Lectures and Presentations

2008

Panel discussion on "Möglichkeiten und Grenzen ziviler Konfliktbearbeitung: Brennpunkt Somalia" [Opportunities and limitations of civilian conflict resolution in Somalia]. Zivik Forum, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) [Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations], Berlin, 12.11.2008

2007

Panel discussion on Somalia. With Ludger Schadomsky, Deutsche Welle. University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF), 17.01.2007

"Somalia 2007: Somalia's endloser Krieg: Im Teufelskreis von Staatskollaps und Militärintervention?" [Somalia's endless War: Caught in the Viciuos Cycle of State Collapse and Foreign Intervention?"]. Ringvorlesung "Afrika - Europas verkannter Nachbar", Freie Universität Berlin, Otto-Suhr-Institut, 16.01.2007

Situationsbericht zur Lage in Somalia [Situation Briefing on Somalia], Arbeitsgruppe Außenpolitik der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion [Foreign Policy Caucus of the Social-democratic Parliamentary Group], Berlin, 16.01.2007

Vorlesung: "Ursachen und Dynamik lokaler und regionaler Konflikte - Das Beispiel Somalia" [Lecture on the causes and dynamics of the Somali conflict], Universität Duisburg-Essen, 09.01.2007

2006

"Staat und Sicherheit von unten? Einsichten aus Somaliland" [State and Security from below? Insights from Somaliland], Workshop: "Sicherheit unter dem Vorzeichen prekärer Staatlichkeit? Gibt es Alternativen zum staatlichen Gewaltmonopol?" [Security under fragile statehood - are there alternatives to the state monopoly of force?], Institut für Afrikakunde, Hamburg, 14.07.2006

"Alternative Formen der Staatlichkeit am Beispiel Somaliland" [Alternative Statehood: The Example of Somaliland], Seminar "Staat in Afrika", Institut für Völkerkunde, Universität Köln, 07.07.2006

"Far beyond Anarchy: Local Governance in Somaliland", Panel Presentation, "Patterns of Conflict, Paths to Peace", Bi-Annual Conference of the International Peace Research Association, Calgary, 29.06.-03.07.2006

2005

"African Regional Parliaments / Parliamentary Bodies as Engines of Integration: Current State and Challenges". Roundtable on "The Interface between Regional Parliamentary Bodies and the Pan-African Parliament", SADC Parliamentary Forum/Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Namibia), Lusaka, Zambia, 08./09.08.2005.

2004

"Staatsverfall als friedens- und entwicklungspolitische Herausforderung: Wie können Gewaltstrukturen transformiert und Governance-Ansätze gestärkt werden?", DSF/AFB Workshop Friedenskonsolidierung, Hannover, 03./04.12.2004

"Governance and State Failure" (with Dr. Tobias Debiel). Kooperation der GTZ mit deutschen Afrika-Instituten [GTZ Co-operation with German Africa Institutes]. Eschborn, 03.11.2004

"Local and Regional Formation of Governance under Conditions of State Failure - The Case of Somaliland". Governance and African Development Summer School 2004, University of Stellenbosch (South Africa), 10.09.2004.

Comment on "External Actors in Stateless Somalia - A War Economy and its Promoters" during a roundtable discussion at the Bonn International Center for Conversion, 15.04.2004.

2003

Comment on the "Case Study Ethiopia". ZEF Workshop on "Human Security, Good Governance and Structural Stability - Helpless Concepts in Times of State Failure?", Bonn, 20.11.2003.

"Die äthiopische Außen- und Regionalpolitik: Zwischen Kooperation und Hegemonie" [Ethiopia's Foreign and Regional Policies: Between Cooperation and Hegemony] and "Von der Dezentralisierung zur Re-Zentralisierung? Äthiopiens innenpolitische Entwicklung" [From Decentralisation to Re-Centralisation? Developments in Ethiopia's Domestic Politics]. Annual Seminar of the "Hermannsburger Mission", Hermannsburg, 14.11.2003.

"Emerging State Entities and Democratic Transformation: International Responses and Perspectives" (with Dr. Tobias Debiel). Political Forum of the Academy for Peace and Development. Hargeisa (Somaliland), 25.09.2003.

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