RESEARCH
My research is located at the intersection of peace and conflict studies and international politics. I am broadly interested in (conflictive) internationalised processes of change, (transitional) justice and the production and circulation of knowledge and ideas. I mostly work with interpretive research approaches and collect original data through qualitative methods, such as interviews and (participant) observation. I have mainly done field research in Tunisia and the United States.
Currently, I am exploring the interplay between (supposedly) technocratic and emancipatory struggles for justice against the backdrop of global knowledge orders, and lead the project Knowing Violence, Shaping Justice: Technocratic and Anticolonial Worldmaking at INTERACT. Within the project, Laura Kotzur and I work on a mapping and genealogy of transformative justice struggles.
PUBLICATIONS
Monograph
2022
Transitional Justice in Process: Plans and Politics in Tunisia: Manchester: Manchester University Press. Paperback edition published in 2024.
Articles (peer-reviewed)
2024
Global Hierarchies and Unequal Pressures in the Report-Making of Truth Commissions. In: International Studies Review, 26:2, viae022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viae022. (With Anne Menzel).
Frieden als Prozess. In: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 31:1, 107-119. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5771/0946-7165-2024-1-107. (With Thorsten Bonacker, part of a forum on “Friedenstheorie im Zeichen immer neuer Kriege“ [Peace Theory in Light of ever New Wars]).
Confined knowledge flows in transitional justice. In: Territory, Politics, Governance, 12:4, 500-518. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2023.2195435. (Published online first: 24 April 2023).
2023
A processual framework for analysing liberal policy interventions in conflict contexts. In: Cooperation and Conflict, 58:2, 231-249. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367221104668. (Published online first: 01 July 2022).
2022
Introducing Justicecraft: Political Change Across Space and Time. In: Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS), 3:1, 51–108. (With the JusticeCraft Collective).
Trying just enough or promising too much? The problem-capacity-nexus in Tunisia’s transitional justice process. In: Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 16:1, 98-116. DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2021.1882756. (Published online first: 22 Feb 2021).
2016
Beyond Peace vs. Justice: Assessing Transitional Justice’s Impact on Enduring Peace using Qualitative Comparative Analysis. In: Transitional Justice Review, 1:4, 96-123. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.5206/tjr.2016.1.4.4. (With Timothy Williams).
Special Issue
Neue Radikalität? Protest, Gewalt, ziviler Ungehorsam – Versuche einer Grenzziehung. In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 36:2. (Co-edited with Jannis Grimm & Hannah Franzki).
Chapters and articles
2021
Transitional Justice in der Internationalen Politik. In: POLIS, 25:3, 16-18.
Tunisia’s Re-configurations and Transitional Justice in Process: How Planned Processes of Social and Political Change Interplay with Unplanned Political Dynamics. In: Reconfigurations. Contextualising Transformation Processes and Lasting Crises in the Middle East and North Africa, Eds. Ouaissa, Rachid/Pannewick, Friederike/Strohmaier, Alena. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
2020
Designing transitional justice - Problems of planning political & institutional change in volatile political contexts. In: Challenges to the Middle East North Africa Inclusionary State, Eds. Lynch, Marc/Salloukh, Bassel POMEPS Studies 37.
2019
Frieden und Transitional Justice. In: Handbuch Frieden, Eds. Gießmann, Hans-Joachim/Rinke, Bernhard. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. (With Timothy Williams).
Zu viel versprochen? In: Internationale Politik, 02/2019.
’Droits de l’homme bien sûr!’ Human Rights and Transitional Justice in Tunisia. In: Accessing and Implementing Human Rights and Justice, Eds. Mills/Kurt and Labonte, Melissa. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
2017
Labor Unions and Transitional Justice: An Exploratory Study on a Neglected Actor. In: Justice Mosaics: How Context Shapes Transitional Justice in Fractured Societies, Eds. Duthie, Roger/Seils, Paul. New York: International Center for Transitional Justice. (With Eva Ottendörfer, Irene Weipert-Fenner, Jonas Wolff).
2016
Autonomy in Times of War? The Impact of the Libyan Crisis on Migratory Decisions. In: Understanding Migrant Decisions. From Sub-Saharan Africa to the Mediterranean Region, Eds. Gebrewold, Belachew/Bloom, Tendayi. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. (With Delf Rothe).
2014
Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit: In Tunesien beginnt die offizielle Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit. In: Internationale Politik, 6/2014.
Online publications, guest contributions, blogs
2022
Keine Angst vor Freiheitskämpfen. In: Frankfurter Rundschau, 27 December 2022. (With Tareq Sydiq and Sara Kolah Ghoutschi).
2021
Fast and Slow Politics. In: APSA MENA Politics Newsletter 4:2 – Fall 2021.
Tunisia’s transitional justice programme highlights the danger of overpromising. In: Africa at LSE, 19. März 2021.
2019
Deutschland sollte Tunesien unterstützen. In: Frankfurter Rundschau, 28 October 2019. (With Ilyas Saliba).
Transitional Justice as a Foreign Policy Issue across the Atlantic: Trends and Counter-trends. Transatlantic Perspectives Essay. Washington, DC: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies.
How Tunisia is addressing its authoritarian past — and why it matters. In: The Washington Post, Monkey Cage, 15 April 2019.
2018
Transitional Justice: Aus Tunesien lernen. In: PeaceLab Blog, 18 September 2018.
Political resistance: how cross-cutting frictions drive and define transitional justice in Tunisia. In: justiceinfo.net, 18 July 2018.
2017
Tunisia’s struggle against corruption: time to fight, not forgive. In: openDemocracy, 16 May 2017. (With Irene Weipert-Fenner).
2016
Tunisia: performing justice in difficult times. In: openDemocracy, 21 November 2016.
2015
Frieden durch Dialog. In: Frankfurter Rundschau, 11 October 2015. (With Irene Weipert-Fenner).