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Personal profile
Research
Peter Zartsdahl is a civilian crisis management expert with eight years of operational experience in Central and Eastern Africa. He is a former officer responsible for national coordination of civil assistance in the UN Mission in South Sudan, has led multinational research teams in assessing and reporting on EU and UN missions in Mali and Somalia, and has led more than 20 short-term advisory and training teams (STAT and STTT) from 2016 to 2022 on a variety of tasks related to operational and strategic management of peace operations in Africa.
Peter holds a PhD in Global Politics, International Crisis Management, from the University of Roskilde, and is a Doctoral Fellow with the European Doctoral School on Common Security and Defence Policy in Brussels.
He is a recognised academic and published expert on whole-of-government and civil-military relations in peace operations and works mainly with field implementation of civilian-led integrated planning, management, and decision-making processes in multidimensional organisations.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Global Politics, International Crisis Management, PhD, Civil-military Relations in Peace Operations: Delivering Coherent responses to Complex Emergencies, Department of Social Sciences and Business
16 May 2016 → 16 May 2024
Award Date: 16 May 2024
African Studies, MA, Opposed Imperatives: A mixed methods study of NGO location choices in northern Uganda, University of Copenhagen
Award Date: 17 Jun 2015
Land-military Operations, Military Academy Graduate, Royal Danish Defence College
Award Date: 1 Jul 2009
External positions
Secretary General, Engineers Without Borders - Denmark
2 Apr 2024 → …
Chief Adviser (external), Udenrigsministeriet/Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
26 Apr 2023 → 31 Mar 2024
Senior Adviser, Udenrigsministeriet/Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
1 Mar 2019 → 31 Dec 2022
Keywords
- Economics, Politics
- Civil-military interfaces
- Civil-military relations
- Comprehensive approach
- Integrated Peacekeeping Operations
- United Nations
- EU Security and Defense Policy
- International Peacekeeping
- African Union
- Conflicts in Africa
- African Standby Force
- European External Action Service
- Conflict Resolution
- Conflict prevention
- Crisis management
- Conflict studies
- Resilience
- South Sudan
- Somalia
- DR Congo
- Horn of Africa
- Risk
- Integrated planning
- Whole-of-government
- Industrial development, Development economics and planning, Developing countries
- African Union
- African studies
- Post-conflict development and stabilization
- International stabilization operations
- NGO's / Non-governmental organizations
- Civil-military coordination
- Humanitarian civil-military coordination (CMCoord)
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Civil-military relations in peace operations: Delivering coherent responses to complex emergencies
Zartsdahl, P. H., 2024, Roskilde Universitet. 214 p. (FS & P Ph.D. afhandlinger).Research output: Book/Report › Ph.D. thesis
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All hands on deck: levels of dependence between the EU and other international organizations in peacebuilding
Petrov, P., Dijkstra, H., Đokić, K., Zartsdahl, P. H. & Mahr, E., 17 Nov 2019, In: Journal of European Integration. 41, 8, p. 1027-1043 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The EU approach to security provision in the Western Balkans and the Horn of Africa
Peen Rodt, A., Tvilling, J., Zartsdahl, P. H., Habbida, N., Gillette, E., Simons, S., Abdi, K., Berglund, J., Fernandez-Arguedas, V., Stojanovic-Gajic, S. & Ignjatijevic, M., 2019, In: Journal of Regional Security. 14, 2, p. 41-76 36 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Best Practices in EU Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding
Smith, M. E., Abdi, K., Barbieri, C., Gillette, E., De Zan, T., Dijkstra, H., Juncos, A. E., Habbida, N., Pirozzi, N., Simons, S., Venturi, B. & Zartsdahl, P. H., 12 Oct 2018, Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen. 26 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report › Research › peer-review
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Civil–military synergies in EU crisis response and peacebuilding: a framework for analysis
Zartsdahl, P. H., 30 Oct 2018, In: Global Affairs. 4, 2-3, p. 197-213 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
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The entanglement of policy: Security, Migration, Energy, Trade, and their effects on Democracy Support
Pace, M. (Speaker), Sadiki, L. (Speaker), Achrainer, C. (Speaker) & Zartsdahl, P. H. (Organizer)
17 Apr 2023 → 21 Apr 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Module 2 of 18th ESDC High-level Course on Common Security and Defence Policy
Zartsdahl, P. H. (Organizer)
7 Nov 2022 → 11 Nov 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Module 1 of 18th ESDC High-level Course on Common Security and Defence Policy
Zartsdahl, P. H. (Organizer)
26 Sept 2022 → 30 Sept 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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International Day of Peace 2022
Zartsdahl, P. H. (Speaker)
21 Sept 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Press/Media
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DR2 Dagen: Bombeangreb i Mogadishu, Somalia
16/10/2017
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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DR2 Dagen: Regeringen udviser Somaliere trods FN-kritik
26/01/2017
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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