Annegret Mähler, M.A., studied Political Science and Romance Studies (Spanish and French) at the University of Hamburg and the University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain. She is a research fellow at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg. Her current research concentrates on the economic and political impact of natural resources with a special focus on violent conflict and resource management. She is a member of the research project “Is Resource Wealth a Risk Factor? On the role of context conditions for the resource-violence link in Non-OECD-Countries“, where she is in charge of the case studies of Venezuela and Nigeria. She is also working on her Ph.D. at the GIGA - Institute of Latin American Studies. Recent publications: Oil in Venezuela: Triggering Violence or Ensuring Stability? A Context-sensitive Analysis of the Ambivalent Impact of Resource Abundance, GIGA Working Paper No 112, 2009, Hamburg. Forthcoming 2010: “An Inescapable Curse? Resource Management, Violent Conflict, and Peacebuilding in the Niger Delta”, in: Lujala, Päivi/ Rustad, Siri Aas (Eds.): High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, and (with Klaus Bodemer): „Erdöl als Macht- und Legitimationsressource - das Beispiel Venezuela“, in: Basedau, Matthias/ Kappel, Robert: Machtquelle Erdöl. NOMOS-Verlag.

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