Oliver Jütersonke

Oliver Jütersonke has a doctorate from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, a Diplôme d’Etudes Superieures (DES) from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Politics with First Class Honours from the University of Exeter. Before becoming Head of Research for the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) in 2008, he worked for six years at the Programme for Strategic and International Security Studies (PSIS). Oliver teaches Epistemology and Methods (E150) for the Graduate Institute's MIA programme, as well as graduate-level seminars and diplomatic training sessions on peacebuilding, urban violence and the responsibility to protect. Since 2007, he has also been a post-doctoral research fellow at the Zurich University Centre for Ethics (ZUCE). 

• Changing notions of sovereignty in international law and politics, with an emphasis on the notion of “conditional sovereignty” inherent in the contemporary discourse of a “responsibility to protect (R2P)”.
• Peacebuilding and the security-development nexus, with a particular focus on stabilization agendas, state-building, and institutional design.
• The social and spatial dynamics of urbanization and their impact on humanitarian and development practices;
• The history of the field of International Relations, and its relation to the social sciences, law and philosophy.

• Morgenthau, Law and Realism (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
• (with Moncef Kartas), Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) for Madagascar. Study commissioned by UNICEF, 2010.
• (with Thomas F. Biersteker), The Challenges of Institution Building: Prospects for the UN Peacebuilding Architecture (Oslo: NUPI/CIPS Working Paper, 2010).
• (with Robert Muggah, Ryan Murray, Edward Rees und James Scambary), Urban Violence in an Urban Village: A Case Study of Dili, Timor-Leste. Study commissioned by the World Bank, 2009.
• (with Robert Muggah and Dennis Rodgers), “Gangs, Urban Violence, and Security Interventions in Central America“, Security Dialogue, 40:4/5 (August/October 2009), 373-397.
• (with Thania Paffenholz), Context-Sensitive Engagement: Lessons Learned from Swiss Experiences in South Asia for Aid Effectiveness in Fragile Scenarios (Berne: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2008).
• “The Image of Law in Politics among Nations” in Michael C. Williams, ed. Realism Reconsidered: Hans J. Morgenthau and International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 93-117.
• (with Keith Krause and Robert Muggah) “Guns in the City”, theme chapter of the Small Arms Survey 2007 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 161-195.
• (with Keith Krause) “Peace, Security and Development in Post-Conflict Environments”, Security Dialogue, 34(4), 2005, 447-462.
• (with Rolf Schwarz) “Divisible Sovereignty and State Reconstruction in Iraq”, Third World Quarterly, 26(4), 2005, 643-659.