Dr. Gerrit Kurtz

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Dr. Gerrit Kurtz

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Africa and Middle East Associate

gerrit.kurtz@swp-berlin.org

Curriculum Vitae
Publications

Areas of Expertise

Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia
Horn of Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sudan
Civil wars
Conflict prevention
Peacebuilding
UN missions
United Nations Security Council

Short Curriculum vitae

Since January 2022 Associate in the Research Group Africa and Middle East

2019-2021 Research Fellow, Conflict Prevention and Diplomacy in Africa, German Council on Foreign Relations

2015-2019 PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies, King’s College London

Since 2015 Non-Resident Fellow, Global Public Policy Institute

2012-2015 Research Associate, Global Public Policy Institute

SWP Publications

- Gerrit Kurtz
Sustaining Peace in Ethiopia
- German
The end of the war in the North should be the prelude to fundamental governance reforms

SWP Comment 2023/C 14, 07.03.2023, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2023C14
- Gerrit Kurtz
The Spoilers of Darfur
- German
Sudan’s protracted political crisis and the intensifying violence in Darfur are closely connected

SWP Comment 2022/C 53, 07.09.2022, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2022C53

Publications of the Megatrends Afrika project

- Gerrit Kurtz
Crisis Prevention and Stabilisation in Africa: three implications for Germany’s National Security Strategy
- German
Germany’s new National Security Strategy should emphasise crisis prevention, stabilisation, and peacebuilding. It should look at not only threats but also opportunities, identify principles for coherence, and ensure greater review of effectiveness, writes Gerrit Kurtz (SWP) in this Megatrends Afrika Spotlight.

Megatrends spotlight 14, 14.09.2022

External publications

- Gerrit Kurtz
Sudan’s civilian leader resigned. Now the military has sole control of the government.

in: The Monkey Cage Blog, The Washington Post, 11 January 2022
- Gerrit Kurtz
- Philipp C. Jahn
What comes after the revolution?

Two years after the overthrow of al-Bashir, Sudan's political transition is still extremely volatile — and needs more targeted international support.

in: International Politics and Society, 9 April 2021 (online)
- Gerrit Kurtz
An international partnership fur Sudan's transition

Mobilizing Support, Preventing Instability

DGAP Policy Brief, No 11, June 2020
- Gerrit Kurtz
- Christoph O. Meyer
Is conflict prevention a science, craft, or art? Moving beyond technocracy and wishful thinking

in: Global Affairs, 5 (2019) 1, pp 23-39