Achim Wennmann

Achim Wennmann holds a Doctorate in International Relations of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Previously, he obtained a Diplôme d’Études Supérieures (DES) at the Graduate Institute, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations with Development Studies at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Prior to the CCDP, Dr. Wennmann coordinated training courses for young government officials in the South Caucasus, and worked on peace policy and the decentralisation of governance in Georgia at the Graduate Institute. He also worked with the Small Arms Survey in support of the Geneva Declaration for Armed Violence and Development. Currently, he is also Executive Coordinator of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. 

At the CCDP, Dr. Wennmann conducts research on the economic dimensions of peace mediation, hybrid political orders, the political economy of conflict and armed groups, and the financing of terrorism. He authored The Political Economy of Peacemaking (Routledge, 2011); and co-edited (with Mats Berdal) Ending Wars, Consolidating Peace: Economic Perspectives.

• 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

• 2011. The Political Economy of Peacemaking. London: Routledge.
• 2010. ‘Peace, Business and New Futures After War’ in M. Berdal and A. Wennmann (eds.) Ending Wars, Consolidating Peace: Economic Perspectives. London: Routledge, pp. 15-31.
• 2010. 'Grasping the Strength of Fragile States: Aid Effectiveness Between ''Top-Down'' and ''Bottom-Up'' Statebuilding.' CCDP Working Paper 6. Geneva: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. 
• 2009. ‘Getting Armed Groups to the Table: Peace Processes, the Political Economy of Conflict and the Mediated State’. Third World Quarterly. Vol. 30, No. 6, pp. 1123-1138.
• 2009. ‘Grasping the Financing and Mobilisation Cost of Armed Groups: A New Perspective on Conflict Dynamics’. Contemporary Security Policy. Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 265-280.
• 2009. ‘Conflict Economies’. In Vincent Chetail (ed.) Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: A Lexicon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 74-91.
• (edited with Keith Krause and Robert Muggah). 2008. The Global Burden of Armed Violence.Geneva: Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development.
• 2007. ‘The Political Economy of Conflict Financing: A Comprehensive Approach Beyond Natural Resources’. Global Governance. Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 427-444.
• 2007. Money Matters: The Economic Dimensions of Peace Mediation. PSIS Occasional Paper No.4. Geneva: Graduate Institute of International Studies.
• 2006. Renewed Armed Conflict in Georgia? Options for Peace Policy in a New Phase of Conflict Resolution. PSIO Occasional Paper No.3. Geneva: Graduate Institute of International Studies.

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.