PD Dr. Johannes Vüllers

Senior Researcher PD Dr. Johannes Vüllers

Room: LS 030
Phone: +49 (0)203-379-4450
Homepage: http://johannesvuellers.com
E-Mail:  johannes.vuellers[at]uni-due.de

Research Focus
Selected Publications
Research Projects
Curriculum Vitae
Lectures

Research Focus

  • Social Movements in Political Processes of Transformation
  • Contentious Politics
  • Religion and Violence/Peace Processes
  • Power‐Sharing Agreements
  • Mediation in Civil Wars

Selected Publications

Sebastian Hellmeier / Johannes Vüllers 2023: Dynamics and determinants of right-wing populist mobilisation in Germany, in: West European Politics, 46: 5, 1024-1037. DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2022.2135909

► Vüllers, Johannes / Krtsch, Roman 2020: Raise Your Voices! Civilian Protest in Civil Wars, in: Political Geography, 80, 102183. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102183

► Vüllers, Johannes 2019: Mobilization for Peace: Analyzing Religious Peace Activism, in: Conflict Management and Peace Science 38: 4, 391-410. DOI: 10.1177/0738894219875135

► Vüllers, Johannes / Schwarz, Elisa 2019: The Power of Words: State Reactions to Protest Announcements, in: Comparative Politcal Studies, 52: 3, 347-381. DOI: 10.1177/0010414018784059

► Basedau, Matthias / Pfeiffer, Birte / Vüllers, Johannes 2016: Bad Religion? Religion, Collective action, and the Onset of Armed Conflict in Developing Countries, in: Journal of Conflict Resolution, 60: 3, 226-255. DOI: 10.1177/0022002714541853

► Ottmann, Martin / Vüllers, Johannes 2015: The Power-Sharing event dataset (PSED): A New Database on the Occurrence of Power-Sharing in Post-Conflict Countries, in: Conflict Management and Peace Science, 32: 3, 327-350. DOI: 10.7802/69

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Curriculum Vitae

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Since October 2019
Senior Researcher at the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) at the University of Duisburg‐Essen

10/2018 – 09/2019
Assistant Professor, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, University of Leiden

01/2018 – 09/2018
Visiting Professorial Fellow for International Administration
Conflict Management, Department of Political and Administrative Sciences,
University of Konstanz

09/2017 – 12/2017
Senior Research Fellow with teaching responsibilities, Department of Political Sciences, University of Mannheim
Chair Pr. Sabine Carey

01/2015 – 08/2017
Senior Research Fellow with teaching responsibilities,
Department of Political and Administrative Sciences, University of Konstanz,
Chair Pr. Nils Weidmann

12/2008 – 12/2014
Research Fellow, GIGA Institute of African Affairs

2009 – 2012
Doctorate at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

2006-2008
Master of Arts “Peace Research and International Politics” at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

2003‐2006
Bachelor of Arts “History and Political Science” at the Ruhr University of Bochum

Lectures

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  • ‘Religion, Civil War, and Terrorism’, Vortrag zum Workshop ‘Terrorism Features, Factors and Trends’, Juni 2019, Österreichisches Institut für Internationale Politik.
  • ‘Gegenmobilisierung als Reaktion auf PEGIDA-Proteste’, Präsentation zur Ringvorlesung des Politikwissenschaftlichen Instituts, Mai 2019, Universität Osnabrück.
  • ‘The comparative studies dilemma’, Präsentation am Fachbereich für Politikwissenschaften, Dezember 2018, Trondheim Universität, Schweden.
  • ‘Diversity of nonviolent resistance tactics’, Präsentation am Fachbereich ‘Peace, Conflict and Development Studies’, März 2018, Universität Tribhuvan, Kathmandu, Nepal.
  • ‘For what it’s worth! Explaining the link between protest goals amd protest tactics in post-conflict Nepal’, Vortrag zum Workshop ‘New perspectives on micro-dynamics of political violence’, September 2017, Universität Konstanz.
  • *‘Religion und Gewalt’, Vortrag am Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften, November 2016, Bundeswehr Akademie Potsdam.
  • ‘Sierra Leone. Herausforderungen und Entwicklungsperspektiven’, Vortrag beim Welthungerhilfe Freundeskreis, März 2014, Hamburg.
  • ‘Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von QCA in der Politikwissenschaft’, Januar 2014, Universität Tübingen
  • ‘Vergleichsdesign in der Politikwissenschaft’, Vortrag zum Workshop ‘Comparison Re-invented: Adaptation of Universal Methods to African Studies’, Workshop des DFG Sonderprogramms ‘Adaptation and Creativity in Africa: Technologies and Significations in the Production of Order and Disorder’, März 2013, GIGA Institut für Afrika-Studien.
  • ‘Die Instrumentalisierung von Religion’, Vortrag zum Seminar für StipendatInnen des Evangelischen Entwicklungsdienstes, September 2011, Missionsakademie an der Universität Hamburg.
  • ‘Die Bedeutung von Religion bei der Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit’, Weingartener Afrika-Gespräche, Dezember 2009, Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart.