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Honorary Senior Lecturer Dr Susanne Schmeidl

Honorary Senior Lecturer Dr Susanne Schmeidl

Honorary Senior Lecturer
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Social Sciences

Susanne Schmeidl, a Fulbright Scholar, holds an MA and PhD in sociology from The Ohio State University (USA) and a Bachelor (Honours) in social pedagogy/social work (University of Applied Sciences Nürnberg). Prior to joining UNSW Sydney in 2017, she worked for over two decades as a scholar-practitioner with a variety of organizations at the intersection of security and development (e.g.; the UN Refugee Agency, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University; Swiss Peace Foundation; the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation). She also co-founded and worked with two civil society organisations in Afghanistan.  Susanne is active in the development and peace community in Sydney and sits on the Board of Peacifica [https://www.peacifica.org/].
Phone
9385 2405
E-mail
s.schmeidl@unsw.edu.au
  • Book Chapters | 2025
    Schmeidl S; Baraguir BS; Fleschenberg A; Haryanto V; Jain K; Omran L; Takhun R; Yambao CMK, 2025, 'Navigating power and representation in the sharing of research findings: Exploring the scholar-practitioner interface', in Routledge Handbook of Field Research, pp. 470 - 484, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003404903-62
    Book Chapters | 2025
    Schmeidl S; Ware A; Alberti C, 2025, 'Introduction – conflict sensitivity/Do No Harm (DNH) in development, humanitarian, and peacebuilding practice: reflections and emerging trends', in Conflict Sensitivity in Development, Humanitarian & Peacebuilding Practice Trends and Challenges, Routledge, Oxon/New York, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003561026
    Book Chapters | 2025
    Schmeidl S; Ware A; Alberti C, 2025, 'Introduction – conflict sensitivity/Do No Harm (DNH) in development, humanitarian, and peacebuilding practice: reflections and emerging trends', in Conflict Sensitivity in Development, Humanitarian & Peacebuilding Practice, Routledge, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003561026-1
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Schmeidl S, 2023, 'Whose stories, whose voices, whose narratives?: Challenging the western gaze on Afghanistan-exploring ethical knowledge co-production in Afghanistan', in Thinking with the South Reframing Research Collaboration Amid Decolonial Imperatives and Challenges, pp. 177 - 199, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110780567-009
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Apoifis N; Wadds P; Schmeidl S; Spurway K, 2020, 'Collecting Stories', in Wadds P; Apoifis N; Schmeidl S; Spurway K (ed.), Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences: Stories of Danger, Risk and Reward, Palgrave Macmillan, London
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Schmeidl S, 2020, 'Enter the Dragon Coming of Age as Blond, White, Female Researcher in Fragile Contexts', in Wadds P; Apoifis N; Schmeidl S; Spurway K (ed.), Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences Stories of Danger, Risk and Reward, Palgrave Macmillan
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Wadds P; Apoifis N; Schmeidl S; Spurway K, 2020, 'Sharing Stories', in Wadds P; Apoifis N; Schmeidl S; Spurway K (ed.), Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences:Stories of Danger, Risk and Reward, Palgrave Macmillan, London
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Schmeidl S; Hedditch K, 2018, 'Changing Patterns of Internal Displacement: The Art of Figure Skating', in Hugo G; Abbasi-Shavazi MJ; Kraly EP (ed.), Demography of Refugee and Forced Migration, Springer, New York, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67147-5
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Schmeidl S; Hedditch K, 2018, 'Changing Patterns of Internal Displacement: The Art of Figure Skating', in Hugo G; AbbasiShavazi MJ; Kraly EP (ed.), DEMOGRAPHY OF REFUGEE AND FORCED MIGRATION, SPRINGER, pp. 177 - 199, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67147-5_9
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Schmeidl S; Miszak N, 2018, 'The Afghan Local Police: unpacking a hybrid security arrangement', in Kent L; Forsyth M; Dinnen S; Wallis J; Bose S (ed.), Hybridity in Peacebuilding and Development A Critical and Reflexive Approach, Routledge, London, https://www.crcpress.com/Hybridity-in-Peacebuilding-and-Development-A-critical-and-reflexive-approach/Kent-Forsyth-Dinnen-Wallis-Bose/p/book/9780367086480
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Schmeidl S, 2017, 'Internal displacement in Afghanistan: the tip of the iceberg', in Maley W; Bose S; Motwani N (ed.), Afghanistan Challenges and Prospects, Routledge, Oxon OX / New York, pp. 169 - 187, https://login.wwwproxy1.library.unsw.edu.au/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1564825&site=ehost-live&scope=site&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_169
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Schmeidl S, 2016, 'Going, Going … Once again Gone? The Human Capital Outflow from Afghanistan Post 2014 Election', in Hopper E (ed.), TELLING THE STORY”. Sources of Tension in Afghanistan & Pakistan: A Regional Perspective (2011-2016), CIDOB: Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, Barcelona, pp. 105 - 152, http://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/monographs/monographs/telling_the_story_sources_of_tension_in_afghanistan_pakistan_a_regional_perspective_2011_2016
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Maley W; Schmeidl S, 2015, 'Introduction [Reconstructing Afghanistan]', in Maley W; Schmeidl S (ed.), Reconstructing Afghanistan: Civil-Military Experiences in Comparative Perspective, Routledge, Oxon, New York, pp. 1 - 10
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Schmeidl S; Bubalo A, 2013, 'One Reason you shouldn't go to Afghanistan with a beard', in Bubalo A; Fullilove M (ed.), Reports from a Turbulent Decade ePub, Viking, Penguin Group Australia, Melbourne, Australian, pp. 281 - 283
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Schmeidl S; Miszak N, 2011, 'For a Fistful of Dollars: The Selling out of Reconciliation and Reintegration', in Danspeckgruber W (ed.), Working Toward Peace and Prosperity in Afghanistan, Lynne Rienner Publishers/Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University, New York, https://www.rienner.com/title/Working_Toward_Peace_and_Prosperity_in_Afghanistan
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Schmeidl S, 2011, 'Engaging traditional justice mechanisms in Afghanistan: State-building opportunity or dangerous liaison?', in Mason W (ed.), The Rule of Law in Afghanistan: Missing in Inaction, Cambridge University Press, pp. 149 - 171, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/public-international-law/rule-law-afghanistan-missing-inaction
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Schmeidl S, 2010, 'Civil Society and State-building in Afghanistan', in Danspeckgruber WF; Finn RP (ed.), Building State and Security in Afghanistan, Lynne Rienner Pub, https://www.rienner.com/title/Building_State_and_Security_in_Afghanistan
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Schmeidl S, 2010, 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - The Privatized Security Sector in Afghanistan', in Afghanistan's Security Sector Governance Challenges, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forced (DCAF), Geneva, pp. 45 - 77
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Schmeidl S; Karokhail M, 2009, 'Pret-a-Proter States: How the McDonalidization of State-Building misses the Mark in Afghanistan', in Fischer M; Schmelzle B (ed.), Building Peace in the Absence of States: Challenging the Discourse on State Failure, Berghof Research Centrefor Construtive Conflict Management, Berlin, pp. 67 - 78, http://www.berghof-foundation.org/fileadmin/redaktion/Publications/Handbook/Dialogue_Chapters/dialogue8_schmeidl_karokhail_comm.pdf
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Schmeidl S, 2009, 'Promoting Civil Society in Afghanistan: Deconstructing Some Myths', in Danspeckgruber WF (ed.), Petersberg Papers on Afghanistan and the Region, Princeton University, Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, Princeton, NJ, pp. 68 - 75, http://dataspace.princeton.edu/jspui/bitstream/88435/dsp01xd07gs71q/1/afgh2009_lcm4.pdf
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Schmeidl S, 2009, 'The Undoing of Gender Inequalities in Traditional Societies - The Example of Post-Conflict Afghanistan', in Eifler C; Seifert R (ed.), Gender Dynamics and Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Peter Lang Verlag, Vienna, pp. 71 - 93
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Schmeidl S, 2009, 'The ‘Undoing of Gender Inequalities’ in Traditional Societies – The Example of Post-Conflict Afghanistan', in Eifler C; Seifert R (ed.), Gender Dynamics and Post-conflict Reconstruction, Peter Lang, pp. 71 - 93, http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=51178
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Rusu S; Schmeidl S, 2008, 'Early Warning and Early Action in the UN System', in Minority Issues Handbook: Institutions for the Management of Ethnopolitical Conflict in Central and Eastern Europe, Council of Europe Publishing, France, pp. 149 - 185
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Schmeidl S; Maley W, 2008, 'The Case of the Afghan Refugee Population: Finding Durable Solutions in Contested Transitions', in Adelman H (ed.), Protracted Displacement in Asia: No Place to Call Home, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., pp. 131 - 179, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754672388
    Book Chapters | 2006
    Karokhail M; Schmeidl S, 2006, 'Integration of Traditional Structures into the State-building Process: Lessons from the Tribal Liason Office in Loya Patkia', in Publication Series on Promoting Democracy Under Conditions of State Fragility. Issue 1: Afghanistan, Heinrich Boll Foundation, Berlin, pp. 59 - 79, http://boell.de/downloads/asien/afghanistan_en.pdf
    Book Chapters | 2004
    Burnley IH; Murphy PA, 2004, 'Introduction', in Burnley I; Murphy P (ed.), Sea Change: Movement from Metropolitan to Arcadian Australia, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1 - 19
    Book Chapters | 2004
    Schetter C; Schmeidl S, 2004, 'Afghanistan: Aktuelle Situation und Möglichkeiten der Befriedung', in Reiter E (ed.), Jahrbuch fur Internationale Sicherheispolitik, Mitller & Sohn, Hamburg, pp. 503 - 522, http://www.swisspeace.org/uploads/ACSF/Publications/04_Klar_Schetter-Schmeidl_0710%20Jahrbuchbeitrag.pdf
    Book Chapters | 2003
    Schmeidl S, 2003, 'The Early Warning of Forced Migration: State or Human Security?', in Newman E; Selm JV (ed.), Refugees and Forced Displacement: International Security, Human Vulnerability, and the State, United Nations University Press, Tokyo, pp. 130 - 155, http://unu.edu/publications/books/refugees-and-forced-displacement-international-security-human-vulnerability-and-the-state.html#overview
    Book Chapters | 2002
    Goetschel L; Schmeidl S, 2002, 'Practical Capacity-Building as Tool for Mainstreaming Conflict Prevention: Awareness Raising, Training and Analytical Capacities', in Goor LVD; Huber M (ed.), Mainstreaming Conflict Prevention, Nomos Publisher
    Book Chapters | 2002
    Maley WL, 2002, 'The Reconstruction of Afghanistan', in The Reconstruction of Afghanistan, Palgrave Macmillan, London, U.K., pp. 184 - 193
    Book Chapters | 2002
    Schmeidl S; Mwaûra C; Adelman H, 2002, 'Conclusion', in Mwaûra C; Schmeidl S (ed.), Early warning and conflict management in the Horn of Africa, Red Sea Press, pp. 214 - 224
    Book Chapters | 2002
    Schmeidl S; Mwaûra C; Adelman H, 2002, 'Principles of the CEWARN Model', in Schmeidl S; Mwaûra C; Adelman H (ed.), Early warning and conflict management in the Horn of Africa, Red Sea Press, pp. 169 - 199
    Book Chapters | 2002
    Schmeidl S; Mwaûra C, 2002, 'Introduction', in Mwaûra C; Schmeidl S (ed.), Early warning and conflict management in the Horn of Africa, Red Sea Press, pp. 17 - 31
    Book Chapters | 2002
    Schmeidl S, 2002, 'Conflict Early Warning and Prevention: Toward a Coherent Terminology', in Mwaûra C; Schmeidl S (ed.), Early warning and conflict management in the Horn of Africa, Red Sea Press, pp. 69 - 99
    Book Chapters | 2001
    Schmeidl S, 2001, 'Conflict and Forced Migration: A Quantitative Review', in Zolberg AR; Benda PM (ed.), Global Migrants, Global Refugees: Problems and Solutions, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford, pp. 62 - 94, http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=ZolbergGlobal
    Book Chapters | 2001
    Schmeidl S, 2001, 'Die Kapazität internationaler Organisationen zur Frühwarnung und Prävention von schweren Menschenrechtsverletzungen und bewaffneten Konlikten', in Hartwig H (ed.), Völkermord: Friedens-wissenschaftliche Annäherung an Unbegreifliches, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, pp. 127 - 159
    Book Chapters | 2001
    Schmeidl S, 2001, 'Gender and Early Warning', in Reysoo F (ed.), Hommes armés, femmes aguerries: Rappport de genre en situations de conflit armé, IUED: Collection Yvonne Preiswerk, pp. 51 - 63
    Book Chapters | 2000
    Schmeidl S, 2000, 'Forced Migration and Conflict Mediation in Africa', in Ragaini R (ed.), , World Scientific Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., pp. 200 - 229
    Book Chapters | 2000
    Schmeidl S, 2000, 'The Quest for Accuracy in the Estimation of Forced Migration', in Lubkemann SC; Minear L; Weiss TG (ed.), Humanitarian Action: Social Science Connections, Watson Institute, Providence, pp. 164 - 182
    Book Chapters | 1999
    Baechler G; Krummenacher H; Schmeidl S, 1999, 'Beitrag der Frühwarnung zur Krisenprävention - Möglichkeiten und Grenzen in Theorie und Praxis', in Oestrerreichisches Studenzentrum für Frieden und Konflictlösung, Rüegger, Zürich, pp. 77 - 99
    Book Chapters | 1998
    Schmeidl S, 1998, 'Comparative Trends in Forced Displacement: IDPs and Refugees, 1964-1996', in Hampton J (ed.), Internally Displaced People: A Global Survey, Earthscan, London, pp. 24 - 33, https://books.google.com.au/books?id=emMw68wErC8C&pg=PA202&lpg=PA202&dq=Internally+Displaced+People+earthscan&source=bl&ots=S6BpIjzSW_&sig=vjO9PNgR_YzVtWDRS6C1NpRjt6I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=P2XUVK-tFM-wogSotoLYBg&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Internally%20Displaced%20People%20earthscan&f=false
    Book Chapters | 1998
    Schmeidl S, 1998, 'Early Warning of Forced Migration', in Davies J; Gurr T (ed.), Preventive Measures: Building Risk Assessment and Crisis Early Warning Systems, Rowan & Littlefield, New York, pp. 56 - 69
    Book Chapters | 1996
    Schmeidl S, 1996, 'Causes of Forced Exodus: Five Principal Explanations in the Scholarly Literature and Six Findings from Empirical Research', in Whither Refugee? The Refugee Crisis: Problems and Solutions, PIOOM, Leiden, pp. 15 - 43
    Book Chapters | 1996
    Schmeidl S, 1996, 'Hard Times in Countries of Origin', in , ISPAC
  • Edited Books | 2025
    Schmeidl S; Ware A; Alberti C, (eds.), 2025, Conflict Sensitivity in Development, Humanitarian & Peacebuilding Practice, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon / New York, NY, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003561026
    Edited Books | 2020
    Wadds P; Apoifis N; Schmeidl S; Spurway K, (eds.), 2020, Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences: Stories of Danger, Risk and Reward, Palgrave Macmillan, London
    Edited Books | 2015
    Maley W; Schmeidl S, (ed.), 2015, Reconstructing Afghanistan: Civil-Military Experiences in Comparative Perspective, Routledge, Oxon, New York
    Edited Books | 2002
    Schmeidl S; Mwaura C, (ed.), 2002, Early Warning and Conflict Management in the Horn of Africa, Red Sea Press, Lawrenceville, NJ / Asmara, Eritrea
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Schmeidl S; Balki R; Noor R; Noor Z; Karlani M, 2025, 'Afghan Women Activist Stories Part II: Courage and Resistance – Voices from Afghanistan', International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 56, pp. 131 - 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2025.2.28583
    Journal articles | 2025
    Schmeidl S; Pakzad S; Qadiri Z, 2025, 'Afghan Women Activist Stories Part I: Claiming the Narrative – Voices from Exile', International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 56, pp. 13 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2025.1.28272
    Journal articles | 2025
    Schmeidl S; Zafar M, 2025, 'Reclaiming Voice – Afghan Women and the Politics of Knowledge Production', International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 56, pp. 5 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2025.1.28271
    Journal articles | 2025
    Schmeidl S; Zafar M, 2025, 'Still Reclaiming Voice – Afghan Women’s Knowledge Production under Repression', International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 56, pp. 123 - 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2025.2.28581
    Journal articles | 2025
    Schmeidl S, 2025, 'Continuity and innovation in the Taliban’s state-building project: insights from four years of ruling Afghanistan', Conflict Security and Development, 25, pp. 821 - 858, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2025.2599657
    Journal articles | 2024
    Dufhues T; Buchenrieder G; Runschke D; Schmeidl S; Herzfeld T; Sagyndykova G, 2024, 'Migrant Agency in an Institutional Context: The Akmola–Astana Migration System', Europe Asia Studies, 76, pp. 433 - 460, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2022.2134305
    Journal articles | 2023
    Schmeidl S; Ware A; Alberti C, 2023, 'Conflict sensitivity/Do No Harm (DNH) in development, humanitarian, and peacebuilding practice–reflections and emerging trends [special issue editorial]', Development in Practice, 33, pp. 517 - 527, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2023.2215970
    Journal articles | 2023
    Stephens CM; Ho M; Schmeidl S; Pham HT; Dansie AP; Leslie GL; Marshall LA, 2023, 'International capacity building to achieve SDG6: insights from longitudinal analysis of five water operator partnerships', International Journal of Water Resources Development, 39, pp. 557 - 575, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2022.2109604
    Journal articles | 2023
    Suhrke A; Schmeidl S, 2023, 'Working with the Taliban: from the first to the second Emirate', Central Asian Survey, 42, pp. 518 - 536, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2023.2228346
    Journal articles | 2022
    Isacowitz JJ; Schmeidl S; Tabelin C, 2022, 'The operationalisation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in a mining context', Resources Policy, 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2022.103012
    Journal articles | 2018
    Schmeidl S; Blomfield I, 2018, 'Editorial - Refugee Voices: The Power of Storytelling', Human Rights Defender, 27, pp. 4 - 7
    Journal articles | 2018
    Schmeidl S; Blomfield I, 2018, 'Exile voices: Syrian refugee children as visual storytellers of their own destiny', Human Rights Defender, 27, pp. 29 - 33
    Journal articles | 2018
    Schmeidl S, 2018, 'No country for old men?: Growing old in the global south', Human Rights Defender, 27, pp. 22 - 22
    Journal articles | 2017
    Heap B; Bain M; Wobcke W; Krzywicki A; Schmeidl S, 2017, 'Word Vector Enrichment of Low Frequency Words in the Bag-of-Words Model for Short Text Multi-class Classification Problems.', CoRR, abs/1709.05778
    Journal articles | 2017
    Schmeidl S; Miszak, M. , 2017, 'The Afghan Local Police: unpacking a hybrid security arrangement', Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 2017, pp. 1 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2017.1353891
    Journal articles | 2016
    Schmeidl S; Bose S, 2016, 'Youth Interrupted: The Consequences of Urban Displacement for Young Men and Women in Afghanistan', Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 11, pp. 68 - 82, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15423166.2016.1230023
    Journal articles | 2016
    Schmeidl S, 2016, 'Deconstructing Afghan displacement data: Acknowledging the elephant in the dark', Migration Policy Practice, 7, pp. 10 - 16, http://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/migration_policy_practice_journal_27.pdf
    Journal articles | 2016
    Schmeidl S, 2016, 'The contradictions of democracy in Afghanistan: elites, elections and ‘people’s rule’ post-2001', Conflict, Security & Development, 16, pp. 575 - 594, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2016.1248427
    Journal articles | 2015
    Schmeidl S, 2015, 'Darkness at the Edge of Towns - The Plight of Young Displaced Women in Urban Afghanistan', Human Rights Defender, 24, pp. 15 - 18, http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/hurighdef24&id=1&size=2&collection=journals&index=journals/hurighdef
    Journal articles | 2015
    Schmeidl S, 2015, 'Youth in Transition', Perspectives Asia, 2015, pp. 56 - 63, https://www.boell.de/sites/default/files/perspectives_asia.pdf
    Journal articles | 2014
    Schmeidl S, 2014, 'Heeding the warning signs: further displacement predicted for Afghanistan', Forced Migration Review, May 2014, pp. 41 - 44, http://www.fmreview.org/en/afghanistan.pdf
    Journal articles | 2014
    Tyler D; Schmeidl S, 2014, 'Urban realities for displaced young women and girls', Force Migration Review, 2014, pp. 37 - 38, http://www.fmreview.org/en/afghanistan.pdf
    Journal articles | 2011
    Schmeidl S, 2011, 'The quest for transitional justice in Afghanistan: Exploring the untapped potential of customary justice', Journal Fur Entwicklungspolitik, 27, pp. 43 - 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-27-3-43
    Journal articles | 2009
    Schmeidl S; Karokhail M, 2009, 'The Role of Non-State Actors in 'Community-Based Policing' - An Exploration of the Arbakai (Tribal Police) in South-Eastern Afghanistan', Contemporary Security Policy, 30, pp. 318 - 342
    Journal articles | 2009
    Schmeidl S, 2009, ''The Lives of Others: Living Under East Germany's 'Big Brother' or the Quest for Good Men', Movie Review of Das Leven der Anderen/The Lives of Others', Human Rights Quarterly
    Journal articles | 2009
    Schmeidl S, 2009, 'Repatriation to Afghanistan: Durable Solution or Responsibility Shifting?', Forced Migration Review, 33, http://fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/FMR33/20-22.pdf
    Journal articles | 2008
    Brookings S; Schmeidl S, 2008, 'When nobody guards the guards: The quest to regulate private security companies in Afghanistan', Security and Peace
    Journal articles | 2007
    Schmeidl S, 2007, 'The emperor's new cloth: The unravelling of peacebuilding in Afghanistan', Journal of International Peace and Organizations, 1, pp. 69 - 86
    Journal articles | 2003
    Schmeidl S; Jenkins JC, 2003, 'Measuring International Forced Migration, 1969–1999', International Journal of Sociology, 33, pp. 70 - 87, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15579336.2003.11770271
    Journal articles | 2003
    Schmeidl S, 2003, 'Measuring international forced migration, 1969-1999: The global forced migration project', International Journal of Sociology, 33, pp. 70 - 87
    Journal articles | 2002
    Schmeidl S, 2002, '(Human) security dilemmas: Long-term implications of the Afghan refugee crisis', Third World Quarterly, 23, pp. 7 - 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436590120114328
    Journal articles | 2001
    Schmeidl S, 2001, 'Early Warning and Integrated Response Development', Romanian Journal of Political Science, 1, pp. 4 - 50
    Journal articles | 2000
    Schmeidl S, 2000, 'Frühwarnung und Konfliktprävention: Was haven wir gelernt?', Wissenschaft und Frieden, 4, pp. 29 - 33, http://www.wissenschaft-und-frieden.de/seite.php?artlikeID=0071
    Journal articles | 1999
    Schmeidl S, 1999, 'HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION IN THE WAKE OF THE KOSOVO CRISIS', Refuge, 18, pp. 1 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.22013
    Journal articles | 1999
    Wayland S; Schmeidl S, 1999, 'Book Review of Jacobson D, 1996, Rights Across Borders: Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship, Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press (181p)', International Migration Review, 31, pp. 735 - 736
    Journal articles | 1998
    Schmeidl S; Jenkins JC, 1998, 'The early warning of humanitarian disasters: problems in building an early warning system', International Migration Review, 32, pp. 471 - 486, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2547192
    Journal articles | 1997
    Krummenacher H; Schmeidl S, 1997, 'Fast: An integrated and infractive early warning system-the example of central Asia', Soviet and Post Soviet Review, 24, pp. 147 - 159, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187633297X00068
    Journal articles | 1997
    Schmeidl S; Adelman H, 1997, 'Synergy in Early Warning Conference: Background', Refuge, 16, pp. 29 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21911
    Journal articles | 1997
    Schmeidl S, 1997, 'Exploring the causes of forced migration: A pooled time-series analysis, 1971-1990', Social Science Quarterly, 78, pp. 284 - 308
    Journal articles | 1997
    Schmeidl S, 1997, 'Fast workshop report: Early warning in practice: The case of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrg Yzstan', Soviet and Post Soviet Review, 24, pp. 161 - 173, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187633297X00077
    Journal articles | 1996
    Adelman H; Schmeidl S, 1996, 'Towards the Development of an Early WarningdkesponseN Network', Refuge, 15, pp. 21 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21882
    Journal articles | 1996
    Schmeidl S; Adelman H, 1996, 'Towards the Development of an Early Warning / Response Network', Refuge: Canada's periodical on refugees, 15, pp. 21 - 28
    Journal articles | 1996
    Schmeidl S; Jenkins C, 1996, 'Issues in Quantitative Modeling of Early Warning Analysis', Refuge: Canada's periodical on refugees, 15, pp. 4 - 8
    Journal articles | 1996
    Schmeidl S; Jenkins JC, 1996, 'Issues in Quantitative Modelling in the Early Warning of Refugee Migration', Refuge, 15, pp. 4 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21877
    Journal articles | 1996
    Schmeidl S, 1996, 'SPECIALI SSUOEN EARLYW ARNINGO N REFUGEEM IGRATION Some Thoughts on Early Warning', Refuge, 15, pp. 1 - 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21876
    Journal articles | 1996
    Schmeidl S, 1996, 'Selected Efforts/Research in the Area of Early Warning', Refuge, 15, pp. 29 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21883
    Journal articles | 1995
    Jenkins C; Schmeidl S, 1995, 'Flight from Violence: The Origins and Implications of the World Refugee Crisis', Sociological Focus, 28, pp. 63 - 82
    Journal articles | 1994
    Schmeidl S, 1994, 'Ethnic Dynamics in Forced Migration: A Comparison of Afghan and Palestinian Refugees', International Journal of Group Tensions, 24, pp. 333 - 360
    Journal articles |
    Schmeidl S; Wayland S, 'Rights across borders: Immigration and the decline of citizenship - Jacobson,D', INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW, 31, pp. 735 - 735, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2547296
  • Reports | 2024
    Schetter C; Schmeidl S; Sharan T; Bolaños Suárez R; Haidara B, 2024, Corruption, Patronage and Clientelism as Illustrated by the Example of Afghanistan and Countermeasures in Future Crisis Management Operations / Excerpts of German Report, German Parliament / Study Commission on Lessons from Afghanistan for Germany’s Comprehensive International Engagement in the Future, Berlin, https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/1029652/d85275a9e9fa5aa4650cd8c3b19dcecf/Englische-Kurzfassung-Gutachten_Korruption.pdf
    Reports | 2024
    Schetter C; Schmeidl S; Sharan T; Bolaños Suárez R; Haidara B, 2024, Korruption, Patronage und Klientelismus am Beispiel von Afghanistan sowie Gegenmaßnahmen in künftigen Kriseneinsätzen, Deutscher Bundestag / German Parliament, Berlin, https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/1020772/4d6a57579005ebacbe0c3b758349a937/Gutachten_bicc_Korruption-in-Afghanistan.pdf
    Reports | 2019
    Schmeidl S, 2019, Four Decades of Afghan Displacement, German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb), Germany, https://www.bpb.de/gesellschaft/migration/laenderprofile/284416/four-decades-of-afghan-displacement
    Reports | 2019
    Schmeidl S, 2019, Vier Jahrzehnte afghanischer Flucht und Vertreibung, German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb), Germany, https://www.bpb.de/gesellschaft/migration/laenderprofile/283689/vier-jahrzehnte-afghanischer-flucht-und-vertreibung
    Reports | 2018
    Dansie A; Schmeidl S; Spurway K; Chin M; Leslie G, 2018, Australia-Vietnam Water Utilities Twinning Program Monitoring Report, University of New South Wales Global Water Institute, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/26572
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Krzywicki A; Heap B; Bain M; Wobcke W; Schmeidl S, 2018, 'Using word embeddings with linear models for short text classification', in Mitrovic T; Xue B; Li X (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Springer, Cham, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 819 - 827, presented at AI 2018 - The 31st Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 11 December 2018 - 14 December 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03991-2_74
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Krzywicki A; Wobcke W; Bain M; Schmeidl S; Heap B, 2018, 'A knowledge acquisition method for event extraction and coding based on deep patterns', in Yoshida K; Lee M (ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Springer Nature, Nanjing, China, pp. 16 - 31, presented at Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, Nanjing, China, 27 August 2018 - 28 August 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97289-3_2
    Preprints | 2017
    Heap B; Bain M; Wobcke W; Krzywicki A; Schmeidl S, 2017, Word Vector Enrichment of Low Frequency Words in the Bag-of-Words Model for Short Text Multi-class Classification Problems, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1709.05778
    Conference Papers | 2017
    Heap B; Krzywicki A; Schmeidl S; Wobcke W; Bain M, 2017, 'A joint human/machine process for coding events and conflict drivers', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Singapore, pp. 639 - 654, presented at 13th International Conference, ADMA 2017, Singapore, 05 November 2017 - 06 November 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69179-4_45
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    Schmeidl S, 2016, 'Local Peace Infrastructures in Afghanistan: Looking beyond Facades of Power to Inclusive Building Blocks for Peace', presented at 57th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 16 March 2016 - 19 March 2016
    Reports | 2015
    Schmeidl S; Tyler D, 2015, Listen to Women and Girls Displaced to Urban Afghanistan, http://www.nrc.no/?did=9194479#.VWZqJtLLc1l
    Reports | 2014
    Schmeidl S, 2014, Going, Going... Once again Gone? The Human Capital Outflow from Afghanistan Post 2014 Election, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs - CIDOB, Barcelona, Spain, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/26018, https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/stap_rp/policy_research_papers/going_going_once_again_gone_the_human_capital_outflow_from_afghanistan_post_2014_elections/(language)/eng-US
    Reports | 2011
    Schmeidl S; Gaston E; Reid R, 2011, The Cost of Kill/Capture: Impact of the Night Raid Surge on Afghan Civilians, http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/Night-Raids-Report-FINAL-092011.pdf
    Reports | 2011
    Schmeidl S, 2011, Protracted Displacement in Afghanistan: Will History Be Repeated?, Washington DC / Paris, http://www.refugeecooperation.org/publications/afghanistan/pdf/10_schmeidl.pdf
    Reports | 2010
    Schmeidl S; Gaston E; Horowitz J, 2010, Strangers at the Door: Night Raids by International Forces Lose Hearts and Minds of Afghans, Kabul, http://www.soros.org/initiatives/washington/articles_publications/publications/afghan-night-raids-20100222
    Reports | 2010
    Schmeidl S; Mundt A; Miszak N, 2010, Beyond the Blanket: Towards more Effective Protection for Internally Displaced Persons in Southern Afghanista, Washington DC., http://www.brookings.edu/reports/05_idp_protection_afghanistan.aspx
    Reports | 2010
    Schmeidl S, 2010, The man who would be king: The challenges to Strengthening Governance in Uruzgan, http://www.clingendael.nl/publications/2011/20110316_cru_publicatie_sschmeidl.pdf
    Reports | 2009
    Schmeidl S; Koser K, 2009, Displacement, Human Development, and Security in Afghanistan, Washington DC., http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2009/0216_iraq_ferris/0216_iraq_ferris.pdf
    Reports | 2009
    Schmeidl S, 2009, Displacement, Human Development, and Security in Afghanistan, Washington DC., http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2009/0216_iraq_ferris/0216_iraq_ferris.pdf
    Reports | 2009
    Schmeidl S, 2009, Who Guards the Guardians? The Protection of Civilians in Afghanistan, The Middle East Institute, Washington, DC, http://www.mei.edu/Portals/0/Publications/Afghan%201979-2009.pdf
    Reports | 2007
    Schmeidl S, 2007, Case Study Afghanistan – Who Guards the Guardians?, http://www.swisspeace.ch/typo3/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/PSC_01.pdf
    Reports | 2007
    Schmeidl S, 2007, Collaborating with Religious Actors in Afghanistan, Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation, Berne
    Reports | 2002
    Schmeidl S; Azarbaijani-Moghaddam S; Schetter C, 2002, The Transition from Relief to Development from a Human Security Perspective, http://www.unocha.org/humansecurity/chs/activities/research/Afghanistan.pdf
    Reports | 2002
    Schmeidl S; Piza-Lopez E, 2002, Gender and Conflict Early Warning: A Framework for Action, http://portals.wi.wur.nl/files/docs/ppme/getdata4.pdf
    Reports | 2001
    Schmeidl S; Krummenacher H, 2001, Practical Challenges in Predicting Violent Conflict: FAST: An Example of a Comprehensive Early-Warning Methodolog, Berne, 34
    Theses / Dissertations | 1995
    Schmeidl S, 1995, From root cause assessment to preventive diplomacy : possibilities and limitations of the early warning of forced migration, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=osu1273151706&disposition=inline

A critical peace studies and forced migration researcher, her research has focussed in the following areas: understanding drivers of conflict and forced displacement, early warning and conflict prevention, participatory and inclusive peacebuilding, and development in (post)conflict contexts.