Dr Gemma Collantes-Celador

Dr Gemma Collantes-Celador

Lecturer in International Security and Course Director for the MA in International Politics

Department of International Politics

Email: Gemma.Collantes-Celador@city.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7040 3635

Overview

Dr Collantes-Celador (MA Edinburgh, MSc LSE, PhD Aberystwyth) joined the Department in September 2008. She was previously a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI), Spain, where she also lectured on conflict and peace studies.

She previously taught, as a visiting lecturer, at the 4th EADI International Summer School on "Recent Perspectives on Development Cooperation, Peace and Conflict", hosted by HEGOA Institute/University of the Basque Country, September 2008.

Research interests

Dr Collantes-Celador's main research interests lie in the field of post-conflict peace building, with special reference to the security dimensions of statebuilding processes, internationally assisted police reform programmes, institutional approaches to security sector reform, human security and the Western Balkans.

She is writing a book on the relationship between police reform and statebuilding processes in post-conflict scenarios.

She has previously published in International Peacekeeping; Crime, Law and Social Change; Conflict, Security & Development and Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internationals as well as participating in various edited volumes and projects with the Swedish National Defence College, Chr. Michelsen Institute, CIDOB Foundation, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the Observatory of European Foreign Policy (Barcelona), EuroMeSCo and the LSE Human Security Study Group.

Dr Collantes-Celador is one of the convenors of the BISA South East Europe Working Group. She is also a member of the Editorial Board for the Working Paper series, International Catalan Institute for Peace (ICIP).

Publications

Journal articles

2011: Ioannides, I. & Collantes-Celador, G. "The Internal-External Security Nexus and EU Police/Rule of Law Missions in the Western Balkans", Conflict, Security & Development, 11:4, 415-445.

2009: Collantes-Celador, G. "Becoming 'European' through Police Reform: a Successful Strategy in Bosnia and Herzegovina?", Crime, Law and Social Change, 51:2, 231-242.

2006/2007: "La Contribución del Concepto de Seguridad Humana a los Balcanes Occidentales" (The Contribution of the Concept of Human Security to the Western Balkans), Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 76, 97-121.

2005: "Police Reform: Peacebuilding through 'Democratic Policing'?", International Peacekeeping, 12:3, 364-376. This article has been reprinted as a chapter in David Chandler (ed.), Peace without Politics? Ten Years of International State-Building in Bosnia, London: Routledge, 2006, 58-70.

Book chapters

(Forthcoming in 2012): Collantes-Celador, G. "Spain's Security Strategy from a Human Security Perspective: Getting Close but not that Close", in Kaldor, M. & Martin, M. (eds), National, European and Human Security: From Co-existence to Converge, London: Routledge.

(Forthcoming in 2012): Collantes-Celador, G. "Civil Society and the Bosnian Police Certification Process: Challenging 'the Guardians'", in Bojicic-Dzelilovic, V. &  Ker-Lindsay, J. & Kostovicova, D. (eds), Civil Society and Transitions in the Western Balkans, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

2011: Berdal, M. & Collantes-Celador, G. & Zupcevic Buzadzic, M., "Post-war Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina", in Suhrke, A. & Berdal, M. (eds), The Peace in Between: Post-War Violence and Peacebuilding, London: Routledge, 75-94.

2011: Collantes-Celador, G. & Juncos, AE., "Security Sector Reform in the Western Balkans: The Challenge of Coherence and Effectiveness", in Ekengren, M. & Simons, G. (eds), The Politics of Security Sector Reform: Challenges and Opportunities for the European Union's Global Role, London: Ashgate, 127-154.

2008: Collantes-Celador, G. "The EU and its Policy towards Security Sector Reform: a New Example of the 'Conceptual-Contextual' Divide?", in Soler i Lecha, E. & Carbonell Agustin, L., (eds), 6th International Seminar on Security and Defence in the Mediterranean, Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 153-163.

2008: Collantes-Celador, G. "The EU and the Kosovo Challenge", in Med. 2008 - Mediterranean Yearbook, Barcelona: CIDOB Foundation, 163-167.

2008: Collantes-Celador, G. "Police Co-operation in the Field of Counter-Terrorism: The Continuity of a Bottom-Up Approach" in Barbé, E. (ed.), Spain in Europe 2004-2008, Monograph of the Observatory of European Foreign Policy, no. 4, Bellaterra (Barcelona): University Institute of European Studies, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 69-74.

Reports

2008: Collantes-Celador, G. & Soler, E. & Reigeluth, S. & Aytar, V. & Arican, M., Fostering an EU Strategy for Security Sector Reform in the Mediterranean: Learning from Turkish and Palestinian Police Reform Experiences, EuroMeSCo Paper no. 66, Lisbon, 1-31.

2007: Collantes-Celador, G. & Juncos, AE. "The Reform of Border Management in the Western Balkans: Safeguarding EU External Borders or Preparing for European Integration?", in Ekengren, M. & Stålvant, C. (eds), Nordic and Baltic States and Security Sector Reform in the Western Balkans, Ukraine and Afghanistan, Report prepared for the Swedish Presidency of the Nordic Defence Council, 173-205.

2007: Collantes-Celador, G. & Juncos, AE. "Security Sector Reform in the Western Balkans: the Challenge of Coordination and Long-Term Strategy" in Ekengren, M. & Stålvant, C. (eds), Nordic and Baltic States and Security Sector Reform in the Western Balkans, Ukraine and Afghanistan, Report prepared for the Swedish Presidency of the Nordic Defence Council, 143-172.

Working papers

2007: The European Union Police Mission: The Beginning of a New Future for Bosnia and Herzegovina?, Working Paper no. 9, Barcelona: Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals.

Book reviews

2007: Millennium, 36:1, 165-167. Garland H. Williams, "Engineering Peace: the Military Role in Postconflict Reconstruction", Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2005.

Selected conferences and seminar presentations

2011: "The Police Restructuring Process in Bosnia: Statehood under Challenge?", Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) Annual World Convention, Columbia University, New York.

2011: "'Europeanising' Bosnia: The Fabrication of Statehood through Police Reform" (part of a co-convened panel on "Peace through Europeanisation: Assessing the Export of Governance to the Western Balkans"), British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference, Manchester.

2010: "War Criminals in the Police - The Role of Civil Society in Vetting Processes", Seminar Presentation, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

2009: "The Reform of Border Management in the Western Balkans: Safeguarding EU External Borders or Preparing for EU Integration?" (co-authored paper with Ana E. Juncos), BISA Annual Conference, Leicester.

2009: "Becoming 'European' through Police Reform: a Successful Strategy in Bosnia and Herzegovina?", International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, New York.

2007: "EU Approaches to Security Sector Reform", VI International Seminar on Security and Defence in the Mediterranean, CIDOB Foundation and the Spanish Ministry of Defence, Barcelona.
 
2007: "The EU´s Efforts to Control Crime outside its Borders: Trends in Bosnia and Herzegovina", Pan-European International Relations Conference, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Turin.

2007: "EU Police Strategies Abroad: An Overview", 2nd Istanbul Conference on Democracy and Global Security, Istanbul.

2007: "Is the EU Ready for SSR? Reflections on Police Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina", Workshop Presentation, Swedish National Defence College, Stockholm.

2002: "International Civilian Police Missions in War-Torn Societies: From Theory to Practice in Bosnia and Kosovo", International Seminar, Institute for Strengthening Democracy in Bosnia, Konjic (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Invited talks

2009: "Spain's National Security Strategy from a Human Security Perspective", Commissioned paper by the LSE Human Security Study Group and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation in support of the conference "A European Way of Security", Prague.

2009: "International Police Reform Programmes: Evaluating Past Experiences", Workshop participant, RUSI, London.

2008: "Security Sector Reform: A New Area for Spain's Action Abroad", Seminar Discussant, organised by the Toledo International Centre for Peace (CITpax), Elcano Royal Institute, Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies and Spanish Ministry of Defence, Madrid.

2008: "The Challenge of Integration in BiH: From Internal Consolidation to European Integration", Roundtable Participant, FRIDE Foundation, Madrid.

2007: OSCE/ODIHR Working Level Meeting on the Role of Civil Society in Preventing Terrorism, IBEI Representative, Barcelona.

Teaching

Course Director, International Politics MA

Undergraduate level


MA level

PhD supervision

Dr Collantes-Celador welcomes applications from prospective PhD students in the following areas:

Current doctoral supervision

Administration

Dr Collantes-Celador coordinates the MA International Politics degree programme.