Institute of Development Studies

Biography

For more than 15 years, Dr Markus Schultze-Kraft has been conducting research on democratisation, conflict prevention and resolution, civil-military relations, security system reform (SSR), disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR), transitional justice, illegality and organised transnational crime, humanitarian response to natural and human-made crises and disasters, and human rights and peace-keeping/peace-building. In his capacity as a doctoral researcher, university lecturer (Los Andes and ICESI Universities, Colombia) and senior International Crisis Group and UN human rights official, he was based in Latin America for many years.

Markus's published work includes a book on comparative conflict resolution and the restructuring of civil-military relations in Central America, numerous book chapters and scholarly articles on current Latin American and other political and social affairs, as well as two dozen Crisis Group policy reports. Working at the Crisis Group and the UN Human Rights Office in Colombia, Markus gained broad policy advocacy experience at a senior level across the Americas and Europe. He has regularly lectured and presented briefings on diverse conflict prevention and resolution topics, including at UN Headquarters in New York, the foreign ministries of Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Norway and the U.S., the Inter-American Dialogue and Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation. He is a member of the German Research Working Group on Latin America (ADLAF) and the Observatory of Organized Crime in Latin America (Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation/Open Society Institute).

Selected Projects and Recent Work

• Supporting Kosovo's Transition
• The Governance of Service Delivery
• Academic Partnership in Support of Teaching Development Aid Curriculum in Russia

Thematic Expertise

Governance; Politics and Power; Security and Conflict.

Geographic Expertise

Latin America and the Caribbean; Non-OECD Europe; Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; El Salvador; Guatemala; Haiti; Kosovo; Nicaragua; Venezuela.

Selected Publications »»

• Schultze-Kraft, M. (2011) 'New Global Drug Policy Depends on Effective Governance' , Zurich: International Relations and Security Network