Staff profile

I joined Durham University in 2012 after three years in Kenya (2009-12), where I managed a Transitional Justice project for the German Civil Peace Service. Prior to that, I worked as Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Magdeburg (2008-09), and as research fellow at the University of Hamburg (2001-04). I also obtained my PhD from the University of Hamburg, but my research was additionally supported by the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale) where I studied from 2006 to 2008. From 2004-05 I worked as conflict management expert in Southern Somalia.

My main research interests are on the causes, actors and dynamics of violence and war, orders of violence beyond the state, state dynamics and international interventions. I am also interested in the relation between cities and states, the link between displacement and urbanisation (securityonthemove.co.uk) and the political economy that links displacement with urban reconstruction. Currently, I am conducting three research projects. Financed by AHRC/DFID, I compare protection practices of UN and AU military peacekeepers in the DRC and Somalia. The research studies experiences of military personnel and contrasts them with experiences of civilians and aid workers. My second, Carnegie funded research project uses an infrastructural lens to examine international relations between the Arabian Gulf and the Horn of Africa, and the effects of port expansions on the everyday of city dwellers in the Horn. A third, ESRC funded research project, examines how urban poor access infrastructures. It looks into eight cities in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Somaliland and Zimbabwe and works with civil society organisations to improve infrastructural services in marginalised neighbourhoods.

In Durham I have held the post of Executive Director for the Durham Global Security Institute (2018-19), Postgraduate Research Director (2015-17), and MSc programme director of the Durham Global Security Institute (2012-15).

• Global Political Sociology
• State Dynamics and Governance beyond the State
• Actors and Dynamics of Violemce and Wars
• International Interventions, State- and Peacebuilding
• Displacement and Urbanisation
• Infrastructures and Logistics
• Bureaucracy and Bureaucratization
• East Africa

• Contextualising Conflict

• securityonthemove.co.uk

• 0000: Consultancies for:
  - International Organisation for Migration (IOM)
  - Bundesministerium fuer Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit (BMZ)
  - Department for International Development (DFID)
  - International Rescue Committee (IRC)
  - Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
  - Rift Valley Institute
  - Bertelsmann Foundation
  - Danish Refugee Council
• 0000: Speaker DVPW Working Group: 2006 - 2010 Speaker of the German Political Science Association (DVPW) Working Group "Orders of Violence"

Authored book

• Bakonyi, Jutta & Chonka, Peter (2022). Precarious Urbanism: Displacement, Belonging and the Reconstruction of Somali Cities. Bristol University Press (in print).
• Bakonyi, Jutta (2011). Land ohne Staat: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft im Krieg am Beispiel Somalias.(Country without a State: Economy and Society in Wars. The example of Somalia). Frankfurt & New York: Campus Verlag.

Chapter in book

• Bakonyi, Jutta (2019). Failing States and Statebuilding. In Understanding Global Politics: Actors and Themes in International Affairs. Larres, Klaus & Wittlinger, Ruth Routledge.
• Bakonyi, Jutta (2018). Governing Endemic Crisis. Violence and Legitimacy in the Lives of Somalis. In War and Peace in Somalia. National Grievances, Local Conflict and Al-Shabaab. Keating, Michael & Waldman, Matt Hurst. 49-60.
• Bakonyi, Jutta & Jakobeit, Cord (2007). Internationale Kriminalitaet/internationaler Terrorismus (International Crime/International Terrorism). In Handbuch zur deutschen Ausßenpolitik. Schmidt, S., Link, W. & Wolf, R. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. 660-671.
• Bakonyi, Jutta (2006). Konturen der Gewaltordnung in Somalia. In Gewaltordnungen bewaffneter Gruppen. Ökonomie und Herrschaft nichtstaatlicher Akteure in den Kriegen der Gegenwart. Bakonyi, J., Hensell, S. & Siegelberg, J. Baden-Baden: Nomos. 98-112.
• Bakonyi, Jutta & Stuvoy, Kirsti (2006). Zwischen Warlordfiguration und Quasi-Staat: Ansätze zu einer Typologie bewaffneter Gruppen. In Gewaltordnungen bewaffneter Gruppen. Ökonomie und Herrschaft nichtstaatlicher Akteure in den Kriegen der Gegenwart. Bakonyi, J., Hensell, S. & Siegelberg, J. Baden-Baden: Nomos. 38-52.

Edited book

• Bakonyi, Jutta & Bliesemann de Guevara, Berit (2011). A Micro-Sociology of Violence Deciphering patterns and dynamics of collective violence. Routledge.
• Bakonyi, Jutta, Hensell, Stephan & Siegelberg, Jens (2006). Gewaltordnungen bewaffneter Gruppen. Ökonomie und Herrschaft nichtstaatlicher Akteure in den Kriegen der Gegenwart (in English: Violent Orders of Armed Groups. Economy and Authority of Non-state Actors in Current Wars). Nomos.

Edited Journal

• Bakonyi, Jutta & Bliesemann de Guevara, Berit (2009). The Mosaic of Violence. Civil Wars, 11 (4).

Journal Article

• Bakonyi, Jutta (2022). War's Everyday: Normalizing Violence and Legitimizing Power. Partecipazione & Conflitto 15(1): 121-138.
• Bakonyi, Jutta (2022). Modular Sovereignty and Infrastructural Power: The Elusive Materiality of International Statebuilding. Security Dialogue 53(3): 256-278.
• Chonka, Peter & Bakonyi, Jutta (2021). Precarious technoscapes: forced mobility and mobile connections at the urban margins. Journal of the British Academy 9(s11): 67-91.
• Stuvøy, Kirsti, Bakonyi, Jutta & Chonka, Peter (2021). Precarious spaces and violent site effects: experiences from Hargeisa’s urban margins. Conflict, Security & Development 21(2): 153-176.
• Bakonyi, Jutta, Kappler, Stefanie, Nag, Eva-Maria & Opfermann, Lena S. (2021). Precarity, Mobility and the City: Introduction to the Special Issue. Global Policy 12(S2): 5-9.
• Bakonyi, Jutta (2021). The Political Economy of Displacement: Rent Seeking, Dispossession and Precarious Mobility in Somali Cities. Global Policy 12(S2): 10-22.
• Bakonyi, Jutta, Chonka, Pete & Stuvoy, Kirsti (2019). War and City-Making in Somalia: Property, Power and Disposable Lives. Political Geography 73: 82-91.
• Bakonyi, Jutta & Chonka, Peter (2019). Precarious labour – Precarious lives. Photographic glimpses from displaced people in Somali cities. Afrique Contemporaire 2019(1-2): 205-224.
• Bakonyi, Jutta (2018). Seeing like Bureaucracies: Rearranging Knowledge and Ignorance in Somalia. International Political Sociology 12(3): 256-273.
• Bakonyi, Jutta (2018). Der Alltag des Krieges. Herrschaftserfahrungen in Somalia (English: The War Everyday: Experiencing Authority in Somalia). Mittelweg 36 27(2): 32-57.
• Bakonyi, Jutta (2015). Ideoscapes in the World Society: Framing Violence in Somalia. Civil Wars 17(2): 242-265.
• Bakonyi, Jutta (2013). Authority and administration beyond the state: local governance in southern Somalia 1995–2006. Journal of Eastern African Studies 7(2): 272-290.
• Bakonyi, Jutta (2012). Drogen und Krieg: die Bedeutung von Qaat im somalischen Kriegsgeschehen. = Drugs and War: Relevance of Qaat for the war in Somalia. Inamo 18(71): 27-30.
• Bakonyi, Jutta (2010). Between Protest, Revenge and Material Interests: A Phenomenological Analysis of Looting in the Somali War. Disasters 34(2): 238-255
• Bakonyi, Jutta (2009). Moral Economies of Mass Violence: Somalia 1988-1991. Civil Wars 11(4): 434-454
• Bakonyi, Jutta & Bliesemann de Guevara, Berit (2009). The Mosaic of Violence - An Introduction. Civil Wars 11(4): 397-413.
• Bakonyi, Jutta (2009). Zwischen Leidenschaft, Protest und Interesse – Eine phänomenologische Untersuchung kriegerischer Plünderungen. Politische Vierteljahresschrift 43: 362-385.
• Bakonyi, Jutta (2008). Asymmetrische Betrachtung der Welt. Erwaegen Wissen Ethik 19(1): 44-45.
• Bakonyi, Jutta & Abdullahi, Ahmed (2005). Somalia – no central government, but still functioning. Entwicklung und ländlicher Raum 6: 14-16.
• Bakonyi, Jutta & Stuvøy, Kirsti (2005). Violence & social order beyond the state: Somalia & Angola. Review of African Political Economy 32(104-105): 359-382.
• Bakonyi, Jutta (2002). Somalia im Visier der Anti-Terror-Allianz. Hintergründe des Staatszerfalls. Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 2: 229-236.
• Bakonyi, Jutta (2002). Die Ordnung der Ordnungslosigkeit. Die Anti-Terror-Allianz macht Somalia als Ziel aus. Blätter der Informationszentrums 3. Welt 260: 30-32.

Report

• Bakonyi, Jutta, Cohen, Gidon & Bedard, Pierre-Olivier (2015). An Evaluation of Hogaan iyo Nabad: A Community Driven Governance Programme in Somalia/Somaliland. Durham, Durham University.
• Bakonyi, Jutta (2012). Kenya and the International Criminal Court Process: Challenges and Opportunities.

Working Paper

• Bakonyi, Jutta (2001). Instabile Staatlichkeit. Zur Transformation politischer Herrschaft in Somalia. Arbeitspapier (3).
• Bakonyi, Jutta (2001). Terrorismus, Krieg und andere Gewaltphänomene der Moderne. Arbeitspapier (4): 1.