Academic Engagement
As a seasoned peace and security specialist, I contribute actively to academic discourse and teaching. I offer insights grounded in field experience, addressing complex security issues such as conflict dynamics, development cooperation in fragile settings, and security sector reform.
I am a member of the UK Conflict Research Society and serve as a reviewer at the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK), supporting the preparation of several conflict analyses that are being published yearly in the Conflict Barometer.
Publications:
‘Human Dimension in the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine’, in: OSCE Yearbook 2018, IFSH.
‘Surviving in a forgotten, but not so frozen conflict – A perspective from the Luhansk People’s Republic’. Policy paper. Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark. 2018.
‘Pakistan zwischen Militär und Demokratie’. (in Engl. Pakistan between military and democracy); in: Buciak, S./ von Dehn, R. (2010): Indien und Pakistan - Atommächte im Spannungsfeld regionaler und globaler Veränderungen. Beiträge zur Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik Südasiens.
Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK), Conflict Barometer: Country analyses for Georgia & Russia 2005-2007.
Contributor about ‘Social Position of Women in Heidelberg’ to the Heidelberg – Study 2006.
Teaching & trainings on:
Conflict and Security Studies:
Systemic conflict analysis
Conflict, Security, and Development
Development cooperation in fragile and conflict-affected situations
Working in fragile and conflict-affected states
With a regional focus:
Russian Foreign Policy
Russian propaganda
War in Ukraine
Afghanistan
Invited lectures and presentations:
Presentation on Russian Foreign Policy, German Federal Police Academy, Germany, 2023 & 2024.
Presentations on the conflict in Eastern Ukraine at: the Department of War Studies, Southern Denmark University; at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg; at the University of Heidelberg; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin; at the Information Centre of the German Armed Forces, Strausberg, Germany, 2017 and 2018.
Presentation on “When global does not work, try a local ceasefire - Analysing Donbas de-escalation dynamics through localised ceasefire“ at the UK Conflict Research Society Annual Conference, 2017.
Workshop organiser “Development cooperation in fragile and conflict-affected situations”, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Young DGAP, Berlin, Germany, 2015.
Panel member „How to bridge the gap between security policy and theory“, at the German Atlantic Association, 2014.
Chair panel on „Transnational organised crime and state fragility“, at the Heidelberg Dialogue on International Security, 2014.
Guest speaker at the “Youth Security Policy-makers’ Forum” at the Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS), Berlin, Germany, 2013.
Co-organizer of a seminar “Working in fragile and conflict-affected states”, at the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (FES), Berlin, 2012.