Dr. Kristina Roepstorff

Humanitarian Mediation Training, NOHA, Brussels

Certificate Instructional Skills Online, Royal Roads University, Canada

Vocational training as Intercultural Mediator, Interculture, Berlin

PhD (Dr.rer.pol), Institute of Intercultural and International Studies, Bremen University 

MA International and Comparative Legal Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London 

M.A. in Philosophy, Sociocultural Anthropology and Comparative Religious Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (2003)

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr University Bochum

CHA Fellow, Centre for Humanitarian Action, Berlin

Research Associate, Centre for Humanitarian Action, Berlin

Speaker of the Working Group “Curriculum and Didactics” of the German Association of Peace and Conflict Studies

Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies, Department of Political Science, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

Associate Faculty, School of Humanitarian Studies, Royal Roads University, Canada

Visiting Professor, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University Berlin

Visiting Fellow, Research Division Asia, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, (SWP), Berlin

Independent consultant, mediator, trainer and lecturer in peacebuilding and humanitarian action

Government of Canada Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of International Studies, Simon Fraser University, Canada 

Assistant Professor, Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at Erfurt University

Marie Curie Fellow in Humanitarian Action and Conflict Studies, University College Dublin 

Project "Red Lines and Grey Zones: Exploring the Ethics of Humanitarian Negotiation", funded by the Research Council of Norway at PRIO; in collaboration with Kristoffer Lidén

German Peace Foundation, Grant for the Working Group Curriculum and Didactics, German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies

Field Research Grant, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, 6 weeks field research in Bangladesh

German Peace Foundation, Workshop Grant for the Working Group Curriculum and Didactics, German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies

Government of Canada Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Erfurt University, LUBUM Travel Grant, Workshop participation and presentation at Karachi University, Pakistan

European Commission, Seed funding, Personal Grant for Developing Flagship Research in Humanitarian Action

European Commission, Marie Curie Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Humanitarian Action and Conflict Studies

Local Humanitarian Action and Forced Migration: contested spaces of international aid, Routledge (to be published 2022)

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

Editorial: Localization and the Politics of Humanitarian Action, Special Issue, Frontiers in Political Science, with Kilian Spandler and Sulagna Maitra

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

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

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

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

“Decentering Peace Studies: Conceptualisations of Peace in India”, ZeFKo, with Siddarth Tripathi 

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Same same but different“: Reflexion zur Online-Lehre vor und während Corona, in: H-Soz-Kult, Forum: Digitales Lehren 

Red Lines and Grey Zones: Ethical dileamms in humanitarian negotiations and the need for a research agenda, PRIO Blog, with Kristoffer Lidén 

The ethics of humanitarian negotiation, Humanitarian Views, The Humanitarian Blog, with Kristoffer Lidén 

Localisation and the Shrinking Civic Space: tying up the loose ends. Berlin: Centre for Humanitarian Action

Counterterrorism Measures and Sanction Regimes: Shrinking Space for Humanitarian Aid Organisations, Berlin: Centre for Humanitarian Action, with Charlotte Faltas and Sonja Hövelmann 

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

Staatenlos: Der Konflikt in Rakhine und die Humanitäre Notlage der Rohingya, Friedensakademie Rheinland-Pfalz, (Blog entry)

Demokratieförderung in Myanmar. Indien als Partner für die deutsche und europäische Außenpolitik?“, SWP-Aktuell/4

Myanmar’s Peace Process. The Importance of Federal Reforms and an Inclusive National Dialogue, SWP Comments 2013/C 29, with Jasmin Lorch 

Indien in Aufruhr. Die Braveheart-Debatte und die Folgen für die indische Demokratie, SWP-Aktuell/18, with Christian Wagner 

Die Assam-Unruhen 2012: Anatomie eines Konflikts, Heinrich Boell Foundation (online)

Presentation (with Kristoffer Lidén): Red Lines and Grey Zones: Exploring the ethics of humanitarian negotiations, International Humanitarian Studies Conference

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

Presentation: “Ethnographic Methods in Peace and Conflict Studies”, University of Magdeburg

Input: “Peacebuilding”, Humanitarian Reflections, Centre for Humanitarian Action, Berlin

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

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

Workshop: “Mediation”, NOHA Spring School of Humanitarian Action, Vilnius

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

Workshop: “Ethics of Humanitarian Negotiations and Mediation”, PRIO, Oslo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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