Claudia Wiehler

Claudia Wiehler is a PhD candidate at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich. She is a practice-oriented researcher with field experience in South Asia, West Africa, and Latin America. She has three years of work experience in the fields of peacebuilding, human rights, and development cooperation and received extensive training in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. Her research interests include the nexus between civil war and other forms of armed conflict, ceasefires, and social network analysis. During her PhD, Claudia has engaged in university politics through the feminist association at her department and by initiating an event series on decolonizing political science.

Claudia holds a Master’s degree in Comparative and International Studies from ETH and the University of Zurich. During her Master’s, Claudia worked as a senior research assistant in the ceasefire data project at the CSS, which is implemented in cooperation with the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). She received her Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Heidelberg University, Germany. Claudia is an alumna of the German Academic Exchange Service. Her work has been published in the Journal for International Peacekeeping and the Journal for Conflict Resolution, among others.