Dr. Wolfgang Minatti

Wolfgang Minatti is an academic assistant at the Chair of International Relations at the University of Potsdam and a visiting researcher at the Berlin Social Science Centre in the Global Governance Department. He works and publishes on issues of conflict research, in particular on non-state violent actors; on theories of international relations, especially questions of legitimacy and authority in international politics; and on qualitative methods, especially research ethics and field research. He has conducted field research in Colombia, where he worked with former rebels and peasant communities.

He completed his PhD in Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute in 2024 and holds a Master's degree in International Relations from Leiden University. Prior to his work in Potsdam, he was a visiting scholar at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, and the Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS at FU Berlin.