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Glawion, Dr. Tim

Portrait Tim Glawion
Position at ABI:
Senior Researcher
E-mail:
tim.glawion [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/timglawion
Areas of research:
Security studies, local governance, “fragile states”, development, Comparative Area Studies
Regional focus:
Central African Republic, Lebanon, Haiti, Somaliland, South Sudan
Professional experience:
2024
Interim Professor, University of Freiburg, Department of Political Science
10/2023 -
Senior researcher, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute, Freiburg
2022 - 2024
co-Editor in Chief of Africa Spectrum
2020 - 09/2023
Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs; PI "The monopoly on the use of force and paradoxes of security – discrepancies between objective and subjective security in the Central African Republic and Lebanon"
2019
Postdoctoral research consultant at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute und Cordaid, among others
2018
Université Quisqueya, Haiti: DAAD Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
2014 - 2018
Doctoral Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs, Berlin, Germany; Member of Research Centre (SFB) 700 “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood”
2015 & 2016
University of Hargeisa, Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies Hargeisa, Somaliland: Guest Lecturer & Supervisor
Education:
2014 - 2018
University of Freiburg and GIGA, Doctorate – Political Science: Security Arena – Local Order Making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland and South Sudan
2012 - 2013
King’s College London, MA – Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies
2009 - 2012
University of Heidelberg, BA – Political Science
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Africa Spectrum, Editor in Chief, 2022 - 2024

Association for African Studies in Germany, member of the central committee, since 2022

Conflict Research Society, member

Glawion, T. (2020). The Security Arena in Africa: Local Order-Making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland, and South Sudan. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108623629

  • Gero-Erdmann-Award for Comparative Area Studies 2022
  • Aquila Ascendens Young Scientists Award for Security Policy 2021 (2nd place)
  • Arnold-Bergstraesser-Award 2019
  • Reviewed in Perspectives on Politics Vol. 19(3), Journal of Modern African Studies Vol. 60(2), Africa Vol. 91(2), ZfVP Vol. 16(1-3), Les Champs de Mars Vol. 35(2), Connections (26/6/21), Annuaire Français de Relations Internationales Vol. 22, African Journal of Current Research Vol. 1(1)

Glawion, T. (2023). Cross-case patterns of security production in hybrid political orders: their shapes, ordering practices, and paradoxical outcomes. Peacebuilding, 11(2), 169–184. https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2022.2079246

de Vries, L., & Glawion, T. (2023). Studying insecurity from relative safety — Dealing with methodological blind spots. Qualitative Research, 23(4), 883–899. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941211061061

Glawion, T., & Le Noan, A.-C. (2023). Rebel governance or governance in rebel territory? Extraction and services in Ndélé, Central African republic. Small Wars & Insurgencies, 34(1), 24–51. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2022.2137282

Glawion, T., de Vries, L., & Mehler, A. (2019). Handle with Care! A Qualitative Comparison of the Fragile States Index’s Bottom Three Countries: Central African Republic, Somalia and South Sudan. Development and Change, 50(2), 277–300. https://doi.org/doi:10.1111/dech.12417

Glawion, T., & de Vries, L. (2018). Ruptures revoked: why the Central African Republic’s unprecedented crisis has not altered deep-seated patterns of governance. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 56(3), 421–442. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X18000307

Additional information:

Bluesky: @timglawion.bsky.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timglawion/