Prof. Dr. Conrad Schetter

Investigator

Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies gGmbH (BICC)
Room 1.18
Pfarrer-Byns-Str. 1
D-53121 Bonn
Phone: +49 228 91196 30
conrad.schetter@bicc.de
c.schetter@uni-bonn.de
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Since 2013 Conrad Schetter holds a professorship for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Bonn. Currently he is on leave to head the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies gGmbH (BICC).

Academic Profile

Research

Conrad Schetter started his academic career with studies on the impact of ethnicity on violent conflicts. Then, his research focused on themes such as politics of interventions, spaces of violence (e.g. ungoverned spaces, frontiers), development, humanitarian aid and conflict, Jihadi movements (e.g. Taliban) and forced migration. In all these research fields Schetter investigated the significance of dependencies. His regional focus lies of South Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan), Central Asia (Tajikistan, Kirgizstan) as well Eastern Africa (Kenya, Tanzania).

Education

Conrad Schetter studied geography, history, education, at the University of Bonn.

Academic Positions and Appointments

Teaching Experience

University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)

Funding Grants

04/2018–12/2029
Organization: BICC
Title: Future Rural Africa: Future-Making and Social-Ecological Transformation (SFB)
Total amount: 8 Mio. €
Amount for own institute: 200,000 €
Funding organization: DFG
Collaboration partners: University of Bonn, University of Cologne

01/2025–12/2029
Organization: BICC
Title: Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung: Vernetzung und Transfer
Total amount: 3.2 Mio. €
Amount for own institute: 1 Mio. €
Funding organization: BMBF
Collaboration partners: University of Osnabrück, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, University of Nürnberg-Erlangen

04/2021–09/2027
Organization: BICC
Title: China's Road and Belt Initative. Local perspectives on China's engagement in Afghanistan
Total amount: 1.5 Mio. €
Amount for own institute: 200,000 €
Funding organization: BMBF/ BMFTR
Collaboration partners: Humboldt University, ZOIS, ZMO

01/2023–12/2026
Organization: BICC
Title: IMAG Islamismus
Total amount: 350,000 €
Amount for own institute: 350,000 €
Funding organization: Interior Ministry NRW/ Family Ministry NRW
Collaboration partners: several

01/2022–12/2026
Organization: BICC
Title: Academic Advice on Afghanistan
Total amount: 600,000 €
Amount for own institute: 600,000 €
Funding organization: GIZ
Collaboration partners: several

Memberships

Schetter is member of the Supervisory Board of Welthungerhilfe (since 2016). In addition he is member of the Council of the Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung (since 2013), member of the Board of Trustees of the German Institute of Development and Sustainabilty (IDOS) (since 2013) and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden (SEF).

Selected Publications

2026. With L. Massoi and V. Shillingi. "Infrastructure for Peace. Conflict Settlement between Pastoralists and Farmers in Kilosa/Tanzania." Journal of Eastern African Studies. Access
2025. With K. Mkutu, E. A. Owino, and T. Mkutu. "Double Gain, Double Loss: Property Rights and Dispossession Surrounding Kenya’s Rail Project." Journal of World Affairs 1(1): 121–137. Access
2025. With E. A. Owino. "Rails through Rangelands: Redefining Infrastructure Frontiers and Patronage in Kenya’s Maasai Land." Territory, Politics, Governance. Access
2024. With K. Mkutu, E. A. Owino, and T. Mkutu. "Left in the Dust: Infrastructural Violence of a Railway Project through Pastoralist Rangelands in Kenya." Journal of Development Studies. Access
2021. With M. Müller-Koné. "Frontiers’ violence: The Interplay of State of Exception, Frontier Habitus, and Organized Violence." Political Geography 87(102370). Access
2020. As editor. With M. von Boemcken, N. Bagdasorva, and A. Ismaelbekova. Surviving Everyday Life: The Securityscapes of Threaned People in Kyrgyzstan. Bristol: Bristol University Press.