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Oliver JÜTERSONKE

Research Associate, CCDP
+41 (0)22 908 57 36
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Spoken languages
German, English, French

Biography

Oliver Jütersonke is a research associate with the Graduate Institute’s Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), where he is a research partner on the Peace by Other Means? project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He also teaches in the Graduate Institute's Executive Programme in Development Policies and Practices (DPP). Between 2008 and 2022, Oliver was CCDP Head of Research. 

Oliver’s current research agenda explores the complex linkages between humanitarian response, development cooperation, and peacebuilding; the security dynamics of urban and rapidly urbanising environments; and programming modalities that connect stabilisation efforts with social cohesion agendas and durable solutions for forced displacement. He serves as a strategic advisor, facilitator, and trainer for international organisations, national authorities, and civil society actors. His work centres on applied research skills, strategic foresight and anticipation, organisational learning, and the design and delivery of innovative mentoring initiatives for practitioner audiences.

 

Areas of Expertise

 

  • Peacebuilding and the intersections of security and development, including stabilisation, durable solutions, and triple nexus programming;
  • Social and spatial dynamics of urban violence, and their implications for security perceptions, institutional design, and security sector governance;
  • Intellectual history of International Relations, especially its intersections with social science, law, and philosophy, and its foundations in political and legal realism;
  • Epistemology and research methods in both foundational and applied projects across international affairs and development practice.

List of Publications

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