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Research Interests

My current research interests include violent conflict, local governance and local self-defence (militias, vigilantes), international development and drug trafficking. Regionally, my main focus is on Afghanistan and Mexico.

Curriculum Vitae

since 2020 Scientific Staff Member in the project “Determinants and Consequences of Militia Performance“, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften, University of Osnabrück

2018 - 2019 Project Manager “Rural policing in Southern Mexico” in cooperation with the Stanford University, Berghof Foundation

2016-2017 Scientific Staff Member, C9 Project “Afghanistan”, Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700, Free University Berlin

2016 Scholar in Residence at the German Foreign Office, Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700, Free University Berlin

2014 - 2016 Project Manager “Patronage and Corruption”, Berghof Foundation

since 2010 Consultant in international development, Partner in ARC GbR Koehler & Gosztonyi

2004 - 2009 Senior Consultant, Control Risks

2003 Consultant in international development (Afghanistan, Albania)

2002 Return and Reconstruction Task Force Officer, Office of the High Representative, Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina

2000 - 2001 Associate Field Officer, UNHCR Mallawi (in the Tamil Tiger held areas), Sri Lanka

1998 - 2000 Return and Reconstruction Task Force Officer, Office of the High Representative, Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina

1994 - 2003 Ph.D. Free University Berlin

1996 - 1997 Non-degree graduate study at Yale University (Political Science) with a DAAD fellowship

1989 - 1994 M.A. Social Anthropology, Balkan Studies, Economy

Journal articles:

Juan, Alexander De/Gosztonyi, Kristóf/Koehler, Jan 2019: Conditional Effects of Aid on Political Perceptions – Mixed Methods Evidence from North East Afghanistan, in: European Journal of International Relations, at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066119883686.
Koehler, Jan/Gosztonyi, Kristóf/Feda, Basir/Child, Keith 2015: Mixed method impact evaluation - making stabilisation assessments work for development cooperation, in: EPSJ 10: 2, 61-74, at: http://www.epsjournal.org.uk/index.php/EPSJ/article/view/229; 09.10.2015.
Gosztonyi, Kristóf/Koehler, Jan/Feda, Basir 2015: Taming the Unruly: The Integration of Northern Afghan Militias into the Afghan Local Police, in: Sicherheit +Frieden 33: 4, 218-224.
Koehler, Jan/Gosztonyi, Kristof 2014: The international intervention and its impact on security governance in North-East Afghanistan, in: International Peacekeeping 21: 2, 231-250, at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2014.910402.
Gosztonyi, Kristóf 2004. Ehre unter Schmugglern? Ethnische Netzwerke im Zigarettenschmuggel in der Nachwendezeit (1991-1994). Sociologus, 54:1, pp. 21-50.
Grandits, Hannes/Gosztonyi, Kristóf 2003. Nationalismus und diskrete Versöhnung. Das neue interethnische Zusammenleben im Süden Bosnien-Herzegowinas, in: Südosteuropa 52, 2003, pp. 198–228, 2004.

Other

Koehler, Jan/Gosztonyi, Kristóf/Koehler, Anastasia/Sarmiento Huasco, Vladimir 2019: Institution-centered conflict research: Investigating patterns and dynamics of state–society relations in three Peruvian regions through the lens of local conflicts, in: SAGE Research Methods Cases, at: https://methods.sagepub.com/base/download/Case/institution-conflict-research-state-society-relations-in-peruvian-regions; 21.03.2019.
Feda, Basir/Gosztonyi, Kristof/Koehler, Jan 2018: Militias: a curse or a cure. A study on factors constraining militia behaviour from North-East Afghanistan, Berlin, Berghof Foundation, at: https://www.berghof-foundation.org/fileadmin/redaktion/Publications/Papers/CTR_Paper_feda_gosztonyi_koehler.pdf; 20.09.2018, Foundation, Berghof.
Koehler, Jan/Gosztonyi, Kristóf 2011. Sub-district governance. Social engineering and local governance in north-east Afghanistan, In: Schaper, Marcus (Ed.): Good Enough Governance. Wie kommt der Südsudan zu tragfähiger Staatlichkeit und funktionierender Verwaltung?, Loccum, pp.. 39-64, 2011.
Elwert, Georg/Gosztonyi, Kristof 2009. Violence and ethnicity. In: Egbert Jahn (ed.) Nationalism in Late and Post-Communist Europe. All three volumes: Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 110-132, 2008/2009.
Gosztonyi, Kristóf 1997. Route 22-Lateinamerikanische Zuwanderer in einem Vorort von New York City. In: Zuwanderung und Stadtentwicklung. (Hartmut Häußermann, Ingrid Oswald, eds.), Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen. pp 255-272, 1997.
Gosztonyi, Kristóf 1993. Nationalitätenkonflikte in ehemals sozialistischen Ländern. Ein spieltheoretisches Modell, in: Osteuropa, 43, pp. 630-640, 1993.