Prof. Dr. Markus Schultze-Kraft

Since Jan 2022 Professor of Political Science, Department of Police and Security Management (FB 5), HWR Berlin

• Domestic and international security, political participation and protest, international conflict & security management, regional security governance, international police missions 

Jan 2020 – Dec 2021 Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute, Brunswick

• Georg Arnhold Senior Fellow & Arnhold Associate
• Research project ‘Education for Sustaining Peace through Historical Memory’
• Consulting on curriculum reform and textbook revision in Latin America since the 1990s, considering the topics of coming to terms with the past, culture of remembrance, reconciliation and special justice

Nov 2014 - Jun 2020 Professor of Political Science, Peace/Conflict Studies and Global Affairs, Universidad Icesi, Colombia

• Head of the M.A. in Government
• International advisor to the National Centre for Historical Memory (CNMH)
• Diploma in University Teaching
• Visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg i. Br.
• DAAD research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg i. Br.

Oct 2010 – Oct 2014 Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, UK

• Research Fellow & Head of the Governance Research Team
• Founder and Co-chair, Global Drug and Development Policy Roundup
• Member of the Strategic Leadership Group (SLG)

Nov 2001 – Sep 2010 International Crisis Group based in Bogotá, Colombia

• Head of the Latin America & Caribbean Programme
• Head of the Colombia & Andean Project
• Senior Political Analyst Colombia

Jul 2001 DPhil in Politics, St Antony’s College/University of Oxford

• DAAD research fellow in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua

Jun 1997 MPhil in Latin American Studies, St Antony’s College/University of Oxford

Jun 1995 Diploma (MA) in Political Science with Economics as a minor subject, Free University of Berlin

Oct 1989 – Jun 1990 Visiting student, Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE), St Catherine’s College/University of Oxford

Political science

International political economy

Security studies

Governance studies

Regional studies (Latin America and the Caribbean, West Africa, Western Balkans)

Criminology

Global value chains

Peace education

Historical memory

Qualitative research methodologies

Governance of violent conflict and (in)security

Democracy and development

Current issues in international security management (Peacebuilding, Sustaining Peace)

Security-development nexus in the global South

Regional security governance

Governance and Transnational Organised Crime

Domestic security

International security

Political participation und protest

International police missions

Regular supervision of final theses in the following degree programmes at the HWR Berlin:

• B.A. Gehobener Polizeivollzugsdienst (gPVD)
• B.A. Sicherheitsmanagement (SiMa)
• M.A. International Security Management (ISM)
• M.A. Security Management (MSM)

Supervision of final theses at former places of work:

• M.A. in Development Studies (IDS/University of Sussex)
• M.A. in Government (Universidad Icesi)
• B.A. in Political Science (Universidad Icesi)

Ideas about PhD projects in my fields of expertise in a co-supervision arrangement with another university are welcome.

International political economy of global value chains (HWR Research Competence Centre, DFG)

International peacemaking, peacebuilding and peacekeeping, sustaining peace

Peace education

Accountability and local governance in peacebuilding and statebuilding processes

International and human security, security sector governance and the nexus between security and development

Legal pluralism

Transnational organised crime and international drug policy

Crime and crimilegality

Informal, hybrid and multi-level governance in developing countries

Violence prevention and mitigation in fragile states

Evidence-based policy analysis, design and transfer

International advisory role and consulting on political issues relating to armed conflict management, peacebuilding and peace consolidation, historical memory,  transnational organised crime

Management of a global INGO in the field of conflict prevention and resolution

Design and implementation of multi-stakeholder workshops

Preparation of policy reports and briefings

International policy advocacy

Scholarly publications

Monographs

• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2022). Education for Sustaining Peace through Historical Memory (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93654-9
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2019). Crimilegal Orders, Governance and Armed Conflict (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan). https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.1892482
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2005). Pacificación y poder civil en Centroamérica. Las relaciones cívico-militares en El Salvador, Guatemala y Nicaragua en el posconflicto (Bogotá: Grupo Editorial Norma). ISBN: 9786894223428

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• Schultze-Kraft, M. & Ó. E. Valencia Mesa (2025). Negotiating the fog of crimilegal war and peace: insights from rural Colombia, Conflict, Security & Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2025.2543408
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2022). On peace education in Colombia: a grounded international perspective, Journal of Peace Education, 19:3, 281-302.  https://doi.org/10.1080/17400201.2022.2132925
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2021). Las bases morales y normativas de la "connivencia" entre los órdenes políticos legal e ilegal: una aproximación desde el concepto de la crimilegalidad. In: Sonia Alda M. (ed.). Los actores implicados en la gobernanza criminal en América Latina, 51-64. Madrid: Real Instituto Elcano/Fundación Friedrich Naumann. ISBN: 978-84-92983-29-2
• Schultze-Kraft, M. & J. Gorricho (2021). Wartime protected area governance: the case of Colombia’s Alto Fragua Indiwasi National Park, Third World Quarterly 42:6, 1365-1383. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.1892482
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2018). Making peace in seas of crime: crimilegal order and armed conflict termination in Colombia, Crime, Law & Social Change 69(4), 475-496. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-017-9759-2
• Schultze-Kraft, M., F. Chinchilla & M. Moriconi (2018). New perspectives on crime, violence and insecurity in Latin America, Crime, Law & Social Change 69(4), 465-473. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-017-9758-3
• Schultze-Kraft, M., F. Chinchilla & M. Moriconi (Hrsg.) (2018). Cutting through the Fog: New Perspectives on Crime, Violence and Insecurity in Latin America, Special Issue 69(4), Crime, Law & Social Change.
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2017). Friedensschaffung durch Entflechtung von Herrschaftsordnung und organisierter Kriminalität? – Ein Deutungsversuch des kolumbianischen Friedensprozesses unter Anwendung des Konzepts der krimilegalen Aushandlung, Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform 5/2017, 344-359.
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2017). Understanding organised violence and crime in political settlements: oil wars, petro-criminality and amnesty in the Niger Delta, Journal of International Development 29, 613-627. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3287
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2016). Órdenes crimilegales: repensando el poder político del crimen organizado, ICONOS. Revista de Ciencias Sociales 55, 25-44. https://doi.org/10.17141/iconos.55.2016.1899
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2016). Memoria histórica: clave para reforma del sector seguridad y construcción de paz en Colombia, Le Monde Diplomatique 152, 4-5.
• Schultze-Kraft, M., O. E. Valencia & D. Alzate (2016). Decentralisation, security consolidation and territorial peacebuilding: is Colombia about to close the loop? Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal 1(6), 837-856. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2016.1338922
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2014). Why a governance perspective could contribute to improving drug policy and engaging the international development community: lessons from Colombia, International Journal of Drug Policy 25(5), 1038-1039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.12.011
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2014). Getting Real About an Illicit ‘External Stressor’: Transnational Cocaine Trafficking Through West Africa, IDS Evidence Report 72 (Brighton: Institute of Development Studies).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. & A. Joshi (2014). Introduction – Localising Governance: An outlook on research and policy, IDS Bulletin 45, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1111/1759-5436.12099
• Schultze-Kraft, M. & E. Morina (2014). Decentralization and accountability in war-to-peace transitions: the case of Kosovo, IDS Bulletin 45, 92-104. https://doi.org/10.1111/1759-5436.12107
• Schultze-Kraft, M. & A. Joshi (Hrsg.) (2014). Localising Governance, Special Issue 45, IDS Bulletin.
• Schultze-Kraft, M. & B. Befani (2014). Getting High on Impact: The Challenge of Evaluating Drug Policy, Brief No. 3, Global Drug Policy Observatory (Swansea: Swansea University).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. & S. Hinkle (2014). Toward Effective Violence Mitigation: Transforming Political Settlements, IDS Evidence Report 101 (Brighton: Institute of Development Studies).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2013). External Stresses and Violence Mitigation in Fragile Contexts: Setting the Stage for Policy Analysis, IDS Evidence Report 36 (Brighton: Institute of Development Studies).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2013). Nigeria’s Post-1999 Political Settlement and Violence Mitigation in the Niger Delta, IDS Evidence Report 5 (Brighton: Institute of Development Studies).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2012). Security and the rule of law in Colombia and Guatemala: priorities, trade-offs and interdependencies, Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 4, 135-157. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1876404512000085
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2012). Europe’s role in fomenting peace in Central America and Colombia, in C. Arnson (ed.) In the Wake of War: Democratization and Internal Armed Conflict in Latin America (Washington: D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford University Press), 287-318.
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2012). La cuestión militar en Colombia: la fuerza pública y los retos de la construcción de la paz, in A. Rettberg  (ed..) Construcción de paz en Colombia (Bogotá: Universidad de Los Andes/CEDE), 405-433.
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2010). La estrategia de resolución integral del conflicto armado y la construcción democrática del poder y del orden en Colombia, in A. Vargas (Hrsg.) Colombia: escenarios posibles de guerra o paz (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia), 287-302.
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2008). Narcotráfico en América Latina: un nuevo consenso internacional, Política Exterior 126, 105-114.
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2007). Venezuela vor dem Chavismus?Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 52(5), 541-545.

International Policy Publications

Published under the name of an institution (International Crisis Group), the works listed are the result of ten years of practice-oriented research and strategic analysis. Under the leadership of Prof. Schultze-Kraft, a solid and consistent methodological framework was implemented in a number of complex conflict areas, covering topics such as gang violence in Port-au-Prince, support for preparations for peace negotiations in Colombia, promotion of initiatives to curb unrest and democratic regression in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela, and combating cross-border organised crime. Prof Schultze-Kraft's H-index illustrates the influence of his academic research within the international scientific community, while his contributions to international policy underscore his ongoing commitment to promoting peace, security and stability worldwide.

International Crisis Group

Cluster 1: Conflict Resolution & Peace Architecture

Focus: The transition from violent conflict to negotiated settlements. Empirical "Early Warning" and "Late Stage" analysis for the Colombian conflict. Prof Schultze-Kraft’s and his team’s work documented the transition from the failed Caguán talks to the military pressure of Plan Colombia, ultimately laying the analytical groundwork for the 2012–2016 peace process. Key Impact: Officially referenced within diplomatic and policy contexts concerning the designation of "Internal Armed Conflict" and relevant applications of international humanitarian law. Keywords: Security Sector Reform (SSR), Security Policy, Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR), Peace Mediation and Negotiation, Peace & Justice, International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law. 

• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – co-author). Improving Security Policy in Colombia, Latin America/Caribbean Briefing N°23, Bogotá/Brussels, 29 June 2010.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – co-author). Uribe’s Possible Third Term and Conflict Resolution in Colombia, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°31, Bogotá/Brussels, 18 December 2009.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author). The Virtuous Twins: Protecting Human Rights and Improving Security in Colombia, Latin America & Caribbean Briefing N°21, Bogotá/Brussels, 25 May 2009.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author). Ending Colombia’s FARC Conflict: Dealing the Right Card, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°30, Bogotá/Brussels, 26 March 2009.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – editor). Correcting Course: Victims and the Justice and Peace Law in Colombia, Latin America & Caribbean Report N° 29, Bogotá/Brussels, 30 October 2008.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – editor) Colombia: Making Military Progress Pay Off, Latin America & Caribbean Briefing N°17, Bogotá/Brussels, 29 April 2008.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – editor). Colombia: Moving Forward with the ELN? Latin America & Caribbean Briefing N°16, Bogotá/Brussels, 11 October 2007.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author). Colombia’s New Armed Groups, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°20, Bogotá/Brussels, 10 May 2007.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – editor). Tougher Challenges Ahead for Colombia’s Uribe, Latin America & Caribbean Briefing N°11, Bogotá/Brussels, 20 October 2006.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author). Uribe’s Re-election: Can the EU Help Colombia Develop a More Balanced Peace Strategy? Latin America & Caribbean Report N°17, Bogotá/Brussels, June 2006.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author). Colombia: Towards Peace and Justice? Latin America & Caribbean Report N°15, Bogotá/Brussels, March 2006.
• International Crisis Group l(Schultze-Kraft, M. – editor). Colombia: Presidential Politics and Peace Prospects, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°14, Bogotá(Brussels, 16 June 2005.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author). Colombia's Borders: The Weak Link in Uribe's Security Policy, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°9, Quito/Brussels, 23 September 2004.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – co-author). Demobilizing the Paramilitaries in Colombia: An Achievable Goal? Latin America & Caribbean Report N°8, Bogotá/Brussels, 5 August 2004.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author). Hostages for Prisoners: A Way Toward Peace in Colombia? Latin America & Caribbean Briefing, Bogotá/Brussels, 8 March 2004.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author). Colombia: President Uribe’s Democratic Security Policy, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°6, Bogotá/Brussels, 13 November 2003.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft – editor). Colombia: Negotiating with the Paramilitaries, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°5, Bogotá/Brussels, 16 September 2003.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author). Colombia’s Humanitarian Crisis, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°4, Bogotá/Brussels, 9 July 2003.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author). Colombia and its Neighbours: The Tentacles of Instability, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°3, Bogotá/Brussels, 8 April 2003.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – co-author). Colombia: Will Uribe’s Honeymoon Last? Latin America & Caribbean Briefing N°3, Bogotá/Brussels, 19 December 2002.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author). Colombia: The Prospects for Peace with the ELN, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°2, Bogotá/Brussels, 4 October 2002.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – co-author). The Stakes in the Presidential Election in Colombia, Latin America & Caribbean Briefing N°2, Bogotá/Brussels, 22 May 2002.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft – co-author). The 10 March 2002 Parliamentary Elections in Colombia, Latin America & Caribbean Briefing N°1, Bogotá/Brussels, 17 April 2002.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author). Colombia’s Elusive Quest for Peace, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°1, Bogotá/Brussels, 26 March 2002.

Cluster 2: Fragile States & Democratic Backsliding

Focus: The erosion of institutional checks and balances and state fragility. This cluster tracked the "slow-motion" collapse of democratic norms and institutional stability, analysing the rise of executive overreach not just in Venezuela, but the constitutional crises in the Andes (Ecuador/Bolivia) and the Caribbean (Haiti). Key Impact: Influencing decision-making in key intergovernmental bodies (UNSC, OAS, EU), providing "primary sources" now used by political scientists to explain the roots of current authoritarian trends and institutional decay. Keywords: Authoritarianism, Autocracy, Institutional Decay, Rule of Law, Political Polarization, Democracy.

• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – co-author). Haiti: The Stakes of the Post-Quake Elections, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°35, Port-au-Prince/Brussels, 27 October 2010.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – co-author). Haiti: Stabilisation and Reconstruction After the Quake, Latin America/Caribbean Report N°32, Port-au-Prince/Bogotá/Brussels, 31 March 2010.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – editor). Venezuela: Accelerating the Bolivarian Revolution, Latin America & Caribbean Briefing N°22, Bogotá/Brussels, 5 November 2009.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – editor). Haiti: Saving the Environment, Preventing Instability and Conflict, Latin America & Caribbean Briefing N°20, Port-au-Prince/Brussels, 28 April 2009.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – editor). Haiti 2009: Stability at Risk, Latin America & Caribbean Briefing  N°19, Port-au-Prince/Bogotá/Brussels, 3 March 2009.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – co-author). Reforming Haiti’s Security Sector, Latin America/Caribbean Report N°28, Port-au-Prince/Brussels, 18 September 2008.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – co-author). Venezuela: Political Reform or Regime Demise?, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°27, Bogotá/Brussels, 23 July 2008.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – editor). Bolivia: Rescuing the New Constitution and Democratic Stability, Latin America & Caribbean Briefing N°18, Bogotá/Brussels, 19 June 2008.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – editor). Peacebuilding in Haiti: Including Haitians from Abroad, Latin America/Caribbean Report N°24, Port-au-Prince/Brussels, 14 December 2007.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – editor). Bolivia’s New Constitution: Avoiding Violent Confrontation, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°23, Bogotá/Brussels, 31 August 2007
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author). Ecuador: Overcoming Instability?, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°22, Bogotá/Brussels, 7 August 2007.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – editor). Consolidating Stability in Haiti, Latin America/Caribbean Report N°21, Port-au-Prince/Brussels, 18 July 2007.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – editor). Haiti: Prison Reform and the Rule of Law, Latin America/Caribbean Briefing N°15, Port-au-Prince/Brussels, 4 May 2007.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – editor). Venezuela: Hugo Chavez’s Revolution, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°19, Bogotá/Brussels, 22 February 2007.
• International Crisis Group. Haiti: Justice Reform and the Security Crisis, Latin America/Caribbean Briefing N°14, Port-au-Prince/Brussels, 31 January 2007.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – editor). Bolivia’s Reforms: The Danger of New Conflicts, Latin America & Caribbean Briefing N°13, Bogotá/Brussels, 8 January 2007.
• International Crisis Group. Haiti: Security and the Reintegration of the State, Latin America/Caribbean Briefing N°12, Port-au-Prince/Brussels, 30 October 2006.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – editor). Bolivia’s Rocky Road to Reforms, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°18, Bogotá/Brussels, 3 July 2006.
• International Crisis Group. Haiti after the Elections: Challenges for Préval’s First 100 Days, Latin America & Caribbean Briefing N°10, Port-au-Prince/Brussels, 11 May 2006.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – co-author). Bolivia at the Crossroads: The December Election, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°14, Bogotá/Brussels, 8 December 2005.
• International Crisis Group. Haiti’s Elections: The Case for a Short Delay, Latin America & Caribbean Briefing N°9, Port-au-Prince/Brussels, 25 November 2005.
• International Crisis Group. Can Haiti Hold Elections in 2005?, Latin America & Caribbean Briefing N°8, Port-au-Prince/Brussels, 3 August 2005.
• International Crisis Group. Spoiling Security in Haiti, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°13, Port-au-Prince/Brussels, 31 May 2005.
• International Crisis Group. Haiti’s Transition: Hanging in the Balance, Latin America & Caribbean Briefing N° 7, 8 February 2005.
• International Crisis Group. A New Chance for Haiti?, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°10, Port-au-Prince/Brussels, 18 November 2004.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author). Bolivia’s Divisions: Too Deep to Heal?, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°7, Quito/Brussels, 6 July 2004
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – author). Increasing Europe’s Stake in the Andes, Latin America & Caribbean Briefing N°6, Quito/Brussels, 15 June 2004.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author) Venezuela: Headed Toward Civil War?, Latin America & Caribbean Briefing N°5, Quito/Brussels, 16 May 2004.

Cluster 3: Transnational Threats & Shadow Economies

Focus: The intersection of narcotics, insurgency, paramilitaries, and governance. Highlighted by the foundational Latin American Drugs I & II reports, this cluster shifted the global conversation from "War on Drugs" to "Drug Policy Reform." Prof Schultze-Kraft’s and his team’s work exposed how shadow economies fund non-state armed groups and corrupt state institutions. Key Impact: Heavily utilized by UNODC and OAS; served as a "reality check" for European and US donor agencies regarding the efficacy of eradication-only models. Keywords: Organized Crime, Narcotrafficking, Alternative Development, Informal and Illicit Economies.

• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – co-author). Guatemala: Squeezed Between Crime and Impunity, Latin America/Caribbean Report N°33, Bogotá/Brussels, 22 June 2010.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author). Latin American Drugs I: Losing the fight, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°25, Bogotá/Brussels, 14 March 2008.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author). Latin American Drugs II: Improving Policy and Reducing Harm, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°26, Bogotá/Brussels, 14 March 2008.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author). Coca, Drugs and Social Protest in Bolivia and Peru, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°12, Quito/Brussels, 3 March 2005.
• International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author). War and Drugs in Colombia, Latin America & Caribbean Report N°11, Bogotá/Brussels, 27 January 2005.

Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex

• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2014). Mitigating ‘Non-Conflict’ Violence by Creating Peaceful Political Settlements, IDS Policy Briefing 81 (Brighton: Institute of Development Studies).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2013). Bringing Development In: Tackling the Negative Effects of Illicit Drugs and Drug Policy on Development, IDS Event Briefing (Brighton: Institute of Development Studies).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2013). Elites, Oil and Violence Mitigation in the Niger Delta, IDS Policy Briefing 35 (Brighton: Institute of Development Studies).

Commissioned studies

• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2020) Übersicht zu Aktivitäten der Lehrplanreform und Schulbuchrevision in Lateinamerika seit den 1990er Jahren unter Berücksichtigung des Themenkomplexes Vergangenheits-aufarbeitung-Erinnerungsskultur-Wiederversöhnung-Sonderjustiz (Brunswick: Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2018). Serious and Organised Crime and Livelihoods Programmes. K4D Helpdesk Report (Brighton: Institute of Development Studies).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2018). Organised Crime, Violence and Development: Topic Guide Update. K4D Helpdesk Report (Brighton: Institute of Development Studies).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2016). Organised Crime, Violence and Development: Topic Guide (Birmingham: Governance and Social Development Resource Centre at the University of Birmingham).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2016). Evolution of Estimated Coca Cultivation and Cocaine Production in South America (Bolivia, Colombia and Peru) and of the Actors, Modalities and Routes of Cocaine Trafficking to Europe (c. 2010-2014) (Lisbon: European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drugs and Drug Addiction).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. & M. Rew (2014). How Does State Fragility Affect Rural Development? Evidence from Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Yemen, Nepal and Bolivia (Eschborn: Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit).
• Schultze-Kraft, M., M. Rew & M. Kuss (2014). What Works for Rural Development in Fragile States? Evidence from Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Yemen, Nepal and Bolivia (Eschborn: Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. & E. Morina (2012). Supporting Kosovo´s Transition: An Assessment of SDC´s Support to Decentralization, State-Building and Democracy Promotion in Kosovo (Brighton: Institute of Development Studies).
• Schultze-Kraft, M., J. Bouchier & A. Álvarez (2012). Evaluation of the Commission of the European Union’s Cooperation with Colombia: Final Report (Brussels: Development Research Network).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2011). Policy Fast Talk: Canada’s Engagement in Fragile States in the Americas (Ottawa: DFAIT/START).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. & J. Florez Torres (2011). El Servicio Civil Alemán para la Paz: Estudio de Caso Colombia, Informe de evaluación no publicado (Bonn: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung).

Online essays

• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2018). Ending the Niger Delta’s Oil Wars: Will the Crimilegal Settlement Hold?, Oxford Research Group (London).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2017). Colombia’s Quest for Historical Memory and Peacebuilding, Oxford Research Group (London).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2012). Colombia after the waterfall: can Santos turn the tide?, Latin America Bureau (London).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2012). Tackling socio-political fragility in the Caribbean, International Relations and Security Network (Zürich).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2011). New global drug policy depends on effective governance, International Relations and Security Network (Zürich).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2011). Rebuilding on quicksand: Haiti after the run-off polls, International Relations and Security Network (Zürich).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2010). Venezuela´s poll: democracy against the odds, International Relations and Security Network (Zürich).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2010). Latin America´s security challenges two centuries on, International Relations and Security Network (Zürich).
• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2010). Tackling the Andean security dilemma, International Relations and Security Network (Zürich).

May 2026

“Unpacking the Globalized Cocaine Economy through the Lens of the Global Value Chain Framework”. Presentation at the Latin American Studies Association Annual Conference 2026, Paris.

Jun 2025        

“More than meets the eye: conceptualising opacity and illicitness in GVCs”. ECPR, Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, Hertie School, Berlin

Jun 2025        

“Dialogue on Peace Education and the Prevention of Violent Conflicts”. Willy-Brandt- School Open Lecture, Willy-Brandt-School of Public Policy, Universität Erfurt.

Mar 2021        

“King Covid and the city: exploring the implications of a global biological stressor for urban security governance in Latin America”. Online presentation in a workshop of the Institute for Future Initiatives/University of Tokyo Research Group on Complex Challenges in an Urban World.

Nov 2020        

“On peace education in Colombia: a grounded international perspective”. Online presentation at the 2020 Georg Arnhold International Conference, Georg Eckert Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung.

Sep 2019        

“The making of unlaw: crimilegality and social order in developing countries”. Presentation at the 4^th Annual Conference of the Law and Development Research Network (LDRN), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Jul 2019         

“Colombia’s armed forces and the reconstruction of historical memory”. Presentation in the workshop ‘Conmemoración y rememoración. Procesos de construcción de memoria histórica y legitimidad del Estado’, Lateinamerika-Institut (FU Berlin)/Universidad de Medellín/Instituto CAPAZ. 

Nov - Dec 2018         

“Crimilegal orders, governance and armed conflict: evidence from Colombia and Nigeria”. Lecture in a series of panel discussions organised together with the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), FU Berlin/Latin American Institute, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law 

Jun 2018        

“Crimilegal order: what’s behind a term?”. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Toronto, Kanada. 

Jul 2017         

“Making peace in seas of crime: crimilegal order and armed conflict termination in Colombia”. Presentation at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg

Nov 2016        

“Coca and cocaine in South America – actors, modalities and routes”. Presentation at the 4^th Annual Meeting of the EMCDDA Reference Group on Drug Supply Indicators, Lisbon.

Nov 2016        

“Elusive peace and organized crime in Colombia: what’s in store for the country after ‘no’ vote?”. Presentation at the Centre for International Studies, University Institute of Lisbon.

May 2016       

“Making peace in seas of crime: crimilegality and armed conflict termination in Colombia”. Presentation at the Latin American Studies Association Annual Conference 2016, New York.

Nov 2015        

“Reforma y gobernanza del sector seguridad en Colombia en el posconflicto”. Presentation at the international conference ‘Una Fuerza Pública para un país en cambio’, Instituto de Ciencia Política/Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Bogotá.

Aug 2015       

“Crimilegality and peace processes”. Presentation at the 3^rdLatin American and Caribbean Congress of the Social Sciences, FLACSO-Ecuador, Quito. 

Jul 2015         

“Getting high on impact: the challenge of evaluating drug policy”. Presentation at the 8^th Congress of the Latin American Political Science Association (ALACIP), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima.

May 2015       

“Amarrar el dragón (o sea, el Leviatán): Pero, ¿quién es el dragón, cómo se amara, y con qué propósitos?, Presentation at the international conference ‘Memoria histórica y Fuerza Pública’, National Centre of Historical Memory (CNMH), Bogotá.

Mar 2015        

“Fuerza Pública, construcción de paz y memoria histórica en Colombia a la luz de la experiencia internacional”. Presentation at the Inaugural Meeting of the International Advisory Committee of the National Centre of Historical Memory (CNMH), Bogotá.

Dec 2014        

“The interpenetration of organized criminality and the state: Colombia”. Presentation at meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues, House of Commons, London.

Dec 2014        

“Rural development in fragile settings: challenges and policy perspectives”, Workshop DG for Development and Cooperation – Europaid, Brussels.

Nov 2013        

“Rebel rulers, networked criminality and Colombia’s political settlement”. Presentation at the conference “The Colombian peace talks: a challenge for security and democracy?”, St Antony’s College/University of Oxford.

Jul 2013         

“The drug problem in the Americas: socio-economic and development challenges”, Chatham House/Organization of American States high-level policy roundtable, London.

Jun 2013        

“Bringing development in: a comprehensive approach to tackling illicit drug production, trade and use, Policy Workshop, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London.

Apr 2013        

“SDC´s support to decentralization, state-building and democracy promotion in Kosovo”. PEA Workshop, Swiss Agency for International Development and Cooperation (SDC), Pristina.

Mar 2013        

“The Colombian peace talks: lessons from other negotiation processes”, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Conference Chair and presentation on the challenges of the Colombian peace process in light of the experiences of Nepal, Northern Ireland and Central America.

Feb 2013        

Global Drug and Development Policy Roundup, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton, founder, co-chair and presenter

Feb 2013        

“Nigeria’s post-1999 political settlement and violence mitigation in the Niger Delta”. Political Economy Analysis Workshop, IDS/Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, Abuja.

Oct 2012                    

“Colombia 2013: towards ending the longest armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere?”. Presentation at University College London/Institute of the Americas, London.

Mar 2012        

“The challenges of, and trade-offs between, security and the rule of law in Colombia under President Santos”. Presentation at the conference “Challenges to Human Security and the Santos Administration”, Institute for the Study of the Americas/Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London.

Oct 2011        

“The governance of rebuilding Haiti revisited”. Presentation at a Policy Panel in the House of Lords, London.

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung (ADLAF)

Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

Oxford Union Society (OUS)

Antonian (St Antony’s College, Oxon)