A political scientist by background, Stefan Wolff specializes in the management of contemporary security challenges, especially in the prevention and settlement of ethnic conflicts and in post-conflict reconstruction in deeply divided and war-torn societies. He has extensive expertise in Northern Ireland, the Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe, and has also worked on a wide range of other conflicts elsewhere, including the Middle East, Africa, and Central, South and Southeast Asia.

Wolff is a consultant for major national and international governmental and non-governmental organizations and the private sector. His research has been funded by the European Commission, the Economic and Social Research Council of the U.K., the U.K. Foreign Office, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and the British Academy. He is currently advising three Central and Eastern European governments on issues related to ongoing conflicts in their jurisdictions.

Wolff’s publications to date include eleven books and over twenty journal articles and book chapters. Among his books are Disputed Territories: The Transnational Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict Settlement (2002); The German Question since 1919 (2003); Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts (with Ulrich Schneckener, 2004); Peace at Last? The Impact of the Good Friday Agreement on Northern Ireland (with a foreword by Lord Alderdice, with Jörg Neuheiser, 2002), Autonomy and Self-determination (with Marc Weller, 2005), and Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic in the Process of EU Enlargement (with Karl Cordell, 2005). Wolff’s Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe (with Karl Cordell) was published by Palgrave as the first comprehensive analysis of ethnic politics across the European continent in 2004 and has won critical praise from scholars and analysts.

He is the founding editor of Ethnopolitics, a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of ethnic conflicts and their management around the globe. Since the academic year 2003-2004, Wolff also held concurrent appointments as Professorial Lecturer in International Relations at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna Center, and as Resource Fellow of the Open Society Institute’s Academic Fellowship Programme. Since 2005, he has also been a Teaching Fellow at the Joint Services Command and Staff College of the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom. In 2003, he was appointed Senior Nonresident Research Associate at the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany. He holds a Masters Degree from Magdalene College, Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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