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Tobias Pietz

Tobias Pietz is a political scientist and senior researcher at the German Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) in Berlin. He holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Heidelberg and a Postgraduate Master’s Degree in Peace and Security Studies from the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH) at the University of Hamburg. From 2001 to 2002, he was working at the Bureau for Gender Equality of the International Labour Organization in Geneva where he conducted Gender Audits and facilitated workshops, and continued to work for the ILO as a freelance consultant in 2003. From 2003 until the end of 2006 he worked at the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) where his main areas of interest were DD&R, Civil-Military Cooperation, Small Arms, Integrated Missions, and Gender Issues. Since 2007, he works at ZIF where he coordinates a research project on Local Ownership in Peacebuilding Processes, looking at the UN missions in Kosovo and Liberia.

He was a member of NATO's Expert Team for Defense Conversion in the Western Balkans and has worked as a trainer and lecturer among others for the German Armed Forces, German Capacity Building International (InWEnt), and the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF). In addition, he has done evaluations and conducted studies for the UNDP, UNIDIR, the German Development Ministry (BMZ), and the Small Arms Survey. His regional experiences include the Balkans, Central Eastern Europe, Western Africa, Russia, Lebanon and Jordan.

 

 

 

 

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