Manuel Vogt

Manuel Vogt earned his M.A. degree in political science from the University of Zurich. During his studies, he spent two semesters as an exchange student at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN (USA). He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the International Conflict Research group at ETH Zurich. His research interests include ethnic conflict, (post-conflict) democratization, electoral institutions and party systems, and Latin American and African politics.
From April to July 2011 he conducted a 3-months field research in Guatemala on indigenous mobilization and post-conflict democratization.

He has published several newspaper articles in German and Spanish, and has won the 2011 NCCR Knowledge Transfer Award for special achievements in transferring academic knowledge into society.

Apart from academics, he works as a German language teacher for adult immigrants in Switzerland, and has volunteered as a social worker in an institution for street children in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He has also travelled extensively throughout Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.

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Academic Networks

Manuel Vogt forms part of and receives funding from the following academic projects:

NCCR Democracy "Institutional Strategies for Post-Conflict Democratization"

http://www.nccr-democracy.uzh.ch/research/module1/ip-3-institutional-strategies-for-post-conflict-democratization

ProDoc "The Dynamics of Transcultural Governance and Management in Latin America"

http://www.cls.unisg.ch/es-ES/ProDoc.aspx