Foreign missions:

• International Workshop , Univ. of Pavía, Italy, 16-17 June 2016, on Understanding and managing migration in Africa – Multidimensional perspectives
• APAD-international conference, Cotonou (Bénin) on "The fabrication of public action in countries « under an aid regime", Cotonou, 17 to 20 November 2015
• EU EOM Madagascar 2013: election observation of the transiational presidential elections of 23 Oct. 2013,  in Sofia Region, North-West Madagascar.
• Cape Town, DAAD-Evaluation of African Centres of Excellence, Development Research Division (DRD), School of Governance, Univ. of Western Cape, South Africa, 19 to 26 November 2011
• Worldbank, Washington D.C., USA, short-term consultant for SDV flagship study: Societal dynamics and fragility, auhors' workshop on fragil states at the Social Development Department, WB, 2010
  
• Ivory Coast; EU EOM 2010, Election Observation (STO), 23 October to 03 November, 2010
• Togo, EU EOM TOGO 2010, Election Observation (STO), 19 Febr. 2010 to 11 March 2010

• Ghana, EU EOM Ghana, Election Observation (STO), 22. Dec. 2008  to 2. Jan. 2009
• Resources, Livelihood Management, Reforms, and Processes of Structural Change
  Workshop (18 - 23 September 2006) in Gobabeb, Namibia
  
• Zimbabwe : Evaluation of the funding policy and practice of the evangelical aid organizations EZE/BfdW, 1993

Political consultancy:

• Politische EU - Afrika Beziehungen Demokratisierung und Friedenssicherung. Junge Europäische Förderalisten (JEF), Hamburg, Europa Akademie, Gut Siggen, 6 April 2019
• Bertelsmann (BTI) transformation index - country evaluations (2011-14)
  
• Togo - 2007 to 2014 - BMZ-Indikatorenkatalog & Krisenfrüherkennung (Country analyses, Conflict Prevention  & Political Economic Short Analyses, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, (BMZ), Bonn)
• IP-Coaching of aid personel (BMZ, KfW, giz) dealing with Togo at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Bonn, 2013
• Backstopping on 'Criteria of German-African cooperation in a partnership of equals', for 'Partnership with Africa' (NGO) & 'Africa Initiative' of the Federal Ministry for Cooperation and Development (BMZ), February, 2013
• "Afrikanische Migranten vor der Festung Europa", Vortrag & Diskussion. Zielgruppe: Generalstabslehrgang "Krisenprävention, -intervention und - nachsorge", Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr, Hamburg, Di., d. 5. Januar 2010
• Training for International Diplomats - 1st Executive Seminar for Diplomats from Africa. Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, November 20, 2007

Evaluation of research programmes:

• peer reviewer for European Science Foundation (ESF), Strasbourg, 2013
• DAAD-Evaluation: African Centres of Excellence, Double Centre at UWC, Cape Town, November 2011 to January 2012
• EU-FP7: 7th EU Framework Programme (2007/08)
• Volkswagen Foundation, Cooperative Research Projects in Sub-Saharan; 'Knowlege for Tomorrow' initiative (2006)

Media: interviews, videos & articles (selection):

• "Schwelbrand vor den Wahlen in Togo", Interview mit Peter Hille, Chefredaktion, Deutsche Welle, 1 July 2013
• Weder das Militär noch die Nato könnten Boko Haram besiegen (Unruhen in Nigeria), Interview (Tages-Anzeiger (Zürich), 11 January 2012)

• Aufgeheizte Milizen und Warlords in Abidjan
  Wahlbeobachter beurteilt Lage in der Elfenbeinküste kritisch. Dirk Kohnert im Gespräch mit Anne Raith (Deutschlandfunk - Deutschlandradio, April 12, 2011)

• Schwerpunkt: Nigeria steht vor wichtigen Entscheidungen (Audio-Datei)
  Interview (Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRF: DRS 4 aktuell, April 11, 2011)

• Entscheidungskampf in der Elfenbeinküste (Video)
  Interview (ZDF-heute journal, April 5, 2011)

• New panel aims to resolve intractable Ivory Coast problem
  Interview (DW-World - Deutsche Welle, February 7, 2011)

• Elfenbeinküste: Blutiger Machtkampf - Bürgerkrieg droht (Audio-Datei)
  Interview (ORF-Hörfunk - Mittagsjournal - Österreichischer Rundfunk, Wien, December 20, 2010)

• Ivory Coast violence escalates over power impasse
  Interview (DW-World.de English-Studio BRUSSELS, December 6, 2010)

• Schicksalswahl an der Elfenbeinküste: "Modelldemokratie in Afrika" patzt? (Audio-Datei),  (Deutsche Welle - Afrika, December 2, 2010)

• Brain-Drain aus Afrika
  Interview (die tageszeitung (taz), May 26, 2010)

• Ringen um die Macht
  Ablösung für Nigerias Präsidenten: zur Einsetzung von Vizepräsident Goodluck Jonathan als amtierendem Regierungschef
  Interview (Deutsche Welle, February 10, 2010)

• AU summit in Ethiopia (January 31 to February 2, 2010) and the future role of the AU in conflict prevention
  Interview (Deutsche Welle, February 2, 2010)

Lectures (selection):

• "Political and social framework requirements of cooperation between entrepreneurs and civil society in Africa", conference: “Creating the Future - New Strategies for civil societies in economics: The partnership approach”, Partnership with Africa / German Ministry for Economic Cooperation, bcc-Berlin,  December 9, 2012
• "Migration als Herausforderung für afrikanische Staaten". Fallstudie: Post-Apartheid Südafrika (migration as a challenge for African states, the case of South Africa)", Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, kath. Akademie Weingarten , Weingarten, December 4, 2010 (program)

• "Democratisation via elections in an African 'narco state'? - The case of Guinea-Bissau", CIEA 7 - Lisboa - 50 anos das independências africanas: desafios para a modernidade, CIEA, Lisbon, September 9, 2010

• "Sind Chinesen in Afrika innovativer als Afrikaner? Innovationskulturen chinesischer und nigerianischer Migranten in Westafrika", Chinas Engagement – Segen oder Fluch für Afrika?, STUBE, Hoisbüttel, Ammersbeck/Hamburg, August 28, 2010

• "Societal dynamics and fragility: Lessons from Africa" , GIGA-GTZ Workshop, Hamburg, July 1, 2010

• "Afrikanische Migranten vor der Festung Europa", HIS-Vortragsreihe: Menschen ohne Papiere. Hamburger Beiträge zur Erforschung irregulärer Migration, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, May 26, 2010

• "New Nationalism and Xenophobia in Africa?" (panel organizer and chair, in cooperation with Prof. N. Kersting), Continuities, Dislocations and Transformations: Reflections on 50 Years of African Independence, Biennial conference of the African Studies Association in Germany (VAD), Mainz, April 10, 2010

• "Konzepte und Effektivität der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit am Beispiel des subsaharischen Afrikas", V. Jahrestagung Illegalität: Irreguläre Migration - zwischen Grenzüberschreitung und Ausgrenzung. Katholische Akademie in Berlin e.V., Berlin, March 5, 2009 (program)

• "Westafrika ­ eine aktuelle soziokulturelle und wirtschaftliche Darstellung", Herausforderung Afrika: Seminar für Angehörige des
  BW-Einsatzführungskommandos, Geltow, Haus Rissen, Hamburg, September 1, 2008

• "Rahmenbedingungen des Publizierens in wissenschaftlichen Afrika-Zeitschriften", Grenzen und Übergänge / Frontieres et Passages / Frontiers and Passages, VAD, Freiburg / Basel, May 14, 200

• "Cultures of innovation of the African poor. Common roots, shared traits, joint prospects?", 16. ISA World Congress of Sociology, Durban/South Africa, July 23-29, 2006, Research Committee 09 - Social Transformations and Sociology of Development, Session 02: Global Modernity, Civilizations and Local Life-Worlds (Part II)

• "Cultures of innovation as articulation of multiple modernities in Africa and Latin America", Innovations and Reproductions in Cultures and Societies (IRICS), INST, Vienna, December 9-11, 2005

• "Country strategy papers: strategic management tools for international NGOs?", Neuere Ansätze der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit; Jahreskonferenz, Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss Entwicklungsländer, Cologne, July 2-3, 2004

Referee for scholarly journals:

• African Affairs: "top-ranked Africanist journal as measured by ISI journal impact factor (1.264, in 2008), placing it second overall within Area Studies and above all other Africanist journals"
• Africa Spectrum, GIGA, Hamburg, ISI indexed
• Global Networks, a Journal of Transnational Affairs, Wiley-Blackwell, ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 5/53 (Anthropology)
• Hamburg Review of Social Sciences, University of Hamburg
• Journal of Common Market Studies, UACES, ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 39/93 Economics
• Journal of International Migration and Integration (Springer)

• Journal of Modern African Studies, Cambridge University Press, ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking 2007: Area Studies 16/37
• Local Government Studies, Routledge (Taylor & Francis); highly ranked in the ISI Social Science Citation Index; 2008 Impact Factor: 0.514; 62/99 (Political Science), 21/28 (Public Administration), 33/43 (Planning & Development)(according to own advertisement)
• Culture and Religion - An Interdisciplinary Journal, Routledge/Taylor&Francis
• Social Science & Medicine: Social Science & Medicine has recently been rated by Thomson ISI as the world's most cited social science journal over a decade. Published since 1967, Social Science & Medicine came top of the top 20 out of 629 journals; journal impact factor 2.604 (2009)
• Sociologus, Journal of Empirical Social Anthropology, Duncker&Humblot, Berlin; ISI-indexed

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