Prof. Dr. Susanne Buckley-Zistel
Susanne Buckley-Zistel is Deputy Spokesperson of MeDiMi and Principal Investigator in the project “Human Rights Crimes, Norm Entrepreneurs, and the Implementation of the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction in Germany”. She is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Executive Director of the Center for Conflict Studies at Philipps University Marburg. Prior to that, she held positions at Freie Universität Berlin, the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and King’s College London. She received her PhD from the London School of Economics in 2002. From 2015 to 2016, she was a Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Global Cooperation Research and she has been acting as the Deputy Chairperson of the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF) since 2016. Susanne Buckley-Zistel’s main interests lie in (transitional) justice, memory, gender, space and postcolonialism. She has published widely on these issues, including the co-edited volumes “Memorials in Times of Transition”, “Transitional Justice Theories”, “Gender in Transitional Justice”, “Women – Violence – Refugees”, “Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence”, as well as “Spatializing Peace and Conflict”. She has also co-edited the “Forum” section of the Zeitschrift für Konfliktforschung (ZefKo) on post-colonialism and conflict studies.
