Christa Deiwiks

Between 2008 and 2011, I was a PhD student in the International Conflict Research group of Lars-Erik Cederman. My research interests include ethnic and civil conflict, ethnofederalism, decentralization, conflict resolution, and mediation. I hold M.Sc. in Cognitive Science (University of Osnabrück, 2004) and an M.A. in Comparative and International Studies (ETH Zurich, 2008).

PhD project

My PhD project investigates the relationship between ethnofederal political systems and ethnic/secessionist conflict. I am interested in whether territorial autonomy is a "slippery slope" towards secessionism or actually conflict-reducing, and in what way those institutional measures can be used for conflict management. This project is part of the larger European Collaborative Research Project Disaggregating Civil Wars:Contextualizing the Institutional Mechanisms of Ethno-Nationalist Insurgencies.
My thesis is publicly available at the ETH E-Collection.

Publications

• Deiwiks, C. (2009). Populism. Living Reviews in Democracy 1 [www]  
   
• Deiwiks, C. (2005). A Formal Model of International Mediation: Application and Prospects. Master Thesis, University of Osnabrueck. Publications of the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck, Volume 3-2005 [www]  
   

Conferences

• Geographical Research on War Net (GROWNet) Workshop, 18 June 2010, Peace Research Institute Oslo
  Inequality and Conflict in Federations

• Theory vs. Policy? Connecting Scholars and Practitioners - International Studies Associations Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, 17-20 Feb, 2010
  The curse of ethno-federalism? Ethnic group regions, subnational boundaries and secessionist conflict
  The Impact of Battle Violence on the Political
  Status of Ethnic Groups

• Annual Meeting of the Swiss Political Science Association, Geneva, 7-8 January 2010.
  The curse of ethno-federalism? Ethnic group regions,
  subnational boundaries and secessionist conflict

• ECPR General Conference, University of Potsdam, 10 - 12 September 2009 (participation)

• Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference, Amsterdam, 29 June – 1 July 2009 (presentation)

• 2nd ECPR Graduate Conference at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 24 – 27 August 2008
  Bias in third-party diplomatic interventions and the recurrence of civil wars

• European Cognitive Science Conference (EuroCogSci 03), Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck, 10-13 September 2003 (participation and organization)

• Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, University of Bamberg, April 2003 (participation)

Teaching

Assistantship: Introduction to Computational Modeling of Social Systems, Winter 2007

Assistantship: Introduction to Computational Modeling of Social Systems, Winter 2006