Dr Patricia Rinck

Head of Publication Management (On Leave)

Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research
Schifferstr. 44
47059 Duisburg
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)203 379-5241
Fax: +49 (0)203 379-5276
E-Mail: rinck@gcr21.uni-due.de

Vita

04-09/2023	University of Bielefeld Researcher
2016-2022	University of Duisburg-Essen Faculty of Social Sciences PhD student, dissertation title: 'Peacebuilding and exclusion in Sierra Leone: a feminist perspective on political settlements and post-conflict transformation'
Since 08/2013	Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research Researcher
05/2018-06/2018, 10/2017-12/2017	Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone Research Stay
10/2015-02/2018	Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) Researcher: Project ‘Disentangling International and Local Understandings in Peacebuilding. Insights from the ‘Laboratory’ of Bougainville’, funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research
03/2011-07/2013	Institute for Development and Peace (INEF); Institute for Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen; Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research Research Assistant to Prof. Dr. Debiel
10/2010-09/2013	University of Duisburg-Essen M.A. in International Relations and Development Policy
06/2013-07/2013	Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown Research Stay
09/2008-04/2009	Brunel University West London, UK Study Programme International Politics
10/2006-09/2010	Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg B.A. in European Studies

Teaching Responsibilities

Universität Bielefeld, Summer semester 2023

University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute of Political Science, seminar on development in Subsaharan Africa (Summer semester 2020, 2021)

Membership

Associate Editor, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

Awards

Mentee, Mentoring-hoch3 Programme, Research Academy Ruhr, 2018
Award for best M.A. Thesis at the Institute for Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, 2014

Expertise and Consulting Work

Reviewer for:

International Peacekeeping
Third World Quarterly
Third World Thematics
SAGE Open
Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
International Studies Perspectives

Research Interest

Post-conflict peacebuilding
Statebuilding
Sierra Leone
Political settlements
Power sharing
Development policy
Peace and conflict studies
Feminist peace research

Current Projects

Peacebuilding and exclusion in Sierra Leone: a feminist perspective on political settlements and post-conflict transformation, PhD project (completed in December 2022)

Seminars and Conferences

A feminist political settlement perspective on intervention in Sierra Leone’s resource sector, ISA, Montréal, 15.-18.03.2023
Peacebuilding, power and exclusion: a feminist political settlement perspective on post-conflict transformation in Sierra Leone, EISA, Athen, 01.-04.09.2022
Roundtable „Peacebuilding and military intervention in a rapidly changing world order“, EISA, Athen, 01.-04.09.2022
Workshop „Interventionism, peace and security in a rapidly changing world order“, Koorganisation (coorganised with Anna Geis and Siddharth Tripathi), Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg, 27.-28.06.2022
Gendered exclusion in land and resource governance: a feminist political settlement perspective on post-conflict reforms in Sierra Leone, International Studies Association (ISA), online participation, 28.02.-02.04.2022
23rd Käte Hamburger Dialogue on the War in Ukraine, 24.03.2022, online roundtable, co-organiser
Gendered exclusion in land and resource governance: a feminist political settlement perspective on post-conflict reforms in Sierra Leone, AFK-Kolloquium, Universität Konstanz, online participation, 17.-19.03.2022
Panel ‘The Justification and Legitimation of Peacebuilding Interventions and Resistance’, Panel organiser and chair, Midterm Conference: New Avenues of Global Cooperation Research, Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg and online, 15.-16.11.2021
What can we ‘see’ through a feminist lens? Reflections on research on post-conflict Sierra Leone (with Samantha Ruppel), Workshop Friedensforschung, Friedensbildung und (De)Kolonialität, University Klagenfurt and University Augsburg, virtual workshop, 27.-29.10.2021
Gendered exclusion in land and resource governance: a feminist political settlement perspective on post-conflict reforms in Sierra Leone, European International Studies Association (EISA), virtual conference, 13.-17.09.2021
Decentralisation and the gendered politics of scale in post-conflict Sierra Leone, Paper, DVPW-Kongress, virtual conference, 14.-16.09.2021
Post-conflict transformation and gendered exclusion in Sierra Leone: a feminist political settlement perspective on decentralisation and local governance reforms, Paper, International Studies Association (ISA), virtual conference, 06.-09.04.2021
Post-conflict transformation and exclusion in Sierra Leone: Assessing the analytical potential of a feminist political settlement perspective, Paper, AFK-Kolloquium, virtual conference, 17.-19.03.2021
Politics of scale in Peace- und Statebuilding-Interventionen – Überlegungen zu den Post-Konflikt-Transformationsprozessen in Sierra Leone und Bougainville”, Workshop “Die ‘Politics of Scale’ in der deutschsprachigen Politikwissenschaft”, online workshop, 19./20. November 2020
'The Local/International Interface in Peacebuilding: Experiences from Bougainville and Sierra Leone' (with Volker Boege), European International Studies Association (EISA), Barcelona, Spain, 13.-16.09.2017.
'Working Across Differences: Challenges and Options for Local-International Interactions in Peacebuilding', international joint workshop of the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen as well as the Working Group on Peace and Development (FriEnt), co-organiser and panel chair, Berlin, Germany, 02.03.2017.
'The Peacebuilding Process in Sierra Leone: The Success Story of "Liberal Peacebuilding" Which Failed to Have a Transformative Impact', International Peace Research Association (IPRA) General Conference, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 27 November – 1 December 2016.
Workshop on 'Peacebuilding in Bougainville—Comparing International and Local Perceptions' (with Volker Boege), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 4 October 2016.
'Peacebuilding and Anti-corruption Policies in Sierra Leone', European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 7–10 September 2016.
'Peacebuilding Makes Strange Bedfellows: On the Political Economy of "International-Local" Partnerships in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone' (with Franziska Perlick and Tobias Debiel), 56th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), New Orleans, USA, 18–21 February 2015..
'Rethinking the Local in Peacebuilding: Moving away from the Liberal / Post-Liberal Divide' (with Tobias Debiel), 56th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), in New Orleans, USA, 18–21 February 2015.
'The Peacebuilding Process in Sierra Leone: The Success Story of "Liberal Peacebuilding" Which Failed to Have a Transformative Impact', International Peace Research Association (IPRA) General Conference, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 27 November – 1 December 2016.
Workshop on 'Peacebuilding in Bougainville—Comparing International and Local Perceptions' (with Volker Boege), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 4 October 2016.

Publications

Laura Isabella Brunke / Tobias Debiel / Elvan Isikozlu / Clara Perras / Patricia Rinck / Carolin Rosenberg / Victoria Scheyer / Cornelia Ulbert / Lars Wirkus / Simone Wisotzki / Carmen Wunderlich (2022): Nachhaltiger Frieden / Gender, Diversität und Gewalt, in: BICC, HSFK, IFSH, INEF (eds): Friedensgutachten 2022 / Friedensfähig in Kriegszeiten, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 71-88.
Rinck, Patricia / Tobias Debiel (eds) (2022): Perspectives on the War in Ukraine. Global Cooperation Research – A Quarterly Magazine, 1/2022, Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, www.gcr21.org/de/publikationen/gcr/global-cooperation-quarterly/global-cooperation-research-1-/-2022
Rinck, Patricia (2021): 'Die politics of scale im Peace- und Statebuilding – Was wir aus den Interventionen in Sierra Leone und Bougainville lernen können,' DVPW-Blog, 8 February.
Rinck, Patricia (2020): ‘We are black Chinese’ – Making sense of APC’s pro-China campaign in Sierra Leone’s 2018 elections, in: Christof Hartmann / Nele Noesselt (eds): China’s New Role in African Politics: From Non-Intervention towards Stabilization?, Global Cooperation Series. Abingdon: Routledge, 213-228.
Volker Boege / Patricia Rinck (2019): The Local/International Interface in Peacebuilding: Experiences from Bougainville and Sierra Leone, International Peacekeeping. DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2018.1561185, accessible online: bit.ly/2YryFJE
Volker Boege / Patricia Rinck / Tobias Debiel (2017): Local-International Relations and the Recalibration of Peacebuilding Interventions. Insights from the ‘Laboratory’ of Bougainville and Beyond. INEF-Report 112, Duisburg: Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden, accessible online: bit.ly/2LKpjas
Debiel, Tobias / Rinck, Patricia (2016): Rethinking the Local in Peacebuilding: Moving Away from the Liberal/Post-liberal Divide, in: Tobias Debiel / Thomas Held / Ulrich Schneckener (eds.), Peacebuilding in Crisis. Rethinking Paradigms and Practices of Transnational Cooperation, Routledge Global Cooperation Series, Abingdon: Routledge, 240–56.
Debiel, Tobias / Rinck, Patricia (2016): Statebuilding, in: Myriam Dunn Cavelty / Thierry Balzacq (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Security Studies, Second Edition, Abingdon: Routledge, 404–14.
Rinck, Patricia / Tobias Debiel (2016): Global Governance im Zeichen polyzentrischer Weltpolitik, in: Politikum 4/2016: Wer ordnet die Welt, 54–8.
Debiel, Tobias / Rinck, Patricia (2015): Die liberale Weltfriedensordnung in der Krise: Gewaltkonflikte in Zeiten konfrontativer Multipolarität, in: Michèle Roth / Cornelia Ulbert / Tobias Debiel (eds.), Globale Trends 2015. Perspektiven für die Weltgesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 33–58.
Debiel, Tobias / Rinck, Patricia (2015): Liberal Peace in Crisis: Armed Conflict in a Contested World Order, in: Michèle Roth / Cornelia Ulbert / Tobias Debiel (eds.), Global Trends 2015. Prospects for World Society, 31–57.
Debiel, Tobias / Rinck, Patricia (eds.) (2015): Globale Kooperationsforschung. Transdisziplinäre und transkulturelle Perspektiven, UNIKATE 47, University of Duisburg-Essen.
Rinck, Patricia (2015): Power Sharing and Democratic Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Societies: The Case of Sierra Leone, Publication series of the Institute for Political Science at the University Duisburg-Essen, Volume 22, Tectum Verlag Marburg.