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Stefan
Wolff
A political scientist by background, Prof. Dr. Stefan
Wolff specialises in the management of contemporary security
challenges, especially in the prevention and settlement of ethnic
conflicts and in post-conflict reconstruction in deeply divided
and war-torn societies. He has extensive expertise in Northern
Ireland, the Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe, and has also
worked on a wide range of other conflicts elsewhere, including
the Middle East, Africa, and Central, South and Southeast Asia.
Bridging the divide between academia and policy-making, Wolff
is a consultant for major national and international governmental
and non-governmental organisations and the private sector. His
research has been funded by the European Commission, the Economic
and Social Research Council of the UK, the UK Foreign Office,
the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and the British Academy,
amounting to a total grant income of over $500,000 over the past
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In
2007, Wolff was commissioned by the Canadian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs to write a handbook on “Power-sharing, good governance
and participation in public life” for the Conflict Prevention
Handbook series published by the Swedish Foreign Ministry’s
training centre, the Folke Bernadotte Academy.
As convener of the Ethnopolitics
Specialist Group within the Political Studies Association
of the United Kingdom, and of the Standing Group on Security Issues
of the European Consortium for Political Research, Wolff has built
a global network of professionals with a wide range of geographic
and topical expertise.
Wolff’s publications to date include eleven books and over
twenty journal articles and book chapters. Published by Oxford
University Press in 2006 (paperback in 2007), Wolff’s Ethnic
Conflict: A Global Perspective is the first major treatment of
the subject aimed at a broad general audience and has been highly
acclaimed by academics, policymakers, and business leaders. His
Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe (with Karl Cordell) was
published by Palgrave as the first comprehensive analysis of ethnic
politics across the European continent in 2004 and has won critical
praise from scholars and analysts. Among his other books are Disputed
Territories: The Transnational Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict Settlement
(2002); The German Question since 1919 (2003); Managing and Settling
Ethnic Conflicts (with Ulrich Schneckener, 2004); Peace at Last?
The Impact of the Good Friday Agreement on Northern Ireland (with
a foreword by Lord Alderdice, with Jörg Neuheiser, 2002),
and Autonomy, Self-determination and Conflict Resolution (with
Marc Weller, 2005). Wolff is the founding editor of Ethnopolitics,
a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of ethnic
conflicts and their management around the globe.
Stefan Wolff is Professor of Political Science and Director of
the Centre for International Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution
at the University of Nottingham, England, UK. He previously taught
at the University of Keele and the University of Bath. Wolff has
held visiting professorships at the Johns Hopkins University School
of Advanced International Studies, Bologna Center, the University
of Sofia, Humboldt University Berlin and Free University Berlin.
Since 2003, he has been a Resource Fellow of the Open Society
Institute’s Academic Fellowship Programme. He is also an
International Associate of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-determination
at Princeton University. Since 2005, Wolff has been a Teaching
Fellow at the Joint Services Command and Staff College of the
Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom, where he also served
as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in 2006. In 2003, he was appointed
Senior Non-resident Research Associate at the European
Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany. In 2006,
he was elected as the first-ever Europe-based member of the Advisory
Board of the “Minorities
at Risk” project. He holds a Masters Degree from Magdalene
College, Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics
and Political Science. |
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