Current dissertations
| PhD students | |
|---|---|
| Exploring Causal Mechanisms between Local Agreements for Humanitarian Access and Conflict Dynamics. | Behrens, Mario |
| How does the binary construction of a conflict shape peace processes? | Cho, Jacqui |
Party Leaders' Pathways to Power and their Impact on the Party | Claessen, Clint |
| The Scales of Good Peace: How Norms of Mediators Influence Communal Conflict Resolution Efforts | Gamez, Samantha |
Making sense of the ideational and normative foundations of Turkish peacebuilding and mediation policy: from cautious peacekeeping to ambitious conflict transformation | Gültekin, Volkan |
The Formalization of Informal Resource Extraction and State Fragility: A Case Study of the Democratic Republic of Congo | König, Tobias |
| Visual and political representations: interactions between visual and discursive representations in armed conflitcs and political roles of women in peace processes and after settlements | Migeon, Marie |
Roles of key civil society actors in nuclear disarmament: epistemic communities in mulit-track diplomacy foras | Nurzhan, Marzhan |
How is the commitment to women's political participation in North East Syria realised in practice? | Wartmann, Julia |
Completed dissertations
| PhD students | |
|---|---|
Politics of Peace and Conflict: The Role of Local Business Actors in Sri Lanka (2014) | Alluri, Rina |
Managed pacification: aid, peace, and the focus on results in Myanmar's transition | Bächtold, Stefan |
Ethnic decentralization and negotiating statehood in urban Ethiopia: a case study of Adama and Hawassa cities | Bekele, Demissie Ferdissa |
Resistances to Transitional Justice at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia | Bernath, Julie |
Privatizing Security and Peace? Attitudes Towards Cooperation of Armed Forces with Private Military Companies. A Comparative Study of Germany and the USA (2010) | Bürgin, Annina |
The Foreign and Security Policies of Austria and Switzerland vis-à-vis the CFSP of the European Union. A discourse-theoretical analysis (2007) | Doctor, Christoph |
| The Political Stability of Post-Insurgent States: Institutional Legacies of Rebel Governance in Eritrea and South Sudan | Dirkx, Toon |
| Dynamics of Emotions in Protracted Intergroup Conflict as Microfoundations for Violent Action - Insights for Conflict Transformation from the Palestinian Territories | Fink, Oliver |
Anti-corruption Agencies in Statebuilding: A Critical Perspective on the Legitimation of Fragile and Conflict-Affected States | Germperle, Sergio |
'We ought to care': tracing the impact of international business and human rights norms on Swiss CSR policy | Graf, Andreas |
Bridging the Gap: The Interaction between Local and International Peacebuilding Actors in Ituri (2014) | Hellmüller, Sara |
| Parliamentarians and Interest Groups: Drivers and Consequences of Collaboration | Huwyler, Oliver |
EU Member States in the Common Security and Defense Policy: A Role-Theoretical Analysis of the Policies of Germany and the Netherlands | Klein, Tanja |
Saving Strangers in Darfur: International Norms Lost in Translation | Lanz, David |
| Developing the Afrian Union Tranistional Justice Policy. A Study in Transitional Justice Expertise | Lühe, Ulrike |
The Reorientation of Swiss European Policy 1988 - 1992: From Bilateralism to Accession (2011) | Marti, Simon |
Promoting Peace or Selling Norms? NGO Mediators and 'All-Inclusiveness' in Myanmar's Peace Process | Palmiano Feder, Julia |
Understanding foreign large-scale agricultural investments in Ethiopia | Poluschny-Treuner, Myra |
Making the Middle: Localizing Inclusivity in the IGAD-led Mediation in South Sudan (2013-2015) | Pring, Jamie |
Transitional Justice as an Instrument for Political Struggles: Dealing with the Past and State-Formation in Burundi | Rubli, Sandra |