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Dr Kristina Tschunkert
Researcher
Dr Kristina Tschunkert
Dr Kristina Tschunkert was a Researcher with the Food, Peace and Security Programme at SIPRI. Within this, she focused on sustainable peace and the Triple Nexus, specifically the role of humanitarian cash-based assistance in improving the prospects for peace. She has a background in both academic and policy-oriented research, specialising in how interventions shape and are shaped by local context, particularly everyday economic interactions.
Her PhD research at the University of Manchester explored the implications of humanitarian cash-based assistance for host-refugee relations in Lebanon. Kristina’s other research interests include socio-economic dimensions of peace and interventions and local agency and micro-dynamics of conflicts.
Subject expertise
Conflict, peacebuilding, humanitarian interventions
Regional expertise
Middle East, especially Lebanon
Languages
German, English, Dutch
Education
PhD, Humanitarian and Conflict Response, HCRI, University of Manchester, UK; MA International Social Development, University of East Anglia, UK
Citizenship
Germany
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- War in the breadbasket: One year in (Blog, )
- War in the breadbasket: The impacts of the war in Ukraine on food security and stability in Lebanon (Blog, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Financing Food Security: Promises and Pitfalls of the Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus in South Sudan (SIPRI, Stockholm : January 2023)
- Food Insecurity in Africa: Drivers and Solutions (SIPRI, Stockholm: January 2023)
- Food Systems in Conflict and Peacebuilding Settings: Ways Forward (SIPRI, Stockholm: January 2022)
- Improving the Prospects for Peace in Nigeria: Spotlight on Cash-based Transfers (SIPRI, Stockholm: September 2022)
- Food Systems in Conflict and Peacebuilding Settings: Case Studies of Venezuela and Yemen (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2021)
- Food Systems in Conflict and Peacebuilding Settings: Pathways and Interconnections (SIPRI, Stockholm: June 2021)
- The World Food Programme’s Contribution to Improving the Prospects for Peace in Lebanon (SIPRI, Stockholm: September 2021)
External publications
- Vogel, B., Tschunkert, K. and Schläpfer, I.‚ 'The Social Meaning of Money: Multidimensional Implications of Humanitarian Cash and Voucher Assistance’, Disasters (2021)
- Tschunkert, K., ‘Working with Translators: Implications of Translator Positionality for the Research Process and Knowledge Production’, in Roger Mac Ginty, Roddy Brett and Birte Vogel (eds.) ‘The Companion to Peace and Conflict Fieldwork’, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 249-261 (2021)
- Tschunkert, K. and Ginty, R. M., ‘Legitimacy, Conflict and Peace in Lebanon’, in Oliver Richmond and Roger Mac Ginty (eds.) ‘Local Legitimacy and Authority in International Peacebuilding’, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 240-260 (2020)
- Tschunkert, K., “It’s all political” – A Call for Political Economy Analysis in Designing, Implementing and Evaluating Humanitarian Cash-Based Interventions in Lebanon, The Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, American University of Beirut (2019)
- Tschunkert, K., Rapid Market Assessment and Skills Gap Analysis. Arsal – “The Hidden Town”, Beirut: Danish Refugee Council (2018)
- Buijtendijk, H. and Tschunkert, K., ‘Hotel Value Chain Governance and Sustainable Development. A Case Study of Inle Lake, Myanmar.’ Research in Hospitality Management 2016, 6(1): 9-23