Jürg Helbling
Biography:
Prof. Jürg Helbling (professor of social anthropology, University Lucerne) has done field-research in the Philippines and has worked on war and pacification in Papua New Guinea as well as on the micro-politics of intra-state armed conflicts and state failure. He has organized several seminars on this latter topic with the participation of ICRC delegates. He has co-chaired SNF-funded NCCR research projects on conflicts between indigenous communities and settlers in South and South-east Asia (together with Danilo Geiger) and on the common use of wetland resources by farmers, pastoralists and fishermen in five African countries (together with Tobias Haller).
Bibliography:
* 2009. Hobbes und seine Theorie des tribalen Krieges. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 35: 97 - 116. * 2006. Tribale Kriege: Konflikte in Gesellschaften ohne Zentralgewalt Frankfurt: Campus Verlag. * 2006. War in societies without central power: the state of the art. In: Otto, Ton/ Thrane, Henrik/ Vandkilde, Helle (eds.) Warfare and society: Archaeological and social anthropological perspectives. (pp. 113 - 140). Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag. * 2006. Was führt zum Kollaps von Gesellschaften? Krieg als entscheidender Faktor. Gaia 15/4: 255-259. * 2005. (Zusammen mit Tobias Haller) Disputing African Floodplains: Comparison and conclusions form case studies of AFWeP. In: Haller, Tobias et al. (eds.) Institutions for the Management of Common Pool Ressources in African Floodplains. Common Property Digest, Nr. 74. September Issue.
