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Peter Albrecht
Senior Researcher
Global security and worldviews
Bio
My expertise is in the field of security, peace and development, both as a set of international policies and as individual programmatic approaches to reforming military, police, intelligence, judicial and oversight actors. My work focuses on international politics as well as the local level in West Africa (Sierra Leone) and East Africa (Somalia) and explores how security as a public service is being provided by state and non-state institutions.
Featured publications
Book
2019
Security Beyond Conflict in Sierra Leone
Peter Albrecht
Journal Article
2020
Ethnographies of Policing
Maya Mynster Christensen & Peter Albrecht
Journal Article
2015
Peter Albrecht & Louise Wiuff Moe
Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license
Journal Article
2018
Peter Albrecht
Research and activites
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Photo/illustration by MONUSCO/Michael Ali copyright licenseJournal Article2024assembling the Ghana Armed ForcesPeter Albrecht & Fiifi Edu-Afful
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Journal Article2024Peter Albrecht, Luke Patey, Rita Abrahamsen & Paul D. Williams
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Book2024Luke Patey, Peter Albrecht, Rita Abrahamsen & Paul D. Williams
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Book Chapter2023Maya Mynster Christensen & Peter Albrecht
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DIIS Working Paper2022Maria-Louise Clausen & Peter Albrecht
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Photo/illustration by Delali Adogla-Bessa, ShutterstockJournal Article2022Peacekeeping and the Ghana Police Service’s transformation agendaPeter Albrecht
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Journal Article2022Peter Albrecht
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Book2022Peter Albrecht
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DIIS Working Paper2022Analytically vacuous, politically usefulMaria-Louise Clausen & Peter Albrecht
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Journal Article2022Policing Freetown's war-peace transitionPeter Albrecht & Maya Mynster Christensen
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Web Article2021Maria-Louise Clausen & Peter Albrecht
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Journal Article2021from statebuilding to stabilizationMaria-Louise Clausen & Peter Albrecht
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Journal Article2021Sierra Leone’s Path In and Out of PeacekeepingPeter Albrecht & Cathy Haenlein
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DIIS Report2021Kwesi Aning explainsKwesi Emmanuel Aning, Peter Albrecht & Anne Blaabjerg Nielsen
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Journal Article2020Peter Albrecht & Paul Jackson
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Book2020Maya Mynster Christensen & Peter Albrecht
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DIIS Report2020Ghana and India in United Nations PeacekeepingPeter Albrecht & Podder Sukanya
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Journal Article2020Peacekeeping in Somalia and MaliPeter Albrecht & Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde
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Journal Article2020Ethnographies of PolicingMaya Mynster Christensen & Peter Albrecht
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Book2019Security Beyond Conflict in Sierra LeonePeter Albrecht
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Book Chapter2018Police Reform in Sierra LeonePeter Albrecht
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseJournal Article2018Peter Albrecht
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Book Chapter2018Peter Albrecht & Paul Jackson
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Journal Article2018Police Reform in Sierra LeonePeter Albrecht
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DIIS Report2017Nairobi, Beirut, Hargeisa and YangonHelene Maria Kyed, Finn Stepputat, Peter Albrecht, Lars Erslev Andersen & Maya Mynster Christensen
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Photo/illustration by Rasmus Fly FilbertDIIS Policy Brief2024Peter Albrecht, Corine van Emmerik, Kwesi Aning, Nina Wilén, John Karlsrud, Jonathan Fisher, Marsha Henry & Andrew Tchie
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Photo/illustration by Rasmus FlyDIIS Policy Brief2023Peter Albrecht, Marie Ladekjær Gravesen, Frank Agyei, Kwesi Aning, Richard Asante, Deborah Atobrah, Anne Bartlett, Sandra Bhatasara, Veronika Čáslavová, Mamadou Cisse, James Drew, Esther Egele-Godswill, Sophie Erfurth, Abel Gwaindepi , Rahma Hassan, Sti…
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Photo/illustration by Rasmus FlyDIIS Policy Brief2023Green transitions, nature conservation and the drylandsPeter Albrecht & Marie Ladekjær Gravesen
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Photo/illustration by Rasmus Fly Filbert, http://rasmusfly.dk/DIIS Policy Brief2022South-North perspectivesAbdirahman Edle Ali, Alphonce Mollo, Eva Dzegblor , Fatima Dahiir, Iben Nathan, Jackson Wachira Waiganjo , Joanes Atela, Karuti Kanyinga, Kwesi Aning, Martin Marani, Mikkel Funder, Mustapha Abdallah, Nauja Kleist, Paul Stacey, Peter Albrecht, Peter Bembi…
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DIIS Policy Brief2022The tenacity of a policy conceptPeter Albrecht & Maria-Louise Clausen
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Photo/illustration by Rasmus Fly Filbert. Edited image by MONUSCO PhotosDIIS Policy Brief2021Why the Ghana armed forces play a role in domestic securityPeter Albrecht, Fiifi Edu-Afful & Festus Aubyn
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Photo/illustration by Rasmus Fly FilbertDIIS Policy Brief2021International peacekeeping shapes domestic security in GhanaPeter Albrecht, Fiifi Edu-Afful & Festus Aubyn
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Photo/illustration by Rasmus Fly Filbert. Edited photos by Chatham House and Graham CarlowDIIS Policy Brief2021Avoiding partisan behaviour by armed forces in election securityFestus Aubyn & Peter Albrecht
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Photo/illustration by Illustration: Rasmus Fly Filbert. Edited photo by Dame YinkaDIIS Policy Brief2021Two military operations in Ghana and their consequencesPeter Albrecht, Festus Aubyn & Fiifi Edu-Afful
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DIIS Policy Brief2021What we know and what we need to know more aboutMohamed Aden Hassan, Sahra Ahmed Koshin, Peter Albrecht, Mark Bradbury, Fatima Dahir Mohamed, Abdirahman Edle Ali, Karuti Kanyinga, Nauja Kleist, George Michuki, Ahmed M. Musa, Jethro Norman & Obadia Okinda
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Interview2020Kwesi Emmanel Aning, Anne Blaabjerg Nielsen & Peter Albrecht
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseDIIS Interview2020Peter Albrecht & Anne Blaabjerg Nielsen
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseDIIS Comment2020Peter Albrecht
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Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright licenseDIIS Comment2020Abdirahman Edle Ali, Abdirahman Mustaf Mohamed, Jethro Norman, Karuti Kanyinga & Peter Albrecht
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DIIS Comment2020Kwesi Aning & Peter Albrecht
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DIIS Policy Brief2019The Many Implications of UN PeacekeepingFestus Aubyn, Kwesi Aning, Emma Birikorang, Fiifi Edu-Afful, Maya Mynster Christensen & Peter Albrecht
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DIIS Policy Brief2019After Sixty years of UN PeacekeepingFiifi Edu-Afful, Kwesi Aning, Emma Birikorang, Maya Mynster Christensen, Naila Salihu & Peter Albrecht
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DIIS Policy Brief2018The question of Nordic UN peacekeepingChristine Nissen & Peter Albrecht
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DIIS Policy Brief2018Converging stabilisation efforts by Denmark, Norway and SwedenChristine Nissen & Peter Albrecht
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DIIS Policy Brief2018Elections in 2018Peter Albrecht
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DIIS Policy Brief2017From Aarhus to ManilaPeter Albrecht, Maya Mynster Christensen, Mette-Louise Johansen, Helene Maria Kyed, Paul Mutsaers, Dennis Pauschinger, Finn Stepputat, Francesco Colona, Jairo Matallana-Villarreal, Louise Wiuff Moe, Naomi von Stapele, Anna Warburg, Morten Koch Anderse…
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DIIS Policy Brief2017Inequality in MINUSMA #3Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde, Peter Albrecht & Rikke Haugegaard
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DIIS Policy Brief2017Inequality in MINUSMA #2Peter Albrecht, Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde & Rikke Haugegaard
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DIIS Policy Brief2016Inequality in MINUSMA #1Peter Albrecht, Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde & Rikke Haugegaard
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DIIS Policy Brief2016Women in MINUSMASigne Marie Cold-Ravnkilde, Peter Albrecht & Rikke Haugegaard