Credit: Amelie Freiberg
Profile
Amelie Freiberg joined the Chair of Political Science, International Relations in February 2024. She is currently a doctoral researcher in the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin and a Civil War Paths Fellow at the University of York. Her research focuses on explaining and predicting socialisation patterns by rebel groups in connection to conflict-related sexual violence.
Amelie holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Mannheim and a M.Sc. in International Politics from Trinity College Dublin. She also studied at the California State University, Long Beach and the University of Limerick, and worked as a lecturer at the University of Konstanz.
She is currently conducting “Socialisation and Political Education in Rebel Groups” (SOPERG) Data Project, which measures how African rebel groups utilize political education to facilitate socialisation among their members. The SOPERG data project, provides information on the efforts of political education within rebel organizations in African interstate conflicts between 1989 and 2021, as included in the Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts (SVAC) Dataset.
Amelie is set to defend her thesis “Sexual Violence in Civil War – Explaining Patterns of Combatant Socialisation” in December 2024.
Amelie is teaching BA-seminars on Sexual violence in armed conflicts – Patterns of CRSV in civil wars and Data analysis in conflict research using Stata.