Reflection Group “Monopoly on the use of force 2.0?”

Peter Batchelor of South Africa is the Regional Manager for UNDP Pacific Centre. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Batchelor served in UNDP's Iraq Country Office as the Country Director as Chief of the Conflict Prevention and Recovery Team in UNDP’s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR Prior to joining UNDP in 2004, Mr. Batchelor was the Project Director of the Small Arms Survey project and a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Conflict Resolution at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. During this period he was also an advisor to the Mandela Government on Economic and Security issues. Mr. Batchelor holds a Phd in Economics.

Volker Böge is a peace researcher, historian, and currently a Research Fellow at the School of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS) at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. His fields of work include post-conflict peacebuilding and state formation; non-Western approaches to conflict transformation; natural resources, environmental degradation and conflict. His regional areas of expertise are: the South Pacific, Southeast Asia and West Africa. He is currently working at POLSIS on a number of externally funded projects on issues of peacebuilding, conflict resolution and state formation in Pacific Island Countries and West Africa (Ghana and Liberia).

Marc von Boemcken is a Senior Resarcher and Project Leader at the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), teaches security policy and peace and conflict research at the University of Bonn and is the co-editor of the annual German Peace Report (Friedensgutachen). Among other things, he developed BICC's arms export country database and the Global Militarization Index (GMI). He holds a PhD (Dr. rer. Pol.), studied Politics, International Relations, Sociology and International Law and was trained as a reserve officer in the German Armed Forces.

Jorge Chabat is a professor of the Department of International Studies at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City, since 1983. From 1996 to 1999 he was the Director of that Department. He obtained his Bachelor’s at El Colegio de Mexico, and the Master’s and the Ph.D. in International Studies at the University of Miami, Florida. He has published extensively about Mexican foreign policy, and drug trafficking and is a political commentator for Imagen Radio and the Mexican TV Network Televisa.

Fairlie Chappuis is a Programme Manager within DCAF’s Research Division, where her responsibilities include research and policy advice on security sector governance and reform. Previously she was a Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700: Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood, at the Freie Universität Berlin; a Visiting Researcher at the Kofi Annan Institute for Conflict Transformation, at the University of Liberia; and a Visiting Fellow with the Future of Peace Operations programme at The Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington DC.

Ms. Anna Gussarova is a Senior Research Fellow in the Almaty Office of Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. She graduates with a major in American Studies and holds a master’s degree in Central Asia Security Studies from the German-Kazakh University. She teaches ‘Multilateral Diplomacy’ and ‘International Terrorism’ courses at the German-Kazakh University in Almaty. She obtains special National Anniversary Medal ‘20 years of the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan’ for contribution to the social harmony in the country and unity of the people of Kazakhstan, promotion of Kazakhstan experience of peace and harmony abroad and development of mutually beneficial and friendly relations between the people of Kazakhstan and other nationals. Among other things, she is an alumni of the European George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies (Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (Honolulu), Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Institute (Moscow). Recently involved in civil society activities and projects on domestic issues within security-related challenges.

Carolina G. Hernandez is Founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Strategic and Development Studies (ISDS Philippines). She is also Professor Emeritus in Political Science, University of the Philippine. A founding member of the ASEAN Institutes of Strategic and International Studies (ASEAN ISIS), Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP), the Council for Asia-Europe Cooperation (CAEC), the Asia-Pacific Security Forum (APSF), and the Human Rights Resource Center, she has also served in the boards of various regional and global institutions, including the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. She holds a doctoral degree in Political Science with a pioneering work on civil-military relations in the Philippines.

Eboe Hutchful is a Professor of African Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and leads a research network on ‘Hybrid Security Governance in Africa’ funded by the IDRC. He furthermore is Executive Secretary of the African Security Sector Network, where he orchestrates the development of Operational Guidance Notes (OGNs) to support the implementation of the African Union’s Security Sector Reform Policy Framework, under a joint AU/UN/EU partnership initiative. His memberships include the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, the Board of Trustees of the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), and others. He has published, consulted and lectured widely in his major research areas of military politics, security sector reform/governance and international development issue.

Francine Jacome is the executive director of the independent research center Venezuelan Institute for Social and Political Studies (INVESP). She has participated in the FES Latin American and Caribbean program for Regional Cooperation in Security (www.seguridadregional-fes.org).

Siddharth Mallavarapu is Associate Professor and Chairperson of the  Department of International Relations at the South Asian University. His research interests include disciplinary histories of International Relations, the politics and episteme of the global south, the theory and practice of global governance and evaluations of both mainstream and critical approaches to the study of world politics. His publications include "Banning the Bomb: The Politics of Norm Creation" and co-edited books on International Relations.

Paula Miraglia is a Public Sector specialist, with particular expertise in urban violence, youth, crime prevention and justice. She is a directing partner at Pacto Institutional Development in Brazil. She has been the Director General of the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime – ICPC, based in Canada and the Executive Director of the Brazilian office of ILANUD - United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the treatment of offenders. She holds a doctorate degree in Social Anthropology from the University of São Paulo (USP).

Marius Müller-Hennig is currently working in the Department for Middle and Eastern Europe at FES Head Office in Berlin. Previously, he coordinated FES' Global Peace and Security Policy Program and represented FES as delegated team member in the working group peace and development (FriEnt). He started at FES first in the Western Industrialized Countries department and was then posted at the FES office in Jakarta, Indonesia. He is a political scientist and holds a MA from RWTH Aachen University.

Kidist Mulugeta is presently serving as a consultant on Peace and Security Issues in the Horn of Africa. In this position, she has participated in projects and produced papers on security issues of the Horn of Africa, including on the role of regional powers, on the Ethio-Eritrean conflict, and on peacekeeping interventions. Prior to this, she was a consultant at the Governance and Public administration Section of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.

Conrad Schetter is director for research at the Bonn International Center for Conversion and a Professor for Peace and Conflict Studies at Bonn University. Prior to this he worked at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) of the University of Bonn until 2013, where his most recent position was that of Acting Director and where he still is Associated Member of the ZEF Directorate. Recently, he undertook extensive research on civil-military interactions, ungoverned spaces and the nexus between conflict and migration. Conrad gave advice to German ministries as well as to GOs and NGOs such as GIZ, Concern and Welthungerhilfe.