The Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), which was founded in 1990, is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen. We combine basic with applied research contributing to academic debates as much as to political discussions. We work on issues at the interface of development, security and peace. Empirically, we specifically focus on the situation of vulnerable groups in the Global South and structures of violence, poverty and lack of rights.
Contact information
Institute for Development and Peace| University of Duisburg-Essen
Lotharstraße 53, 47057 Duisburg, Germany
Tel.:+49 (0) 203-379-4420
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.uni-due.de/inef/index_en.php
LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/company/inef-duisburg
Point of contact
Dr Carmen Wunderlich, [email protected]
The team
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Dr Carmen Wunderlich Tel. +49 (0) 203 379-2036 Twitter: @CarmenWunderlic Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmen-wunderlich-194a8166/ |
Carmen Wunderlich is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Development and Peace at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany and an affiliate researcher at the Peace Research Center Prague. She is a principal investigator of VeSPoTec—Nuclear Verification in a Complex and Unpredictable World: Social, Political, and Technical Processes, a research consortium funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space. She holds a PhD in political science from the University of Frankfurt. Her research focuses on global norm dynamics and practices of contestation with a specific focus on issues related to the control of weapons of mass destruction and nuclear disarmament. Her work has been published in Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Contemporary Security Policy, Daedalus, International Studies Review, Review of International Studies, and other journals. She is the author of Rogue States as Norm Entrepreneurs: Black Sheep or Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing? (2020) and co-editor, with Harald Müller, of Norm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control: Interests, Conflicts, and Justice (2013), and, with Flavia Lucenti, Cecilia Ducci, and Jeffrey S. Lantis, of Contestation in Prism: The Evolution of International Norms and Norm Clusters in Contemporary Global Politics (2025). |
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Dr. Leonardo Bandarra, [email protected] Twitter: @leocbandarra |
Leonardo Bandarra is a postdoctoral researcher with the project Associated with the Department of International Relations and Development of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Senior Research Associate at the Middle East Treaty Organization (METO). He has published extensively on non-proliferation, institutions, nuclear latency and foreign policy with a regional focus on Latin America, Western Europe, and the Middle East. |
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