MASTER PROGRAMME

PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES

Monographs and Editorships

• forthcoming 2024: Introduction to Humanitarian Action, interactive e-book, edited with Katrin Radtke
• forthcoming 2025: Local Humanitarian Action and Forced Migration: contested spaces of international aid, Routledge

• 2014: The Politics of Self-Determination: beyond the decolonisation process, London: Routledge (2014)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• In progress: Special Collection, Agenda for Humanity Revisited, mit Clara Egger, Kristoffer Lidén (eds.), Journal of International Humanitarian Action

• Under review: „Tacit Engagement as Humanitarian Practice“, mit Kristoffer Lidén und Ayse Akal
• forthcoming 2024: “Decolonising Humanitarian Action”, with Sulagna Maitra, in: Roepstorff, Kristina and Radtke, Katrin (eds.), Introduction to International Humanitarian Action, London: Routledge
• 2023: “Mopping up, keeping down, and propping up: Ethical dilemmas in humanitarian negotiations with authoritarian regimes”, in: Cunningham, Andrew J., ed. Authoritarian Practices and Humanitarian Negotiations. London: Routledge (2023)
• 2022: Localization and the Politics of Humanitarian Action, Special Issue, Frontiers in Political Science, with Kilian Spandler and Sulagna Maitra

• 2022: “Localisation”, in: Matthew Clarke (ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Development

• 2021: Localisation requires Trust: An Interface Perspective on the Rohingya Response in Bangladesh", Disasters 

• 2020: “Visualising Peace – the Stare of the Art”, Peace & Change, 45(1), with Stephan Engelkamp and Alexander Spencer 

• 2020: “Moving images: visual metaphors of peace in the Movie Mango Dreams”, Peace & Change, 45(1), with Stephan Engelkamp and Alexander Spencer 

• 2020: “Decentering Peace and Conflict Studies: Conceptualisations of Peace in India”, Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, 9(1): 1-21, mit Siddharth Tripathi (2020). 

• 2019: “As Local as Possible, as International as Necessary? A Critical Assessment of the Localisation Agenda in Humanitarian Action”, Third World Quarterly, 41(2)

• 2019: “Chance für den Frieden? Die Lokalisierungsagenda im Humanitären System im Nexus von Humanitärer Hilfe und Friedensförderung”, Die Friedens-Warte. Journal of International Peace and Organization

• 2017: “Armed Conflicts and Humanitarian Crises: Insights from the Anthropology of War”, in: Heintze, Hans-Joachim and Thielbörger, Pierre (eds.), International Humanitarian Action: NOHA Textbook, Berlin: Springer

• 2016: “India and the DAC-donors: divergence or convergence principles and practices of humanitarian aid?”, in: Sezgin, Z. und Dijkzeul, D. (eds), The New Humanitarians in International Practice: Emerging actors and contested principles, Abingdon: Routledge

• 2013: “Insider Mediation in Peace Processes: an untapped resource?“, S+F, Security and Peace, Issue 3, with Anna Bernhard

• 2011: “Conflict Transformation and the European Experience: A Case Study of Institutional (Re-) Design in Bosnia Herzegovina”, in: Ahmar, Moonis (ed.), Conflict Transformation and the Challenge of Peace, Karachi: Royal Book Company

• 2011: “Self-Determination as Non-Domination. A shift from government to governance from a normative perspective”, in: Fisch, Jörg (ed.), Die Verteilung der Welt. Selbstbestimmung und das Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Völker. The World divided. Self-determination and the Right of Peoples to Self-determination, Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag

• 2009: “Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Question of Justiciability: International Legal Protection of the Right to Food”, in: Hoffmann-Holland, Klaus (ed.), Ethics and Human Rights in a Globalized World, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag

• 2008: “Confronting the Past, Building the Future: The Role of Post-Conflict Justice in Africa”, in: Hans- Joachim Heintze and Robert C. Hudson (eds.), Different Approaches to Peace and Conflict Research, Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto Press, with Danja Blocher

• 2023: Interview, E-International Relations, 4. Mai 2023: https://www.e-ir.info/2023/05/04/interview-kristina-roepstorff/
• 2023: Humanitarian Mediation: Conceptual and Ethical Explorations, NCHS Paper: 12. Bergen: Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies, mit Kristoffer Lidén.
•  2020: „The ethics of humanitarian negotiations“, Humanitarian Views: the Humanitarian Blog, mit Kristoffer Lidén.
•  2020: „Red Lines and Grey Zones: Ethical dilemmas in humanitarian negotiations and the need for a research agenda“, PRIO Blog, mit Kristoffer Lidén.
• 2020: „Same same but different: Reflexion zur Online-Lehre vor und während Corona“, H-Soz-Kult, Forum: Digitales Lehren : https://www.hsozkult.de/debate/id/diskussionen-5034
• 2020: “Localisation and the Shrinking Civic Space: tying up the loose ends”, Berlin: Centre for Humanitarian Action.
• 2020: “Counterterrorism Measures and Sanction Regimes: Shrinking Space for Humanitarian Aid Organisations”, Berlin: Centre for Humanitarian Action, mit Charlotte Faltas and Sonja Hövelmann.
• 2019: “Migration and the Shrinking Humanitarian Space in Europe: From maritime search and rescue operations to contested humanitarian action in EU countries”, Berlin: Centre for Humanitarian Action.
• 2018: “Staatenlos: Der Konflikt in Rakhine und die Humanitäre Notlage der Rohingya”, Blogbeitrag, Friedensakademie Rheinland-Pfalz.
• 2013: “Myanmar’s Peace Process. The Importance of Federal Reforms and an Inclusive National Dialogue”, SWP Comments 2013/C 29, mit Jasmin Lorch.
• 2013: „Indien in Aufruhr. Die Braveheart-Debatte und die Folgen für die indische Demokratie“, SWP-Aktuell/18, mit Christian Wagner.
• 2013: „Demokratieförderung in Myanmar. Indien als Partner für die deutsche und europäische Außenpolitik?“, SWP-Aktuell/4.
• 2012: Die Assam-Unruhen 2012: Anatomie eines Konflikts, Heinrich Boell Foundation (online).
• 2007: „Auswahlbibliographie: Wirtschaftliche, soziale und kulturelle Menschenrechte“; MenschenRechtsMagazin, 2, pp. 156-172, mit Arnd Pollmann.
• 2005: Menschenrechte in Indien, Südasien-Informationen Nr. 8, mit Eric Töpfer and Subin Nijhawan (Hg.).

• 02/2024: Lecture: „Global South to the Rescue?“,  The Power and Politics of Localization research conference, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Februar 2024
• 11/2023: Lecture: „Deadlocked at sea: How humanitarian Search and rescue operations negotiate to save and disembark migrant lives in the Mediterranean“, mit Maria Jumbert, IHSA Konferenz, Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 2023
• 11/2023: Lecture: “Negotiating cultures: local humanitarian negotiators in the Rohingya Response”, with Sulagna Maitra, IHSA Conference, Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 2023
• 11/2023: Panel: South-south cooperation as enabler of localization?, IHSA Conference, Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 2023
• 11/2023: Panel: “Humanitarian studies in turbulent times: taking stock of the Agenda for Humanity”, with Clara Egger and Kristoffer Lidén, IHSA Conference, Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 2023
• 11/2023: Panel: „Cultural and gendered contexts of the ethics of humanitarian negotiations“, mit Kristoffer Lidén, IHSA Konferenz, Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 2023
• 09/2021: Presentation (with Kristoffer Lidén): Red Lines and Grey Zones: Exploring the ethics of humanitarian negotiations, International Humanitarian Studies Conference
• 07/2021: Workshops: “Fundamentals of Peace and Conflict Studies”, as part of the DAAD project “Strengthening Peace Education Capacities (SPEC)”, Georgia, June and July 2021

• 05/2021: Presentation: Critical localism: reflections on the localisation of humanitarian action in theory and (research) practice, Oxford Refugee Studies Centre

• 07/2020 & 07/2021: Presentation: “Ethnographic Methods in Peace and Conflict Studies”, University of Magdeburg

• 01/2020: Input: “Peacebuilding”, Humanitarian Reflections, Centre for Humanitarian Action, Berlin

• 11/2019: Commentary, Shrinking Humanitarian Space in Europe: The Case of Maritime Search and Rescue, IOM Migration Tools

• 05/2019: Commentary, Shrinking Humanitarian Space in Europe: The Case of Maritime Search and Rescue, IOM Migration Tools

• 05/2019: Workshop: “Mediation”, NOHA Spring School of Humanitarian Action, Vilnius

• 03/2019: Presentation: “As local as possible, as international as necessary“? Localising humanitarian action in the context of the Rohingya Emergency Response in Bangladesh”, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

• 02/2019: Workshop: “Ethics of Humanitarian Negotiations and Mediation”, PRIO, Oslo

• 01/2019: Presentation: “From maritime SAR to Safe Harbours: the human rights discourse in the context of maritime migration”, Arbeitsstelle Menschenrechte, University of Magdeburg

• 11/2018: Presentation: “Conflicts and Forced Migration in South Asia: the case of the Rohingya”, Ghent University

• 09/2018: Presentation: “As local as possible, as international as necessary: the localisation agenda in humanitarian action”, European International Studies Association Conference, Prague

• 09/2017: Presentation (with Alexander Spencer and Stephan Engelkamp): “Visualising peace: politics, policy and pedagogy”, European International Studies Association Conference, Barcelona

• 03/2016: Presentation: “What is the Local? Some Conceptual Considerations”, Panel: Locally-Led Humanitarian Action: The Future, or Folly?, World Conference on Humanitarian Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• 12/2014: Presentation: “Local Peace Committees as Infrastructures for Peace: an International Perspective”, Local Peace Committees Exchange Workshop, Bharatpur, Nepal

• 2012: Presentation: “Convergent or Divergent Narratives? The Securitisation of Internal Displacement among Displaced Persons and Civil Society Actors in Assam”, School for International Studies, SFU Vancouver

• 2009: Presentation: “Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Question of Justiciability: International Legal Protection of the Right to Food”, Ethics and Human Rights in a Globalized World, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• 2009: Lecture: “Self-Determination as Non-Domination: a shift from government to governance from a normative perspective” at Colloquium: Self-Determination and the Right of Self-Determination: Achievement of Modernity or Collective Illusion, Historisches Kolleg München, 2009
• 2007: Lecture: “The Right of Self-Determination as a Right of Non-Domination”, at Conference: Beyond the Nation?: Critical Reflections on Nations and Nationalism in Uncertain Times, Queen’s University Belfast, Nordirland, 2007