PhD Thesis
Title: Consolidation Strategies of Ordering Actors in Cities: Urban Political Settlements in Syria and Yemen
Supervisors: Ravinder Bhavnani and Christiana Parreira
Expected completion date: 2026
My research investigates how and why actors in cities decide to transition in conditions of armed conflict to create political orders and provide governance whilst cooperating. I seek to scale down and dive into the micro-dynamics of conflict at the city level and explore the ordering processes of actors forming political settlements within them.
Profile
Emilian Berutti is a Doctoral Researcher at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding on the SNSF project Peace by Other Means. He was previously at the Centre on Humanitarian Dialogue and the Geneva Center on Security Policy. He also is the rapporteur to the Geneva Policy Outlook.
Research Interests
- Political Economy of Conflict and Peace
- Peacemaking in times of Uncertainty
- Hybrid Political Orders and Multi-Layered Governance