About

I am a junior professor of insecurity and social order at the Bundeswehr University Munich in Germany. Previously I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Conflict Studies at the University of Marburg, where I also concluded his PhD in 2017 (summa cum laude) that has since been acknowledged with two awards, one by the university of Marburg, the other by the German Peace Psychologist Association. My research deals with violence, focussing on its dynamics, particularly at the micro-level, as well as its consequences for post-conflict societies and the politics of memory these evoke. I have conducted extensive field research in Cambodia, as well as Armenia and Rwanda and have been awarded the Emerging Scholar Prize of the International Association of Genocide Scholars in 2017. I have published in Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Terrorism and Political Violence, International Peacekeeping, Genocide Studies and Prevention, Transitional Justice Review, among others, have co-edited a volume on perpetrators (with Susanne Buckley-Zistel, 2018, Routledge) and have authored a forthcoming book The Complexity of Evil. Perpetration and Genocide (2020, Rutgers University Press).

Research Interests

Africa, Asia, Civil Society, Comparative Politics, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Cyber Politics, Ethnic Conflict, International Relations, Political Psychology, Political Violence, Social Capital, Social Movements, Terrorism, Transitional States, Political Sociology, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Qualitative, War, Causality, Comparative Perspective, Memory, Mixed Methods, Peace, Transitional justice

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Political Sociology
• Political Violence
• Human Rights and Transitional Justice