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Winrich Kühne, Ph.D.
Steven Muller Professor in German Studies
Based in Bologna, Italy
Bologna Center 204
Background and Education
Founding director of the German Center for International Peace Operations (ZiF) in Berlin; former deputy director of the German Research Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP); consultant to the Association of European Parliamentarians (AWEPA); member of the international advisory group to the U.N. Peacekeeping Lessons-Learned Unit; senior adviser to the former EU Crisis Prevention Network; member of the United Nations and Civilian Crisis Prevention Advisory Groups of the German Foreign Office; member of the editorial boards of the Journal of International Peacekeeping and Global Governance; was an election observer in Malawi (1993), South Africa (1994), Mozambique (1994), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2010), among other places; recipient of the Bundesverdienstkreuz Order of Merit, Federal Republic of Germany; Ph.D., international law, University of Munich
"The Role of Elections in Emerging Democracies and Post-Conflict Countries: Key Issues, Lessons Learned and Dilemmas," published by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (2010); "Peace Operations and Governance: Lessons Learned and Perspectives" in Peace Operations after 11 September 2001 (2004); "From Cold War Blue Helmets to Multi-Dimensional Peace Support Operations" in Peacebuilding: A Field Perspective (2000); "Kriege und Konfliktursachen im subsaharischen Afrika" in Jahrbuch Dritte Welt (1999)
- Regions
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Central Asia and The Caucasus
- Eastern Europe
- Topics
- Conflict Resolution and Negotiation
- Crisis Management
- Economic Development
- Human Rights
- Irregular Warfare
- Nation-building and Democratization
- Peacekeeping
- United Nations
- Foreign Languages
- French
- German
- Spanish