Staff
Conrad Schetter
Director
bicc - Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies
Conrad Schetter
Director
Biography
Conrad Schetter studied geography, history, education, Persian and Indonesian at the University of Bonn. From 1999 to 2013, he worked at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn, where he most held the position of Acting Director. Since 2013, Conrad Schetter has been the Director of bicc. He started his academic career with studies on the impact of ethnicity on violent conflicts. Then, his research focused on themes such as politics of interventions, spaces of violence (e.g. ungoverned spaces, frontiers), development, humanitarian aid and conflict, Jihadi movements (e.g. Taliban) and forced migration. Conrad Schetter has given advice to German ministries as well as to GOs and NGOs. Among others he is member of the presidency of Welthungerhilfe and of the Board of Trustees of IDOS as well as member of the Advisory Boards of DSF and SEF.
Research profile
- Politics of intervention
- Spaces of violence (e.g. ethnoscapes, ungoverned spaces, frontiers)
- Development, humanitarian aid and conflict
- Ethnicity and ethnic conflicts
- Jihadi movements (e.g. Taliban)
- Forced migration
Project involvement
Past projects
- Base conversion—use of barracks, training grounds, national and international context
- The Peace Report - Friedensgutachten
- Conflict-sensitive Employment under Construction: Peace and Stability Strategies for the Private Sector in Afghanistan
- Protected rather than protracted—Strengthening refugees and peace
- Energy for sustainable development in North Africa and the Middle East
- Forms of local security in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan—The emergence of securityscapes
- Cultural and educational opportunities in refugee camps in Lebanon
- People in in-between space: How forced immobility is dealt with in Kabul (Crossroads Asia)
- Between civil war and integration—Refugees and the challenges and opportunities of societal change in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Forced Displacement—Research and Transfer: Approaches from peace & conflict studies
- On the phenomenon of so-called Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan
- TelePAtH - Food security in West Africa
- Project B03: Violent Futures? Contestations along the frontier
- Trajectories of reintegration. The impacts of displacement, migration and return on social change
- Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer
- Research consortium De:link//Re:link – Local Insights and New Knowledges bicc project: China’s New Silk Road Initiative in North Rhine-Westphalia and Pakistan
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