Dr. Emanuel Schäublin
Haldeneggsteig 4
8092 Zürich
Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 632 07 90
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Emanuel Schaeublin is an anthropologist and researcher in the Mediation Support Team and its Culture and Religion in Mediation (CARIM) program.
He advises the United Nations, the European Union, and mediation actors on how worldviews shape political action in conflict and on how to set up dialogue processes involving parties with different worldviews. He develops tailor-made trainings, facilitates policy conversations, and manages research projects with a particular focus on:
- Non-state governance
- Research ethics and local knowledge production in conflict
- Thinking across scales
Emanuel holds an MA in Arabic from the University of Geneva and a DPhil in Anthropology from the University of Oxford. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in Arabic and published external pageaward-winning research on ethics, surveillance, mutual aid, and ethnographic methods under political repression. Currently, he is co-directing the research project How Islamic Jurists Shape the Actions of Armed Groups and Craft Practical Solutions to Conflict.
Previously, Emanuel has convened the learning process Mediating Conflicts between Groups with Different Worldviews: Approaches and Methods. He has taught anthropology at the University of Zurich and worked for the Graduate Institute in Geneva conducting conflict-sensitive research on the politics of aid.