Stefan Wolff & Tatyana Malyarenko

The author of eighteen books and over fifty journal articles and book chapters, Stefan Wolff is Professor of International Security at the University of Birmingham, England, UK. He is also A political scientist by background, he specialises in the management of contemporary security challenges, especially in the prevention and settlement of ethnic conflicts and civil wars, and in post-conflict reconstruction, peace-building and state-building in deeply divided and war-torn societies. He has extensive expertise in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union, and has also worked on a wide range of other conflicts elsewhere, including the Middle East, Africa, and Central, South and Southeast Asia. Bridging the divide between academia and policy-making, he has been, and is, involved in various phases of conflict settlement processes, including in Iraq, Sudan, Moldova, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Kosovo. Tatyana Malyarenko is a professor of international relations at National University 'Odesa Law Academy'. She previously worked at the Donetsk State University of Management, Ukraine. She studied at the National University of Economics and Trade and Donetsk National Technical University. She has published work on competing self-determination movements in Crimea. Professor Malyarenko has also conducted studies in the past with funding from Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, Gerda Henkel Foundation and the European Commission's Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency.