Global Security Programme

Researcher
markus.hochmuller@pmb.ox.ac.uk

Markus is a Researcher at the Global Security Programme’s CONPEACE initiative, where he leads the unit on security governance. He is also the Co-PI of the project ‘Colombian Lessons? Assessing the Practical and Normative Consequences of Latin American South-South Security Cooperation’. He teaches criminology at Hertford College Oxford’s Visiting Student Programme and is an Affiliate Member of the Latin American Centre, where he co-directs the project ‘The Comeback of the Latin American Armed Forces’. Markus holds a PhD in political science from Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on security and development in Latin America with an emphasis on peace- and state-building, security sector reform, policing, and border governance

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
katerina.tkacova@pmb.ox.ac.uk

Kate is a researcher in the project Network for Change (continuation of the Conflict Platform project). She also works with Professor Wilson on the project Mapping Thirty Years War. Kate holds a doctorate from the Department of Government at the University of Essex. Before joining the University of Oxford, she served as Associate Lecturer at the Birkbeck University of London and Teaching Fellow at the University of Bath. Kate’s research interests include dynamics of armed conflicts, terrorism and quantitative research methods. Her PhD dissertation focused on identifying the main factors leading to ethnically motivated domestic terrorism and the connection between terrorism and civil wars.

Researcher
daire.mcgill@pmb.ox.ac.uk

Dáire McGill is a Researcher at the Global Security Programme’s CONPEACE initiative (Pembroke College, University of Oxford), where he leads the unit on Citizenship and Community Participation. He is also a Research Associate at Co-operation Ireland working on Communities in Transition, part of Northern Ireland’s cross-executive Tackling Paramilitarism Programme. His research focuses on community participation and collective action in societies undergoing war-to-peace transitions, drawing fundamentally from the fields of conflict studies, peacebuilding, structural violence, active citizenship, and transformative justice. Dáire holds a PhD from the Transitional Justice Institute (Ulster University) and has published in outlets such as State Crime Journal or the Routledge Transitional Justice book series.

Research Assistant (Afghanistan)

Ajmal is a Ph.D. candidate at University of Toronto specializing in international relations and comparative politics. His dissertation research focuses on the effects of Great Power rivalry on dynamics and discourse of domestic political opposition movements in developing states. He takes an in-depth look at the leftist movements in Afghanistan between 1964-1978 as his empirical case study. His research has been supported by the Ontario Graduate Scholarship and the SSHRC doctoral fellowship. He holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature and an M.A. in Political Science. Ajmal was born in Afghanistan, two years after the Red Army’s invasion. He grew up there witnessing and experiencing the ensuing turmoil first-hand.

Research Assistant (Afghanistan)

​​​​​Frederik is a second-year DPhil student in International Relations at the University of Oxford. In his DPhil thesis he focusses on the role of criminal markets in U.S. military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Beyond his DPhil, Frederik is interested in the changing character of international security and the drivers thereof. Frederik is the founder of a student-led journal at the University of Edinburgh which focusses on the intersection of global crime, justice, and security. He holds a BA in International Relations and MSc in Global Crime, Justice, and Security.  

Research Assistant (CONPEACE)

Felipe is a Colombian political scientist with a diploma in government management, and a Jaime and Raquel Gilinski Scholar of the MPP of Oxford University class 2020-2021. I have strived to play an essential role in reducing crime in Bogotá in the front line of the outreach teams contributing on the implementation of crime control and prevention policy. After almost nine years of different experiences in the field, alongside academic development, I became the adviser of the security secretary for Bogotá. Currently, I am the director of Bogotá Cómo Vamos, a Civil Society Organization that overviews the performance of Bogota’s government in improving the life quality of the citizens.

Coordinator

miguel.moctezuma@pmb.ox.ac.uk

Prior to joining the Global Security Programme, Miguel (Master of Public Policy and Chevening Scholar, 2020) was a public policy consultant at CIDE Mexico, a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, and a member of the research team at the Oxford People in Government Lab. He is currently working on a project that uses hyperspectral analysis of foliar nitrogen enrichment and machine-learning to find clandestine graves in Mexico. Miguel is a former President of the Oxford Mexican Society, a contributor for El País, the New York Post, El Heraldo de México and Animal Político, and a partner at Hackademy.lat, an organisation currently funded by the British Council which aims to train 5,000 Latin American women in soft-skills and software development by 2027.

He also holds a degree in Economics from the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Mexico), and a Master in Government and Public Affairs from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM.

Research Associate
jan.boesten@politics.ox.ac.uk

Jan is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations. He earned a PhD at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver with a dissertation on the Colombian Constitutional Court and its decision to curtail constitutional reform. Before, he worked on the effects of violence and the privatization of security on political institutions – both from an empirical and theoretical point of view. His work has appeared in Colombian journals such as Revista Colombia Internacional and Precedente: Revista Jurídica, as well as LARR and LASA Forum.

Research Associate​​​​​​

Chloé is a research associate working with the Global Security Programme’s Platform project, specifically on the African Great Lakes. She completed her DPhil at the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford, focusing on responses to sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Her research is particularly attentive to contemporary changes in the operation and analysis of armed conflict – especially around its interaction with gender – and how these bear upon changes in responses to armed conflict, in policy and in practice. Committed to working across scholarship, policy, and practice, Chloé has collaborated with the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, the World Bank, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), Search for Common Ground, MONUSCO, and the UK Ministry of Defence.

Event Consultant

Ana leads the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative busy programme of international events and the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network, and supporting OPHI’s communications. Prior to OPHI, she was part of the CONPEACE: From Conflict Actors to Architects of Peace programme as a researcher, consultant, and a Colombian focal point developing and organising cross-stakeholder fora and briefings. By training, Ana is a visual and material culture anthropologist. Her research agenda includes joint projects with vulnerable communities in Colombia. She has co-curated museum exhibitions and archival material for the University of Oxford, the National General Archive of Colombia, and the National University of Colombia.

Consultant

Jorge is a Senior Expert with the Latin America Programme at the Brussels-based European Institute of Peace (EIP) and an Associate Researcher at the Global Security Programme’s CONPEACE initiative. Delgado has worked in conflict management and peace & security in policy and programming roles for government and INGOs. Jorge’s academic research has focused on the strategic history of the Colombian conflict with an emphasis on the government forces’ strategy-making process. He is particularly interested in Colombia’s security sector dynamics in the post-peace accord transition. A former Chevening Scholar, Delgado holds a Ph.D. from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London.