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Zabrina Welter

Chair of Sustainability Governance

Espinosa, Cristina

Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography

Tennenbacher Str. 4
D-79106 Freiburg

Telefon: 0761 203 96846

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Research Interests | Professional Experience | Education | Publications

 

Research Interests

  • Political ecology

  • Natural resource governance

  • Power conflicts

  • Environmental peacebuilding

  • Peace and conflict studies

  • Latin America, Colombia

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Professional Experience

Since 10/2020:

  • Doctoral Researcher at the Chair of Sustainability Governance
    Research project ‘Territorialisation Dynamics in Post-Conflict Extractive Resources Governance
    Analysing Formalisation Processes of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Zones in Colombia” (provisional title)

  • Doctoral scholarship Heinrich-Böll Foundation

11/2015 - 9/2020:

  • Student Assistant and Research Fellow at the Chair of Sustainability Governance, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

10/2019-07/2020:

  • Research Fellow at the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate, University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany
    Research and project proposal preparation on post-conflict natural resource governance, organisation of academic event on post-conflict natural resource management.

07/2019-01/2020:

  • Consultant at Disaster Management Branch, UN Environment, Geneva, Switzerland
    Support project management and project reporting activities of the branch. Assistance to hzdrocarbon remediation project.

04/2017 - 10/2017:

  • Communications Intern at Disaster Management Branch, UN Environment, Geneva, Switzerland
    Support communications for projects of the branch. Content creator for MOOC on Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace.

08/2017 - 10/2017:

  • Intern at Biodiversity International, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    Development of a field guide for community-based monitoring of biodiversity

03/2013 - 07/2015:

  • Project Assistant & Assistant the Executive Secretary at Convenio Andrés Bello Intergovernmental Organisation, Bogota, Colombia
    Assistance to projects related to rural development and social appropriation of scientific knowledge. Editing diverse publications of the organisation.

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Education

 

09/2015 - 08/2018

  • MSc Environmental Governance at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

07/2007 - 10/2012

  • Political Science and International Relations at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia
    Concentration in conflict resolution and peacebuilding

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Publications

  • Welter, Zabrina & Ankenbrand, Christina (2020) „Expert Roundtable Discussion: Formalisation Processes in Extractive Sectors as part of State- and Peacebuilding Strategies“. Die Friedens-Warte 93 (3-4), 443-449.

  • Ankenbrand, Christina, Welter, Zabrina & Engwicht, Nina (2021) “Formalization as a Tool for Environmental Peacebuilding? Insights from Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Liberia and Sierra Leone". Environmental Peacebuilding, special issue on International Affairs, edited by Carl Bruch, Alexander Carius, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Tobias Ide, and Erika Weinthal.

  • Welter, Zabrina & Wissmann, Sarah (2019) “Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflict-Beyond the ILC. A workshop report”. Humanitäres Völkerrecht 2(1-2):111-4.

  • Welter, Zabrina & Jalonen, Riina (2019) “Forest Biodiversity Monitoring: Guide to community-based approaches”. Rome: Bioversity International. Published at: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99532

 

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