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Phone: +49 6341 280-38550
c.rohles[at]rPTU.de
| Since 10/2022 | Research assistant/scholarship holder of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate |
| 10/2021 - 10/2022 | Administrator, Engagement Global/Global Sustainable Municipality, Bonn |
| 10/2018 - 03/2021 | Research assistant in the project "Social Cohesion in Africa", German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn |
| 10/2017 - 3/2021 | M.A. in Political Science, University of Cologne; Thesis: "Caught in a conflict trap? A qualitative comparative analysis of the determinants of the recurrence of intra-state conflict" |
| 10/2012 - 08/2016 | B.A. in Political Science/Business Studies and Economics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; Thesis: "How stable is the rentier state Bolivia? An empirical study on legitimization, repression, co-optation and the handling of the resource curse in the period 2006-2015" |
In his dissertation project, Christopher Rohles examines the social and security policy transformation processes in Sierra Leone against the backdrop of the 2022 land reform. The focus is on the question of what impact it has on the social fabric and human security and which governance actors are of central importance. Particular attention is paid to the tense relationship between customary law actors, the state and civil society organizations as well as the involvement and influence of international donors in the reform. To this end, Christopher Rohles conducted interviews with civil servants, civil society actors, international organizations, customary law actors and the private sector in Sierra Leone in 2023. On this basis, he identified further open and important research questions in the country's security policy context.
Since 2022 member of the editorial team of thePodcast Focus on Peace.
2025
Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "" with Avelina Lovis Schmidt
Podcast episode Focus on Peace: with Daniela Lehner and Melanie Stamer
Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "" with Asmaa El Maaroufi
Podcast episode Focus on Peace: " with Ann Biedermann
Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "" with Mar铆a C谩rdenas, Philipp Lottholz and Leon Bijan Kianzad
Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "" with Anne K盲fer and Marco Springmann
2024
Lecture "Colonial Shadows: Development Cooperation and Land Reforms in the Global South", Landau Peace Lecture, January 23, 2024
Podcast episode Focus on Peace: " with Gregor Walter-Drop and Melanie Hussak
Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "" with Jannis Grimm
Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "" with Ren茅 Urue帽a
Podcast episode Focus on Peace: " with Julia Leininger and Cora Bie脽
Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "" with Annalena Groppe, Katharina Anna-Josefine Rausch and Julia Katharina Thiemann
Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "" with Carolin Bohn and Lena Siepker
Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "" with Patrick Flamm
2023
Podcast episode Focus on Peace: " with Lea Becker
Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "" with Simone Schlindwein, Julia Steinigeweg and David Scheuing
2022
Lecture on "Agenda 2030 and its significance for sustainable development", Sustainability Day, September 24, 2022, C枚lbe
Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "" with Jana Sine
2019
Bolivia and climate change - a prisoner's dilemma? Given its neo-extractivist economy, the rentier state of Bolivia is not in a position to counteract climate change - an empirical study from 2006 to 2018. Conference of the Latin American Research Working Group Andean Countries, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Summer semester 2025 "Splinters of time - splinter time. The traces of the Second World War in the border region of Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia, East Belgium 80 years after the end of the war" at 海角直播, in the module Democracy and Society in Germany/Contemporary Historical and Political Foundations of Society and Democracy in Germany in cooperation with Prof. Tina Stolt (Art)
Book chapter
Rohles, Christopher (2019): Extractivism as a development model? The economic problems of neo-extractivism. In: Kruip, Gerhard; M眉脽ig, Dieter; Zikesch, Raphael: Neo-extractivism in Bolivia. M眉nster: Aschendorff Verlag. S. 81-98.
Rohles, Christopher (2019): 驴Extractivismo como modelo de desarrollo? Los problemas econ贸micos del neo-extractivismo. In: Kruip, Gerhard; M眉脽ig, Dieter; Zikesch, Raphael: El Neo-Extractivismo en Bolivia. Cochabama: Editorial Itinerarios. S. 97-111.
Rohles, Christopher; Zikesch, Raphael (2019): The stability of the rentier state Bolivia. How stable is Bolivia's political regime against the background of revenues from the economic sector? In: Kruip, Gerhard; M眉脽ig, Dieter; Zikesch, Raphael: Neo-extractivism in Bolivia. M眉nster: Aschendorff Verlag. S. 189-220.
Rohles, Christopher; Zikesch, Raphael (2019): La estabilidad del Rentier State Bolivia con respecto a la renta estatal de materias primas entre 2006 y 2016. In: Kruip, Gerhard; M眉脽ig, Dieter; Zikesch, Raphael: El Neo-Extraktivismo en Bolivia. Cochabamba: Editorial Itinerarios. PP. 225-258.
Other (blog/newspaper)
Rohles, Christopher (2024): Perspectives on (Post)Colonialism and Research in the Global South. Peace Academy Blog. 12.09.2024.
Fiedler, Charlotte; Rohles, Christopher (2021): Social cohesion after armed Conflict: A literature review (Discussion Paper 7/2021). Bonn: German Development Institute (DIE)/German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). doi: 10.23661/dp7.2021.v1.1.