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Jolle Demmers is Assistant Professor and co-founder of the Centre for Conflict Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She lectures and writes on conflict theory, the role of diasporas in violent conflict, and on ethnographies of neoliberalism. She was Associate Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley (2007) and guest lectured at the University of Ruhuna (Sri Lanka), Sabanci University (Turkey), Coimbra University (Portugal), and the European Peace University (Austria). Demmers studied Political Science and International Relations at the University of Amsterdam (MA, 1993) and carried out her PhD research on caciquismo, political violence and neoliberal reform in Mexico (Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University, PhD 1999). She is currently academic coordinator of the EU funded Marie Curie programme Sustainable Peacebuidling (2010-2014) and is academic representative of the Thematic Network Humanitarian Net (Peace and Conflict Studies). She has conducted years of fieldwork on political violence in central and southern Mexico and Sri Lanka. She is currently carrying out fieldwork on the Sri Lanka Tamil diaspora in La Chapelle, Paris. Her newest book Theories of Violent Conflict: an introduction (Routledge) is expected Spring 2011. Jolle also publishes regularly on xenophobia (e.g. Neoliberal Xenophobia: The Dutch Case).
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