Dr. Karina Mross

Function: Senior Researcher

Specialization: Political Science

Work areas:

  • Democracy support and political transformation
  • Post-conflict societies and peace processes
  • Social cohesion
  • Transitional Justice
  • Fragile States
  • Country expertise: Liberia, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger

Responsibilities in education and training:

  • Fragility and peace
  • International democracy support and peacebuilding in post-conflict societies


Vita

since 1/2018 German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
(until 6/2022 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE))
Senior Researcher, Research Programme "Transformation of political (dis-)order: Institutions, values & peace"
2016-2019 University of St.Gallen
PhD in "International Affairs and Political Economy"
Dissertation: "Democracy support and peaceful democratization after civil war - A disaggregate analysis"
2013-12/2017 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Researcher, department "Governance, Statehood, Security"
2012-2013 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Postgraduate Training Programme for Development Cooperation
Field Study: International support to peace and democracy in Nepal
2011 German Development Agency (GIZ), Liberia
Internship in the programme „Regional resource governance in the extractive sector in the  fragile states of West Africa
2009-2013


2005-2008
University of Duisburg-Essen
International Relations and Development Policy

Maastricht University
BA European Studies
   

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