Plänitz, Dr. Erik

Email: 
erik.plaenitz [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Areas of Research: 
Peace processes (Peacebuilding, Mediation and Local Level Dialogue); climate change and its effects on the global South (Migration, impacts on livelihoods in the urban context, resource conflicts)
Regional Focus: 
Western Africa (especially Ghana), Eastern Africa (especially Ethiopia and Rwanda)
Education: 
2011 - 2013
Global Studies (MA); Gothenburg University (Schweden)
2009 – 2010
International Relations; Högskolan i Halmstad (Schweden)
2007 – 2011
International Degree Programme in Political Management (B.A.), University of Applied Sciences Bremen
Professional Experience / Applied Research: 
2017-2020
PhD-Fellow at Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut Freiburg
2016
Research Assistant Roskilde University / Royal Danish Defence College Kopenhagen (Denmark)
2014
Internship and research assistant at the Flemish Peace Institute Brussels (Belgium)
2013
Study Scholarship at Nordic Africa Institute Uppsala (Sweden
2013
Research assistant at Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Accra (Ghana)
Freelance Academic Staff