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Glawion, Dr. Tim

Portrait von Tim Glawion
Position at ABI:
Senior Researcher
E-mail:
tim.glawion [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
External website:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timglawion/
Social Media:
https://bsky.app/profile/timglawion.bsky.social
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:
2026
Interim Professor of Multi-level Governance, Department of Political Science, University of Freiburg
2025
Co-Convener, Interdisciplinary Fellow Group, MIASA, University of Ghana
2024
Interim Professor of Development Policy, Department of Political Science, University of Freiburg
Since 2023
Senior researcher, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute, Freiburg
2022 - 2024
co-Editor in Chief of Africa Spectrum
2020 - 2023
Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
2019
Postdoctoral research consultant at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
2018
DAAD Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Université Quisqueya, Haiti
2014 - 2018
Doctoral Research Fellow at the GIGA
2015 & 2016
Guest Lecturer and Supervisor University of Hargeisa, Somaliland
Education:
2014 - 2018
University of Freiburg and GIGA, Doctorate in Political Science
2012 - 2013
King’s College London, MA in Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies
2009 - 2012
University of Heidelberg, BA in 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

Publications

Disconnected development in the Central African Republic: why there is no trickle down nor building up in the world’s poorest state

Glawion, Dr. Tim with Mouguia, Marius Crépin
Conflict, Security & Development
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Cover der Publikation

Linking external intervention to local ownership: a collection of and reflection on student essays

Glawion, Dr. Tim with Berton, Léonie / Biran, Ronja / Esch, Inga Eleni / Ford, Sarah / Grahm, Lilly / Schuler, Elodie / Sickinger, Katharina / vom Stein, Caroline
ABI Working Paper
ASCL Leiden Talk Glawion

Subjective dimensions of peace- and statebuilding across Africa

Glawion, Dr. Tim
African Studies Centre Leiden Speaker's series

Cameroon, Central African Republic, and Chad

Glawion, Dr. Tim with Lekunze, Manu / Fred Hansen, Ketil
Book cover for The Handbook of African Defence and Armed Forces The Handbook of African Defence and Armed Forces
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Living Up to Popular Expectations during Intervention: Filling Voids and Confronting Spoilers in the Central African Republic and Beyond

Glawion, Dr. Tim
International Peacekeeping
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Vlavonou, Gino, Belonging, Identity, and Conflict in the Central African Republic, Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2023

Glawion, Dr. Tim
Africa Spectrum
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We need to put Open Access journals at the heart of academic publishing

Glawion, Dr. Tim
Africa@LSE
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Quality, Access, and Voice in African Studies Publishing: Smoothing the Path to Bigger Changes

Glawion, Dr. Tim
Africa Spectrum
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Central African soldier bars the road for a MINUSCA convoy

MINUSCA: Wer nicht mit der Zeit geht, geht mit der Zeit

Glawion, Dr. Tim
Zeitschrift für die Vereinten Nationen und ihre Sonderorganisationen - German Review on the United Nations
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Cross-case patterns of security production in hybrid political orders: their shapes, ordering practices, and paradoxical outcomes

Glawion, Dr. Tim
Peacebuilding
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Figure 1. Socio-political inner circles layered over geographical circles

Studying insecurity from relative safety — Dealing with methodological blind spots

Glawion, Dr. Tim with de Vries, Dr. Lotje
Qualitative Research
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Rebel governance or governance in rebel territory? Extraction and services in Ndélé, Central African republic

Glawion, Dr. Tim with Le Noan, Anne-Clémence
Small Wars & Insurgencies
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The Security Arena in Africa Local Order-Making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland, and South Sudan

Glawion, Dr. Tim
Cambridge University Press
ABI Working Paper No° 10

Education nationale en territoire rebelle Le cas du lycée de Ndélé en République Centrafricaine

Glawion, Dr. Tim with Le Noan, Anne-Clémence
ABI-Working Paper