Prof. Dr. Markus Schultze-Kraft

FB 5 Polizei und Sicherheitsmanagement

Professur für Politikwissenschaft

Prof. Dr. Markus Schultze-Kraft

Postanschrift
Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin
Alt-Friedrichsfelde 60

10315 Berlin

Besucheradresse
Campus Lichtenberg
Haus 1, 1.1004
Alt-Friedrichsfelde 60
10315 Berlin

Seit Jan. 2022 Professur für Politikwissenschaft, HWR Berlin

Sicherheit im innerstaatlichen u. internationalen Raum, politische Beteiligung u. Protest, internationales Sicherheits- und Konfliktmanagement 

Jan. 2020 – Dez. 2021 Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien | Georg-Eckert-Institut, Braunschweig

Georg Arnhold Senior Fellow & Associate

Forschungsprojekt “Education for Sustaining Peace through Historical Memory” 

Beratungstätigkeit zu Lehrplanreform und Schulbuchrevision in Lateinamerika seit den 1990er Jahren unter Berücksichtigung des Themenkomplexes Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung – Erinnerungsskultur – Wiederversöhnung – Sonderjustiz

Nov. 2014-Jun. 2020 Professur für Politikwissenschaft, Friedens-/Konfliktstudien und globale Angelegenheiten, Universidad Icesi, Kolumbien

Leiter des M.A. in Government 

Internationaler Berater des Nationalen Zentrums für Historisches Gedenken (CNMH)

Diplom Universitäre Lehre

Gastwissenschaftler am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht, Freiburg i. Br.

Okt. 2010-Okt. 2014 Institute of Development Studies (IDS) an der University of Sussex, UK

Research Fellow & Leiter des Governance Research Teams

Mitglied der Strategic Management Group (SMG)

Nov. 2001 – Sep. 2010 International Crisis Group mit Sitz in Bogotá, Kolumbien

Leiter des Lateinamerika- und Karibikprogramms

Leiter des Kolumbien- und Andenprojekts

Senior Political Analyst Kolumbien

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

DAAD Forschungsstipendiat in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua 

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

Jun. 1995 Diplom in Politikwissenschaft mit Zusatzfach VWL, Freie Universität Berlin

Auslandsstudium Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE), St Catherine’s College/University of Oxford 

Politikwissenschaft

Internationale Politische Ökonomie

Sicherheitsstudien

Governance-Studien

Regionalstudien (Lateinamerika und Karibik, Westafrika, westlicher Balkan)

Kriminologie

Globale Wertschöpfungsketten

Peace Education

Governance of violent conflict and (in)security

Governance, politics and development

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

Innere Sicherheit

Internationale Sicherheit

Politische Beteiligung und politischer Protest

Internationale Polizeimissionen

Regelmäßige Betreuung von Abschlussarbeiten in folgenden Studiengängen an der HWR Berlin:

  • BA Gehobener Polizeivollzugsdienst
  • MA International Security Management (ISM)
  • MA Security Management (MSM)

Betreuung von Abschlussarbeiten an vormaligen Wirkungsstätten:

  • MA in Development Studies (IDS/University of Sussex)
  • MA in Government (Universidad Icesi)
  • BA in Political Science (Universidad Icesi)

Internationale Politische Ökonomie von globalen Wertschöpfungsketten (HWR Kompetenzzentrum, DFG)

Internationale Friedensschaffung, Friedenskonsolidierung und Friedenserhaltung

Peace Education

Rechenschaftspflicht (Accountability) und lokale Regierungsführung in Prozessen der Friedens- und Staatenbildung

Internationale und menschliche Sicherheit, Sicherheitssektor-Governance und der Nexus zwischen Sicherheit und Entwicklung

Rechtspluralismus

Transnationale organisierte Kriminalität und internationale Drogenpolitik

Kriminalität und Krimilegalität

Informelle, hybride und Mehrebenen-Governance in Entwicklungsländern

Gewaltprävention und -minderung in fragilen Staaten

Evidenzbasierte Politikanalyse, -gestaltung und Transfer

Internationale Beratung zu politischen Fragen der bewaffneten Konfliktbearbeitung sowie Friedensfindung und -konsolidierung

Leitung von global aufgestellter INGO im Bereich Konfliktprävention und -lösung

Konzipierung und Durchführung von Multi-Stakeholder Workshops

Erstellung von Policy Reports und Briefings

Internationale Policy Advocacy

Wissenschaftliche Publikationen

  • Schultze-Kraft, M. & Ó. E. Valencia Mesa (2025): Negotiating the fog of crimilegal war and peace: insights from rural Colombia, Conflict, Security & Developmenthttps://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. (2022) Education for Sustaining Peace through Historical Memory (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93654-9
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Schultze-Kraft, M. (2019) Crimilegal Orders, Governance and Armed Conflict (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan). 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.
  • Schultze-Kraft, M. & A. Joshi (Hrsg.) (2014) Localising Governance, Special Issue 45, IDS Bulletinhttps://doi.org/10.1111/1759-5436.12107
  • 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 (Hrsg.) 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  (Hrsg.) 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.
  • Schultze-Kraft, M. (2005) Pacificación y poder civil en Centroamérica. Las relaciones cívico-militares en El Salvador, Guatemala y Nicaragua en el posconflicto (Bogotá etc.: Grupo Editorial Norma).

Internationale Policy-Publikationen

  • 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).
  • 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. – co-author) Improving Security Policy in Colombia, Latin America/Caribbean Briefing N°23, Bogotá/Brussels, 29 June 2010.
  • International (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. – co-author) Uribe’s Possible Third Term and Conflict Resolution in Colombia, Latin America Report N°31, Bogotá/Brussels, 18 December 2009.
  • International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author) Ending Colombia’s FARC Conflict: Dealing the Right Card, Latin America Report N°30, Bogotá/Brussels, 26 March 2009.
  • International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead 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 Report N°27, Bogotá/Brussels, 23 July 2008.
  • International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author) Latin American Drugs I: Losing the fight, Latin America 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 Report N°26, Bogotá/Brussels, 14 March 2008.
  • International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author) Ecuador: Overcoming Instability?Latin America Report N°22, Bogotá/Brussels, 7 August 2007.
  • International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author) Colombia’s New Armed Groups, Latin America Report N°20, Bogotá/Brussels, 10 May 2007.
  • 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 Report N°17, Bogotá/Brussels, June 2006.
  • International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author) Colombia: Towards Peace and Justice? Latin America Report N°15, Bogotá/Brussels, March 2006.
  • International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author) Bolivia at the Crossroads: The December Election, Latin America Report N°14, Bogotá/Brussels, December 2005.
  • International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author) Coca, Drugs and Social Protest in Bolivia and Peru, Latin America Report N°12, Quito/Brussels, 3 March 2005.
  • International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author) War and Drugs in Colombia, Latin America Report N°11, Bogotá/Brussels, 27 January 2005.
  • International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author) Colombia's Borders: The Weak Link in Uribe's Security Policy, Latin America Report N°9, Quito/Brussels, 23 September 2004.
  • International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author) Demobilizing the Paramilitaries in Colombia: An Achievable Goal? Latin America Report N°8, Bogotá/Brussels, 5 August 2004.
  • International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author) Venezuela: Headed Toward Civil War? Latin America Briefing, Quito/Brussels, 16 May 2004.
  • International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author) Hostages for Prisoners: A Way Toward Peace in Colombia? Latin America Briefing, Bogotá/Brussels, 8 March 2004.
  • International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author) Colombia: President Uribe’s Democratic Security Policy, Latin America Report N°6, Bogotá/Brussels, 13 November 2003.
  • International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author) Colombia’s Humanitarian Crisis, Latin America 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 Report N°3, Bogotá/Brussels, 8 April 2003.
  • International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author) Colombia: The Prospects for Peace with the ELN, Latin America Report N°2, Bogotá/Brussels, 4 October 2002.
  • International Crisis Group (Schultze-Kraft, M. – lead author) Colombia’s Elusive Quest for Peace, Latin America Report N°1, Bogotá/Brussels, 26 March 2002.

Auftragsstudien

  • 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 (Braunschweig: Georg Eckert Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung).
  • 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-Aufsätze

  • 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).

Juni 2025

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

Juni 2025

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

März 2021

“King Covid and the city: exploring the implications of a global biological stressor for urban security governance in Latin America”. Online Vortrag im Workshop der 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 Vortrag auf der 2020 Georg Arnhold International Conference, Georg Eckert Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung.

Sept. 2019

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

Juli 2019

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

Nov.-Dez. 2018

Crimilegal orders, governance and armed conflict: evidence from Colombia and Nigeria”. Vortrag in Reihe von Podiumsdiskussionen, veranstaltet vom German Institute of Global and Area Studies, FU Berlin/Lateinamerika-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von Kriminalität, Sicherheit und Recht

Juni 2018

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

Juli 2017

Making peace in seas of crime: crimilegal order and armed conflict termination in Colombia”. Vortrag am Max Planck Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht, Freiburg.

Nov. 2016

“Coca and cocaine in South America – actors, modalities and routes”. Vortrag auf dem 4th Annual Meeting of the EMCDDA Reference Group on Drug Supply Indicators, Lissbaon.

Nov.  2016

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

Mai 2016

“Making peace in seas of crime: crimilegality and armed conflict termination in Colombia”. Vortrag auf der Latin American Studies Association Konferenz 2016, New York. 

Nov. 2015

“Reforma y gobernanza del sector seguridad en Colombia en el posconflicto”. Vortrag auf der internationalen Konferenz ‘Una Fuerza Pública para un país en cambio’, Instituto de Ciencia Política/Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Bogotá.

Aug. 2015

“Crimilegality and peace processes”. Vortrag auf dem 3rdLatin American and Caribbean Congress of the Social Sciences, FLACSO-Ecuador, Quito. 

Juli 2015

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

Mai 2015

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

März 2015

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

Dez. 2014

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

Dez. 2014

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

Nov. 2013

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

Juli 2013

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

Juni 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.

März 2013

“The Colombian peace talks: lessons from other negotiation processes”, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Konferenzvorsitz und Vortrag über die Herausforderungen des kolumbianischen Friedensprozesses im Lichte der Erfahrungen in Nepal, Nordirland und Zentralamerika.

Feb. 2013

Global Drug and Development Policy Roundup, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton.

Feb. 2013

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

Okt. 2012

“Colombia 2013: towards ending the longest armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere?”. Vortrag über die Friedensgespräche zwischen der Regierung Santos und FARC, University College London/Institute of the Americas, London.

März 2012

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

Okt. 2011

“The governance of rebuilding Haiti revisited”. Vortrag im Rahmen eines Policy Panel am House of Lords, London.

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung (ADLAF)

Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

Oxford Union Society (OUS)

Antonian (St Antony’s College, Oxon)