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Dr. Nick Miszak

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Dr. Nick Miszak Wiss. Mitarbeiter Sozialanthropologie

Contact

  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL
    Fachbereich Agronomie
    Länggasse 85
    3052 Zollikofen

Research

  • inter- and transdisciplinary research that provides support to peacebuilding, development and humanitarian actors

  • international cooperation in fragile and conflict affected contexts

  • resilience in response to human-induced and climate-change related hazards

  • conflict sensitivity and natural resource management

  • geo-politics and geo-economics

  • economic anthropology

CV

  • My professional expertise builds on 20 years of experience with research and conflict sensitive project management (CSPM) in fragile and conflict affected settings (FCAS). I produce contextually grounded, inter- and transdisciplinary research that provides support to peacebuilding, development and humanitarian actors. My main topics of interest are conflict sensitivity, natural resource management, resilience, fragility, the political violence of armed groups and violent extremisms, economic anthropology, geo-politics and geo-economics. I have in-depth expertise of Afghanistan and its neighbours, and strong knowledge of Syria, the wider MENA region, and Burkina Faso.
  • Since Feb 2025 Research Associate and Lecturer Social Anthropology BFH-HAFL, Zollikofen
  • Since Aug 2014 Consultant self-employed
  • February 2023 - December 2023 Senior Analyst and Acting Team Leader ACAPS (NRC), Geneva
  • Jan 2018-Jan 2023 Senior Program Officer and Afghanistan Focal Point swisspeace, Basel
  • November 2016 - April 2018 Project Coordinator, BFH-HKB, Bern BFH-HKB, Bern
  • September 2012 — Juni 2014 Teaching Assistant and Webmaster Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva
  • October 2007 - August 2011 Research Officer The Liaison Office, Kabul, Afghanistan
  • 2018 PhD in Anthropology und Sociology Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
  • 2006 MA Science of Societies (bilingual degree); Major in Sociology of Communication; Minors in Sociology and Political Economy University of Fribourg/Freiburg
  • 1997 High School Diploma University High School, Irvine, California