Cindy Wittke

Cindy Wittke is the leader of the research group “Frozen and Unfrozen Conflicts” at the Leibniz-Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg. From 2014-2017 she was a senior researcher and lecturer with the Department of Politics and Public Administration of the University of Konstanz. Additionally, she is an external programme associate of the Peace Agreement Access Tool (PA-X) Database of the Political Settlement Research Programme, University of Edinburgh. She earned a Magistra Artium (M.A.) in East European Studies (2007) and a Ph.D. in Law (summa cum laude) from the Faculty of Law of the Freie Universität Berlin (2014). Her research is situated at the intersection of international law and politics. It addresses questions about law making in post-conflict settings, the negotiation and implementation of internationalised peace agreements between state and non-state parties, and processes of constitution making in conflict-ridden contexts. Dr. Wittke’s work is based on her interdisciplinary background as well as on her previous affiliation with several interdisciplinary research centres. These include Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood at the Freie Universität Berlin (2006-2010); the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law in Cambridge (2009, 2010); and the Centres for Law, Society & Culture, and for Constitutional Democracy at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law (2013-2014). She published with the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law and the Heidelberg Journal of International Law. Her first monograph “Law in the Twilight: International Courts and Tribunals, the Security Council, and the Internationalisation of Peace Agreements between State and Non-State Parties” will be published with Cambridge University Press.