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