Dr Christoph Dworschak
Dr Christoph Dworschak started working as an evaluator of the Department “State Fragility, Conflict and Governance” in January 2025. He also serves as the Senior Advisor on Quantitative Methods of the interdisciplinary Beyond Compliance Consortium funded by the FCDO, where he works with a large socio-legal team of researchers and practitioners on a research programme on International Humanitarian Law: “Building Evidence on Promoting Restraint by Armed Actors.” Before joining DEval, Christoph was Assistant Professor of Quantitative Political Science at the University of York and had previously engaged in research and teaching at the University of Mannheim, the Bundeswehr University Munich, the University of Essex, Princeton University, the Peace Research Institute Oslo, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. As a university lecturer, he taught research methods, statistics, and substantive topics in Comparative Politics and Peace Studies. Christoph’s research is published in leading scientific journals and has been awarded two prestigious field prizes.
Key Qualifications
- Thematische Schwerpunkte
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Innerstaatliche Gewaltkonflikte
Protestbewegungen und staatliche Unterdrückung
Demokratisierung und Autokratisierung
Zivil-militärische Beziehungen
UN-Friedenssicherung
Krisenvorhersage - Methoden
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Kausale Inferenz
Maschinelles Lernen
Quasi-experimentelle Forschungsdesigns
Ökonometrie
Selected publications
Dworschak, C. (2024), “Bias mitigation in empirical peace and conflict studies: A short primer on posttreatment variables”, Journal of Peace Research 61 (3), 462-476.
Belgioioso, M., C. Dworschak & K. S. Gleditsch (2023), "Community deprivation drives far-right violence." PRIO Blog.
Belgioioso, M., C. Dworschak & K. S. Gleditsch (2023), “Local deprivation predicts right-wing hate crime in England”, PLOS ONE 18 (9).
Dworschak, C. (2023), “Civil resistance in the streetlight: Replicating and assessing evidence on nonviolent effectiveness”, Comparative Politics 55 (4), 639-651.
Dworschak, C. & C. V. Steinert (2023), “Putting Ideas Behind Bars: Here's Why It Doesn't Work”, Political Violence at a Glance.
Steinert, C. V. & C. Dworschak (2023), “Political imprisonment and mass protest: Evidence from the GDR”, Journal of Conflict Resolution 67 (7-8), 1564-1591.
Oswald, C., J. Walterskirchen, S. Häffner, M. Binetti & C. Dworschak (2023), “Replication of The Morning After: Report from the Nottingham Replication Games.” Institute for Replication (45).
Dworschak, C. & D. Cil (2022), “Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition”, International Studies Quarterly 66 (4).
Mehrl, M. & C. Dworschak (2022), “Female rebels and United Nations peacekeeping deployments”, Cooperation & Conflict 57 (4), 457-477.
Dworschak, C. (2021), “DisastR.api: Wrapper for the UN OCHA ReliefWeb Disaster Events API”, Comprehensive R Archive Network.
Masala, C., T. Tepel, C. Dworschak & I. Lang (2021), “Pilotprojekt Kompetenzzentrum Krisenfrüherkennung”, In: Wehrwissenschaftliche Forschung, Jahresbericht 2020. Bonn: Bundesministerium der Verteidigung.
Metternich, N. W., K. S. Gleditsch & C. Dworschak (2021), “Forecasting in International Relations.” In: Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations. Ed. Patrick James. New York: Oxford University Press.
Dworschak, C. (2020), “Acled.api: Automated Retrieval of ACLED Conflict Event Data”, Comprehensive R Archive Network.
Dworschak, C. (2020), “Jumping on the Bandwagon: Differentiation and Security Defection during Conflict”, Journal of Conflict Resolution 64 (7-8), 1335-1357.
Böhmelt, T., U. Pilster, C. Dworschak & J. Walterskirchen (2020), “A Cross-National Analysis of Forced Population Resettlement in Counterinsurgency Campaigns”, Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 26 (1).
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