TOBIAS HAGMANN Curriculum vitae Department of Society and Globalisation Roskilde University Universitetsvej 1, 23.1 4000 Roskilde — Denmark phone: (+45) 4674-2182 e-mail: [email protected]

Nørrebrogade 180A, 4th 2200 Copenhagen N — Denmark cell: (+45) 2251-7475 http://tobiashagmann.net

EDUCATION

University of Lausanne: Ph.D. in public administration (2007). University of Lausanne: M.A. in public administration (2001). University of Lausanne: B.A. in political science (1998). ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Associate professor, Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University (2012-) Visiting scholar, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley (2011-2012) Public policy scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2010). Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Zürich (2007-2010). Instructor, Department of Social Sciences, University of Basel (2006-2007). Visiting researcher (non-resident), Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa (2003-2005). Researcher, Swiss Peace Foundation, Bern (2002-2007). OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Program Officer, Center for Peacebuilding KOFF, Swiss Peace Foundation, Bern (2001-2002). Research Officer, Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development, Nairobi (2001). Research Assistant, Early Warning Project FAST, Swiss Peace Foundation, Bern (1998-2000). RESEARCH INTERESTS

State failure and formation in Africa, armed conflict, peacebuilding, natural resource management, development policy, comparative politics, Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia) FELLOWSHIP AND GRANTS

Grant by German Peace Foundation for research project ‘Transitional justice in protracted conflict: local and diaspora conceptions of retributive and restorative justice between shari’a, customary, and human rights law in Somalia and Ethiopia’s Somali region’ (co-applicant with Markus V. Hoehne) (2011-2013), Euro 174’384 Grant by Swiss National Science Foundation for research project ‘Customary authorities and post-war land tenure in the urban Horn of Africa’ and two year visiting scholar fellowship at the Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley (2011-2013), CHF 121’100 Public policy scholar fellowship by Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for research project ‘State failure and formation in the Somali Territories of the Horn of Africa after 1991’, Washington DC (2010-2011), USD 25’000 1

Grant by Swiss National Science Foundation and Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation through National Centre of Competence in Research North-South for publication project ‘New avenues for pastoral development in sub-Saharan Africa’ (2008-2009), CHF 35’600 Grant by Swiss Peace Foundation, Bern for research report on ‘Pastoral conflicts in the Horn of Africa’ (2007), CHF 13’900 Grant by Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs through Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo for research project ‘Contested power: negotiating “traditional” authority in “modern” elections in Ethiopia’ (2005), USD 7’000 Ph.D. fellowship by Swiss National Science Foundation and Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation through National Centre of Competence in Research North-South for the research project ‘Mitigating violent resource use conflicts in pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa’ (20022006), CHF 151’800 Various travel and field research stipends awarded by the National Centre of Competence in Research North-South, Swiss Academy for Social Sciences, Swiss Wilton Park Association and University of Zürich. TEACHING

University of Zürich: GEO 423 ‘Political geography’, graduate course and seminar (in English), (spring terms 2008, 2009, 2010). GEO 798 ‘Regionale Geographie: Afrika’ [African regional geography], undergraduate course (in German), (spring term 2009). GEO 423 ‘Ausgewählte Beiträge zur Humangeographie’, [Contemporary issues in human geography], graduate course and seminar (in German), (spring term 2007). University of Basel: 16875-01 ‘Staatlichkeit im Wandel: Europa und Afrika’ [Statehood in transition: Europe and Africa], undergraduate course and seminar (in German), (winter term 2006/2007). Rift Valley Institute: ‘The Horn of Africa Course’, graduate area studies course directed by Ken Menkhaus and Mark Bradbury, Lamu, Kenya (June 2009, May-June 2010). SUPERVISION

Ph.D. Michelle Engeler, ‘Violence, belonging and survival strategies in the Guinée Forestière’ (2007-2009)[changed university and supervisor] M.A.

Yared Haile Selassie, ‘The ballot or the bullet? Role and radicalization of Ethiopian Diaspora political groups after the 2005 elections’ (2009-2010). Barbara Weilenmann, ‘State failure and development cooperation’ (2010). Miro Meyer, ‘Perimeter der Gemeindezusammenarbeit im Kanton Zürich’ (2009-2010). Rony Emmenegger, ‘Decentralized to the household: gott and garre in state led development projects in Ethiopia’ (2008-2010). Corinne Corradi, ‘Access to health care among Fulani transhumant pastoralists in Mauritania’ (2008-2009). 2

Cornelius Ammann, ‘Nahrungsmittelhilfe in der Somali Region Äthiopiens, 1983-2004: Eine Verteilungsanalyse’ (2004-2005). Ahmed Ali Gedi, ‘Herder-farmer Conflicts in the Dawa-Ganala River Basin Area’ (20042005).

FIELD RESEARCH

2012: 2012: 2008: 2007: 2005: 2004: 2003: 2002: 2002: 2002: 2001: 2001:

USA: Fieldwork on transnational Somali conflict issues (3 weeks) Somaliland: Fieldwork on urban land disputes (2 weeks) Ethiopia: Fieldwork on ethnic federalism and national politics (1 month) Ethiopia: Research workshop and selected interviews (3 weeks) Ethiopia: Fieldwork on elections and traditional authorities (21/2 months) Ethiopia: Fieldwork on resource conflicts in eastern Ethiopia (3 months) Ethiopia: Fieldwork on resource conflicts in eastern Ethiopia (4 months) Somaliland: Exploratory visit to Hargeysa and Borama (1 week) Ethiopia: Preparation for doctoral fieldwork on resource conflicts (11/2 months) Macedonia: Interviews for SDC country program assessment (2 weeks) Ethiopia: ACORD Ethiopia project visit and assessment (1 week) Somalia: Assistant in research project on civil war and gender relations (1 month)

LANGUAGES

German: English: French: Italian: Somali:

mother tongue fluent spoken and written fluent spoken and written advanced spoken and written basic spoken

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

African Studies Association UK, Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), Swiss Political Science Association, Swiss Society for African Studies. Associated researcher Department of Geography, University of Zürich and fellow at the Rift Valley Institute. PROFFESSIONAL SERVICE

Referee for African Affairs, African Identities, African Security, Africa Spectrum, Africa Today, Civil Wars, Development and Change, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Friedenswarte, Geographica Helvetica, Geopolitics, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, International Political Sociology, International Studies Review, Journal of Eastern African Studies, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Journal of Modern African Studies, Journal of Peace Research, Land Use Policy, Nordic Journal of African Studies, Political Geography, Politique Africaine, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, St. Antony’s International Review, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. Reviewer for Chatham House, German Peace Research Foundation, Israel Science Foundation, Institute for Security Studies, Northern Africa Institute, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), World Bank.

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COMMISSIONED RESEARCH AND CONSULTENCIES

German Institute of Global and Area Studies: Update of Ethiopia political economy country analysis on behalf of the German Bundesministerium für Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (2010, 2011). International Crisis Group: Lead researcher and author for Ethiopia country report ‘Ethiopia: ethnic federalism and its discontents’ (2008-2009). Academy for Peace and Development, Hargeysa: Trainer of researchers studying local land conflicts in Somaliland as part of a capacity-building project for local peace research NGOs funded by the German Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (2007). Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation, Bern: Consultant for a ‘Peace and conflict impact assessment’ of the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation’s country program in Macedonia (2002). HEKS Swiss Interchurch Aid, Zürich: Consultant for assessment of ACORD Ethiopia’s emergency and post-emergency rehabilitation project in Shashemene, Ethiopia (2001). ACORD Southern Sudan, Nairobi and HEKS Swiss Interchurch Aid, Zürich: Author of two research reports on current peace initiatives in the Sudan (2001). PUBLICATIONS

Books: Tronvoll, K. and T. Hagmann, eds. (2012), Contested Power in Ethiopia: Traditional Authorities and Multi-Party Elections. Leiden and Boston: Brill. Hagmann, T. and D. Péclard, eds. (2011), Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa. London: Wiley-Blackwell. Refereed journal articles: Hagmann, T. and B. Korf (2012), ‘Agamben in the Ogaden: violence and sovereignty in the Ethiopian-Somali frontier’, Political Geography dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.12.004 Hagmann, T. and C. Ifejika Speranza (2010), ‘Introduction: new avenues for pastoral development in sub-Saharan Africa’, European Journal of Development Research 22(5), 593-604. Hagmann, T. and D. Péclard (2010), ‘Negotiating Statehood: dynamics of power and domination in Africa’, Development and Change 41(4), 539-62. Korf, B., Engeler, M. and T. Hagmann (2010), ‘The Geography of Warscape’, Third World Quarterly 31(3), 385-399. Goetschel, L. and T. Hagmann (2009), ‘Civilian Peacebuilding: peace by bureaucratic means?’, Conflict, Security & Development 9(1), 55-73. Hagmann, T. and M. V. Hoehne (2009), ‘Failures of the State Failure Debate: evidence from the Somali territories’, Journal of International Development 21(1), 42-57. Mulugeta, A. and T. Hagmann (2008), ‘Governing Violence in the Pastoralist Space: Karrayu and state notions of cattle raiding in the Ethiopian Awash Valley’, Afrika Focus 21(2), 71-87. Hagmann, T. and A. Mulugeta (2008), ‘Pastoral Conflicts and State-building in the Ethiopian Lowlands’, Afrika Spectrum 43(1), 19-37. 4

Hagmann, T. and M. H. Khalif (2006), ‘State and Politics in Ethiopia’s Somali Region since 1991’, Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies 6, 25-49. [expanded translation of Hagmann and Khalif 2005] Hagmann, T. (2005), ‘Beyond Clannishness and Colonialism: understanding political disorder in Ethiopia’s Somali Region, 1991-2004’, Journal of Modern African Studies 43(4), 509-36. Hagmann, T. and M. H. Khalif (2005), ‘La région Somali d'Éthiopie: entre intégration, indépendance et irrédentisme’, Politique Africaine 99, 43-62. Hagmann, T. (2005), ‘Confronting the Concept of Environmentally Induced Conflict’, Peace, Conflict and Development 6, 1-22. Refereed book chapters: Tronvoll, K. and T. Hagmann (2012), ‘Introduction: traditional authorities and multi-party elections in Ethiopia’, In Contested Power in Ethiopia: Traditional Authorities and Multi-Party Elections, edited by K. Tronvoll and T. Hagmann, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 1-29. Hagmann, T. (2012), ‘Fishing for Votes in the Somali Region: clan elders, bureaucrats and party politics in the 2005 elections’, In Contested Power in Ethiopia: Traditional Authorities and Multi-Party Elections, edited by K. Tronvoll and T. Hagmann, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 61-88. Hagmann, T. and D. Péclard (2011), ‘Negotiating Statehood: dynamics of power and domination in Africa’, in Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa, edited by T. Hagmann and D. Péclard, London: Wiley Blackwell, 1-23. [reprint of Hagmann and Péclard 2010] Hagmann, T. and A. Mulugeta (2010), ‘Pastoral Conflicts and State-building in the Ethiopian Lowlands’, in Global Change and Sustainable Development: A Synthesis of Regional Experiences from Research Partnerships, edited by H. Hurni and U. Wiesmann, Bern: Geographica Bernensia, 163-73. [shortened reprint of Hagmann and Mulugeta 2008] Mason, S., Hagmann, T., Bichsel, C., Ludi, E. and Y. Arsano (2009), ‘Linkages Between Subnational and International Water Conflicts: the Eastern Nile basin’, in Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts, edited by H. G. Brauch et al., Berlin etc.: Springer-Verlag, 325-334. Hagmann, T. (2007), ‘Bringing the Sultan Back in: elders as peacemakers in Ethiopia’s Somali Region’, in State Recognition and Democratisation in Sub-Saharan Africa. A New Dawn for Traditional Authorities?, edited by L. Buur and H. M. Kyed, New York: Palgrave, 31-51. Non-refereed articles and working papers: Goetschel, L. and T. Hagmann (2011), ‘Rethinking Peace, Peace Research and Peacebuilding’, in The Politics of Peace: From Ideology to Pragmatism?, edited by L. Goetschel, Münster: LIT, 45-60. [earlier version of Goetschel and Hagmann 2009] Hagmann, T. (2009), ‘Fighting in the Desert? Conflict and resource management in East African drylands’, in Environmental Peacebuilding: Managing Natural Resource Conflicts in a Changing World, edited by D. Péclard, Bern: swisspeace, 22-31. International Crisis Group (2009), Ethiopia: Ethnic Federalism and its Discontents, Africa Report N°153, Nairobi/Brussels, 4 September.

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Hagmann, T. and M. V. Hoehne (2007), ‘Failed State or Failed Debate? Multiple Somali political orders within and beyond the nation-state’, Politorbis 42, 20-26. [earlier version of Hagmann and Hoehne 2009] Hagmann, T. (2006), ‘Ethiopian Political Culture Strikes Back: a rejoinder to J. Abbink’, African Affairs 105(421), 605-12. Hagmann, T. (2005), ‘Challenges of Decentralisation in Ethiopia’s Somali region’, Review of African Political Economy 32(104-105), 449-55. Ludi, E. and T. Hagmann (2004), ‘Pastoral Conflict Resolution in the Horn of Africa’, in Understanding Environment, Conflict, and Cooperation, edited by United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi: UNEP, 19-20. Hagmann, T. (2002), ‘Analyse des dynamiques conflictuelles résultant de l’accueil des requérants d’asile dans les communes suisses. Constats et causes’, Cahier de l’Idheap 194, Lausanne : Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration. [MA thesis] Hagmann, T. (2000), ‘La réforme de la politique d’asile suisse à travers les mesures d’urgence’ (with Stanislas Frossard), Cahier de l’Idheap 191, Lausanne : Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration. Book reviews: Hagmann, T. (2012), ‘African Customs in Neoliberal Times’, Public Administration Review 72(1), 153-55. Hagmann, T. (2010), Review of K. Tronvoll, ‘War and the Politics of Identity in Ethiopia: The Making of Enemies and Allies in the Horn of Africa’, African Affairs 109(437), 677-79. Hagmann, T. (2009), Review of P. Chabal, ‘Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling’, International Affairs 85(6), 1283-84. Hagmann, T. (2008), Review of J.-P. Olivier de Sardan, ‘Anthropology and Development: Understanding Contemporary Social Change’, Development and Change 39(2), 333-34. Hagmann, T. (2007), Review of C. Cramer, ‘Civil War is Not a Stupid Thing. Accounting for Violence in Developing Countries’, Journal of Development Studies 43(6), 1147-48. Hagmann, T. (2006), Review of B. Kapferer (ed), ‘State, Sovereignty, War: Civil Violence in Emerging Global Realities’, Journal of Peace Research 43(5), 637-38. Hagmann, T. (2005), ‘From State Collapse to Duty Free Shop: Somalia’s path to modernity’, African Affairs 104(416), 525-35. Hagmann, T. (2004), Review of Baechler, G., Spillmann, K. and M. Suliman (eds), ‘Transformation of Resource Conflicts: Approach and Instruments’, African Affairs 103(410), 146-48. Hagmann, T. (2003), Review of Carment, D. and A. Schnabel (eds), , ‘Conflict Prevention: Path to Peace or Grand Illusion?’ and Wenger, A. and Möckli, D. ‘Conflict Prevention: The Untapped Potential of the Business Sector’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 32(3), 716-18. Hagmann, T. (2003), Review of Pausewang, S., Tronvoll, K. and L. Aalen (eds), ‘Ethiopia since the Derg: A Decade of Democratic Pretension and Performance’, Journal of Modern African Studies 41(4), 668-69.

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Hagmann, T. (2003), Review of H.-W. Jeong (ed), ‘Approaches to Peacebuilding’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 32(1), 179-81. MEDIA OUTLETS

Op-eds and articles published in International Herald Tribune, Sub-Saharan Informer (Ethiopia), der überblick (Germany), Horn of Africa Bulletin (Sweden), a contrario, Aargauer Zeitung am Wochenende, Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, FRIZ-Zeitschrift für Friedenspolitik, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, NZZ am Sonntag, Tages-Anzeiger, Le Temps, Die Wochenzeitung (Switzerland). Invited guest and interviews with Swiss public radio DRS 1 (Echo der Zeit), DRS 3 (World Music Special), DRS 4, Kanal K and Radio France International (Débat africain, Journal Afrique, Nouvelles). Quoted in Die Zeit (Germany), International Herald Tribune, Der Landbote (Switzerland), Der Standard (Austria), Weekendavisen (Denmark). EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

Co-editor Journal of Eastern African Studies special issue ‘Twenty Years of Revolutionary Democratic Ethiopia, 1991-2011’ (with Jon Abbink), 2011, 5(4). Co-editor European Journal of Development Research special issue ‘New Avenues for Pastoral Development in Sub-Saharan Africa’ (with Chinwe Ifejika Speranza), 2010, 22(5). Co-editor Development and Change special issue ‘Negotiating Statehood: dynamics of power and domination in Africa’ (with Didier Péclard), 2010, 41(4). Editor of FAST Country Risk Profiles for Angola, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Mozambique, South Africa and Sudan authored by country experts. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Hagmann, T. (2012), ‘Mass Violence at the Margins of the State: the return of garrison rule in the Ethiopian Ogaden, 3rd Global Conference on Genocide, San Francisco, CA, 30 June. Hagmann, T. (2012), ‘Specters of the State: problematic of government after state collapse in Somalia’, International Studies Association, San Diego, CA, 4 April. Hagmann, T. (2011), ‘State Building after State Collapse: a comparison of Somali sub-national administrations, 1991 to 2010’, Mid-Western Political Science Association 69th National Conference, Chicago, IL, 1 April. Hagmann, T. (2010), ‘Problematics of Government and of Comparison in the Somali Territories after 1991’, African Studies Association USA 53th Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, 19 November. Hagmann, T. and B. Korf (2009), ‘Revisiting the African Frontier’, AEGIS European Conference on African Studies, University of Leipzig, 4 June. Hagmann, T. and B. Korf (2009), ‘Agamben in the Ogaden: violence and sovereignty in the Ethio-Somali borderlands’, 20th Anniversary Conference of the International Boundaries Research Unit, Durham University, UK, 2 April.

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Hagmann, T. (2008), ‘Bringing the Sultan Back in: Somali elders as peacemakers in Ethiopia’s Somali region’, African Studies Association UK Biannual Conference, University of Lancashire, UK, 12 September. Hagmann, T. (2008), ‘The Politics of Water Pumps: violence, genealogy and political ecology in the Ethio-Somali borderlands’, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 19 April. Engeler, M., Schär, L., Korf, B. and T. Hagmann (2008), ‘Geographies of Violence: governable orders, agencies and subjectivities in violent settings’, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, 21 February. Goetschel, L. and T. Hagmann (2007), ‘The Challenge of Peacebuilding to Critical Peace Research’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies Annual Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, 20 October. Hagmann, T. and D. Péclard (2007), ‘Negotiating Statehood in Africa: propositions for an alternative approach to state and political authority’, AEGIS European Conference on African Studies, African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands, 12 July. Hagmann, T. (2007), ‘Beyond Environmental Conflict? Nature, violence and agency’, Workshop ‘Environmental Conflicts: Experiences from Africa and Central Asia’, Europainstitut, University of Basel, 8 June. Hagmann, T. (2006), ‘State-building in the Pastoral Periphery: evidence from Ethiopia’s Somali region’, African Studies Association USA 49th Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, 18 November. Hagmann, T. (2006), ‘From Fighting over Pastures to Fighting over Politics: how decentralization transforms conflicts in Ethiopia’s Somali region’, Conference on Property Rights, Collective Action and Poverty Reduction in Pastoral Areas of Afar and Somali Regions, Ethiopia, International Livestock Research Institute, Addis Ababa, 31 October. Hagmann, T. (2005), ‘Bringing the Sultan Back in: Somali elders as peacemakers in Ethiopia’s Somali region’, AEGIS European Conference on African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 2 July. Hagmann, T. (2004), ‘The Rationality of Political Instability in the Somali Region of Ethiopia, 1991-2003’, African Studies Association UK Biannual Conference, Goldsmith College, London, 14 September. Mason, S. A., Hagmann, T. and C. Bischel (2003), ‘“Trickling Down or Spilling Over?” – Exploring the links between international and sub-national water conflicts in the Eastern Nile and Syr Daria basin’, ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, University of Edinburgh, 30 March. Hagmann, T. (2001), ‘Wenn Studieren über Probieren geht: Überlegungen zum Lehren ziehen in der Friedensförderung (mit Beispielen der EU)’, Annual Congress of the Swiss Association for Political Science, Freiburg i. Ü., 9 November. INVITED LECTURES

‘Why Nobody Cares About the Ogaden Region (and what can be done about it)’, Institute for Horn of Africa Studies and Affairs, Minneapolis, MN, June 16, 2012. ‘Revisiting Peace and Conflict Studies’, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, May 9, 2012. 8

‘Problematics of Government Beyond the Failed State’, Center for African Studies, University of Florida, March 16, 2012. ‘Tough Times in the Ogaden: the return of garrison rule in Ethiopia’s Somali region’, New York University Abu Dhabi Institute, October 17, 2011. Panel discussion ‘Famine in the Horn of Africa’, Center for African Studies, University of California, Berkeley, September 30, 2011. ‘Tough Times in the Ogaden: the return of garrison rule in Ethiopia’s Somali region’, Wellesley College, September 18, 2011. ‘Problematics of Government and Comparison in the Somali Territories after 1991’, Georgetown University, January 19, 2011. ‘State Failure and Formation in the Somali Territories of the Horn of Africa after 1991’, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, January 18, 2011. ‘Negotiating Statehood: dynamics of power and domination in Africa’, Davidson College, North Carolina, October 15, 2010. ‘Ethiopia: Election 2010, Chatham House, London, July 16, 2010. ‘Mind the Gaps: democracy in Ethiopia since 1991’, Briefing for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, March 17, 2010. ‘The “Failed States” Debate: Somalia’, Department of Social Sciences, University of Basel, November 25, 2009. ‘Livelihoods in Conflict: humanitarian organizations and the political economy of war’, Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Action, University of Geneva, February 24, 2009. ‘Political Orders Within and Beyond the African Nation-State: evidence from the Somali territories’, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany, February 10, 2009. ‘Political Orders Within and Beyond the African Nation-State’, Center for African Studies Basel, University of Basel, November 13, 2008. ‘Radical Islamists in Ethiopia’s Somali Region’, Conference ‘Islamic Radicalism in and from North Africa and the Horn of Africa’, US Department of State, Real Instituto Elcano and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, July 1, 2008. ‘Impact de la crise somalienne au-delà de la frontière’, Colloque ‘Corne de l’Afrique : conflits et déchirements’, Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Action, University of Geneva, May 14, 2008. ‘Ressourcenkonflikte: Kriege von gestern oder von morgen?’, Militärakademie ETH Zürich, Birmensdorf, March 5, 2008. ‘Fighting for the Desert? The state of nature and the nature of the state in explaining conflicts’, Annual conference, Swiss Peace Foundation, Bern, November 13, 2007. ‘The Political Roots of the Current Crisis in Region 5’, Conference ‘Conflict in the Ogaden and its Regional Dimension’, Chatham House, London, August 31, 2007. ‘How I Earned my Doctoral Degree: the true story and some lessons learned’, Doctoral research colloquium, NCCR Democracy, University of Zürich, February 16, 2007. 9

‘Conflict, Security and Development: the need for a new generation of governance concepts’, Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK, October 13, 2006. ‘The Somali Region in Perspective: a socio-political analysis’ (with Mohamud H. Khalif), Ogaden Human Rights Committee workshop, African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 15, 2006. ‘Pâturages et politique : la gouvernance des conflits de ressources dans la région Somali d’Ethiopie, 1991-2005’, Seminar ‘Théories et pratiques de la gouvernance’, Graduate Institute of Development Studies, Geneva, May 19, 2006. ‘Peace, Conflict and Development in Ethiopia’s Somali Region: past and current dynamics as well as some suggestions for the future’, Institute of Management and Development Studies, Jijiga, Decembe 8, 2005. ‘Beyond Clannishness and Colonialism: understanding political disorder in Ethiopia’s Somali region, 1991-2004’, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, October 19, 2005. ‘The Link Between Conflict and Land Management: a critique of approaches in development cooperation’, Workshop ‘Land Conflicts as a Challenge for Development Cooperation and Peacebuilding: Experiences and Strategies’, Swiss Peace Foundation, Bern, August 19, 2005. ‘Violent Conflicts in the Somali Regional State of Ethiopia’, Briefing for Save the Children FundUK, Addis Ababa, August 9, 2004. ‘Institutions and Resource Conflict Management in the Pastoral Lowlands of Ethiopia: Afar and Somali cases’ (with Alemmaya Mulugeta), Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, February 4, 2004. ‘Gewalt, Konflikte und politische Ordnungen: eine Einführung’, Colloquium ‘Umgang mit Gewalt – Im Fokus der Konfliktforschung’, University of Fribourg, Freiburg i. Ü., January 24, 2004. ‘Gouvernance et conflit : relations empiriques et théoriques”, Seminar ‘Théories et pratiques de la gouvernance’, Graduate Institute of Development Studies, Geneva, 16 December [repeat invitations 2003, 2004, 2006] ‘Mitigating Violent Resource Conflicts in the Somali Region of Ethiopia’, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, November 19, 2003. ‘The Mitigation of Intergroup Conflicts over Resources: concepts and approaches’ (with Eva Ludi), Workshop ‘Dimensions, Dynamics and Transformation of Resource Conflicts Between Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in Frontier Regions of South and Southeast Asia’, Mont-Soleil/St. Imier, Switzerland, September 26, 2002. ‘Le rôle de l’arrangement politico-administratif dans la politique de l’accueil des requérants d’asile’, Course ‘Politiques publiques comparées’, Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, Lausanne, June 11, 2002. ‘Sudan and Armed Conflict – Are they Siamese Twins?’ (with Asha El-Karib), ACORD and HEKS Swiss Interchurch Aid Focus Meeting on Sudan, Zürich, May 21-22, 2001. CONFERENCE ORGANIZING AND CHAIRING

co-convener and panel chair of international workshop ‘Bringing the Margins Back in: war making and state making in the borderlands’, Conflict Research Group, Ghent, February 12-13, 2010. 10

co-convener and panel chair ‘Revisiting the African Frontier’, at AEGIS European Conference on African Studies, University of Leipzig, June 4, 2009. discussant of panel ‘State and statehood’ at the annual conference of the Swiss Anthropological Society, University of Basel, November 30, 2007. co-convener and panel chair ‘Negotiating statehood in Africa’ at AEGIS European Conference on African Studies, African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands, July 12, 2007. convener of research meeting ‘Pastoral conflicts in the Horn of Africa’, National Centre of Competence in Research North-South, Addis Ababa, June 25, 2007. moderator of working group at international symposium on ‘Desertification and global change’, National Centre of Competence in Research North-South, Bern, May 31, 2006. co-convener of workshop ‘Land conflict as a challenge for development cooperation and peacebuilding’, Swiss Peace Foundation, Bern, August 19, 2005. co-organizer and convener of international FAST workshop ‘Conflict dynamics in Southern Africa: early warning in practice’, Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation, Bern, May 12, 2000. co-organizer of international FAST workshop ‘Early warning in practice: the case of Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea’, Institute for African Alternatives, London, March 1, 1999.

REFERENCES

Names and contact details of referees are provided upon request.

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