Heidrun Bohnet
Senior Researcher
Political Science
Bonn International Center for Conversion
Germany
Biography
Heidrun holds an MA in Political Science and Management from the University of Konstanz, as well as a Master degree in Spanish, History and English from the University of Hamburg, Germany, with longer stays at the UNAM in Mexico City and Science Po Paris. She wrote her Master thesis on labour migration in the European Union. Heidrun has since deepened her research extensively on forced migration and conflict. In her PhD thesis, she investigated the relationship between the location of refugees and the occurrence of refugee-related violence. Heidrun has previously worked in several international research projects in which she has led and been involved in various data collection projects on the location of refugees, refugee-related security events, ethnicity of refugees and the geo-coding of conflict-induced IDPs.
Research Interest
Forced migration (refugees and IDPs), conflict research, international relations, quantitative and qualitative research methods
Publications
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Von Heusinger K, Kaiser GA. Differential object marking and the lexical semantics of verbs in Spanish. InProceedings of the Workshop Definiteness, Specificity and Animacy in Ibero-Romance Languages 2007 Jul (pp. 85-110).
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Bechtel MM, Hainmueller J. How Lasting Is Voter Gratitude? An Analysis of the Shortâ€and Longâ€Term Electoral Returns to Beneficial Policy. American Journal of Political Science. 2011 Oct 1;55(4):852-68.
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Rüegger S, Bohnet H. The Ethnicity of Refugees (ER): A new dataset for understanding flight patterns 1. Conflict Management and Peace Science. 2015 Nov 16:0738894215611865.
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Bohnet H, Cottier F, Hug S. Conflict-induced IDPs and the Spread of Conflict. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 2013 Jun:0022002716665209.
