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Oliver Jütersonke
Head of Research

Email: oliver.jutersonke (at) 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.

Sandra Reimann
Senior Coordinator

Email: sandra.reimann (at) 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.

Janine Bressmer
Research Assistant

Email: janine.bressmer (at) graduateinstitute.ch
Phone : +41 (0)22 908 58 87

• Securitization of the humanitarian space
• Spatialization of aid delivery
• Implications of risk-management trends on humanitarian action
• Critical security studies
• State fragility and conflict, post-conflict reconstruction
• Development, cooperation, and international aid policies

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Maria-Ottavia Guicciardini
Research Assistant

Email: maria.guicciardini (at) graduateinstitute.ch
Phone: +41 (0)22 908 57 38

• Human trafficking, modern slavery, prostitution
• Violence and collective memory
• Immigration and refugees
• Emotional, psychological, and physical abuse and responses
• Cybercriminality

Jonathan Luke Austin
Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: jonathan.austin (at) graduateinstitute.ch

• Violence prevention
• Ontologies of violence
• The nature of critique
• Middle Eastern Politics
• Social Theory / philosophy
• Literature, aesthetics, and World Politics

Alice Baroni
Research Assistant

Email: alice.baroni (at) graduateinstitute.ch

• Colonialism and settler-colonialism
• Political violence, conflict, and security
• Ideology and belief systems
• Political and cultural sociology
• Politics of identity
• Collective memory and conflict
• Religion and politics
• Non-state actors, terrorism, and insurgency
• MENA (Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq)

Matthew Bamber
Doctoral Researcher

Email: matthew.bamber (at) graduateinstitute.ch

• Rebel Governance
• Terrorism and Political Violence
• State-Building
• Rebel Groups
• Middle East and North Africa
• Political Islam
• Islamic State/ISIS/Al Qaeda

Basil Farraj
Research Assistant

Email: basil.farraj (at) 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

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Hannah Dönges
Doctoral Researcher

Email: hannah.donges (at) graduateinstitute.ch

• 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

Seoni Han
Research Assistant

Email: seoni.han (at) graduateinstitute.ch 

• Applied microeconomics
• Conflicts, Agriculture, and Health
  
  
   

Stéphanie Perazzone
Doctoral Researcher

Email: stephanie.perazzone (at) graduateinstitute.ch

• International security promotion
• Peacebuilding / statebuilding
• Disarmament, Demobilisation, Reintegration (DDR)
• Urban studies
• Anthropology of the State
• Africa's Great Lakes Region
• Democratic Republic of Congo

Defne Gonenc
Research Assistant

Email: defne.gonenc (at) graduateinstitute.ch

• Environment and development
• Global environmental politics
• Environmental justice
• Political economy of developing countries
• India and Turkey

• Development economics
• Natural resource governance
• Applied econometrics

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Siddhant Marur
Research Assistant

Email: siddhant.marur (at) graduateinstitute.ch

• Development economics
• Conflict economics
• Applied econometrics
• Natural resource governance

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Achim Wennmann
Senior Researcher, CCDP
Executive Coordinator, Geneva Peacebuilding Platform

Email: achim.wennmann (at) graduateinstitute.ch
Phone : +41 (0)22 908 58 04

• 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