In his dissertation project, Christopher Rohles examines the social and security policy transformation processes in Sierra Leone against the backdrop of the 2022 land reform. The focus is on the question of what impact it has on the social fabric and human security and which governance actors are of central importance. Particular attention is paid to the tense relationship between customary law actors, the state and civil society organizations as well as the involvement and influence of international donors in the reform. To this end, Christopher Rohles conducted interviews with civil servants, civil society actors, international organizations, customary law actors and the private sector in Sierra Leone in 2023. On this basis, he identified further open and important research questions in the country's security policy context.

Since 2022 member of the editorial team of thePodcast Focus on Peace.

2025
Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "Emotions, health, society - what emotion research teaches us about peaceful coexistence" with Avelina Lovis Schmidt

Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "How can peace education change our society?" with Daniela Lehner and Melanie Stamer

Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "Islamic peace ethics - diverse perspectives from theory and practice" with Asmaa El Maaroufi

Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "Toxic masculinity - is it science or can it go away?" with Ann Biedermann

Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "Ingredients critical of domination for research and teaching - a cookbook" with María Cárdenas, Philipp Lottholz and Leon Bijan Kianzad

Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "Peace on the plate? Nutrition between ethics and ecology" with Anne Käfer and Marco Springmann

2024
Lecture "Colonial Shadows: Development Cooperation and Land Reforms in the Global South", Landau Peace Lecture, January 23, 2024

Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "Anniversary episode - What does peace actually mean?" with Gregor Walter-Drop and Melanie Hussak

Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "Radically Nonviolent - Disruption as a Language of Resistance" with Jannis Grimm

Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "Across borders: The self-determination of the Sámi in Europe and lessons from indigenous Colombia" with René Urueña

Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "Weapons instead of dialog: Civil conflict transformation in crisis?" with Julia Leininger and Cora Bieß

Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "Future Democracy - Participatory Art in the Department Store" with Annalena Groppe, Katharina Anna-Josefine Rausch and Julia Katharina Thiemann

Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "Democratic participation for a sustainable future? The importance of citizens' councils in Germany" with Carolin Bohn and Lena Siepker

Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "Antarctica. Ice cold and hotly contested?" with Patrick Flamm

2023
Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "The good life for all - a way out of the crisis?" with Lea Becker

Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "Constructive journalism - the necessity of positive reporting" with Simone Schlindwein, Julia Steinigeweg and David Scheuing

2022
Lecture on "Agenda 2030 and its significance for sustainable development", Sustainability Day, September 24, 2022, Cölbe

Podcast episode Focus on Peace: "Poly - or how we want to live and love together" with Jana Sine

2019
Bolivia and climate change - a prisoner's dilemma? Given its neo-extractivist economy, the rentier state of Bolivia is not in a position to counteract climate change - an empirical study from 2006 to 2018. Conference of the Latin American Research Working Group Andean Countries, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Summer semester 2025 "Splinters of time - splinter time. The traces of the Second World War in the border region of Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia, East Belgium 80 years after the end of the war" at RPTU, in the module Democracy and Society in Germany/Contemporary Historical and Political Foundations of Society and Democracy in Germany in cooperation with Prof. Tina Stolt (Art)

Book chapter

Rohles, Christopher (2019): Extractivism as a development model? The economic problems of neo-extractivism. In: Kruip, Gerhard; Müßig, Dieter; Zikesch, Raphael: Neo-extractivism in Bolivia. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag. S. 81-98.

Rohles, Christopher (2019): ¿Extractivismo como modelo de desarrollo? Los problemas económicos del neo-extractivismo. In: Kruip, Gerhard; Müßig, Dieter; Zikesch, Raphael: El Neo-Extractivismo en Bolivia. Cochabama: Editorial Itinerarios. S. 97-111.

Rohles, Christopher; Zikesch, Raphael (2019): The stability of the rentier state Bolivia. How stable is Bolivia's political regime against the background of revenues from the economic sector? In: Kruip, Gerhard; Müßig, Dieter; Zikesch, Raphael: Neo-extractivism in Bolivia. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag. S. 189-220.

Rohles, Christopher; Zikesch, Raphael (2019): La estabilidad del Rentier State Bolivia con respecto a la renta estatal de materias primas entre 2006 y 2016. In: Kruip, Gerhard; Müßig, Dieter; Zikesch, Raphael: El Neo-Extraktivismo en Bolivia. Cochabamba: Editorial Itinerarios. PP. 225-258.

Other (blog/newspaper)

Rohles, Christopher (2024): Perspectives on (Post)Colonialism and Research in the Global South. Peace Academy Blog. 12.09.2024.

Fiedler, Charlotte; Rohles, Christopher (2021): Social cohesion after armed Conflict: A literature review (Discussion Paper 7/2021). Bonn: German Development Institute (DIE)/German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). doi: 10.23661/dp7.2021.v1.1.