Winrich Kühne, Ph.D.
Steven Muller Professor in German Studies—based at Bologna Center

Expertise

Geographic Areas
Sub-Saharan Africa | Central Asia and the Caucasus | Eastern Europe

Issues
conflict resolution and negotiation | crisis management | economic development | human rights | irregular warfare | nation-building and democratization | peacekeeping | United Nations

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; consultant to the Association of European Parliamentarians; 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 Global Governance Advisory Group 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 and South Africa; Ph.D., international law, University of Munich

Foreign Languages
English; French; German; Spanish

Publications
"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)