Academic staff

  • Dr Luuk Slooter (Programme Coordinator)

    Luuk Slooter is Assistant Professor, lecturer, thesis supervisor and Programme Coordinator of the CSHR programme. His research interests include urban violence, structural inequalities and policing.

  • Dr Chris van der Borgh

    Chris van der Borgh is an Assiociate Professor, lecturer and thesis supervisor and member of the core team of the CSHR programme. His research interests include international intervention and post-war politics, civic space; and security politics.

  • Dr Iva Vukusic

    Iva Vukusic is Assistant Professor and lecturer and thesis supervisor for the CSHR programme. Her research interests include genocide and atrocity crimes; perpetrators of mass violence; irregular armed groups; criminal accountability; and transitional justice.

  • Prof. Jolle Demmers

    Jolle Demmers is Professor and lecturer for the CSHR programme. Her research interests include remote warfare; theories of violent conflict; (re)instituting violence in the 21st century; and the spatial and temporal reconfiguration of warfare.

  • Dr Lennart Bolliger

    Lennart Bolliger is Assistant Professor and a thesis supervisor for the CSHR programme. His research interests include anti-colonial wars, veterans’ politics, mercenaries, military communities; and gender and militarism.

  • Dr Mario Fumerton

    Mario Fumerton is Assistant Professor and head of selection and thesis supervisor for the CSHR programme. His research interests include contentious politics; mobilisation of collective action; militia studies; militia governance; and militia violence and restraint.

  • Dr Thijs Jeursen

    Thijs Jeursen is Assistant Professor and lecturer and thesis supervisor for the CSHR programme. His research interests include policing, state violence, militarization, digital media; and technology and warfare.

  • Dr Róisín Burke

    Róisín Burke is Assistant Professor and lecturer for the CSHR programme. Her research interests include human rights; law of peace operations; women peace and security; and international law (public, criminal, humanitarian). 

  • Prof Dr Antoine Buyse

    Antoine Buyse is full professor of human rights from a multidisciplinary perspective and lecturer in the CSHR programme. He is also director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at Utrecht University. His research focuses both on ECHR-related issues as well as on the position of civil society.

  • Dr Francesca Hooft

    Francesca Hooft is thesis supervisor in the CSHR programme. Her research interests include military interventions, humanitarianism and peacebuilding, transitional justice, memory, and the relationship between conflict and the environment.

  • Dr Françios Lenfant

    Dr. François Lenfant is thesis supervisor in the CSHR programme and project associate/principal consultant for International Alert. His areas of expertise are the ‘resource curse’, conflict sensitivity, sustainable development, and the economic dimensions of peace and conflict processes, predominantly in Central Africa (Rwanda, DRC).

  • Dr Fabio Christiano

    Fabio Cristiano is Assistant Professor, lecturer, and thesis supervisor in the CSHR programme. His research interests include cyber conflict and security, emerging technology and conflict, socio-technical knowledge production, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  • Drs Lieneke de Visser

    Lieneke de Visser is a thesis supervisor in the CSHR programme. Her interests centre on the African continent, particularly hybrid governance, contemporary conflicts, anti-colonial wars and peacebuilding.

  • Dr Olga Zeveleva

    Olga Zeveleva is thesis supervisor in the CSHR programme. She is a political sociologist specializing in human rights, prisons, and state violence.