He has published on security, armaments, climate, energy, migration, and Mediterranean issues in English and German, and his works have been translated into Chinese, Spanish, Greek, French, Danish, Finnish, Russian, Japanese, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, and Turkish. Recent books in English published by Springer:

• (co-edited with Benner, Lax, Crutzen, Pöschl, Lelieveld, 2021): Paul J. Crutzen and the Anthropocene: A New Epoch in Earth’s History.
• (co-edited with Oswald Spring, 2021): Decolonising Conflicts, Security, Peace, Gender, Environment and Development in the Anthropocene.
• (co-edited with Oswald Spring, Collins and Serrano Oswald, 2018: Climate Change, Disasters, Sustainability Transition and Peace in the Anthropocene;
• (co-edited with Oswald Spring, Grin, Scheffran, 2016): Handbook on Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace;
• (co-edited with Oswald Spring, Bennett, Serrano Oswald, 2016): Addressing Global Environmental Challenges from a Peace Ecology Perspective;
• (co-edited with Oswald Spring, Bennett, Serrano Oswald, 2016): Regional Ecological Challenges for Peace in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia Pacific;
• (co-edited with Scheffran, Brzoska, Link, Schilling, 2012: Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict: Challenges for Societal Stability;
• (co-edited with Oswald Spring, Mesjasz, Grin, Kameri-Mbote, Chourou, Dunay, Birkmann, 2011): Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security – Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks.
• (co-edited with Oswald Spring, Grin, Mesjasz, Kameri-Mbote, Chadha Behera, Chourou, Krummenacher, 2009): Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts.
• (co-edited with Oswald Spring, Mesjasz, Grin, Dunay, Chadha Behera, Chourou, Kameri-Mbote, Liotta (Eds.): Globalization and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualizing Security in the 21 st Century.

Hans Günter Brauch (Germany), PD Dr., was, until 2012, Adj. Prof. (Privatdozent) at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Free University of Berlin; since 1987 he has been chairman of Peace Research and European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS) and in 2020 he set up the Hans Günter Brauch Foundation on Peace and Ecology in the Anthropocene (HGBS), of which he is the managing board chairman. He was a guest professor of international relations at the universities of Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig, Greifswald, and Erfurt, a research associate at Heidelberg and Stuttgart, and a research fellow at Harvard and Stanford Universities. In the autumn and winter of 2013/2014 he was a guest professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He has been a member of the IPRA Council (1996-2000 and 2016-2020) and of its Executive Committee (2016-2018).

He is editor of these five English-language scientific book series published by Springer-Verlag (Heidelberg et al.), Springer International Publishing and Springer Nature Switzerland (Cham, Zug, Switzerland):

• Hexagon Book Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace (HESP), since 2003; AFES-PRESS-Books and at Springer website .
• Springer Briefs on Environment, Security, Development and Peace (ESDP), since 2012; AFES-PRESS-Books and at Springer website
• Springer Briefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice (PSP), since 2012; AFES-PRESS-Books and at Springer website
• Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, since 2016; AFES-PRESS-Books and at Springer website
• The Anthropocene: Politik – Economics – Society – Science (APESS), since 2012; AFES-PRESS-Books and at Springer website
• Stand-Alone Books (SAB), since 2018; AFES-PRESS-Books.

• Oswald-Spring, Úrsula (2022). Meeting The Covid-19 Moment: Peace Analysis Within the Latin American Council for Peace Research (CLAIP) 1977-2021. Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Doi: 10.1111/Pech.12513,
• Oswald-Spring, Úrsula (2022). “Decolonizing peace with a gender perspective”, Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, DOI (10.1108/JACPR-01-2022-0678).
• Oswald-Spring, Úrsula (2021). Reconceptualizar la seguridad y la paz: Una antología de estudios sobre género, seguridad, paz, agua, alimentos y alternativas, Cuernavaca, CRIM-UNAM.
• Oswald-Spring, Úrsula; Hans Günter Brauch (2021) (eds.). Decolonising Conflicts, Security, Peace, Gender, Environment and Development in the Anthropocene, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
• Moreno, J.M.; C. Laguna-Defior; V. Barros; E. Calvo Buendía; J.A. Marengo; and Ú. Oswald-Spring (eds.) (2020). Adaptation to Climate Change Risks in Ibero-American Countries — RIOCCADAPT Report, Madrid: McGraw Hill.
• Oswald-Spring, Úrsula; Anita Breuer (2020). Agenda 2030 y nexos entre seguridad de agua, energética y alimentaria: el caso de Huexca, Morelos, Veredas, UAM, no. 40, pp. 61-93. ISSN: 1665-1534.
• Oswald-Spring, Úrsula (2020). Earth at Risk in the 21st Century. Rethinking Peace, Environment, Gender, and Human, Water, Health, Food, Energy Security, and Migration. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
• Oswald-Spring, Úrsula (2019). Úrsula Oswald-Spring: Pioneer on Gender, Peace, Development, Environment, Food, and Water. Cham: Springer Nature.
• Oswald-Spring, Úrsula (2019). “Towards Engendered-Sustainable Peace to End Patriarchal Violence, in: Aigul Kulnazarova and Vesselin Popovski (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Approaches to Peace, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 601-625.
• Oswald-Spring, Úrsula (2019). Género y comunidades indígenas ante el cambio climático género y comunidades indígenas ante el cambio climático, in: Rosario Ibarra Sarlat (ed.), Cambio climático y gobernanza. Una visión transdisciplinaria, CDMX, IIJ-UNAM, pp. 303-327.

She has studied medicine, psychology, philosophy, modern languages, anthropology and ecology in Madagascar, Paris, Zurich and Mexico, PhD, University of Zurich, postdoc in Mexico. She was the first MRF-Chair on Social Vulnerability at United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS). She co-founded the Research Center of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (CISINAH today CIESAS). She participated in the consolidation of the Metropolitan University in Mexico City, Campus Xochimilco (UAM), founded the College of Tlaxcala (Coltlax), was a lead author of the IPCC, and a member of an IIASA task force. In 2016 she was elected in Sierra Leone as Secretary General and in 1998 in Durban, South Africa, as President of the International Peace Research Association. She was General Secretary of the Latin-American Council for Peace Research (CLAIP, 2002-2006), where she is now Honorary President. From 1992 to 1994 she was the first General Attorney for environment (ombudswomen) and as the first women she set up the new Ministry of Environmental Development in the state of Morelos (1994-1998). She published 70 books and more than 412 scientific articles and book chapters alone or with co-authors. Their scientific work was written or translated into Spanish, English, French, Finnish, German, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, and Swedish. She received several prizes for: 50 years of Research in Morelos; Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; the Ecological Merit of Tlaxcala; Medal of General Emiliano Zapata; Women of the Year 2000; Fourth Decade of Development of UN; Academic Women from UNAM and the Merit of Academic Work

Disciplines and research topics:Ecology, psychology, peace research, sustainable development, global environmental change, climate change, water issues, gender debate, Anthropocene.

Her major publications are:

• Peace-building Skills; A Gender-based Violence Mitigation Strategy (Mauritius: Lambert Academic Publishing);
• A Gender training Manual (Mauritius: Lambert Academic Publishing);
• “A reflection on how Peacebuilding skills can Mitigate Gender-based Violence in Kenyan Universities”, in: American Research Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (ARJHSS). 03(02), 33-40,
• “Enhancing women participation in peacebuilding and decision-making processes in Zimbabwean rural communities”, in: Journal of information and knowledge Management 6(9) 2016;
• “Building Peace through Narrative Therapy”, in: American Research Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (ARJHSS). 02(12), 01-07,
• “Moving trends in Peace Studies: The nexus between religion and Peacebuilding. The Catholic University of Zimbabwe”, in: Fountain: Catholic University Journal, 1,1: 47-62.

Wilkister M. Shanyisa (PhD) is currently a lecturer and Ag HoD Centre for Social Justice and Ethics at The Catholic University of Eastern Africa – Kenya. She is also a gender consultant.

She holds a master’s degree in Gender and Peacebuilding from the UN Mandated University for Peace – Costa Rica and a bachelor’s degree in social sciences – Social Work from The Catholic University of Eastern Africa- Kenya, and a PhD in Public Administration – Peace Studies (ICON) from Durban University of Technology, South Africa.

She is an author and co-author to several publications including Peacebuilding. She has varied skills; in Gender-based Violence Mitigation Strategy and peacebuilding.

She has published journal articles, etc. She is passionate about gender and peace related issues. Shanyisa hopes to write more on the same and to help empower especially girls and women in the community to realize positive change where human rights remain paramount.

Publications

• (2021). Responding to Epistemic Injustice against Child Soldiers. The International Journal of Children's Rights, 29(3), 662-700. doi:10.1163/15718182-29030006
• (2020). Dynamics of Child soldiers’ Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Well-being: Perspectives from Bioecological Systems Theory in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 52(3), 376-388. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/
  s10578-020-01022-4
• (2019) Combining restorative justice and social justice: Prospects of child soldiering transitional justice, African Security Review, 27(3-4), 193-211, DOI: 10.1080/10246029.2018.1559868.
• (2018) The impact of globalisation on child soldiering: challenges and opportunities in the context of the Democratic Republic of Congo. International Social Science Journal 66(221-222), 271-284. DOI: 10.1111/issj.12132.
• (2018) Child Soldiers and Restorative Justice: Participatory Action Research in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Cham ZG: Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-90070-4; ISBN 978-3-319-90071-1 (ebook); doi: https//doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90071-1
• (2017) Combining social justice with transitional and restorative justice: an agenda for an integrative justice model in transitional societies. In Jessica Evans (Ed.), Restorative justice and Transitional Justice: perspectives, progress and considerations for the future (New York: Nova Publishers), pp. 82-177. ISBN: 978-1-53610-688.6 (eBook).
• (2017) Reintegrating former child soldiers in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. In: Kaye S, Harris G (eds) Building peace via action research: African case studies (Addis Ababa: United Nations University for Peace (UPEACE)), pp. 223-236. ISBN: 97899944938-2-1.
• (2016) Utilising a traditional approach to restorative justice in the reintegration of former child soldiers in the North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo. Africa Insight 46 (3):33-50. ISSN (Print): 0256 2804; 1995-641X (online).
• (2015) Challenges of Reintegrating Self-Demobilised Child Soldiers in North Kivu Province: Prospects for Accountability and Reconciliation via Restorative Justice Peacemaking Circles. Human Rights Review 16(2):99-122. DOI 10.1007/s12142-015-0361-7
• Kiyala, Jean Chrysostome K., and Harris Geoffrey T. (eds.) (2022) Civil Society and Peacebuilding in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Anthropocene: An Overview [contributed volume] (Cham ZG: Springer Nature Switzerland) [upcoming]

Chrys Kiyala is a Senior Lecturer, International Centre of Nonviolence (ICON), Durban University of Technology (DUT), South Africa; Associate Professor and visiting lecturer, University of Bandundu, Catholic University La Sapientia_Goma, Catholic University of Bukavu and Evangelical University in Africa, North Kivu Province (DR Congo); former postdoctoral fellow and honorary research associate at DUT-ICON.

He holds a PhD in Management Sciences, Peace Studies and a conferred MTech in Public Administration, DUT; MPhil in Religious Education and Pastoral Theology, St Augustine College of South Africa; BA of Arts in Religious Studies, Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi; BA of Sacred Theology, Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome; Dip. in Mission Studies and Dip. in Theology, Tangaza University, Nairobi (Kenya); BA of Philosophy, Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome; Dip. in Philosophy, St Augustine University, Kinshasa (DR Congo).

Discipline and research topics
African social ethics and philosophy, child soldiers, civil society and peacebuilding, environmental conflicts and peacebuilding, peace and security in Africa, post-conflict reconciliation and nation-building, practical theology, restorative justice and transitional justice.

Professional membership
International Peace Research Association (IPRA) in Peace Education Committee, World Mediation Organisation and Childhood, Law, and Policy Network.

Recent Publications:

• Ivanova, A.; Zía, A.; Ahmad, P.; Bastos-Lima, M., 2020: “Climate mitigation policies and actions: access and allocation issues”, in: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics; at: <DOI 10.1007/s 10784-020-09483-7>;
• Rangel Delgado, J. E.; Ivanova Boncheva, A. (Eds), 2021: Knowledge Society and Education in the Asia-Pacific - Recent Trends and Future Challenges, Springer Briefs in Education & Pacific Circle Consortium, at:
• Girón, A., Ivanova, A. and A. Zamora (Editors). 2021. Mexico in APEC: Agenda in Times of Pandemia, Mexican Consortium of APEC Studies Centers, Comission on Asia and Africa of the Senate of the Republic.
• Ivanova Boncheva, A., 2022: “Finance for Climate Action: Postcovid-19 Recovery Challenges”, in: The Mexican Journal of Economics and Finance (REMEF), 17, 2 (April – June); at: <DOI: 10.219.191 remef>.
• Ivanova Boncheva, A., 2022: “Chinese Sponge Cities Program (SCP)”, in: Current Urban Studies, 10, 2; at:;
• Ivanova Boncheva, A.; Hernández-Morales, P., 2022: “Impacts of Climate Change in the El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve (REBIVI): Challenges for Coastal Communities and the Conservation of Biodiversity”, in: Diversity, 14,10: 786 (MDPI AG); at:;
• Ivanova, A.; Serrano, R., 2023: “Climate change, human rights and sustainability”, in: The Mexican Journal of Economics and Finance (REMEF), 17: 1-20; at:.
• Girón, A.; Ivanova, A., 2023; “Climate Action, Institutional Investors, and Just Transition”, in: Journal of Economic Issues, 57, 2; at: <DOI 10.1080/00213624.2023.2202142>.
• Imaz, M., Ivanova, A., Flores, Maria Z. and Mara Y. Cortez, 2023 “Policy Design to Manage Droughts and Floods in an Arid Region under Changing Participative Climate Scenarios: The Case of Baja California Sur, Mexico”, in Sustainability, 11.

His research explores challenges at the intersection of three sets of variables: nature loss and climate change; poverty and inequality; and disaster, displacement and violent conflict. Current research focuses on (a) environmental peacebuilding, (b) environmental change and migration, (c) climate change and planetary health and (d) the co-development of visualization tools using big data and local knowledge to provide practical hazard risk management support to communities that are highly vulnerable to flood and other extreme events. He has done extensive field work in conflict zones in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. His research is widely diffused beyond academic outlets to support the efforts of practitioners in the conservation and humanitarian communities. He was lead author of the UN policy justification, From Conflict to Peacebuilding: The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment. He has given three TEDx talks and been a featured storyteller on The Moth twice.

He is also Vice President of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association; a Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Sustainable Development in Geneva; a senior member of the United Nations Expert Group on Environment, Conflict; a member of International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Commission on Environment, Economic and Social Policy and co-chair of its Task Force on Conservation, Migration and Conflict.

Publications

(2022) Rethinking Environmental Security Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

(2021) “Unsustainable Borders? Globalization in a Climate Disrupted World” Borders in Globalization Review 2(2). 26-37.

(2020) Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalization, Security, Sustainability Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.

(2019) (Coeditor with Susan Horton, Rianne Mahon and Diana Thomaz) Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Global Governance Challenges London: Routledge.

(2018) “Firepower: Geopolitical Cultures in the Anthropocene” Geopolitics 23(3). 718-742.

Simon Dalby is a Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, where he teaches in the Balsillie School of International Affairs, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Victoria and holds a Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University.

Prior to joining Wilfrid Laurier University he was Professor of Geography, Environmental Studies and Political Economy at Carleton University. He has served as co-editor of Geography Compass and Geopolitics journals and from 2012 to 2018 he was CIGI Chair in the Political Economy of Climate Change at the Balsillie School of International Affairs.

He has active research interests in contemporary climate change discourse as well as the burgeoning debate about the Anthropocene and its implications for politics and policy formulation and a longstanding interest in the shifting parameters of debates about security, its relationship to environment and climate change in particular.

Disciplines and research topics: Geography, political economy, environment, climate change, environmental security, the Anthropocene, geopolitics.

• Simangan, D. 2021. “Reflexive Peacebuilding: Lessons from the Anthropocene Discourse.” Global Society 35(4): 479-500.
• Simangan, D. Sharifi, A., and Kaneko, S. 2021. “Positive Peace Pillars and Sustainability Dimensions: An Analytical Framework.” International Studies Review 23(4): 1884-1905.
• Simangan, D. 2021. “Where is the Asia Pacific in Mainstream International Relations Scholarship on the Anthropocene?” The Pacific Review 34(5): 724-746.
• Simangan, D. 2020. “Can the Liberal International Order Survive the Anthropocene? Three Propositions for Converging Peace and Survival.” The Anthropocene Review (online first).
• Simangan, D. 2020. “Where is the Anthropocene? IR in a New Geological Epoch.” International Affairs 96(1): 211–224.
• Simangan, D. 2019. “Situating the Asia Pacific in the Age of the Anthropocene.” Australian Journal of International Affairs 73(6): 564–584.
• Others

Dahlia Simangan holds a PhD in International, Political, and Strategic Studies from the Australian National University (2017), an MA in International Relations from the International University of Japan (2010), and BA in Sociology from the University of the Philippines, Diliman (2006) where she is originally from. She was a Kanagawa University Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellow for research in Japan (nominated by the United Nations University – Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR) in Tokyo) from 2017 to 2019. She is the author of International Peacebuilding and Local Involvement: A Liberal Renaissance (Routledge, 2019) and several journal articles and book chapters.

Disciplines and research topics:
International relations, peace and conflict studies, post-conflict peacebuilding, peace-sustainability nexus, Anthropocene, Asia-Pacific region

Dr. Imtiaz Ahmed has authored, co-authored, or edited 34 books and 13 monographs. More than 120 research papers and scholarly articles have been published in leading journals and chapters in edited volumes. His recent publications are the following books:

• Imtiaz Ahmed: South Asian Rivers. A Framework for Cooperation (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018);
• COVID-19: The otherside of living through the pandemic, edited (Dhaka: Pathak Shamabesh, 2021);
• Rights, Rivers, and the Quest for Water Commons: The Case of Bangladesh (Cham: Springer nature Switzerland, 2021);
• Ensuring Life without Terror: Responses to Terrorism in Bangladesh, 2 volumes, co-edited (Dhaka: The University Press Limited) (with Monirul Islam), 2021.

Dr Imtiaz Ahmed was born in Bangladesh, and is Professor of International Relations and Director, Centre for Genocide Studies at the University of Dhaka. Professor Ahmed was educated at the University of Dhaka, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, and Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is also currently Visiting Professor at Sagesse University, Beirut. Professor Ahmed is the recipient of various awards and honours.

Discipline and research area: Political science, international relations, peace research, genocide studies, environmental and water issues, South Asian politics, religion and culture, tolerance and terrorism, politics of development, refugees and migration, and women and the environment.

Prof. Dr. Susan Park has published in numerous journals, most recently in the Review of International Political Economy. Her most recent books are:

• The Good Hegemon: How the United States helps People hold the Multilateral Development Banks to Account (Oxford, Oxford University Press (March 2022).
• Environmental Recourse at the Multilateral Development Banks (Cambridge University Press 2020).
• International Organisations and Global Problems: Theories and Explanations (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
• The World Bank Group and Environmentalists: Changing International Organisation Identities (Manchester, 2010).

She has co-edited special editions and books including:

• (with Teresa Kramarz) Global Environmental Governance and the Accountability Trap (MIT Press, 2019) and
• (with Antje Vetterlein): Owning Development (Cambridge, 2010).

Susan Park is an Associate Editor of the journal

• Global Environmental Politics and
• is Co-Convenor with Dr Teresa Kramarz (University of Toronto) of the Earth Systems Governance (ESG) Task Force ‘Accountability in Global Environmental Governance.’

Susan was the Chair of the Environmental Studies Section of the ISA from 2015 to 2017. Her list of publications is here:

Professor Susan M. Park’s primary research interests include:

• International Relations
• Constructivist theory, processes of socialisation and identity change
• International Organisations and Global Governance
• The World Bank Group and Regional Development Banks
• International Economic Organisations (the IMF and the WTO)
• Non-Government Organisations; Environmental Advocacy
• Global Environmental Politics

Research Affiliations:

• Senior Research Fellow of Earth Systems Governance and affiliated Faculty member of the Munk School’s Environmental Governance Lab, University of Toronto.
• Research affiliate, Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney.
• External Associate, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR), Warwick University.
• TUM (Technical University of Munich) IAS (Institute of Advanced Science), Senior Fellow

Journals (Board member):

• Earth Systems Governance journal
• Review of International Political Economy
• Global Environmental Politics
• Australian Journal of International Affairs
• International Studies Perspectives.

Academic Associations:

• Richard Higgott Best Journal Article Prize Committee for the Australian International Political Economy Network
• President of the Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association (2015-2017)
• Chair, Harold and Margaret Sprout Award Committee for best book on international & environmental problems
  

Publications

• (2022, with): C. Harrington, N. Simpson, F. von Lucke, A. Estève (Eds.): Climate Security in the Anthropocene - Exploring the Approaches of United Nations, Cham, Springer Nature Switzerland (forthcoming).
• (2018): Environmental Security in the Anthropocene. Assessing Theory and Practice, London: Routledge.
• Maertens, L.; Hardt, J. N. (2021): “Climate Change and Security within the United Nations: Insights from the UN Security Council and the UN Environment Programme”, in: Lövbrand, E.; Mobjörk, M. (eds.): Anthropocene securities: Recollections and reflections 50 years after the Stockholm conference on the human environment (Cambridge, MIT Press).
• (2021): “Encounters between Security and the Earth System Sciences: Planetary Boundaries and Hothouse Earth”, in: Chandler, D.; Rothe, D.; Mueller, F. (eds.) International Relations in the Anthropocene: New Actors, new Agencies and new approaches (London: Palgrave).
• 2020): “Critical evaluation of the environmental security concept implementation: the case study of the Environment and Security Initiative”, in Brzoska, M.; Scheffran, J. (Eds.): Climate Change, Security Risks, and Violent Conflicts - Essays from Integrated Climate Research in Hamburg (Hamburg: Hamburg University Press): 265-288.
• Hardt, J.N.; Scheffran, J. (2019): “Environmental peacebuilding and climate change”, in: Pérez de Armiño, K.; Zirion, Iker (Eds.): Critical visions of peacebuilding, original title: Visiones críticas de la construcción de la paz), (Madrid: Technos).
• (2018) “Security Studies and the Discourse on the Anthropocene: Shortcomings, Challenges and Opportunities”, in Hickmann, T.; Partzsch, L.; Pattberg, P.; Weiland, S. (Eds.): The Anthropocene Debate and Political Sciences (London: Routledge): 85-102.
• (2012): “Critical Deconstruction of Environmental Security and Human Security Concepts in the Anthropocene”, in Scheffran, J. et al. (eds.) Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict–Challenges to Social Stability (Berlin: Springer): 207-221.

Journal Articles

• (2021): "The United Nations Security Council at the Forefront of (Climate) Change? Confusion, Stalemate, Ignorance", in: Politics and Governance, 9,4: 5-15.
• (2021): "Research Perspectives and Boundaries of Thought: Security, Peace, Conflict, and the Anthropocene", in: Special Issue, Revista de Estudios en Seguridad Internacional. Open Access.

Research Fields & Expertise

International Relations and Political Theory; Security Studies; Peace & Conflict Studies; Global Governance; Climate Politics and Climate Security

Academic Qualifications

• Dr. phil. (PhD) International Relations
• DEA (M.A.) International Relations, International Law and History of Law
• B. Sc. International Forest Ecosystem Management

Professional experience and research activities (since Aug./ Sep. 2019):

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Group: The State, Political Norms and Political Conflicts, Centre Marc Bloch, Humboldt Univ., Berlin
• "Postdoctoral Researcher, project leader of "Multiple Crises. Covid-19 and the Entanglements of Public Health, Security and Ecology in Europe", Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
• Postdoctoral Researcher, project leader “The role of climate change at the in security United Nations Security Council", Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (Hamburg)

Study and research stays abroad

• University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain (DEA, PhD. 2005-2013)
• Collège d’Études Mondiales, FMSH, Paris, France (2018)  Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC), UNEP, Geneva, Switzerland Brussels, Belgium (2012)
• Research Center for Environmental Politics, Free University Berlin (2011)
• Adelphi Research Institute, Berlin, Germany (2010)
• University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada (2004)
• Universidad Técnica Particular Loja, Ecuador (2003-2004)

Professional memberships

• International Studies Association (ISA); International Political Science Association
• (IPSA); European Consortium of Political Research; German Political Science Association (DVPW); Federation of German Scientists (VDW); Scientists for Future