Jutta Bakonyi Editor & Author

Jutta Bakonyi, PhD, worked at universities of Hamburg and Magdeburg and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany. Currently she is with the Civil Peace Service in Kenya. Fields of research: political sociology of world society and the state, causes and dynamics of violence and wars, conflict management, urbanisation. Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, PhD, is senior researcher and lecturer at the Institute for International Relations, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany. Fields of research include: the international politics of statebuilding, orders of violence, knowledge production in international conflict management, and charisma in politics.