Dr. Melanie Müller

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Dr. Melanie Müller

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Research Division:

Africa and Middle East Senior Associate

melanie.mueller@swp-berlin.org

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5393-2173

Curriculum Vitae
Publications
News

Areas of Expertise

Southern Africa
Civil wars
Human rights
Migration

Focus

South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, political transformations in Southern Africa, resource governance and responsibility in the supply chain, GIBSA

Short Curriculum vitae

Since July 2020 Head of Project Transnational Governance of Sustainable Commodity Supply Chains

Since January 2017 Researcher in the Research Division Africa and Middle East

2015 – 2016: Research Fellow, Free University of Berlin

2011 – 2016: PhD student, Free University of Berlin

2011 – 2016: Political analyst/freelancer, focus: resource governance and international environmental governance

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SWP Publications

Public-Private Alliances for Sustainable Commodity Supply Chains
- German
Opportunities and Risks in the South African Mining Sector

SWP Comment 2022/C 05, 21.01.2022, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2022C05
- Melanie Müller
South Africa’s Social and Political Challenges
- German
Covid Exacerbates Socioeconomic Inequalities amid ANC Infighting

SWP Comment 2021/C 61, 23.12.2021, 6 Pages

doi:10.18449/2021C61
- Judith Vorrath
- Melanie Müller
- Mark Shaw
- Daniel Brombacher
- Jan Schubert
Legalize it? – An International SWP Project Examines How Legal and Illegal Commodity Flows Intersect

Drugs, art, humans, gold – organized criminal networks smuggle illegal products into legal supply chains to then sell them on the European market. Roman Kern and Anne Kathrin Thüringer speak with experts of an international SWP project that takes a closer look at some of these illicit supply chains.

SWP Podcast 2021/eP 08, 15.07.2021
- Download | 45.6 MB
Responsibility in Supply Chains
- German
Germany’s Due Diligence Act Is a Good Start

SWP Comment 2021/C 21, 22.03.2021, 7 Pages

doi:10.18449/2021C21
- Melanie Müller
Crisis-proofing Supply Chains: “It’s about Human Rights Too”
- German
The pandemic has exposed the magnitude of global dependency on supply relationships. Melanie Müller discusses with Candida Splett how the resilience of supply chains can be improved. Human rights are an important aspect.

Point of View, 03.02.2021
Foresight*: Global Competition for Health Care Workers from Africa
- German
SWP Comment 2020/C 64, 16.12.2020, 7 Pages

doi:10.18449/2020C64

External publications

- Melanie Müller
Ill feeling between continents ahead of the EU-AU summit

Commentary in: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union, 14.02.2022 (online)
- Bernice McLean
- Melanie Müller
Supply Chain Disruptions and African-European Relations

The Covid-19 pandemic has uncovered the weakness of global supply chains

Podcast in: sustainablesupplychains.org, 10.03.2021
- Melanie Müller
Adapting environmental and climate justice to local political struggles in South Africa

in: Sabrina Zajak & Sebastian Haunss (eds.), "Social Stratification and Social Movements Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on an Ambivalent Relationship", London/New York: Routledge, February 2020, S. 109-125.
- Melanie Müller
- Richard Calland
How South Africa and Germany can help the world

in: Mail & Guardian, 30.01.2020 (online)
- Melanie Müller
- Bettina Engels
Northern theories, Southern movements? Contentious politics in Africa through the lens of social movement theory

in: Journal of Contemporary African Studies (online), 22.04.2019
- Melanie Müller
- Armin Paasch
When only the coal counts

German co-responsibility for human rights in the South African coal sector

Johannesburg: ActionAid South Africa, 2016

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Member of the Selection Committee of the Humboldt Foundation for the German Chancellor Fellowship from South Africa (since 2021) and Chairperson and academic member of the Advisory Board of the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate (since 2021).