Visiting Fellows & Research Associates

Visiting Fellows

 

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

Visiting Fellow, Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies

Fionnuala CCDP

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, who has been serving as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights while Countering Terrorism since 2017, is an expert in the fields of international and human rights law, transitional justice, national security, counter-terrorism, conflict regulation and gender-based violence in times of war. She is Regents Professor and Robina Professor of Law, Public Policy and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School, and she also holds a position as Professor of Law at the Queens University School of Law in Belfast.

Areas of expertise: 

  • Human rights

  • Counterterrorism

  • Conflict Regulation

  • National Security

  • Gender-based Violence

  • Transitional Justice

  • Civil Wars

  • International Law

Contact: niaol002@umn.edu

Wladimir Fernandes 

Visiting Fellow, Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies

Wladimir Fernandes is a Brazilian Ph.D. fellow at Roskilde University (Denmark), where he is currently involved in the Standardisation of Transitional Justice research project, focusing specifically on the Syrian experience with transitional justice mechanisms. The ongoing nature of the conflict in Syria and the prominence of the regime as one of the main perpetrators of human rights violations and atrocity crimes impose unique challenges to transitional justice efforts. Yet, the justice agenda has been advanced through extensive documentation of violations, court proceedings, and the creation of international institutions to assist in the truth and justice effort. Wladimir’s research investigates the conditions that have made these efforts possible in a context so adverse to justice. It explores issues of norm diffusion, civil society activism, authority, and legitimacy in the governance of justice.

 

Wladimir has a background in International Relations and Public Administration, and is broadly interested in global governance, norms, institutions, human rights, and transitional justice.

Areas of expertise: 

  • Global governance 
  • Norms 
  • Institutions 
  • Human Rights
  • Transitional Justice 

 

Elena Butti

Postdoctoral fellow at the Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies

Elena Butti

Elena Butti is an anthropologist, humanitarian practitioner and participatory film-maker interested in the lives of adolescents and young people at the urban margins. She holds a PhD and a Post-Doc from the University of Oxford (CSLS and DPIR, respectively). Her current book project We Are the Nobodies: Youth, violence and drug-dealing in and around Medellin is an ethnographic exploration of adolescents’ first hesitant steps into drug-related crime in contemporary Colombia. She has collaborated with several international organizations on matters related to the Youth, Peace and Security agenda. More recently, she worked as Global Youth Advisor for the humanitarian NGO War Child. She is also the author of several participatory films co-directed with young people in Colombia. 

Areas of expertise include:

  • Adolescents and youth involved in crime and violence 
  • Gangs, militias, and vigilante groups
  • Youth activism and urban peacebuilding
  • Conflict and violence in Colombia and Latin America
  • Visual and participatory research methods
  • Ethnographic research in high-risk settings

Contact: elena.butti@graduateinstitute.ch 
Website: www.elenabutti.com 

Research Associates

Souhail Belhadj KLAZ

Souhail Belhadj Portrait

 

 

 

Souhail Belhadj Klaz is a researcher and visiting professor in the Master in International and Development Studies (MINT-Graduate Institute), holds a PhD in Political Science at Sciences Po Paris. He benefits from 20 years of experience in research on politics in Syria and Tunisia and is the author of the book La Syrie de Bashar al-Asad. Anatomie d'un régime autoritaire (Belin 2013). With the support of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, he was the principal investigator of the three-year project (2016-2019) Tunisia Security Provision and Local State Authority in a Time of Transition. He is currently the leading investigator of the policy research project Mapping Military and Security Actors in the Syrian Economy and is conducting in parallel research on Migration, Mobility and the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Cooperation Process. 

Areas of expertise include:

  • Local politics and political decentralisation

  • Security policy studies

  • Migration and mobility in the Mediterranean

  • Development cooperation in the Mediterranean

Email: souhail.belhad@graduateinstitute.ch

Fritz Brugger

Co-Director of the Center for Development and Cooperation (NADEL) at ETH Zurich

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Fritz Brugger is co-director of NADEL at ETH Zurich and member of the “Swiss Minerals Observatory” Research Incubator at the Institute of Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP) at ETH Zurich. He holds a PhD in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. His research and teaching focuses on the governance and development outcomes of natural resource extraction, the political economy of international tax policy, and policy coherence for development.

Areas of expertise include:

  • Natural resource governance

  • Illicit financial flows and the political economy of international tax policy

  • Policy coherence for development

  • Political economy of global governance

Contact: fritz.brugger@nadel.ethz.ch

christie edwards

Research Associate, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies

Christie J. Edwards, JD, LLM is a legal expert in international humanitarian and human rights law, gender, atrocity prevention, peacebuilding and conflict prevention, and civilian protection. Christie has led successful non-profit management and humanitarian implementation programs, international policy and advocacy, strategic planning, and grant management in senior leadership and management roles at national and international levels with prominent humanitarian, human rights, and multilateral organizations such as The Stimson Center, American Red Cross, Geneva Call, and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). Christie has also worked at a torture treatment clinic for political refugees, served as counsel for asylum seekers, managed and implemented women’s human rights, political advocacy, and civil society building programs in the MENA region following the Arab Spring, and taught courses on International Human Rights, Gender and Conflict, and Women, Rights, & Gender Equality as an Adjunct Professor at GWU Elliott School of International Affairs and Thomas Jefferson School of Law. She currently teaches a summer course on Women and International Human Rights Law at AU Washington College of Law (AU WCL).

Areas of expertise include:

  • Gender and conflict; women, peace, and security
  • International humanitarian law (IHL) and human rights
  • Civilian protection
  • Political violence, non-state armed groups, and countering violent extremism
  • Conflict prevention and peacebuilding
  • Humanitarian-development-peace nexus
  • Torture prevention and atrocity prevention
  • International organisations (UN, OSCE) and humanitarian diplomacy
  • Civil society capacity building

Susanna Campbell

Assistant Professor, School of International Service (SIS), American University, Washington DC

Susanna Campbell

 

 

 

Dr. Susanna Campbell is an Assistant Professor at the American University in Washington, D.C. She was the Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator, respectively, for two large research projects: Aiding Peace? Donor Behavior in Conflict-Affected Countries funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) and Bad Behavior? Explaining Performance in International Peacebuilding Organizations funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), both of which were based on her dissertation research. In late 2013, she was the Principal Investigator for a multi-method evaluation of the UN Peacebuilding Fund in Burundi. 

Areas of expertise include:

  • Africa

  • Peacebuilding, Statebuilding and Conflict prevention

  • International organizations and Organizational and Institutional Theory

  • International Relations

Contact: susanna.campbell@american.edu

Jerome Drevon

Research Advisor on the Sociology of Non-State Armed Groups at the International Committee of the Red Cross, Switzerland

Jerome Drevon

 

 

 

Areas of expertise include:

  • Civil wars and insurgencies

  • Comparative politics

  • Contentious politics and political violence

  • Institutional and organisational studies

  • Islamist and jihadi movements

  • Middle East politics

  • Salafism

  • Social movement studies

  • Social network analysis.

Contact: jerome.drevon@graduateinstitute.ch

Brian Ganson

Professor and Head of the Africa Centre for Dispute Settlement, University of Stellenbosch Business School 

 

 

 

Brian Ganson holds a Juris Doctorate (with honors) from Harvard Law School, a Master of Arts in Law & Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Tufts University, and a Bachelor of Arts in European Studies (with high distinction) from the University of Michigan. Mr. Ganson has broad experience developing and delivering executive education programmes for diplomats, business executives, and civil society leaders through Harvard Law School and other leading institutions. In his consulting work he advises organizations operating in particularly challenging environments.

Areas of expertise include:

  • Business engagement in fragile environments

  • Organizational capabilities for effective engagement in post-conflict and other complex environments

  • The impact of donor policy, priorities, and recipient relations on the effectiveness of local efforts at the intersection of peacebuilding and development

  • Rights compatible, interest-based approaches to the settlement of company/community conflicts

Contact: brian@ganson.org 

 

Farrah hawana

Research Associate, Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies

Farrah Hawana

Farrah Hawana is an independent researcher and freelance consultant who finished her Ph.D. in Political Science/International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in 2016. In 2006, she completed an M.A. degree in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies in Belgium.  Her undergraduate degrees in History and International Relations were awarded by the College of William and Mary in 2004. Farrah has accumulated extensive professional experience over more than fifteen years of work with various non-governmental organizations, international institutions, and academic research/policy centers, such as the International Labour Organization and the Small Arms Survey. Most recently, she was a Lecturer in International Politics & Security at Aberystwyth University, where she taught courses and supervised dissertations at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is broadly interested in exploring questions of power, legitimacy, security, and justice, and in understanding complex political change, with specific focus on the Middle East and North Africa.

Areas of expertise: 

  • International Relations and International Security

  • Political violence, armed groups, and countering violent extremism

  • Peacebuilding and state-building

  • Gender and conflict; women, peace, and security

  • Militarization and the arms trade, security sector reform, civil-military relations

  • Comparative authoritarianism, autocratization, and political transitions; Arab state-society relations

Contact: farrah.hawana@graduateinstitute.ch  

Abdulla Ibrahim

Research Associate, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, Senior Advisor and lead on the Future of Arms Control Project

Abdulla Ibrahim

Dr. Ibrahim is a Research Associate, Senior Advisor and lead to the Future of Arms Control Project at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Abdulla is researching international conflicts with over twelve years of expertise in multilateral dialogues and research processes. He is also a Nonresident Fellow with the Stimson Center, and an adjunct fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC. Abdulla’s research interests at the CCDP span topics ranging from arms control to European security, armed groups and armed forces consolidation, U.S. and Russian foreign policies and relations, to the current and future challenges to international order. Abdulla holds a PhD in international relations and political science from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva (IHEID); and an MA from the Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame. 

Areas of expertise include:

  • Armed groups and armed forces consolidation

  • US-Russia arms control and European security

  • East Mediterranean and Middle East security dynamics

  • Multilateral negotiations and facilitation

  • Conflict analysis and dialogue process design

Languages spoken: English, Arabic, French

Contact: abdulla.ibrahim@graduateinstitute.ch

Annette Idler

Director of Studies at the Changing Character of War Programme (Pembroke College) and Research Associate at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, UK

Annette Idler

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Dr Annette Idler is the Director of Studies at the Changing Character of War Programme, Pembroke College, and Research Associate at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. She holds a doctorate from the Department of International Development and St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford and a MA in International Relations from the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Dr Idler’s work focuses on the interface of conflict, security, transnational organized crime and peacebuilding, and the role that violent non-state actors play in these dynamics.

Areas of expertise include:

  • Interactions and trends among violent non-state actors

  • Nexus of conflict, security and transnational organised crime

  • Illicit drug trade and drug policy

  • Conflict prevention and peacebuilding

  • Borderlands

  • Colombia's armed conflict and citizen security in Latin America

Contact: annette.idler@politics.ox.ac.uk

Steffen Jensen

Professor at Aalborg University and Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute Against Torture (DIGNITY), Copenhagen, Denmark 

Jensen

 

 

 

Steffen Jensen is a Professor at Aalborg University, Copenhagen Campus in the Department of Culture and Global Studies as well as a Senior Researcher at DIGNITY-The Danish Institute Against Torture. He holds a degree in International Development Studies and is specialized in the interdisciplinary study of rural and urban development issues, including those relating to conflict and state and non-state violence, justice, local politics, human rights and issues of inequality. Of particular interest are issues around torture and ill-treatment as well as forms of displacement and stuckness.

Areas of expertise include:

  • Conflict and violence

  • Displacement and refugees

  • Documentation and knowledge production in human rights

  • Urban and rural politics

  • Gangs, militias, vigilante groups and police

  • Corruption and violence as exchange relations

  • Development and human rights

  • South Africa, the Philippines, Algeria and Denmark

Contact: sje@dignityinstitute.dk

Moncef Kartas

Head of Sub-Office in Nigeria, Head of Stabilisation, UNDP

Moncef Kartas

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Moncef Kartas holds a PhD degree in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and a Master's degree in political science, philosophy and international law from the University of Munich. Moncef specialises in security sector governance, border security, armed violence reduction and conflict transformation in fragile contexts particularly in North Africa, the Sahel, East Africa and South Asia. 

Areas of expertise include:

  • The role of armed and security forces in post-colonial state formation and politics

  • The link between security and development (peacebuilding and conflict transformation; urbanisation and violence; informal economy, trafficking and borders)

  • The politics and public management challenges of security sector reform and community engagement

  • Political violence, armed groups and violent extremism

  • North Africa and the Sahara-Sahel, Rwanda, Madagascar, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Contact: moncef.kartas@graduateinstitute.ch

Neil Buhne

Research Associate, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies

Neil Buhne

Neil Buhne served the United Nations over 37 years in 9 countries from 1984 to 2021 before in 2022 joining CCDP as a Research Associate, and Mc Gill University’s Institute for Studies in International Development as a Professor of Practice. His focus at the UN was on bringing its different elements together to do better work for people at the country level, through development cooperation, humanitarian assistance and peace building. He did this most  recently as Regional Director, Asia-Pacific, for the United Nations Development Coordination Office based in Bangkok, and before that in Pakistan and Sri Lanka as United Nations Resident Coordinator/Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative. Earlier he was UN RC/UNDP RR in Bulgaria and Belarus, as well as Acting RC and UNDP RR/Deputy RR in Malaysia. His first involvement with the Graduate Institute was in 2011, when he led UNDP’s engagement with the Geneva humanitarian and peace-building communities as head of the Geneva office UNDP’ Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, and later as Director of UNDP’s integrated Geneva Liaison Office. He continues to engage as a consultant to help improve the UN’s work at the country level.

Areas of expertise:

  • Development Coordination and Humanitarian Coordination at the country level and the links to Peace-Building and Human Rights

  • Ways the UN can influence change at the country level

  •  Post-crisis recovery

  • Human Development

  • Integration of human rights into development and humanitarian programming

  • Environment Policy and the links to Climate Change Adaptation

  • Recovery and Development in areas affected by nuclear contamination

  • Facilitation of UN meetings/conferences

  • Belarus, Bhutan, Bulgaria, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Sudan and South and Southeast Asia

Contact: neil.buhne@graduateinstitute.ch 

Vassily A. Klimentov

SNSF Postdoctoral Researcher / Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence

Vassily

Vassily A. Klimentov is a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Postdoctoral researcher/ Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute in Florence. His research is focusing on the insurgencies in the North Caucasus. He is also a Research Associate at the Pierre du Bois Foundation in Geneva. He has received his PhD in International History from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. He also holds a MA in General History from the University of Geneva and a MA in Asian Studies from the Graduate Institute and the University of Geneva. Vassily A. Klimentov has previously worked for several years with humanitarian NGOs as an analyst and a needs and security assessment coordinator. He has notably been posted for two years in the Middle East.

Areas of Expertise include:

  • Politics in the Post-Soviet Space

  • Soviet & Russian Foreign Policy

  • Soviet War in Afghanistan

  • Islamist Terrorism

  • Humanitarian Assessment & Analysis

Contact: vassily.klimentov(at)graduateinstitute.ch

Masayo Kondo Rossier

Research Associate, Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies

Masayo CCDP

Masayo worked with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) from August 1995 until May 2022. She covered geographical desks (Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific) as well as emergency preparedness, capacity development, and policy, leading up to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the SDGs in 2015. Before joining OCHA in Geneva, she worked with the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) in Japan, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Japan and in Paraguay, and with the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL) as electoral officer monitoring the first presidential election following the peace accord. 

In 2010-2011 Masayo spent her UN Sabbatical Programme period at the CCDP, which led to Linking Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding (CCDP Working Paper No. 7). She then completed a second Master’s degree in International Relations and Political Science at the Graduate Institute in 2014. Previously she received an MA in Latin American Studies from Sandford University in the 1990s. In 2014, she started a capacity development seminar for OCHA staff with the UN System Staff College (UNSSC) entitled “Conflict Analysis for linking Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding (CAHAPB).” This was the precursor to the Action Learning for Conflict Analysis (ALCA) initiative. She is currently contributing to the second phase of the Action Learning for Conflict Analysis (ALCA) project on “Promoting System-Wide Analytical Capabilities across the Triple Nexus.” 

Areas of expertise:

  • Humanitarian-development-peace nexus
  • Humanitarian civil-military coordination
  • Conflict analysis as a tool to link humanitarian action and peace-and-security concerns
  • Non-state armed groups and private military and security companies (PMSCs)
  • Emergency preparedness and disaster risk reduction
  • SDG 16

Contact: masayo.kondo@graduateinstitute.ch 

Derek Miller

Director of The Policy Lab, Oslo (Norway) and Boston (US).

Derek Miller CCDP

Dr. Derek B. Miller is Director of The Policy Lab® and a novelist. He holds the additional positions of Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy at Salve Regina University, and Design Fellow at the Center for Public Policy and Service Design at the Somali Public Agenda, Mogadishu. Miller earned his Ph.D summa cum laude at The Graduate Institute in Geneva, with post-graduate work at Linacre College, Oxford; MA in national security studies from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown; and BA from Sarah Lawrence College. He was senior researcher and project manager at UNIDIR for almost a decade. His work focuses mainly on decision making and moving knowledge to action in political and administrative systems. Miller is also the critically-acclaimed and bestselling author of Norwegian by Night, The Girl in Green, American by Day, Radio Life, the Audible Original novel Quiet Time, and the forthcoming How to Find Your Way in the Dark.

Areas of expertise include:

  • Design and innovation for public policy

  • Evidence-based project and programme design

  • Moving knowledge to action in administrative systems

  • Post-conflict stability

  • Public diplomacy and media

  • International security and war studies

Contact: derek.miller@graduateinstitute.ch

Robert Muggah

Research Director of the Igarapé Institute and Professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 

Dr. Robert Muggah is the Research Director of the Igarapé Institute, a Principal of the SecDev Group, and a professor at the Instituto de Relações Internacionais, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. From Brazil he directs several projects on international cooperation, peace-support operations, transnational organized crime, citizen security and violence prevention, and humanitarian action in non-war settings across Latin America and the Caribbean. He currently oversees the humanitarian action in situations other than war (HASOW) project, the States of Fragility project, and the Urban Resilience project. He also advises the High Level Panel on the post-2015 development agenda. Dr. Muggah received his DPhil at Oxford University and his MPhil at the Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex.

Areas of expertise include:

  • Security promotion and armed violence reduction in complex environments

  • Risks and responses to population displacement and resettlement

  • State-building, stabilization and fragility and the political economy of securitization

  • Urbanisation and forms of institutional resilience

Contact: robert.muggah@graduateinstitute.ch

Fred Tanner

Visiting Professor, MINT Programme
Ambassador (ret.)
Associate Fellow, GCSP

Fred Tanner

 

 

 

Fred Tanner is currently a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute and an Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) in Geneva. He previously served as Senior Adviser to the Secretary General of the OSCE, and subsequently, at the Swiss MFA in Crisis Management. For seven years, he was the Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP).  He recently conducted research on peace missions as Practitioner-in-Residence at the Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. While at the OSCE, he was also the project leader of a Lessons Learned Project on the performance of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine. Earlier he was a member of the UN Secretary-General Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters (ABDM) and serves now on the Boards of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Regional Office and the International Institute for Peace, Vienna.

Languages spoken:

English, French, German

Areas of expertise include:

  • Peacebuilding, peacekeeping, peacemaking

  • International organisations, UN, OSCE, OSCE Network

  • Institutional approach to conflict prevention, conflict management and mediation support

  • European and global security

  • Armed and protracted conflicts

  • Arms control and disarmament, conventional arms control, CSBMs, risk reduction

Contact: fred.tanner@graduateinstitute.ch

Alaa tartir

Academic Coordinator for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region, Executive Master in Development Policies & Practices (DPP)

Researcher and Program Lead at the Small Arms Survey

Program Director of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, a member of the Palestinian Strategic Thinking Group 

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Alaa Tartir is a research associate at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP).  Amongst other positions, Tartir was a post-doctoral fellow at The Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), a visiting scholar and lecturer at Utrecht University, and a researcher in international development studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he earned his PhD. Tartir is the co-editor of Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), and the author of Policing Palestine: Securitising Peace and Criminalising Resistance in the West Bank (Pluto Press, 2019).

Areas of expertise include:

  • Political Economy of development and international aid

  • State-building and governance in conflict-affected areas

  • Security Sector Reform and securitized development

  • Public Policy Analysis

  • Political Economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territory

  • Palestinian politics, and Arab-Israeli conflict

Contact: alaa.tartir@graduateinstitute.ch and full profile.

 

Djacoba liva tehindrazanarivelo

Research Associate at the Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies

Djacoba CCDP

Djacoba Liva Tehindrazanarivelo holds a PhD in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, a Certificate of the Centre for Studies and Research of the Hague Academy of International Law, and a Maîtrise in Public Law and Political Science from the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar. For the past 16 years he has been teaching Public International Law, international organizations, UN peace mechanism, human rights, conflict resolution, the Responsibility to protect, and the law and practices of law in Africa – at the Graduate Institute, Boston University Study Abroad Geneva, the Institute for Human Rights (Catholic University of Lyon) and at University of Geneva. As a practitioner, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Madagascar (January 2020 – August 2021); he is also a member of the France-Madagascar Mixed Claims Commission relating to the dispute over islands off the West coast of Madagascar (since November 2019), and has conducted consultancies with various international organizations.

M. Tehindrazanarivelo is author of two books on the unintended effects of United Nations sanctions and on racism against migrants in Europe. He has moreover co-edited four other books, and published articles on a variety of topics in International Law, African Union Law, peace and security, human rights, and the fight against impunity.

Areas of expertise include:

  • United Nations law, sanctions, and peace mechanisms

  • African Union law, and the African peace and security architecture

  • Democratic governance and unconstitutional changes of government

  • Regional organizations in Southern and Eastern Africa, and the Indian Ocean

  • Critical analyses of law and practices of law in Africa

  • Uncomplete decolonization processes

  • Diplomatic law and practice

  • Human rights training and migrants’ rights

Contact: Coming soon

Khalid Tinasti

Research Associate at the Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies

Khalid Tinasti

 

 

 

Khalid Tinasti is a political scientist. He also serves as a Visiting Fellow at the International Center on Drug Policy Studies at Shanghai University, and taught international drug policy as a Visiting Lecturer at the Geneva Graduate Institute (2021-2022) where he supervises Master students theses on drug control policies. He is the Director of External Relations at the Climate Overshoot Commission, and the former Director of the Global Commission on Drug Policy. Before joining the Global Commission’s Secretariat in 2013 as a Policy Analyst, he worked as an independent consultant for UNAIDS, WHO, the Graduate Institute and others. Prior to that, Khalid worked as a Press and Communications Officer in the office of the Minister of Urban Cohesion (ministre de la Ville) in France, and as an Executive Officer in Gabon. Khalid holds a PhD in political science from the Institut Catholique de Paris, and held research fellowships at the Global Health Programme at the Geneva Graduate Institute (2015-16), at the Global Studies Institute at the University of Geneva (2018-2021) and an honorary fellowship at Swansea University (2016-20). 

Areas of expertise include:

  • Drug policy & International drug control regime governance

  • Public policy analysis

  • Competitive-authoritarian political regimes

  • Morocco & West Africa

Email: khalid.tinasti@graduateinstitute.ch

Robert watkins

Research Associate, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies

 

 

 

Robert joined the CCDP after a 35-year career working for international organisations in political, humanitarian, development and post-conflict recovery areas in some 13 different countries, principally in the Middle East, Central, and South Asia.  He served for the United Nations as Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General in Lebanon (2011-2014) and Afghanistan (2009-2011) at the level of Assistant Secretary General, as well as UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Bangladesh (2015-17), Djibouti (2014), and Georgia (2006-2009). Since retiring from the UN at the end of 2017, he has taught as a Practitioner at the Graduate Institute and at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, and presented papers on Conflict Prevention at AUB, Lebanon, and the University of Tianjin, China. He holds an MA in International Affairs from the Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa. He is currently contributing to the second phase of the Action Learning for Conflict Analysis (ALCA) project on “Promoting System-Wide Analytical Capabilities across the Triple Nexus.” 

Areas of expertise include:

  • New approaches to Peacebuilding

  • Role of Land Ownership in conflict settlement

  • Digital literacy in the Prevention of Violent Extremism

  • Mediation

  • Role of the UN in World Politics, Conflict Prevention & Peacekeeping

Contact: robert.watkins@graduateinstitute.ch

 

Patrik meyer

Research Associate, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies

 

 

 

Patrik Meyer has eclectic personal, academic and professional backgrounds. He earned his PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge working with Chinese scholars to provide better understanding of the conflicts in Xinjiang that fuel tensions between the Uyghurs and the Chinese government. He has conducted extensive research on the Uyghur issue and is one of a few western scholars that can visit Xinjiang to conduct research. He also holds an MPA from Harvard University, a MS in Structural Engineering from MIT, and a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, he is a PhD student in neuroscience at the University of Zurich, where he investigates how the (over)use of smart apps affects human cognitive skills. Concurrently, he is a professor at Halic University in Istanbul, where he lectures on engineering ethics. 

Contact: patrikmeyer@gmail.com