[ARC - berlin ]

		Jan Koehler: (founding member of ARC) received his degree from Freie Universität Berlin in Social Anthropology. He has been consulting for the past years, including assignments for the Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), the German Ministry for Development, the German and Dutch Ministries of Defence, The World Bank, World Vision Germany, Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), and BeTbi ltd. and as tutor for the German Foreign Office and the Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung (DSE). His experience includes extensive fieldwork in the successor states of the Soviet Union and Afghanistan. He has focused primarily on conflict and peace processes in the South Caucasus, in Central Asia and in Afghanistan. The results of his work are available in various publications. He is, together with Christoph Zürcher, the editor of Potentials of (Dis)Order: Conflict and Stability in the Caucasus and in Former Yugoslavia. Manchester UP and, together with Sonja Heyer, editor of Anthropologie der Gewalt: Chancen und Grenzen der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung.

		Christoph Zuercher: (founding member of ARC) has been consulting for, among others, the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the BMZ, the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The World Bank, TACIS, World Vision, Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GTZ, International Helsinki Federation, Vienna, NUPI Oslo, The Marshall Center, Garmisch. Christoph Zürcher is also currently professor of International Politics at Department of Political and Social Sciences of Free University Berlin. He received his PhD from the University of Bern, Switzerland, in 1996. From 2003 – 2005 he was Research Chair for Conflict Research of the “Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft” at the Institute of East European Studies, Free University Berlin. His previous teaching and research appointments include the University of Konstanz, Germany, the institut d’études politiques d’Aix-en-Provence, and Stanford University. His research interests include conflict research, methods of empirical conflict research, state-building and intervention, international governance and development. His regional focus is on the Former Soviet Union especially on Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia including Afghanistan.

		Alexey Gunya : Received his degree in Geography at Moscow Lomonossov State University. His main field of research is development and conflict in mountain regions. He is the author of more than 60 publications. During the last 15 years he carried out field investigations in Central Asia (in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan), in the Caucasus and in the Altai region. He participated in projects of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. At present he is taking part in the elaboration of development strategies in North-Caucasian republics of Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachai-Cherkessia and Adygeia. He is affiliated with the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Science, with the University of Peoples’ Friendship (Moscow). Currently, he is a senior researcher at Free U Berlin.

		Kristóf Gosztonyi: Before re-joining the ARC-team, Kristóf was a senior consultant for a multi-national business risks consultancy (Control-Risks Group Berlin). He specialised in supporting multi-national companies in identifying their corruption risks by working with them too build up preventive systems to counter these risks. Regionally he predominantly focused on countries of the Western Balkans, but also participated in projects based in Nigeria. Previously, Kristóf worked as part of the ARC-team on projects for the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Afghanistan, as well as for projects of the German Reconstruction Credit Institute (KfW) in Albania as well as for UNHCR. Kristóf has also worked for international organisations in Bosnia and Herzegovina (European Administration of Mostar and OHR) and Sri Lanka (UNHCR). Kristóf is a social anthropologist and political scientist and wrote his Ph.D. evaluating negotiation strategies applied by international organisations when working in conflict zones. He has extensive field work experience in the Balkans, Afghanistan and in Latin American and Southeast Asian (Vietnamese) migrant environments. His main research interests include empirical conflict research, negotiations and corruption studies as well as IDP returns, economic development, good governance and local government capacity building.

		Paula Hanaszhas spent over two years leading socio-political research and analysis, and conducting psychological operations for the NATO mission in Afghanistan. She focused primarily on gauging Afghan public opinion on governance and development issues, including anti-corruption initiatives, growth of democracy, women's rights, and reintegration and reconciliation of insurgent groups. Paula holds a MScEcon Intelligence Studies from Aberystwyth University (UK). Her dissertation explored the misnomer of the 'new Great Game' in Central Asia. Paula has also worked for the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.

		Kristin Bergmann-Warnecke: is a student of psychology and political sciences at the Universität Trier. After receiving her bachelor degree from the Mittuniversitetet in Östersund, Sweden, she now finishes her diploma in Trier. She contributes to the statistical analyses of the survey data for the assessment of the impact of development cooperation in North East Afghanistan.

		Jan R. Böhnke: studied psychology and political sciences at the University of Konstanz in Germany (Master Degree). Since 2005 he has been working as a freelance research consultant in several fields of research - especially quality management and evaluation in health care and medical research. In 2007 he held a research fellowship at the Free University of Berlin where he planned the survey design for the "North East Afghanistan Longitudinal Study" (NEA:LTS). He has been working on that project ever since and is responsible for data management and all quantitative analyses. Since 2007 he is working as a lecturer and research associate at the University of Trier. His research and teaching activities cover quantitative as well as qualitative research methodology with a focus on process evaluation. He was awarded one of the 2010 SPR Travel Awards for the 2010 International Meeting in Asilomar and he was granted a scholarship to visit the Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge to teach multivariate research methods in 2010.

		Sarah Riese is currently doing a PhD in political science at Free University Berlin where she also received her Master’s degree. She is a research associate in the research team working on Post-War Democratic Transitions led by Christoph Zuercher and has contributed to a number of publications. Her own research focuses on the interaction of peacebuilders and political elites in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she has conducted field research in 2010. She has worked on issues related to post-conflict peacebuilding and development with different NGOs in South Eastern Europe and Berlin, and with GTZ in Eschborn.