Core Staff

More info		Oliver Jütersonke Head of Research Email: oliver.jutersonke@graduateinstitute.ch Phone : +41 (0)22 908 57 36 Peacebuilding and the complex relationships between security and development, with a focus on sovereignty, statebuilding and the politics of intervention; The social and spatial dynamics of urban violence, and linkages with security perceptions, institutional design, and security sector governance; The history of the field of International Relations, and its relation to the social sciences, law and philosophy – with a particular focus on political and legal realism; Epistemology and research methods in the context of basic and applied projects in international affairs and development.

More info		Sandra Reimann Senior Coordinator Email: sandra.reimann@graduateinstitute.ch Phone: +41 (0)22 908 57 41 Financial management and accountability in non-profit organisation ‘Duty of Care’, risk assessment and staff safety for professional travel and related crisis management Employment, compensation and benefits (C&B) in international, complex environments.

More info		Kathryn Gichini Research Assistant Email: kathryn.gichini@graduateinstitute.ch Phone: +41 (0)22 908 57 38 International Migration Migration and Development Poverty and Development Diaspora and Development The Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa

Project-Related Staff

Jonathan Luke Austin
Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: jonathan.austin@graduateinstitute.ch

Matthew Bamber
Doctoral Researcher

Email: matthew.bamber@graduateinstitute.ch

Janine Bressmer
Doctoral Researcher

Basil Farraj
Research Assistant

Email: basil.farraj@graduateinstitute.ch

Violence and torture of prisoners: ways in which torture/violence is inflicted on prisoners' bodies; ways in which their rights are denied and ignored
Circulation of torture practices
Prisoners' ways of resistance, and tracing changes in forms of resistance
Circulation of knowledge guiding resistance within and outside prisons
Sites of memory
Cinematic representations of prisons, and of violent pasts

Hannah Dönges
Doctoral Researcher

UN peacekeeping and humanitarianism
Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular South Sudan
Civil-military relations in conflict interventions
International bureaucracies, norms and practices
Aspects of armed violence, including armed violence monitoring as well as armed violence prevention and reduction strategies
Non-state armed actors and discourses on terrorism