Achim Wennmann

Achim Wennmann is an expert in economic perspectives on violent conflict, conflict resolution, and peacebuilding. He is currently working on statebuilding in hybrid political orders, negotiated exits from shadow economies, and conflict prevention in contexts of large scale business investments.

Dr. Wennmann has a broad research and advisory experience including intellectual mediation support and research coordination of major projects. He serves on the Expert Panel on Leadership in Complex Markets of the International Council of Swedish Industry, and is a member of the Editorial Board of Global Governance.

Previously, Dr. Wennmann has worked at the Small Arms Survey in support of the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development, and consulted for the OECD’s International Network in Conflict and Fragility. He has also coordinated training courses for young government officials in the South Caucasus (http://www.cabir.org). He holds a Doctorate in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, where he also obtained a Diplôme d’Études Supérieures (DES). He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations with Development Studies from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.

Currently, Dr. Wennmann is also Executive Coordinator of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform (http://www.gpplatform.ch).
 

• 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

• The Political Economy of Peacemaking. London: Routledge (2011).
• (edited with Mats Berdal) Ending Wars, Consolidating Peace: Economic Dimensions. Adelphi 412-413. London: Institute for International and Strategic Studies and Routledge (2010).
• (edited with Keith Krause and Robert Muggah). The Global Burden of Armed Violence. Geneva: Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development (2008).

• ‘Economic Dimensions of Armed Groups’. International Review of the Red Cross, Vol.94, No.882 (2011).
• ‘Breaking the Conflict Trap? Addressing the Resource Curse in Peace Processes’. Global Governance, Vol. 17, No.2 (2011), pp.265-280.
• ‘Getting Armed Groups to the Table: Peace Processes, the Political Economy of Conflict and the Mediated State’. Third World Quarterly. Vol. 30, No. 6 (2009), pp. 1123-1138.
• ‘Grasping the Financing and Mobilization Cost of Armed Groups: A New Perspective on Conflict Dynamics’. Contemporary Security Policy. Vol. 30, No. 2 (2009), pp. 265-280.

• (with Brian Ganson) Confronting Risk, Mobilizing Action: A Framework for Conflict Prevention in the Context of Large-scale Business Investments. International Policy Analysis. Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (2012).
• (edited with Robert Muggah) Investing in Security: A Global Assessment of Armed Violence and Reduction Initiatives. Paris: OECD (2011).
• Grasping the Strengths of Fragile States: Aid Effectiveness Between ‘Top-down’ and ‘Bottom-up’ Statebuilding. CCDP Working Paper 6 (2010). Geneva: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
• Supporting the Economic Dimensions of Peace Processes. Practice Note 5. Peacebuilding Essentials for Development Practitioners Series. London: International Alert (2010).
  
  Dr. Wennmann has also authored CCDP Working Papers on the economic dimensions of the peace processes in Sudan (North-South), Nepal, and Indonesia (Aceh), and CCDP Issue Briefs on the role of income sharing arrangements, development assistance, and private sector investment in peace mediation (see CCDP publications page).
  
  For an exhaustive list of publications, please click here.