Dr. Monika Wohlfeld
Holder of the German Chair in Peace and Conflict Prevention and
Lecturer in Security
Studies
Dr. Monika Wohlfeld joined MEDAC in 2009 as the first Holder of the German Chair in
Peace and Conflict Prevention, established at MEDAC by the German Academic Exchange
Service and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Previously she was the Deputy Director
of the Conflict Prevention Centre of the Organizati on for Security and Co-operation in
Europe (OSCE), responsible for the Organization’s field operations in 19 countries in SouthEastern Europe, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia. She served as Head of External
Co-operation of the OSCE and, prior to that, as Senior Diplomatic Adviser to the Secretary
General. In those positions, Dr. Wohlfeld was inter alia responsible for the OSCE’s
Mediterranean dialogue.
She has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Western European Union (now European
Union) Institute for Security Studies in Paris, and Researcher at the War Studies Department
at King’s College London. From 1994 to 1996 she was a NATO Fellow and in 2002 German
Marshall Campus Fellow. She taught International Relations at Webster University in
Vienna. She has been on the editorial board of the Helsinki Monitor (now Security and
Human Rights).
Monika Wohlfeld received a B.A. in Political Science and Soviet and East European Studies,
a M.A. in Political Science and Strategic Studies from the University of Calgary, Canada, and
a Ph.D. in War Studies from King’s College London. Dr. Monika Wohlfeld has published
widely on matters related to European security, European institutions, regional co-operation,
conflict prevention, crisis management, and the Mediterranean. Her most recent publications
include a volume written with Dr. Omar Grech on Human Rights and the Conflict Cycle; a
book edited with Prof. Stephen Calleja on Change and Opportunities in the Emerging
Mediterranean; a MedAgenda written with Dr. Derek Lutterbeck on OSCE Code of Conduct;
an edited MedAgenda on Civil Society and Democratisation in Societies in Transition; a
monograph on The OSCE’s Mediterranean Engagement on the Eve of the 40th Anniversary of the
Helsinki Final Act, published by Instituto Affairi Internzaionali; an article on Dialogue with the
Whole Mediterranean in Security Community – The OSCE Magazine; and an edited book with Omar
Grech on Migration in the Mediterranean.