Dr. Werner Distler

During the Semester: Tuesday: 09.00-10.00 am, in my office 02C05, 2nd floor, Bunsenstraße 2, Marburg

External Statebuilding (political authority in postconflict societies; practices and discourses of (de)securitization; Cases: Kosovo/East-Timor/Papua New Guinea)

Intervention as a Social Practice; Societies of Intervention

Post-Conflict Political Economy; Economies of Peace

International Police Missions

10/2016-03/2017: Acting Professor Peace and Conflict Studies, Center for Conflict Studies, Marburg

Since 04/2014 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the SFB/TRR 138 "Dynamics of Security" at the Center for Conflict Studies, University of Marburg

Between 09/2010 and 03/2014 Research fellow in the DFG Project "Die Institutionalisierung von Deutungsmacht durch internationale Administrationen in Postkonfliktgesellschaften. Eine Analyse der Transitional Authority im Kosovo und Kambodscha." (Interpretative Authority in Postconflict Societies) at the Center for Conflict Studies, University of Marburg

Doctoral Studies on the "Intervention as Social Practice", University of Marburg

Magister Artium in Political Science, Newer and Newest History, and Social- and Economic History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 10/2000 bis 02/2006

New: Economies of Peace. Economy Formation Processes and Outcomes in Conflict-Affected Societies. Civil Wars, 20:2, 2018. (Special Issue, edited with Elena B. Stavrevska and Birte Vogel)Edited Volume

Securitization in Statebuilding and Intervention. Baden-Baden: Nomos. 2017. (Edited with Thorsten Bonacker and Maria Ketzmerick, reviewed)

Peer-reviewed journal articles:

Governing the inner “periphery”. Spatial security governance of the Highlands in Papua New Guinea since the colonial period. Political Geography, 93 (2022) online first. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102552

Secessionist Conflicts: Unresolved Legacies of United Nations Trusteeship. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding (2021) (with Julius Heise) online first. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2021.1890935

Securitisation in World Politics: The Conflict on the Self-Determination of East Timor at the United Nations. International Quarterly for Asian Studies 52:1-2, 35-54 (2021) (with Thorsten Bonacker).

Political Crisis and the Corona - ‘State Of Emergency’ in Kosovo. Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung 9, 375–384 (2020).

Dangerised Youth: The Politics of Security and Development in Timor-Leste. Third World Quarterly 40:4, 727-742 (2019).

Securitisation and Desecuritisation of Violence in Trusteeship Statebuilding. Civil Wars (2018) (online first), DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2018.1525675
(with Thorsten Bonacker & Maria Ketzmerick)

Economies of Peace. Economy Formation Processes and Outcomes in Conflict-Affected Societies. Civil Wars, 20:2 (2018): 139-150, DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2018.1500164 (Introduction, with Elena B. Stavrevska & Birte Vogel)

‘And Everybody Did Whatever They Wanted to Do’: Informal Practices of International Statebuilders in Kosovo. Civil Wars, 20:2 (2018): 286-303, DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2018.1480581

Dangerised youth: The Politics of Security and Development in Timor-Leste. Third World Quarterly, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2017.1401924.

The Authority-Identity Relation: Symbolic References and Interpretative Authority in Postwar Kosovo. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2017. doi: 10.1080/17502977.2017.1385235.

Authority in statebuilding as communicative practice. The Joint Working Group on the Constitutional Framework in Kosovo. Democratization 24:3 (2017): 463-480.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2016.1223628

Intervention as a social practice: knowledge formation and transfer in the everyday of police missions. International Peacekeeping 23:2 (2016), 326-349. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2016.1139460

Peer-reviewed book chapters:

The 'Politics of Protection' and Elections in Trusteeship and International Administration. The Cases of Cameroun and Kosovo. (mit Maria Ketzmerick). In: Thorsten Bonacker, Werner Distler, Maria Ketzmerick (2017): Securitization in Statebuilding and Intervention. Baden-Baden: Nomos. S. 127-154.

Introduction: Securitization in Statebuilding and Intervention (mit Thorsten Bonacker und Maria Ketzmerick). In: Thorsten Bonacker, Werner Distler, Maria Ketzmerick (2017): Securitization in Statebuilding and Intervention. Baden-Baden: Nomos. S. 9-27.