Peter Finkenbusch

statebuilding, peacekeeping, international intervention, resilience, Latin America

Work Experience

10/17 – 01/18          University of Duisburg-Essen, Centre for Global Cooperation Research

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research project on ‘Governance in an Age of Unknowability: Facilitating Urban Resilience in the Americas’, which included fieldwork in Mexico City and document collection and analysis

Co-guest-edit a Special Issue on ‘Critique and Affirmation in IR’ in Global Society 

04/16 – 09/17          University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute for Development and Peace

Researcher

Co-edited a volume on ‘Moral Agency and the Politics of Responsibility’ for the Routledge Global Cooperation Series, which included preparing a book proposal, organizing an authors´ workshop, reviewing individual contributions and copy-editing

02/10 – 12/13          Free University Berlin, Institute for Latin American Studies

Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood: New Modes of Governance?’, focused research on ‘Transnational Security Governance: Organized Crime and Governance-Interventions in Mexico and Central America,’ with Professors Marianne Braig and Günther Maihold (funded by the German Research Foundation)

Collected and analyzed empirical data, including through field research in Mexico City and Washington, D.C. (expert interviews, document collection, and networking); contributed to joint publications; presented research at international conferences; managed project, which included guiding a Student Assistant, supporting budget administration and billing, managing external service contracts, hosting of international guests and organizing academic events such as workshops, conferences and colloquia

07/06 – 02/07          Free University Berlin, Institute for Latin American Studies

Student Assistant at the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood: New Modes of Governance?’, focused research on ‘Public Security as Governance? Policing in Transitional and Developing Countries’ (Argentina and Mexico)

Prepared bibliographies, edited publications, developed research protocols, and supported administration