.
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