International Relations Faculty

Lionel Fatton

Lionel Fatton, PhD

Head of the International Relations Program; Assistant Professor, Research Methods, Security Studies, Asian Area Studies

Lionel Fatton is assistant professor of International Relations and Outreach Coordinator to UN and NGOs at Webster Geneva Campus. He is also research collaborator at the Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, Meiji University, Tokyo. His research interests include international and security dynamics in East and Southeast Asia, China-Japan-US relations, Japan’s security policy, civil-military relations and Neoclassical realism. He holds a PhD in Political Science, specialization International Relations, from Sciences Po Paris and two MA in International Relations from Waseda University in Tokyo and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

Books

Fatton, L.P. (2023). Japan’s Rush to the Pacific War: The Institutional Roots of Overbalancing (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan), 313pp.

Fatton, L.P., Foppiani, O. (2019).  Japan's Awakening: Moving Toward an Autonomous Security Policy (Bern and New York: Peter Lang), 375pp. Winner of the Otto Hieronymi Prize 2019 and finalist at the Asian Studies Book Fair, 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 11), Leiden, July 2019.

Publications

Fatton, L.P. (2024). “Departing from isolationism: Japan’s emergence as a regional security actor.” 9DashLine, May 2024.

Fatton, L.P. (2024). “Sailing close to the wind: Japan’s forward deterrence posture toward the Taiwan Strait.” Asian Security, Vol. 20, Issue 1, 2024.

Fatton, L.P. (2022). Vers une nouvelle ère de militarisation (et d’instabilité?) en Indo-Pacifique. Le Rubicon, July 2022.

Fatton, L.P. (2020). New Japanese Strike Weapons Could Spark an Asian Arms Race. The National Interest, September 2020.

Fatton, L.P. (2020). Japan’s Space Program: Shifting Away from ‘Non-Offensive’ Purposes? Asie.Visions, Institut français de relations internationales (Ifri), July 2020.

Fatton, L.P. (2020). Is Japan entering the new space race?East Asia Forum, Feb. 2020.

Fatton L.P. (2019). All eyes on Washington. Policy Forum, October 2019.

Fatton L.P. (2019). Japan’s awakening to a multipolar world. East Asia Forum, June 2019.

Fatton L.P. (2019). A new spear in Asia: why is Japan moving toward autonomous defense? International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 297-325.

Fatton L.P. (2018). ‘Japan is back’: Autonomy and balancing amidst an unstable China-U.S.-Japan triangle. Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, Vol. 5, Issue 2, pp. 264-78.

Fatton L.P. (2018). ‘Japan is Back’: but which Japan? Policy Forum, May 2018.

Fatton L.P. (2017). A US-China Entente Cordiale to Relieve the North Korean Headache. IPI Global Observatory, September 2017.

Fatton L.P. (2017). Institutional Dynamics, Civil-Military Relations and Japan’s 1936 Withdrawal from the Washington System. The Journal of the Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, No. 4, pp. 25-39.

Fatton L.P. (2017). Could China’s Diplomatic Proposal Break the North Korean Deadlock?IPI Global Observatory, June 2017.

Fatton L.P. (2017). Stabilising East Asia by striking Syria. Policy Forum, April 2017.

Editorial/peer reviewing activities

Member of the Advisory Board, “Conflict Barometer,” Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research, University of Heidelberg.

Peer reviews: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/471579

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7036-4318

Jubin Goodarzi

Jubin Goodarzi, PhD

Head of MA in Migration, Climate Change and the Environment; Associate Professor, Migration/Refugees, Middle East Studies, Third World Development

Jubin M. Goodarzi is Associate Professor and Acting Director of the International Relations Department at Webster Geneva Campus. He was previously a consultant and political adviser on Middle Eastern affairs for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva. He has also worked with a number of U.S. and U.K. research institutes and foundations, including the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London, and the Ford Foundation in New York. Dr. Goodarzi is author of Syria and Iran: Diplomatic Alliance and Power Politics in the Middle East (London: I.B. Tauris, 2009), and numerous articles and book reviews on the international relations of the Middle East.

Books

Goodarzi, J.M. (2006). Syria and Iran: Diplomatic Alliance & Power Politics in the Middle East (London: I.B. Tauris), pp. 368 (Original Hardback Edition).

Goodarzi, J.M. (2009). Syria and Iran: Diplomatic Alliance & Power Politics in the Middle East (London: I.B. Tauris), pp. 376 (Paperback Edition with a new and updated preface).

Publications

Goodarzi J.M. (2013). "Syria and Iran: Alliance Politics in an Evolving Regional Environment," Middle Eastern Studies: Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 31-54.

Goodarzi J.M. (2012). "Syria and Iran: Alliance Politics in a Changing Regional Environment," Orient: German Journal for Politics, Economics and Culture of the Middle East, Vol. 53, No. 3, 2012, pp. 38-44.

Goodarzi, J.M. (2010). “Radicalism or Realpolitik? The Foreign Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Babylon: The Nordic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 80-91.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

Goodarzi, J.M. (2013). “Iran and Syria: An Enduring Alliance,” in Iran and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century, edited by Chehabi, H.E., Farhad K. and Therme, C. (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers), pp. 266-284.

Goodarzi, J.M. (2013). “Iran: Syria as the First Line of Defence,” in The Regional Struggle for Syria, edited by Barnes-Dacey, J., and Levy, D. (London: European Council on Foreign Relations), pp. 25-31.

Goodarzi, J.M. (2010). “Iran and the Region: Iran and Syria,” in The Iran Primer: Power, Politics and US Policy, edited by Wright, R. (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace) pp. 175-177.

Christophe Germann

Christophe Germann, PhD

Faculty, International Migration Law, International Disaster Law

Christophe Germann received his PhD from the University of Bern where he also served as Law Faculty in International Relations and International Law related to Artificial Intelligence (www.irilai.net).

 

Dina Ionesco

Dina Ionesco, MA

Co-Director and Lecturer, Migration, Climate Change and Environment, Master Program Geneva Campus (MAMCE)

Dina Ionesco has over 25 years of work experience at international level, with the International Organization on Migration (IOM, UN Migration), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, UN Climate Change), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF&V20), in the non-governmental sector, academia and as an independent consultant.

Ionesco spearheaded the work on migration and climate change at IOM, for more than a decade, establishing the first UN migration, environment and climate change-focused division and IOM’s first environmental sustainability program. Her work contributed to the groundbreaking recognition of migration in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, in 2015, and to the important inclusion of environmental and climate issues in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) in 2018, with a focus on guiding innovative policy options to protect migrants. Ionesco has worked on this topic also with CVF&V20 where she created the Migrants4Climate Award and with the UN Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC).

Ionesco’s work led to the operationalization of the migration and climate change nexus, through numerous programs and projects worldwide, including some multimillion projects, implemented with a wide range of donors and partners, and impacting policy makers, researchers, communities and migrants. Ionesco initiated, produced and co-authored numerous publications and articles, including the flagship publication the Atlas of Environmental Migration, and was awarded in 2016 the distinction “Inspirational woman working to protect the environment” at the initiative of UN Environment, the Geneva Environment Network and the Swiss Confederation.

A Romanian and French national, Ionesco is trained in Business Studies with a Post-Graduate Diploma from the London School of Economics (U.K.), in European Studies, with a master’s degree from Sussex University (U.K.) and graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (France).

Ionesco is passionate about human rights, the protection of nature, migration, gender, education, mental health and art. She regularly contributes to artistic projects and draws cartoons and children’s illustrations.

Ionesco has co-created, co-directs and teaches in the Master of Arts in Migration, Climate Change and the Environment (MAMCE), at Webster Geneva Campus.

Escape from Heat, Drought and Extreme Weather, in “3 Degrees More,” ed. Klaus Wiegandt, chapter by Mariam Traore Chazalnoël, Dina Ionesco, Springer, Cham, 2024.

Changing Climate – Rethinking global migration management, in “People and Nature on the Move: Human and Wildlife Migrations at the Intersection of Environmental Change and Conflict,” chapter by Mariam Traore Chazalnoël, Dina Ionesco and Eva Mach, IUCN 2023.

“Migration in a Changing Climate: What Role Can Migrants’ Remittances Play in Innovative Financing for the Clean Energy Transition?” in Jahrbuch Migration und Gesellschaft/ Yearbook Migration and Society | Volume 4 ed. Hans Karl Peterlini and Jasmin Donlic, chapter by Eva Mach, Mariam Traore Chazalnoël and Dina Ionesco, 2023.

“Flucht vor Hitze, Dürre und Extremwetter. Wenn Menschen vor Ort nichts mehr zum Überleben bleibt”, in 3cGrad Mehr, ed. Klaus Wiegandt, chapter by Mariam Traore Chazalnoël and Dina Ionesco, Oekom 2022.

Institutional Strategy on Migration, Environment and Climate Change 2021–2030: For a comprehensive, evidence and rights-based approach to migration in the context of environmental degradation, climate change and disasters, for the benefit of migrants and societies, IOM, 2022.

Perspectives from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) – Breaking new ground on the governance of climate migration, in “Climate Refugees,” ed. by Simon Behrman, Avidan Kent, chapter by Mariam Traore Chazalnoël and Dina Ionesco, Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Children on the Move: Why, Where, How? What do we know about children’s mobility in the context of climate change and environmental hazards? by Mariam Traore Chazalnoël, Iulia Duca and Dina Ionesco, UNICEF, 2021.

Atlas of Environmental Migration Japanese Edition, Dina Ionesco, Daria Mokhnacheva and François Gemenne, 2020.

Atlas der Umweltmigration, Dina Ionesco, Daria Mokhnacheva and François Gemenne, Oekom, 2018.

Atlas of Environmental Migration, Dina Ionesco, Daria Mokhnacheva and François Gemenne Routledge, 2017.

Atlas des Migrations Environnementales, Dina Ionesco, Daria Mokhnacheva and François Gemenne Presses de Sciences Po, 2016.

Eva Mach

Eva Mach, MA

Faculty, Environmental Sustainability

MA (Geneva Graduate Institute)

 

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Ivana Machonova Schellongova

Ivana Machonova Schellongova, PhD, JD

Faculty, International Law and Human Rights

Ivana Machonova Schellongova has more than 20 years of experience in international human rights law, litigations, negotiations, and diplomacy, including in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), the End Human Trafficking Now (EHTN) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. She works in the Human Rights Treaties Branch of OHCHR and manages the Special Fund on Torture Prevention (OPCAT Special Fund). She collaborates with the Research Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, Charles University where she serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the Human Rights Bulletin and is a visiting lecturer at the Prague Economic University on business and human rights. She holds a PhD and JD in International Law, the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague, and Master in International Relations, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva and Master in Law, the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno.

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts, Czech Law Journal, Vol. 6, 2002.

The United Nations Treaty Bodies Interim Measures: An Effective Instrument of Human Rights Protection? Czech Law Journal, Vol. 8, 2015.

A New International Instrument on Business and Human Rights, Human Rights Bulletin, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague, Vol. 2, 2015.

What Regulations for Corporations and Business Enterprises with respect to Human Rights? Acta Oeconomica Pragensis, Economic University, Prague, Vol. 5, 2015.

Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, Human Rights Bulletin, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague, Vol. 3, 2016.

United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies’ Approach to States’ Obligations in the Context of Business Activities, in Business and Human Rights, (Pavel Sturman and Vinicius Almada Mozetic, eds.), Science & New Media Passau-Berlin-Prague, 2018.

Are Human Rights Universal? The Legacy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in 70the Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Pavel Sturma and Milan Lipovsky, eds.), Science & New Media, Passau-Berlin-Prague, 2019.

Right to a Peaceful Assembly, General Comment of the Human Rights Committee, Human Rights Bulletin, Charles University, Vol.2, 2020.

The Practice of the European Court and the Human Rights Committee – convergence or divergence? in 70th Anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights (Pavel Sturma and Alla Tymofeyeva, eds.), Science & New Media Passau-Berlin-Prague, 2021.

Reservations to International Human Rights Treaties and the Practice of the Czech Republic, Czech Law Journal, Vol.1, 2022.

Draft Legally Binding Instrument on Business and Human Rights, Azem Gealfow and Ivana Machonova Schellongova, International and Comparative Law Review, Issue 1, 2022.

Death Penalty and Prohibition of Torture, Human Rights Bulletin, Charles University, 2023.

Neuroscience and Human Rights, Human Rights Bulletin, Charles University, 2024.

Carlo Maria Marenghi

Carlo Maria Marenghi, PhD

Faculty, Diplomatic Negotiation, Patent Law

Carlo Maria Marenghi holds a PhD from Pontificia Universitas Lateranensis, Rome.

Books

Marenghi, C.M. (Ed.) (2020). A Common Journey for Social Justice, 1919–2019. The Holy See and the International Labor Organization (Rome: Lateran University Press), 56 pp.

Joseph Marques

Joseph Marques, PhD

Faculty, International Politics and Economics, Global Governance and Latin America

Joseph Marques is specialized in global governance, cities migration and climate change, and Latin American politics. He holds a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (Switzerland). He is a visiting research scholar at the Latin American Centre of the University of Oxford and at the Brazil Institute of King's College in London. Marques is also chair of the economics and politics section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and a member of the editorial board of Conjuntura Austral - Journal of the Global South. He hosts the podcast “Econopolitics” and is a former senior international banking executive.

 

Heikki Mattila

Heikki Mattila, PhD

Faculty, Migration and Refugee Studies, International Relations

Heikki Mattila holds a PhD from the University of Geneva.

 

Susanne Peters

Susanne Peters, PhD

Faculty, International Relations, Energy Security

Susanne Peters is currently lecturer at the International Relations Department of Webster Geneva Campus. She has worked at several European and North American universities in the positions of researcher, assistant and visiting professor, including at Harvard University, the European University Institute in Florence, at the Universities of Frankfurt, Jena and Giessen and York University in Toronto. Before joining Webster in 2013 she has been managing Kent State University’s “Geneva program” as well as teaching the program’s political science classes. She has published widely on energy security, climate change and security, and European security policy. In Spring 2016 she was invited as a research fellow at Tongji University, Shanghai. Her PhD in political science is from the European University Institute, Florence.

Book (single-authored)

The Germans and the INF Missiles: Getting Their Way in NATO's Strategy of Flexible Response, (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 1990).

Edited book and Edited Special Issue

Editor of a Special Issue of New Political Science, Critical Approaches in International Politics, (Vol.18, No.1, Spring 1996), (together with Micheline Ishay).

The Changing European Security Environment, (Weimar-Jena: Böhlau Verlag, 1996), (edited together with Christoph Lotter).

Articles (peer reviewed)

The ‘tight oil revolution’ and its consequences for the European Union: a ‘wake up call’ for its neglected energy security,” Security and Peace, (Vol.32, No.3, Fall 2014), pp. 170-175.

Coercive Western Energy Security Strategies: New ‘Resource Wars’ as a Threat to Global Security,” Geopolitics, (9/1, Spring 2004), pp. 187-212.

  • Reprinted in Benjamin K. Sovacool (ed.), “Energy Security,” (SAGE Library of International Relations, 2014).
  • Reprinted in Phillipe Le Billon (ed.), “The Geopolitics of Resource Wars. Resource Dependence, Governance and Violence” (London, New York: Frank Cass, 2005), pp. 187-212.

The New Spirit of German Geopolitics,” Geopolitics, (7/3 Winter 2002), pp.1-18 (together with Jonathan Bach).

The ‘West’ Against the ‘Rest’: Geopolitics after the End of the Cold War,” Geopolitics, (4/3 December 1999), pp.29-46.

Articles

The Shift of EU Energy Policy and its Implications for China” (together with Maximilian Mayer), China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies, (Vol.3. No.1, 2017), pp, 137-158.

“Crises and no end? The EU’s constitutional debacle, its external relations, and its unwavering path to a Common Foreign and Security Policy,” International Almanach “Europe,” No.6, Tyumen State University Press, Tyumen, 2006 (together with Kirsten Westphal, translated into Russian).

“Vneshnaia politika i politika bezopasnosti ES: Ot regionalogo k global’nomu aktoru? (The CFSP of the EU: A regional or a global role?)” v: Rossijko-evrpoejskoe partnerstvo v kontekste meshdunarodnych otnoshenij. (together with Kirsten Westphal). Collected Volume, (State University of Economy and Social Science, Saratov, Russia, 2005), pp.99-121.

Courting Future Resource Conflict: the Shortcoming of Western Response Strategies to New Energy Vulnerabilities,” Energy Exploration and Exploitation, (21/1, 2003), pp. 29-60.

Germany’s Security Policy after Unification: Taking the Wrong Models,” European Security, (6/2, Spring 1997), pp.18-47.

“Multilateralidad: Una mascara para la militarizacion de la seguridad?” Papeles, Centro de Investigacion para la Paz, (No.59/60, 1996/1997), pp.101-113.

“Multilateralism: A Mask for the Militarization of Western European Security Policy,” in Lotter/Peters, pp.128-156.

“Deutschland’s neue Ostpolitik” in Paul Létournau (ed.), Revue d’Allemagne, Strasbourg, (27/3, September 1995), pp.419-432.

“La reestructuración del sistema de defensa alemán,” Mariano Aguirre (ed.), Ruptura de hegemonías, Anuario CIP 1994-1995 (Icaria: Madrid, Barcelona, 1995), pp.41-60.

“GASP und WEU: Wegbereiter einer Supermacht Europa?” in Elfriede Regelsberger (ed.), Die Gemeinsame Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der Europäischen Union. Analysen 9, (Bonn: Europa Union Verlag, 1993), pp.139-154.

Germany's Future Defense Policy: Opening Up the Option for German Power Politics,” German Politics and Society (No.26, Spring 1992), pp.54-74.

The Euromissiles Debate in Retrospect,” Review article on Jeffrey Herf, War by other Means: Soviet Power, West German Resistance, and the Battle of the Euromissiles. Telos, (No.88, Summer 1991), pp.205-210.

The Germans and the INF Treaty: Ostrich Policy Towards an Unresolvable Strategic Dilemma,” Arms Control, (10/1, May 1989), pp.21-42.

Book Chapters

Energy Technology, Climate Change, and Security in the Anthropocene, in Maria Julia Trombetta (ed.), “Handbook of Climate Change and International Security,” Edward Elgar Publisher, (Cheltenham, UK and Northhampton, MA, US: Edward Elgar Publisher, 2023), pp.238-256, (together with Maximilian Mayer).

The ‘Tight Oil Revolution’ and the Misinterpretation of the Power of Technology, in Maximilian Mayer et. al. (eds.), “The Global Politics of Science and Technology. Perspectives, Cases and Methods, Vol.2,” (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2014), pp.83-100 (together with Werner Zittel).

Energy Supply Issues: Scale, Perception and the Return of Geopolitics, in Hugh Dyer and Julia Trombetta, “International Handbook of Energy Security,” (Cheltenham, UK and Northhampton, MA, US: Edward Elgar publishers 2013), pp.92-113 (together with Kirsten Westphal).

Providing Security in a Changing World? The Old Continent’s Security Strategy Revisited, in Christoph Schuck et.al., (Hg.) “Nachdenken über Europa. Probleme und Perspektiven eines Ordnungsmodells,” Nomos, 2009 (together with Kirsten Westphal).

Other Publications

The Future Energy Security Environment: No alternative to a radical energy shift, in “Energy Security and Security Policy: NATO and the Role of International Security Actor,” NATO School Research Department, Fall 2007.

“The CFSP/ESDP: from the Tail Light to the Future Motor of European Integration?” Special Policy Paper, AIP 776 Course material, August 2004, Deakin University, Australia, (together with Kirsten Westphal).

Building Up the Potential for Resource Wars: The Shortcoming of Western Response Strategies to New Energy Vulnerabilities,” EUI Working Paper, Transatlantic Series (refereed), RSC No.2003/9.

“Germany’s Security Policy after Unification: Taking the Wrong Models,” Working Paper, Center for German and European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Fall 1996.

“Germany after the end of the Cold War: Arriving at a New Raison d’état?” Working Paper, No.14, May 1994, Center for International and Strategic Studies, York University.

Short articles “Rapid Deployment Force” and “National Security Council” in Lexikon USA, Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin/Bielefeld/München, 1994, pp.507-508 and pp.630-631.

“Bibliography” in Uwe Holtz (ed.), Entwicklung und Rüstung, Vol.32, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 1984.

Marcello Puca

Marcello Puca, PhD

Faculty, Microeconomics

Marcello Puca is an assistant professor at the University of Bergamo and research fellow at the Center for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF) and Webster Geneva Campus. He obtained two master's degrees in quantitative economics from the Toulouse School of Economics and a PhD in Economics from the University of Naples Federico II. He has been visiting scholar at the Northwestern University School of Law and the Catholic University of Sacred Heart. His research focuses on law and economics and applied microeconomics, with a focus on group decision-making. His has expertise in theoretical modelling, traditional empirical methods and laboratory experiments, and has taught at the undergraduate, graduate and MBA level.

Publications

Buonanno, P., S. Galletta, and M. Puca. “The role of civic capital on vaccination.” Forthcoming on Health Economics (2023). Open access link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.4662

Buonanno, P., G. Plevani, and M. Puca. “Earthquake hazard and civic capital.” Forthcoming on European Journal of Political Economy (2023).

Puca, M. and Pignatti, C.. (2022). Le misure a supporto di lavoratori e imprese durante la pandemia di COVID-19 in Italia. International Labour Organization, Rome 2022. ISBN: 978-92-2-036590-8

Puca, M. and Gavrilova-Zoutman E. (2022). “Peer Effects in Crime” forthcoming in A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.

Buonanno, P. and Puca, M. (2021). “Using newspaper obituaries to ‘nowcast’ daily mortality: Evidence from the Italian COVID-19 hot-spots.” Health Policy.

Buonanno P., Galletta S., Puca M. (2020) “Estimating the severity of COVID-19: Evidence from the Italian epicenter.” PLoS ONE 15(10): e0239569.

Email: marcellopuca01@webster.edu

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Francisco Rubio

Francisco Rubio, JD

Faculty, INGOs

Francisco Rubio holds a JD from the University of Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Books

Rubio, F. (Ed.) (2017). Don et solidarité. La philanthropie américaine durant la Grande Guerre. Numéro monothématique de La Revue Tocqueville. Vol. XXXVIII, No. 2, 2017.

Publications

Rubio, F. (2018). "Action humanitaire : urgence et développement." Juris associations, No. 585, October 1st, 2018, pp. 19-21.

Gervais Rufyikiri

Gervais Rufyikiri, PhD

Faculty, Food and Water Security

Gervais Rufyikiri has diversified experience both in the academic and political fields. During his position as Vice President of Burundi (2010-2015) and previously as President of the Senate of Burundi (2005-2010), he contributed to building post-conflict institutions, initiating and implementing reforms for good governance, political stability and economic growth. Rufyikiri has been involved in teaching and research in diverse fields and universities. Since 2017, he carries out research and teaches courses at the Geneva Center for Security Policy on the topics of leadership, security, governance and development in fragile states. He also teaches courses on ‘Climate, Water and Food Security’ at Webster University Geneva, and on ‘Sustainable Development’ at SWISS-UMEF University of Applied Sciences. Rufyikiri was educated in Burundi and Belgium. He holds a doctoral degree in biological, agronomic and environmental engineering from UCL (2000).

Agriculture and Environment Fields

Irakoze, H. Prodjinoto, S. Nijimbere, J.B. Bizimana, J. Bigirimana, G. Rufyikiri, S. Lutts. 2021. “NaCl- and Na2SO4-Induced Salinity Differentially Affect Clay Soil Chemical Properties and Yield Components of Two Rice Cultivars (Oryza sativa L.) in Burundi,” Agronomy, 11, 571

Irakoze, H. Prodjinoto, S. Nijimbere, G. Rufyikiri and S. Lutts. 2020. “NaCl and Na2SO4 Salinities Have Different Impact on Photosynthesis and Yield-Related Parameters in Rice (Oryza sativa L.),” Agronomy, Vol. 10, no. 6, 1-12.

Irakoze, B. Vanpee, G. Rufyikiri, et al. 2019. “Comparative effects of chloride and sulfate salinities on two contrasting rice cultivars (Oryza sativa L.) at the seedling stage,” Journal of Plant Nutrition, 2019, Vol. 42(9), 1001-1015.

Political Field

Rufyikiri. 2021. “Resilience in Post-civil War, Authoritarian Burundi: What Has Worked and What Has Not?Geneva Paper 28/21, Geneva Centre for Security Policy.

Rufyikiri. 2020. “Reshaping approaches to sustainable peacebuilding and development in fragile states. Part I: Nexus between unethical leadership and state fragility,” Geneva Papers 26/20, Geneva Centre for Security Policy.

Rufyikiri. 2020. “Reshaping approaches to sustainable peacebuilding and development in fragile states. Part II. A Comprehensive Educational Programme on Ethics,” Geneva Papers 27/20, Geneva Centre for Security Policy.

Investing in ethical education to solve Burundi’s domestic governance,” Strategic Security Analysis, 2019. Geneva Centre for Security Policy.

The Post-wartime Trajectory of CNDD-FDD Party in Burundi: A Facade Transformation of Rebel Movement to Political Party,” Civil Wars, 2017, vol.19 (2), 220-248.

“Burundi and its development partners: navigating the turbulent tides of governance setbacks,” Working Paper, 2017.

Corruption au Burundi: problème d’action collective et défi majeur pour la gouvernance, in “L’Afrique des Grands Lacs, Annuaire 2015-2016,”  2016, p.69-91.

Jeanette Tantillo

Jeanette Tantillo, MA

Faculty, Professional Seminar, INGOs

Jeanette Tantillo has two master’s degrees, one from the Bloustein School of City and Regional Planning at Rutgers University and the other from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. She has worked at various non-governmental organizations in Geneva organizing and moderating dialogues, acting as liaison, and providing documentation, presentations and training on sustainable development in the areas of digital technologies, trade and ethics. She began working at Webster Geneva Campus in 2007, where for over 15 years she has engaged students in exploring the complicated mandates of international organizations, including the contributions and impacts of civil society, corporations and digital technologies. She is otherwise a private consultant for lectures, research and editing; a Model United Nations trainer; a poet and fiction author; hostess of the Geneva Open Mic Poetry Readings; and an optimistic gardener with moderate success.

 

Mara Tignino

Mara Tignino, PhD

Faculty, International Environmental Law and International Water Law

Mara Tignino holds a PhD from The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID).

 

Kristina Touzenis

Kristina Touzenis, LMM

Faculty, International Relations

Kristina Touzenis holds a LMM from the University of Copenhagen.

 

Paul Vallet

Paul Vallet, PhD

Faculty, International Relations

Paul Vallet holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

 

Michel Veuthey

Michel Veuthey, PhD

Associate Professor, International Law and International Humanitarian Law

Michel Veuthey holds a PhD from the University of Geneva.

Publications

Veuthey, M. (2020). Refonder la coopération internationale. In M. Feix, M.-J. Tiel, P.H. Dembinski (Eds.), Peuple et populisme, identité et nation. Quelle contribution à la paix? Quelles perspectives européennes? (pp. 267-289). Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg.