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Conrad Schetter studied geography, history, education, at the University of Bonn. From 1999 to 2013, he worked at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn, where he most held the position of Acting Director. Since 2013, Conrad Schetter has been the Director of bicc.
Conrad Schetter
Key expertise
- refugees
- Afghanistan
- Pakistan
- conflict
- forced replacement
- humanitarianism
- returnees
Current affiliation
- bicc – Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies
- Uni-Bonn – University of Bonn
Regional expertise
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- South Asia
- Middle East
Professional career
Conrad Schetter studied Geography, History, Education, Persian and Indonesian at the University of Bonn. From 1999 to 2013, he worked at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn, where he most held the position of Acting Director. Since 2013, Conrad Schetter hold a professorship for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Bonn and is the Director of the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (bicc). He 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 respect to forced migration his focus lies on IDPs, returnees and reintegration in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Conrad Schetter has given advice to German ministries as well as to GOs and NGOs. Among others he is member of the presidency of Welthungerhilfe and of the Board of Trustees of IDOS as well as member of the Advisory Boards of Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung (DSF) and Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden (SEF).
Profile according to FFVT taxonomy
Scientific topics
- Borders
- Conflict Mediation
- Environment And Climate
- Experience Of Violence, Trauma
- Humanitarianism
- Refugee Camp
- Return And Deportation
- Transnational Networks
- Causes Of Displacement
Research fields
- Development Research
- Peace And Conflict Studies
Relevant publications
- Mielke, K., & Schetter, C. (forthcoming). Afghan Globalism and Afghanistan’s Insulation: Transnational Relations before and after 2021. In: Etzold, B., Godin, M. (eds.): Translocal Lives in Times of Conflict Understanding People’s (Im)Mobilities and (Dis)Connections under Conditions of Violence and War. Cham: Springer, forthcoming.
- Mielke, K., Schmeidl, S., Schetter, C. (forthcoming). Displacement and Return Dynamics in Post-2021 Afghanistan. How Development Actors Can Respond to the Dilemmas and Risks Generated by Mass Returns from Pakistan and Iran. bicc Working Paper series. Bonn: bicc.
- Müller-Koné, M., Schmitz-Pranghe, C., Schetter, C. (2017). Flucht und Binnenvertreibung in Asien: Ansatzpunkte für und Grenzen der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. bicc Working Paper Series. Bonn: bicc.
- Bohnet, H., Mielke, K., Rudolf, M., Schetter, C., Vollmer, R. (2015). Protected rather than Protracted: Strengthening displaced Persons in Peace Processes. bicc Working Paper series. Bonn: bicc.
- Schetter, C. (2012). Translocal Lives. Patterns of Migration in Afghanistan. ZEF Crossroads Asia Working Paper Series. Bonn: University of Bonn.