Associated Researchers

Lecturers

 

 

Dr. Mitra Moussa Nabo

 
Lecturer
 

Mitra Moussa Nabo is researcher at the Nationales Zentrum für Kriminalprävention (National Center for Crime Prevention) in Bonn. He was a research associate at the professorship for International Politics and Conflict Research until 2017. Following his Magister program in Political Science and History in Osnabrück from 2003 to 2008, he received his doctorate in 2013 at the Bundeswehr University Munich on the (de)legitimacy of interventions by regional players in the Lebanese conflict.


Research priorities

  • Sociologically inspired theories of international relations, regional security research and sociological conflict research
  • His empirical or subject-related focus entails social order and societal dynamics in the Middle East (Levant and Gulf region) and issues relating to Islam and Islamism research.

 

 

Dr. Dorthe Siegmund

 
Affiliated Researcher
 
 

Dorthe Siegmund is a Middle East expert and holds a Ph.D. in peace and conflict studies. She finished her Ph.D. thesis at the Chair of International Politics and Conflict Studies, titled: “Local peace initiatives at the intersection of global culture and conflict context: an analysis of the status and significance of Israeli and Palestinian non-governmental organizations.” As part of this work, she undertook research stays in Israel and Palestine and was a visiting scholar at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2021 to 2024, she headed the Heinrich Böll Foundation Palestine and Jordan based in Ramallah.  Dorthe Siegmund teaches, conducts research, and gives lectures on topics including the Middle East conflict, political and social transformation processes in the Middle East and North Africa, shrinking civil society space, and international humanitarian law. She advises non-governmental organizations and political decision makers on European and German Middle East policy.

Research interests

Dorthe Siegmund's research interests include: international political sociology; norm diffusion in global society and local adaptation processes; theories and methods of conflict research (especially constructivist approaches); human security

Contact: dorthe.siegmund@web.de

https://de.linkedin.com/in/dorthe-siegmund-0482a995

 

Academic

2023 Ph.D. (magna cum laude), Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, University of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich. First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stephan Stetter (University of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich), second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bonacker (Philipps University of Marburg)

Dissertation topic: “Local peace initiatives at the intersection of global culture and conflict context: an analysis of the status and significance of Israeli and Palestinian non-governmental organizations.”

2004-2010: Master's degree in Political Science (major), History and Culture of the Middle East, and Turkology; Ethnology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Master's thesis on: “Egypt's mediating role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its potential for stabilizing the Middle East.”

Practical experience

Since 2025: Adjunct Lecturer at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt for the international master’s program: Conflict, Memory, and Peace (in cooperation with the Universidad Nacional de Colombia)

2025: Senior Program Officer for the Middle East and North Africa at the Heinrich Böll Foundation

2021-2024: Head of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Palestine and Jordan based in Ramallah

2018-2021 Advisor to the Joint Initiative for Humanitarian International Law in the Middle East by Misereor and Bread for the World

2016-2018: Co-head of the WIIS Regional Group Munich, Women in International Security

04/2016-05/2016: Research stay in Palestine and Israel, visiting scholar at the Heinrich Böll Foundation Palestine and Jordan

01/2015-04/2015: Research assistant/dean's assistant at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich

2014-present: Lecturer at the Chair of International Politics and Conflict Research (Prof. Dr. Stephan Stetter) at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich

2013-2014: Human resources consultant at Hürlimann & Partner (Intellectual Property), Munich

05/2013-07/2013: Project coordinator at the Goethe Institute e.V. Headquarters, Science and Current Affairs Department; project: Europe, an Economic Tale: The Current Financial Crisis – Perspectives from Europe and Beyondfor the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2013: The Future of Growth – Economic Values and the Media

2011-2013: PR consultant at Wörrlein Communication, Munich

092012-12/2012: Research stay in Israel and Palestine (DAAD funded); Visiting Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations

Scholarships

09/2012-12/2012: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): Research grant for a research stay in Israel and Palestine

04/2015-10/2018: Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V.: Doctoral scholarship (full-time)

Academic memberships

German Working Group on the Middle East (DAVO)

German Sociological Association (DGS), Political Sociology Section

European International Studies Association (EISA)

Language

German: native

English: business fluent

Modern Standard Arabic: advanced