Place of birth: Leipzig

Education: MPhil, Political Theory, University of Cambridge 1996; PhD, Political Science, London School of Economics 1999

Career: Stefan Wolff is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for International Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution at the University of Nottingham. He previously taught at the University of Keele (1996–99) and the University of Bath (1999–2006) and has held visiting professorships at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna Centre, 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, Stefan 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’ project. 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. Bridging the divide between academia and policy-making, Stefan Wolff is a consultant for major national and international governmental and non-governmental organizations and the private sector. His research has been funded by the European Commission, the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK, the UK Foreign Office, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and the British Academy. In 2007, Stefan Wolff was specially commissioned by the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to write a handbook on ‘Power-sharing, Good Governance and Participation in Public Life’ for the Conflict Prevention Handbook series published by the Swedish Foreign Ministry’s training centre, the Folke Bernadotte Academy. As convener of the Ethnopolitics Specialist Group within the Political Studies Association (UK), and of the Standing Group on Security Issues of the European Consortium for Political Research, Stefan Wolff has built a global network of professionals with a wide range of geographic and topical expertise. Stefan Wolff is a member of the Executive Committee of the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Section of the International Studies Association and a member of the Executive Board of the Association for the Study of Nationalities. He is a founding co-editor of the journal Ethnopolitics (see url below).

Publications include: monographs: Disputed Territories: The Transnational Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict Settlement 2003, The German Question Since 1919: An Analysis with Key Documents 2003, Germany's Foreign Policy Towards Poland and the Czech Republic: Ostpolitik Revisited (co-author) 2005, Ethnic Conflict 2006; edited books: German Minorities in Europe: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Belonging 2000, Coming Home to Germany? The Integration of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in the Federal Republic (co-editor) 2002, Peace at Last? The Impact of the Good Friday Agreement on Northern Ireland (with a foreword by Lord Alderdice) (co-editor) 2003, Minority Languages in Europe: Framework, Status, Prospects (co-editor) 2003, Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts: Perspectives on Successes and Failures from Africa, Asia, and Europe (co-editor) 2004, The Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe (co-editor) 2004, Autonomy, Self-governance and Conflict Resolution: Innovative Approaches to Institutional Design in Divided Societies (co-editor) 2005, Ethnic Conflict: A Global Perspective 2006; more than 20 book chapters and articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Centre for the Study of European Governance, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, England; Tel: +44 (0)115 951-4878; Fax: +44 (0)115 951-4859; Email: stefan@stefanwolff.com ; Email: stefan.wolff@nottingham.ac.uk ; Website: http://www.stefanwolff.com/ ; Website: http://www.icmcr.org/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17449057.asp/ .