Prof Berit Bliesemann de Guevara

PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg; MSc (Dipl.-Pol.) Hamburg University

Berit Bliesemann de Guevara is Professor of International Politics. She is Founding Director of the Centre for the International Politics of Knowledge  and Principal Investigator of the £2.25m AHRC-GCRF Network Plus “Creating Safer Space: Strengthening Civilian Protection Amidst Violent Conflict” (2020-2025).

Before joining Aberystwyth University in 2012, she held academic positions at Bremen University and Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Germany.

Pronouns: she / hi / sie / ella

Board memberships:

• Wales One World (WOW) Film Festival
• Power of Nonviolence Foundation | Stiftung Kraft der Gewaltfreiheit, Germany

Textile work:

• Berit has co-organised and co-curated a number of exhibitions of political textiles. 
• She co-edits the blog Stitched Voices.

Module Coordinator

• IPM3720 - Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics
• IQ24420 - Knowing about Violent Conflict in International Politics
• IQ34420 - Knowing about Violent Conflict in International Politics

Coordinator

• IQ34420 - Knowing about Violent Conflict in International Politics
• IQ24420 - Knowing about Violent Conflict in International Politics
• IPM3720 - Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics

Berit supervises PhD projects and mentors post-doctoral research fellows in the following broad areas:

• Interpretive studies in international politics
• Peace and conflict studies
• Peacebuilding, statebuilding, post-war transformation
• Unarmed civilian peacekeeping/protection
• Knowledge and expertise in international politics
• Nonviolence in international politics

See her Research Portal Profile for more information on currently and previously supervised PhD projects (click "Researchers" and "Supervised Work").

Since 2013, Berit has been a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).

Berit is the Principal Investigator of a number of current and past funded research projects, including:

• AHRC-GCRF Network Plus "Creating Safer Space: Strengthening Civilian Protection Amidst Violent Conflict" 
• Newton Fund project "Un-Stitching the Subjects of Colombia's Reconciliation Process"

See her Research Portal profile for more information on further research projects.  

Berit's current research interests include:

• Interpretive studies of international politics
• Unarmed civilian peacekeeping/protection / nonviolence in international politics
• Knowledge in/about conflict and intervention
• Networks in peacebuilding interventions
• Arts-based research methods (esp. textile making and drawing)

Berit is Co-Director of the KNOWLEDGE Centre, a central research hub in the Department developing research which revolves around the dynamics and challenges of knowledge in and about international politics.

Berit is the current Director of Research and Deputy Head of the Department of International Politics a Aberystwyth (2025-2027).

She has previously held positions, among others, as Associate Dean of Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (FASS), as well as Deputy Head, Director of Research and Director of Graduate Studies at the Department of International Politics.

Berit is editorial board member of the Bristol University Press series Spaces of Peace, Security & Development Routledge series Studies in Intervention & Statebuilding as well as the journals Civil Wars; Desafíos; International Peacekeeping; Journal of Balkan Studies; Journal of International Relations and Development; and Journal of Intervention & Statebuilding. She is an alumna of the Welsh Crucible (2015).

Since 2016, she has mentored a number of Research Fellows at the Department, whose projects have been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (Dr Katarina Kušić), the EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska Curie Action and UK Guarantee Funding (Dr Katarzyna Kaczmarska, Dr Andrea Warnecke, Dr Sonia Garzón Ramirez, Dr Beatrix Futak-Campbell, Dr Onyinyechukwu Durueke, Dr Dilan Okcuoglu), the Estonian Research Council (Dr Birgit Poopuu), and the Swedish Research Council (Dr Anna Danielsson).

• Monday 14:00-15:00
• Tuesday 11:00-12:00
• Wednesday 10:00-11:00