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Moncef Kartas
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Moncef Kartas
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| Contact: |
Email: moncef.kartas (at) graduateinstitute.ch
Phone : +41 (0)22 908 44 69 |
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| Biography: |
Moncef Kartas is a researcher at the Graduate Institute and the project coordinator of the Small Arms Survey's programme 'Security Assessment in North Africa'.
Moncef Kartas holds a PhD degree in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and a Master's degree in political science, philosophy and international law from the University of Munich. Moncef teaches Methodologies in Social Sciences at Bethlehem University and regularly holds lectures on the political economy of conflict and violence, the link between development and security and on the history and practice of UN peacekeeping and peace-building. From 2007 to 2010 he was associate lecturer at the University of Potsdam. 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.
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. With CCDP he has amongst others conducted field research in Kigali as part of the joint project with 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 mandated by the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in Antananarivo.
For more information about Moncef Kartas, please click here.
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| 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.
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