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Stefan Wolff is aGermanpolitical scientist. He is a specialist ininternational security, particularly in the management, settlement and prevention ofethnic conflicts. He is currentlyProfessor of International Security at theUniversity of Birmingham in theUnited Kingdom.[1] Born in 1969,[2] He studied as an undergraduate at theUniversity of Leipzig and holds aMaster's degree fromMagdalene College,Cambridge, and aPhD from theLondon School of Economics, where he studied under the supervision ofBrendan O'Leary. His doctoral thesis, dated 2000, was titledManaging disputed territories, external minorities and the stability of conflict settlements: A comparative analysis of six cases.[3]
Wolff specializes in the prevention, management and settlement ofethnic andreligious conflicts and in post-conflict reconstruction in deeply divided and war-torn societies. He has expertise inNorthern Ireland, theBalkans and theMiddle East, and has also worked on a range of other regions, includingCentral andEastern Europe,Africa, andCentral andSoutheast Asia.
Wolff is a consultant for national and international governmental and non-governmental organizations and the private sector. He is part of a small team of experts studying and developing complex institutional design solutions for self-determination conflicts, funded, among others, by theCarnegie Endowment. He is also coordinating a research group examining the influence of external factors on the development and stability of ethnic autonomy regimes. Other research and consulting projects in this area have been funded by theUK Foreign Office, theWestminster Foundation for Democracy and theBritish Academy. He is convener of thePolitical Studies Association's Specialist Group on Ethnopolitics and theEuropean Consortium for Political Research's Standing Group on Security Issues. Wolff is a member of the executive committee of the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Section of theInternational Studies Association and a member of the executive board of theAssociation for the Study of Nationalities.
PreviouslyProfessor ofPolitical Science at theUniversity of Bath, and chair in Political Science at theUniversity of Nottingham, he is now based in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. Since the academic year 2003/4 he has also held concurrent appointments as Professorial Lecturer inInternational Relations at theJohns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna Center, and as Resource Fellow of theOpen Society Institute's Academic Fellowship Program. Since 2005, he has also been a Teaching Fellow at theJoint Services Command and Staff College of theBritish Ministry of Defence. In 2003, he was appointed Senior Non-resident Research Associate at theEuropean Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany.
