Dr. Patricia Rinck
Dr. Patricia RinckResearcher
Research Associate at the Department of International Relations and Development Policy (IBEP)
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Address
Lotharstraße 63 / LF 316
47057 Duisburg
47057 Duisburg
E-Mail
Functions
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---, Centre for Global Cooperation Research (CGCR)
Current lectures
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SoSe 2026
Past lectures (max. 10)
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WiSe 2025
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SoSe 2025
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WiSe 2024
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SoSe 2024
About
| since 04/2026 |
PostdocLab Research Group “Towards sustainable and just cities: Capacities, capabilities, and intersectional power dynamics in co-production”, with Dr Dahae Lee (TU Dortmund) at College for Social Sciences and Humanities, Essen |
| since 10/2023 | Researcher, Chair International Relations and Development Policy, Institute of Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 2025-26 | Lecturer, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Kleve |
| 04 – 09/2023 | Researcher, Unit 4 – Politics and Society, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University |
| 12/2022 | Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 2013 – 2023 |
Researcher, Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Universität Duisburg-Essen Editorial Management Routledge Global Cooperation Series, Head of Publication Management Research Group Leader Global Cooperation and Diverse Conceptions of World Order (01-09/2022) Research Group Leader Global Cooperation and Polycentric Governance (10/20-03/21) |
| 2015 – 2018 | Researcher, Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) |
Awards
| 2024 | Christiane-Rajewsky-Preis 2024, German Association for Peace and Conflict Research (AFK) for best doctoral dissertation in the field of peace and conflict studies |
| 2023 | ZIB Best Paper Award of the IR section of the German Political Science Association (DVPW) 2023 |
Scientific services, committees and memberships
| since 2026 | Managing Board member, Wissenschaft & Frieden |
| since 2025 | Co-Coordinator, Lab The Materiality of Memory, Centre for Global Cooperation Research |
| since 2024 | Co-Speaker, Working Group Feminist Peace Research, German Association for Peace and Conflict Research (AFK) |
| since 2021 | Managing Board member, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Inter-Faculty Research Centres, University of Duisburg-Essen |
| since 2020 | Associate Editor, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding |
| Memberships |
German Association for Peace and Conflict Research (AFK), German Political Science Association (DVPW), International Relations Section, European International Studies Association (EISA), International Studies Association (ISA), Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, NRW-Netzwerk Friedens- und Konfliktforschung |
Research interests
Peace and conflict studies, International Relations, feminist and post-/decolonial theory, feminist peace research
postconflict peacebuilding and transformation, peacebuilding, statebuilding, political settlements, power sharing, Transitional Justice, development policy, sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals
Publications
Monographs
- Rinck, Patricia (2022). Peacebuilding and Exclusion in Sierra Leone: a Feminist Perspective on Political Settlements and Post-conflict Transformation. Dissertation, Duisburg and Essen: University of Duisburg-Essen, 387 S.
- Rinck, Patricia (2015). Power Sharing and Democratic Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Societies: the Case of Sierra Leone. Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Politikwissenschaft der Universität Duisburg-Essen, Marburg: Tectum, 158 S.
Edited volumes/Special issues
- Rinck, Patricia, Siddharth Tripathi, Christine Unrau and Sigrid Quack (eds) (2024) Special Forum ‘World Ordering from the Margins’, Global Studies Quarterly, 4(3) (Open Access).
Journal articles
- Rinck, Patricia (2024). ‘Peace at the Margins? Peacebuilding and Patriarchal World Ordering in Sierra Leone‘, in: Special Forum ‘World Ordering from the Margins’, Global Studies Quarterly, 4(3), ksae069, doi: 10.1093/isagsq/ksae069 (Open Access).
- Rinck, Patricia, Siddharth Tripathi, Christine Unrau and Sigrid Quack (2024). ‘World Ordering from the Margins. An Introduction’, in: Special Forum ‘World Ordering from the Margins‘, Global Studies Quarterly, 4(3), ksae076, doi: 10.1093/isagsq/ksae076 (Open Access).
- Rinck, Patricia (2023). ‘Geschlechtsspezifische Ausgrenzung, Krieg und Frieden in Sierra Leone: eine feministische Perspektive auf Gewalt und Ordnung’, ZIB Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 30(2), 38-65, doi: 10.5771/0946-7165-2023-2-38.
- Boege, Volker and Patricia Rinck (2019). ‘The Local/International Interface in Peacebuilding: Experiences from Bougainville and Sierra Leone’, in: International Peacekeeping, 26(2), 216-239, doi: 10.1080/13533312.2018.1561185.
Book chapters
- Rinck, Patricia (2025). ‘Feministische Friedens- und Konfliktforschung’, in: Christine M. Klapeer, Johanna Leinius, Franziska Martinsen, Heike Mauer und Inga Nüthen (Hrsg): Handbuch Politik und Geschlecht, Opladen, Berlin und Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich (Open Access). https://doi.org/10.3224/pg.2026.ffukpr.1-o
- Rinck, Patricia (2020). ‘“We Are Black Chinese” – Making Sense of APC’s Pro-China Campaign in Sierra Leone’s 2018 Elections’, in: Christof Hartmann and Nele Noesselt (Eds): China’s New Role in African Politics: From Non-Intervention towards Stabilization?, Global Cooperation Series, Abingdon: Routledge, 213-228 (Open Access).
- Debiel, Tobias and Patricia Rinck (2016). ‘Statebuilding’, in: Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Thierry Balzacq (Eds): Routledge Handbook of Security Studies, Second Edition, Abingdon: Routledge, 404-414.
- Debiel, Tobias and Patricia Rinck (2016). ‘Rethinking the Local in Peacebuilding: Moving Away From the Liberal / Post-liberal Divide’, in: Tobias Debiel, Thomas Held and Ulrich Schneckener (Eds): Peacebuilding in Crisis. Rethinking Paradigms and Practices of Transnational Cooperation. Global Cooperation Series. Abingdon: Routledge, 240-256.
Research Reports/Working Papers/Others
- Daase, Christopher, Tobias Debiel, Nicole Deitelhoff, Martin Kahl, Patricia Rinck, Ursula Schröder, Johannes Vüllers (2025). ‘FOKUS / Vorsicht ansteckend! Die Zerstörung politischer Ordnung unter US-Präsident Trump’, in: BICC, IFSH, INEF, PRIF (Eds): Friedensgutachten 2025 / Frieden retten! Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 25-40.
- Buchwald, Christine, Patricia Rinck and Michaela Zöhrer (Eds) (2025). ‘Feministische Friedensforschung: Impulse für Frieden’, Dossier 99, W&F Wissenschaft und Frieden, 28 S. (Dossier gefördert vom Gunda Werner Institut).
- Birchinger, Sophia, Frank Bliss, Tobias Debiel, Karin Gaesing, Boubacar Haidara, Birgit Kemmerling, Marie Müller-Koné, Patricia Rinck, Carolin Rosenberg, Jannis Saalfeld, Conrad Schetter, Jasmin Schmitz and Antonia Witt (2024, chapter coordination with Tobias Debiel). ‘Nachhaltiger Frieden / Frieden und die SDGs: Warum das Lokale zählt’, in: BICC, IFSH, INEF, PRIF (Eds): Friedensgutachten 2024 / Welt ohne Kompass, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 71-91.
- Brunke, Laura Isabella, Tobias Debiel, Elvan Isikozlu, Clara Perras, Patricia Rinck, Carolin Rosenberg, Victoria Scheyer, Cornelia Ulbert, Lars Wirkus, Simone Wisotzki and Carmen Wunderlich (2022). ‘Nachhaltiger Frieden / Gender, Diversität und Gewalt’, in: BICC, HSFK, IFSH, INEF (Eds): Friedensgutachten 2022 / Friedensfähig in Kriegszeiten, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 71-88.
- Rinck, Patricia and Tobias Debiel (Eds) (2022). ‘Perspectives on the War in Ukraine’, Global Cooperation Research – A Quarterly Magazine, 1/2022, Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research.
- Rinck, Patricia (2021). ‘Die Politics of Scale im Peace- und Statebuilding – Was wir aus den Interventionen in Sierra Leone und Bougainville lernen können’, Blog der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW).
- Boege, Volker, Patricia Rinck and Tobias Debiel (2017). Local-International Relations and the Recalibration of Peacebuilding Interventions. Insights from the ‚Laboratory‘ of Bougainville and Beyond. INEF-Report 112, Duisburg: Institute for Development and Peace, 57 S.
Reviews
- Rinck, Patricia (2023). BICC, HSFK, IFSH, INEF (Eds) (2023): Noch lange kein Frieden. Friedensgutachten 2023. Bielefeld: transcript, in: W&F Wissenschaft und Frieden, 41(3), 61-62.