VITA Timothy Williams

 

EDUCATION

2023

Habilitation at University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Department of Social Sciences and Public Affairs (Germany)

2017

PhD Political Science (focus on Peace and Conflict Studies) at Marburg University (Germany) awarded: summa cum laude (with the highest distinction)

2011

MSc Comparative Politics (Conflict Studies Stream) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)

2010

BA Political Science at Mannheim University (Germany), including Erasmus at American University in Bulgaria (2009)

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

since 03/2021

Co-Chairman of the Research Centre RISK                  University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Germany)

since 12/2019

Bundeswehr University Munich (Germany)

Junior professor of insecurity research and social order

05/2017-09/2019

Centre for Conflict Studies at Marburg University (Germany)

Post-doctoral research fellow in project “Cultural Heritage of Conflict: Peacebuilding and the Politics of Memory”

04/2013-09/2019

Centre for Conflict Studies at Marburg University (Germany)

Research and teaching fellow

07/2019

Faculty of Social Sciences and International Relations at Pannasastra University (Cambodia)

Visiting professor

11/2017-12/2018

Centre for Conflict Studies at Marburg University (Germany)

Project leader and post-doctoral research fellow in project “Victimhood after mass violence. How victim participation at the ECCC and other dealing with the past projects effect justice”

01/-03/2018

Center for Southeast Asian Studies at American University of Phnom Penh (Cambodia)

Affiliate research fellow

06/-12/2016

International Nuremberg Principles Academy (Germany)

Peer Academic Writing Mentor, consulting research fellows on research design, methodology and writing competitive academic papers

07/2015

Armenian Genocide Memorial and Institute in Yerevan (Armenia)

Lemkin Scholarship Fellow

01/-07/2012

Maplecroft in Bath (UK)

Country risk researcher with regional focus: Asia, particularly South and Southeast Asia; topical focus: conflict and terrorism, human security, governance, human, civil and political and labour rights

09/-11/2011

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (Thailand)

Research Scholarship to conduct research on the Muslim secessionist conflict in Southern Thailand (funded by the Royal Thai Embassy in London)

05/-07/2009

Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (Germany)

Research internship

10/2008-04/2010

Chair of Political Science III (Prof. Dr. W. C. Müller), Mannheim University (Germany)

Student research assistant

   
   

AWARDS

06/2018

PhD Award 2017 of Marburg University for PhD thesis (tied to prize sum of 1,000€)

06/2018

Gert-Sommer-Award for Peace Psychology of the Forum Friedenspsychologie [Forum for Peace Psychology] for PhD thesis (tied to prize sum of 1,000€)

07/2017

Emerging Scholar Prize of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (tied to prize sum of 1,000 USD)

07/2015

Raphael Lemkin Scholarship of the Armenian Genocide Memorial and Institute

 

 

 

 

GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS (SELECTION)

10/2024-09/2028

German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ): Junior research group; co-applicant (currently in the selection process of the junior research group leader; “Supporting the definition and verification of an arms control treaty for space (SACS)”; total: €2,146,516.90

09/2024

German Foundation for Peace Research: Conference funding;  applicant; total: €9,650

06/2023-06/2024

German Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency: Funding for the research project “Discrimination and resilience. Memory and continuities among Roma.” (DiREKt-Roma);  project leader (PI); total: €194,377.13

01/2021-12/2026

Funding (incl. extension) for the SPARTA research project (by dtec.bw - Center for Digitalization and Technology Research of the German Bundeswehr. dtec.bw also with funds from the European Union - NextGenerationEU); co-applicant in the core team with Jasmin Riedl as PI; total: €6.24 million.

01/2019-07/2024

British Academy ‘Tackling the UK’s International Challenges: Justice, Rights and Equality’ Grant for research project “Perpetrators' Reflections on Kwibuka25: Accountability and Justice on the 25th Commemoration of the ‘1994 Genocide of the Tutsi’ in Rwanda'” (49,839 GBP) (co-applicant, with Erin Jessee as PI)

11/2017-10/2018

Grant by German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) for research project “Victimhood after mass violence. How victim participation at the ECCC and other dealing with the past projects effect justice” (€108,043) (PI)

 

 

 

 

 

EDITORS

since 02/2023

Journal on Citizenship and Human Rights Studies: member of the editorial board

02/2021-03/2023

Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (ZeFKo Studies in Peace and Conflict Studie): Co-editor-in-chief with Hartwig Hummel, Hanna Pfeifer and Solveig Richter

since 12/2018 Journal of Perpetrator Research: section editor for sociology / politics

 

 

 

 

POLITICAL CONSULTING

since 05/2024

Member of the expert group ‘Possibilities and conditions for collecting anti-discrimination and equality data on discrimination in the area of antiziganism’ convened by the German Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency

05/2024
In-depth briefing on peace and security for incoming diplomat in German Embassy in Cambodia
05/2020

giz Global Network International Cooperation in Conflicts and Disasters Working Group Dealing with the Past/Transitional Justice: “Victim Participation in TJ Processes – Cambodia and Beyond” (with Julie Bernath) (digital)

06/2019

KOFF (Swiss Platform for Peacebuiding)/swisspeace, Bern (Switzerland): “Victim Participation in Cambodia’s Dealing with the Past Process” (with Julie Bernath)

03/2019
Federal Ministry of International Cooperation and Development, Bonn (Germany): Presentation of final results of Victimhood after Mass Violence project (with Julie Bernath)

 

ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS & NETWORKS

since 10/2024 Fellow of the Bavarian Research Alliance for Peace, Conflict and Security Studies
since 09/2023

Member of the research project Discourses of Mass Violence in Comparative Perspective with Juliane Prade-Weiss, Dominik Markl and Vladimir Petrovic, incl. organising “Ideology and Complicity in Mass Violence Roundtable. Book discussion of Jonathan Leader Maynard’s Ideology and Mass Killings and Mihaela Mihai’s Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care

since 07/2023 International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS): Second Vice President (re-elected 07/2023); previously appointed member of the Executive Board as a representative of emerging scholars (07/2017-07/2021) and head of the Strategic Planning Commission (12/2019-07/2021)
since 03/2021

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (AFK) [German Peace and Conflict Studies Association]: Member of the Executive Board (re-elected 03/2023)

 

since 01/2021 Founder and co-coordinator of the Perpetrator Studies Network book launch series (with Susanne Knittel)
since 04/2020

Founder and co-convener of the international research network Research on Atrocities, Ideologies and Identities Network (RAIIN) (with Jonathan Leader Maynard)

 

since 12/2019

Partner in the Practices of Violence Online-Encyclopaedia