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Keith Krause 2025

Keith Krause

Director, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
Honorary Professor of International Relations
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Theme
  • Peace, War and Conflict
  • Security

PROFILE


Keith Krause was Professor of International Relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute from 1994-2025, and is Director of its Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP). From 2000 until 2016, he was also Programme Director of the Small Arms Survey, an internationally recognized research NGO he founded in 2000. An international expert on conflict prevention, peacebuilding, and armed violence, Keith has more than 30 years of experience in designing and conducting research projects for academic and policy-oriented purposes. His research interests include the changing character of contemporary armed violence, post-conflict peace-building and state-building, security sector reform, and multilateral security cooperation. He has published Arms and the State, edited or co-edited Critical Security Studies, Culture and Security, and Armed Groups and Contemporary Conflicts, as well as having authored dozens of journal articles and book chapters, and consulted for governments and NGOs. He is Swiss-Canadian, and received his D.Phil in International Relations from Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

 

THEMATIC EXPERTISE
 

  • Peace and conflict studies
  • Security and strategic studies
  • Peacebuilding
  • Arms control, disarmament

 

GEOGRAPHICAL EXPERTISE
 

  • Global
     
     

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
 

Articles

  • "(Re)Setting the Boundaries of Peacebuilding in a Changing Global Order,” co-authored with Kazushige Kobayashi and Xinyu Yuan, Contemporary Security Policy 46:2 226-252 (2025).
  • “Peaceful,” “Just,” “Inclusive”? The Pitfalls and Promise of Measuring SDG-16,” in Rajendra Baikady, ed., Transitioning to Peace, Justice and
    Strong Institutions (Basel: MDPI Books, 2025), 1-16.
  • “Framing (State) Fragility: The Construction of Imaginary Global Spaces,” in Thomas Mueller et al, eds., Comparisons in Global Security
    Politics (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024), 128-150.
  • "Normative Entanglements and Evolution: Prevention, Peacebuilding, SDG-16 and Human Security in the Asia-Pacific Region,” in Guo Yanjun and
    Han Zhili, eds., Achieving Sustaining Peace Through Preventive Diplomacy (Singapore, World Scientific Publishing, 2022), 203-222.
  • “Critical Approaches to Security Studies,” chapter for Cameron Thies, ed., Handbook of International Relations (London: Edward Elgar, 2025),
    200-217.
  • “Pathways to Socialization: China, Russia, and Competitive Norm Socialization in a Changing Global Order,” co-authored with Kazushige Kobayashi and Xinyu Yuan, Review of InternationalStudies, 48:3 (July 2022).
  • “Power/Resistance: External Actors, Local Agency and the Burundian Peacebuilding Project,” co-authored with Elise Féron, European Journal of International Security, 7:4 (November 2022), 508-530. Winner of the International Geneva award, Swiss Network for International Studies).
  • “Norm Contestation and Normative Transformation in Global Peacebuilding Order(s): The Cases of China, Japan, and Russia,” co-authored with Oliver Jütersonke, Kazushige Kobayashi and Xinyu Yuan, International Studies Quarterly, 65:4 (2021), 944-959.

Books

  • Norm Contestation and the Global Peacebuilding Order: Alternative Pathways to Peace,” co-authored with Oliver Jütersonke, Kazushige Kobayashi and Xinyu Yuan, London: Routledge (forthcoming 2026).
  • “Critical Approaches to Security Studies,” chapter for Cameron Thies, ed., Handbook of International Relations (London: Edward Elgar, 2025),
    200-217.

     

ACTIVITIES
 

  • Senior Research Fellow, Toda Peace Institute, 2024-present
  • Chief Policy Advisor, Principles for Peace Foundation, 2023-presentMember, 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.

 

GRANTS

  • 2023-27: Swiss National Science Foundation, four-year Advanced research grant, “State-building and the Global Practices of Security Sector Reform, 1.7 mio CHF.
  • 2023-25: Swiss Network for International Studies, two-year research project, “Mapping the transnational circulation and control of small arms in Latin America” (co-investigators: Nicolas Florquin, Small Arms Survey and Monica Herz, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 266,000 CHF.
  • 2022-26: Swiss National Science Foundation, four-year research grant (with Oliver Jütersonke, co-investigator), “Peace by Other Means? Alternative Practices of Building Peace in a Changing Global Order”, 881,132 CHF.

AWARDS

  • 2022 International Geneva award, Swiss Network for International Studies

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