Position(s) at the Institute

Professor, International Relations/Political Science

• Director of the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
• Programme Director of the Small Arms Survey

Profile

DPhil, Oxford
Keith Krause is Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, Director of its Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding Programme, and Director of the Small Arms Survey, an internationally-recognised research centre NGO he founded in 2001.
The Small Arms Survey has produces annual volumes on issues of small arms proliferation, stockpiles, transfers, misuse and effects, as well as numerous field-based and issue-based studies. It serves as the main source of information and analysis for international public policy on small arms issues.
Professor Krause's research interests also include concepts of security, the changing character of contemporary armed violence, and multilateral security cooperation. He has published Arms and the State (Cambridge) and edited or co-edited Critical Security Studies (Minnesota), and Culture and Security, and authored many journal articles and book chapters. Professor Krause is Canadian, and received his MPhil and DPhil from Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has been a consultant for various international agencies and governments, comments frequently on international issues for the local and international media, and speaks regularly at scholarly and policy meetings and conferences.
 

Areas of expertise

• Armed conflicts, violence
• Arms control, disarmament
• Human security
• Peacekeeping, peacebuilding, reconstruction policy
• Small arms and light weapons
• State-building / sovereignty

• Contemporary conflicts and post-conflict reconstruction, Armed violence, Changing conceptions of security, Global governance.

Selected publications

• “War, Violence and the State,” in Michael Brzoska and Axel Krohn, eds., Securing Peace in a Globalized World (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2009).
• (with Jennifer Milliken), “Introduction: The Challenge of Non-State Armed Groups,” Contemporary Security Policy, 30:2 (August 2009), 202-220.
• “Beyond Definition: Violence in a Global Perspective,” Global Crime, 10:4 (November 2009), 337-355.
• “New Forms of Violence,” in Patrick Cronin, ed., The Impenetrable Fog of War: Essays on Modern War and Strategic Surprise (Westport, CT: Praeger International Security, 2008), 31-45.
• (with Oliver Jütersonke) “Peace, Security and Development in Post-Conflict Environments,” Security Dialogue, 36:4 (December 2005), 447-462.
• (with Jennifer Milliken) “State Failure, State Collapse and State Reconstruction: Concepts, Lessons and Strategies,” Development and Change, 33:5 (November 2002), 753-774.
• “Critical Theory and Security Studies: The Research Program of 'Critical Security Studies',” Cooperation and Conflict, 33:3 (September 1998), 299-334.
• (with Michael C. Williams). “Broadening the Agenda of Security Studies: Politics and Methods,” Mershon International Studies Review, 40:supplement 2 (October 1996), 229-254.

Fellowship and activities

• Member, International Advisory Board, Journal of International Relations and Development (2004-present) 
• Member, Cooperation and Conflict, Editorial Advisory Board, 2005-present. 
• Member, Editorial Board, Contemporary Security Policy, 1998-present. 
• Member, International Advisory Board, European Journal of International Relations, 2000-present. 
• ACUNS: Geneva Representative

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