Name Short CV Email

Paul Dießelberg

Paul Dießelberg studies law and philosophy in Munich, where he focuses on international law and international conflict resolution, and previously studied international relations in Washington, D.C. In 2019, he became part of the HIIK West Africa and Sahel Regional Group, researching since then especially on conflicts in Mali, and took over the regional group leadership in early 2021. Since 2023, he has been a member of the board and leads the committee for content and editorial work as Co-Editor-in-Chief.

diesselberg@hiik.de
Sarah Westedt

Sarah Westedt completed her Bachelor’s degree in History and English Studies and her Master’s degree in Global History at Heidelberg University. She is currently doing a Master’s in international relations at King’s College London. She joined the HIIK in 2020 and has been responsible for the conflicts in Haiti from 2020-2022. Since April 2022, she has been a member of the board and Head of the IT Department and starting this year a regional group leader in the region of the Americas

westedt@hiik.de

Rafael Uribe-Neira

Rafael Uribe-Neira was elected as head of the Data Management Department and Co-Editor-in-Chief in Spring 2023. He joined the HIIK monitoring conflict in Mexico and the U.S in 2020. In 2022, he assumed the position of Regional Group Leader for Brazil, Venezuela and the Caribbean. Rafael studied German as foreign language (B.A.) at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and M.A. Peace and Conflict Studies at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. Currently, he is enrolled at the M.A. Peace and Security Studies at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. His professional interests lie in the field of Security Sector Reform (SSR), maritime security and post-conflict peace building. 

uribe-neira@hiik.de

Simeon Heimburg

heimburg@hiik.de
Santiago Moncada

Head of the Communications Department.

moncada@hiik.de
Katharina Valjak

Katharina Valjak has completed her studies in Political Science (B.A.) and in Peace and Global Governance as well as International Relations (dual master’s degree). She has been researching conflicts in Myanmar at the HIIK since 2014. As regional head for Southeast Asia between 2017 and 2020, she was moreover in charge of conflicts in Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and has taken on the role again for Myanmar and Vietnam in 2022. As a board member, she has led the methodology department since May 2020.

valjak@hiik.de

Katharina Müller

Katharina Müller is studying Sociology in her Bachelor’s at the University of Heidelberg. She joined the HIIK 2021 as “HR Consultant” and has worked out the tasks of the new board position for human resources together with the board, as well as supporting the Departments for Communication and Finance and Law. Since April 2022, she has been a member of the board and chairs the Department for Human Resources.

kmueller@hiik.de

Email to the Board of Directors: vorstand@hiik.de

Name Position Email
Thomas Cranshaw, Hanna Grininger, Tatiana Valyaeva, Hans Stanka, David Kerler Heads of the Working Group “Conflicts in Europe” europa@hiik.de
Clara Gehrling, Kathrin Baumann, Enrico Behne, Marilena Geugjes, Mika Müller-Popkes, Lisa Waldheim Heads of the Working Group “Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa” afrika@hiik.de
Raphael Bodewig, Ainhoa Palomo Vegas, Roemer Goes, Franziska Gottwald Heads of the Working Group “Conflicts in the Americas” amerika@hiik.de
Ilsa Hameed, Maximilian Henning, Hagen Berning, Julian Klose, Fan Yin, Stephanie Verlaan, Luke Hally Heads of the Working Group “Conflicts in Asia and Oceania” asien@hiik.de
Mostafa Bostani, Hannah Lilje, Timo Eichhammer, Linda Krzikalla, Martin Webeler, Johanna Landes Heads of the Working Group “Conflicts in West Asia, North Africa and Afghanistan” wana@hiik.de
Enrico Behne, Marit Braunschweig, Paul Dießelberg, Ronja Gottschling, Anina Harter, Michael Hebeisen, Maximilian Herrmann, Giacomo Köhler, Lindra Krzikalla, Franziska Linke, Mayely Müller, Maximilian Orth, Tatiana Valyaeva, Lisa Waldheim Editorial board of the “Conflict Barometer 2021” redaktionsleitung@hiik.de
Maximilian Brien, Jannik Mertens Editors-in-Chief brien@hiik.de, mertens@hiik.de
Katharina Valjak Methodological Adviser valjak@hiik.de
Lars Kumbier Technical Support lars@kumbier.it
Franziska Linke Confidant flinke@hiik.de
Names Departments Email
Mika Müller-Popkes, Fan Yin, Timo Eichhammer, Linda Krzikalla, Roemer Goes, Luke Hally, Clara Gehrling, Tatiana Valyaeva, Leander von Detten, Adinda Temminck, Daniel Leichte Communication  

Chairperson: Ilsa Hameed

kommunikation@hiik.de
Linda Krzikalla, Enrico Behne, Paul Dießelberg, Hagen Berning, Tatiana Valyaeva, Hannah Lilje Editorial

Chairperson: Maximilian Brien

redaktion@hiik.de
Christopher Becker, Tamara Gupper, Ruben Ilyas IT  

Chairperson: Eduard Ebert

technik@hiik.de
Julian Klose, Paul Dießelberg, Stephanie Verlaan, Tatiana Valyaeva, Mostafa Bostani Methodology

Chairperson: Katharina Valjak

methodik@hiik.de
Hans Stanka, Marit Braunschweig Finances & Law  

Chairperson: Leon Lewin

finanzen@hiik.de
Maximilian Henning, Kathrin Baumann Data management

Chairperson: Jannik Mertens

datenmanagement@hiik.de

Europe

Heads of Working Group:

Thomas Cranshaw (tcr), Hanna Grininger (hgr), Tatiana Valyaeva (tav), Hans Stanka (hst), David Kerler (dke)

Christos Sotiriou (chs), Benjamin Balzer (bba), Jan Hendrik Blaß (jhb), Nathalie Brügger (nbr), Alexandra Bumcke (abu), Nicolas Butylin (nbu), Simone Drews (sdr), Dominik Drmic (dod), Nina Engelbracht (nie), Hannah Engeler (hle), Dimitris Koliopoulos (dkl), Daniel Korell (dko), Jonas Krohn (jmk), Philip Lott (plo), Eva Martschew (ema), Markus Christoph Müller (mcm), Tim Oswald (toa), Georgia Pantazi (gap), Clara Peckelhoff (clp), Sebastian Peter (spe), Sebastian Sommer (sso), Maria Sourdi (mso), Melina Topic (met), Eleanor Wong (ewo), Mario Zschinzsch (mzs)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Heads of Working Group: Kathrin Baumann (kab), Enrico Behne (ebe), Paul Dießelberg (pad), Clara Gehrling (cge), Marilena Geugjes (mag), Mika Müller-Popkes (mmp), Lisa Waldheim (liw)

Fiona Byrne (fb), Bruna Backer (brb), Louisa Beisel (lob), Milene Bruhn (mib), Svenja Brunkhorst (svb), Yannick Deepen (day), Jessica den Nelzen (jde), Claudia Denis (cde), Giorgio di Mizio (gid), Vittoria Duffner (vdu), Sabrina Gabel (sag), Marcel Geißler (mge), Magnus Gottl (mgo), Julia Graber (gaj), Tamara Gupper (tgu), Noah Heinemann (noh), Vincent Hoppmann (vho), Henrike Ilka (hil), Fynn Kaltenpoth (fyk), Francesca Lenzi (frl), Franziska Linke (fli), Yvonne Merkel (yme), Kristina Pape (krp), Charlotte Paul (chp), Mona Rouhandeh (mro), Nico Scherer (nch), Imke Schmalfeldt (ims), Viktoria Schmauth (vsc), Tobias Schmitt (tms), Simon Schröder (ssi), Alisa Seufert (ase), Ethan Smith (eha), Miya Takada (mta), Tessa Tuschka (ttu), Roxanne van der Bliek (rcv), Lamia Velagic (lav), Franziska Weber (fwe), Thordis Weber (twe), Jana Winter (jwi), Oleksandra Yeshchenko (oye)

Americas

Heads of Working Group:

Raphael Bodewig (rbo), Ainhoa Palomo Vegas (apv), Roemer Goes (gro), Franziska Gottwald (fgo)

Felisa Barba Meuer (fbm), Greta Blass (gbl), Citlalli Brauchle (cib), Maximilian Brien (mbr), Sara Engelberg-Joumaa (sen), Jules Giessler (jug), Astrid Hardeel (aha), Brenda Holz (bho), Jona Huber (jhu), Caroline Janik (cja), Niklas Joschua Kemper (jke), Paul Kern (pke), Elaine Kert (eke), Alexia Lang (ala), Michael Männel (mgm), Santiago Moncada (smo), Linda Müller (lim), Lorenz Pluta (lop), Rebecca Rapp (rra), Milena Schellenberger (msc), Laura Schmittinger (lsc), Kaitlyn Todd (kmt), Rafael Uribe-Neira (run), Miriam Vogt (mvo), Leander von Detten (lvd), Sarah Westedt (swe), Anastasiia Zhuravlova (azh)

Asia & Oceania

Heads of Working Group: Hagen Berning (hbe), Luke Hally (lha), Ilsa Hameed (iha), Maximilian Henning (hen), Julian Klose (jkl), Stephanie Verlaan (stv), Fan Yin (fyn)

Yasmine Amal (aya), Anton Dielschneider (adi), Sarah Engelsberger (sae), Lilie Hafner (lih), Simeon Heimburg (she), Leon Jamann (lja), Mara Kiesle (mki), Simon Kirsch (sik), Sophie Kittelberger (ski), Catherina Köhler (cak), Irene Lee (ile), Linda Liang (llg), Robin Lockyer-von-Dorrien (rld), Luis Marquez (lmu), Anisha Maulida (mau), Ann-Christin Neygenfind (ann), Calvin Nixon (cni), Mathias O’Mahony (mom), Maximilian Orth (mor), Jaeeun Paik (jpa), Moritz Petratschek (mop), Susanne Pittelkow (spi), Laura Reis (lrs), Ingrid Rooda (iro), Nina Kathrin Rösler (nro), Mareike Sames (msa), Thomas Schmid (ths), Martin Tobias Schmitt (mts), Julia Schreiber (jsc), Hugo Sommer (hso), Katharina Valjak (kv), Tianna Ward-Maxwell (twm), Anna Sophia Waters (awa), Anna-Katharina Weißler (akw), Joscha Wendland (jwl), Wu Wing Ki (wwk), Sidra Yousaf (syo)

West Asia, North Africa and Afghanistan

Heads of Working Group: Timo Eichhammer (twh), Mostafa Bostani (mob), Linda Krzikalla (krz), Johanna Landes (jol), Hannah Lilje (hal), Martin Webeler (mwe)

Prerna Ajwani (paj), Maike Albert (mal), Judith Becker (jbe), Anna Becker (anb), Eva Bitsch (ebi), Rosa Bühler (rbu), Burcu Dolanbay (bdb), Franziska Döring (frd), Volker Eing (voe), Julika Enslin (jue), Michèle Fein (mif), Susanna Forti (suf), Moritz Friedrich (mfr), Philipp Geyer (phg), Leon Gräf (igf), Anina Harter (aht), Dastan Jasim (daj), Hamed Kazemzadehh (hkz), Sirin Knecht (skn), Richard Krauel (rkr), Sabina Kulueva (sak), Tobias Laub (tla), Hannah Macovaz (hma), Leonard Metzler (lme), Sarah Pauly (sap), Leon Renner (lrn), Marie-Lisa Schneider (mls), Sebastian Sommer (ses), Benita Ukert (buk), Constantino Vendra (cve), Elise Wolters (elw), Gesa Woyke (gew)

Prof. Dr. Frank R. Pfetsch (†) Professor Emeritus for International Relations at the University of Heidelberg frank.pfetsch@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de

Review

Dr. Nadine Ansorg University of Kent, Kent
Dr. André Bank GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg
Dr. Arvid Bell Harvard University, Cambridge
Dr. Fabian Burkhardt Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies
Prof. Dr. Aurel Croissant University of Heidelberg
Dr. Mabruk Derbesh University of Bremen
Dr. Lionel Fatton Webster University, Geneva
Dr. Jella Fink World Peace Service
Dr. Aurora Madaula Giménez University of Barcelona
Dr. Jens Heibach GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg
Grazvydas Jasutis Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Right
Dr. Maria Josua GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg
Dr. Adeeb Khalid Carleton College, Northfield
Prof. Dr. Markus Kienscherf FU Berlin
Dr. Magdalena Kirchner Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Kabul, Afghanistan
Dr. Carlo Koos Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen
Dr. Gerrit Kurtz SWP German Institute for International Security Affairs
Dr. Walter Lotze United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO)
Lukasz Mackiewicz Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Dr. Lotta Mayer University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal
Dr. In Young Min University of Heidelberg
Nuhu Mohamed Central Bureau of Statistics – Sudan
Dr. Amit Mukherjee National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore
Dr. Carlo Flores Pérez CIESAS, México, D.F.
Dr. Indira Rampersad University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Dr. Dieter Reinisch National University of Ireland, Galway
Dr. Clemens Spiess Christoffel-Blindenmission (CBM)
   
Dr. Anna Sunik GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg
Dr. Kressen Thyen University of Bremen
Dr. Christoph Trinn University of Heidelberg
Dr. Christian Wagner SWP German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Dr. Jonas Wolff HSFK Peace Research Institute Frankfurt

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