Updates
News on my current projects and research activities.
2026 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition (Boston, MA)
My dissertation chapter "Add Fuel to Fire? How Ethnic Cleansing Affects Armed Conflict" is featured in the panel on "Displacement, Migration, and Forced Population Movements", chaired by Merve Keskin.
GeoEFD Data Collection Progress
Data collection for the Geo-Located Ethnic Forced Displacement Dataset (GeoEFD) is completed for 96 of 103 countries, accompanied by a detailed codebook and coding atlas.
2026 EPSS European Political Science Society Annual Meeting (Belfast, UK)
My dissertation chapter "Add Fuel to Fire? How Ethnic Cleansing Affects Armed Conflict" is featured in the panel on "Displacement, Group Survival, Support, and Financial Logic", chaired by Hannah Smidt.
2026 Annual Conflict and Change PhD Workshop (London, UK)
My dissertation chapter "Add Fuel to Fire? How Ethnic Cleansing Affects Armed Conflict" is featured in the panel on "Civil Wars, Ethnic Politics, and Political Violence", chaired by Nils Metternich (discussant: Stathis Kalyvas).
2026 SPSA Swiss Political Science Association Annual Meeting (Zurich, Switzerland)
My article "Cross-Border Kin and Forced Displacement from a Spatial Perspective" is featured in the panel on "Ethnic, religious, and inter-communal aspects of conflict" of the Peace and Security Policy division (discussant: Aya Abdelrahman).
2025 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition (Vancouver, Canada)
My article "Cross-Border Kin and Forced Displacement from a Spatial Perspective"" is featured in the panel on "Wartime Atrocities and Civilian Victimization", chaired by Jessica Stanton (discussant: Gabriella Levy).
2025 EPSA European Political Science Association Annual Meeting (Madrid, Spain)
My article "Cross-Border Kin and Forced Displacement from a Spatial Perspective" is featured in the panel on "Borders, Ballots, and Belonging: Crisis Aftermath in the Middle East and South Asia", chaired by Lachlan McNamee (discussant: Daniel Tavana).
GeoEFD Data Collection Start
Coding and documentation for the Geo-Located Ethnic Forced Displacement Dataset (GeoEFD) has started for a first set of 20 countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia (including Mali, Iraq, and Myanmar).
Grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation
My dissertation project "The Causes and Consequences of Ethnic Cleansing: A Cross-Border Perspective" has been awarded a Doc.CH grant, from September 2024 to November 2027.
Article published in International Peacekeeping
The co-authored article with Hannah Smidt, "(UN-)Protected Elections – Left for Good? Withdrawal of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations and Its Effects on Violence During Electoral Periods in War-Affected Countries" has been published open access in International Peacekeeping.
Blog published in DeFacto Expert
The co-authored blog post with Hannah Smidt, "A Dangerous Farewell? What the Withdrawal of Peacekeeping Missions Means for International Security" has been published online in DeFacto Expert (german).