Tim Glawion

Senior IFG Fellow & Co-convenor IFG 13

15 August - 15 December 2025

Dr. Tim Glawion is a senior researcher in the Conflict and Fragility Cluster at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute and co-convener of an Interdisciplinary Fellow Group at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa, University of Ghana. Prior, he was interim professor of political science at the University of Freiburg, research fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies, and research consultant at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Tim was co-Editor in Chief of Africa Spectrum from 2022 to 2024. He is the author of The Security Arena in Africa (Cambridge University Press 2020) and numerous articles on peacekeeping perceptions, hybrid orders, rebel governance, fragile states, and qualitative methodology, among others. His current research focuses on security paradoxes and the monopoly on the use of force in Lebanon and the Central African Republic as well as on finding new ways for qualitative cross-country comparisons in peace and conflict studies.

Theoretical qualitative comparison across cases is rare in peace and security research, which traditionally operates with either generalisable or case-specific theory. A comparative approach is, however, necessary to gather detailed ... Read more

Institute:
Arnold Bergstraesser Institute Freiburg

Year:
2025/2026

Interdisciplinary Fellow Group:
IFG 13