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Stefan Wolff
stefan[at]stefanwolff.com
Stefan Wolff is Professor of Political Science at the University of Nottingham, England, UK. Dr. Wolff holds a Masters Degree from Magdalene College, Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr. Wolff previously taught at the University of Keele and the University of Bath. He has held visiting professorships at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna Center, the University of Sofia, Humboldt University Berlin and Free University Berlin. Since 2003, he has been a Resource Fellow of the Open Society Institute's Academic Fellowship Programme. He is also an International Associate of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-determination at Princeton University. Since 2005, Wolff has been a Teaching Fellow at the Joint Services Command and Staff College of the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom, where he also served as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in 2006. In 2003, he was appointed Senior Non-resident Research Associate at the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany. In 2006, he was elected as the first-ever Europe-based member of the Advisory Board of the "Minorities at Risk".
A political scientist by background, Stefan Wolff specializes in the management of contemporary security challenges, especially in the prevention and settlement of ethnic conflicts and in post-conflict reconstruction in deeply divided and war-torn societies. He has extensive expertise in Northern Ireland, the Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe, and has also worked on a wide range of other conflicts elsewhere, including the Middle East, Africa, and Central, South and Southeast Asia. In addition to his academic research, Wolff is a consultant for major national and international governmental and non-governmental organizations and the private sector.
Dr. Wolff's publications to date include eleven books and over twenty journal articles and book chapters. Published by Oxford University Press in 2006 (paperback in 2007), Wolff's Ethnic Conflict: A Global Perspective is the first major treatment of the subject aimed at a broad general audience and has been highly acclaimed by academics, policymakers, and business leaders. His Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe (with Karl Cordell) was published by Palgrave as the first comprehensive analysis of ethnic politics across the European continent in 2004 and has won critical praise from scholars and analysts. Wolff is the founding editor of Ethnopolitics, a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of ethnic conflicts and their management around the globe.