Welcome and thank you for visiting my website. I am Amelie Freiberg.
I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin, Academic Staff at the Chair of Political Science, International Relations, University Mannheim, and Civil War Paths Fellow at the University of York.

I received a B.A. in Political Science and English Studies from the University of Mannheim and a M.Sc. in International Politics from Trinity College Dublin.

I specialize in conflict research and my research interests are explaining sexual violence in armed conflicts and insurgent behaviour.
In my thesis "Education, Indoctrination and Conflict: The Role of Political Education in Shaping Combatant Behaviour and Sexual Violence in Civil War", I focus on explaining and predicting socialisation patterns by rebel groups in connection to conflict-related sexual violence.

As part of my thesis I am conducting the “Socialisation and Political Education in Rebel Groups” (SOPERG) data project. The SOPERG Project dataset measures how African rebel groups utilize political education to facilitate socialization among their members. The SOPERG data project, provides information on the efforts of political education within rebel organizations in African intrastate conflicts between 1989 and 2021, as included in the Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts (SVAC) Dataset (Cohen and Nordas, 2014).

Read more about the SOPERG project in the Civil War Paths blog: From Books to Bullets: The Spectrum of Political Education in Rebel Groups.

I am am happy to discuss this project and my work more generally at freibera@tcd.ie.

Interested in my research? Check out the episode of the CRSV Observatory Podcast. Where I talk about my research on Conflict-related sexual violence and combatant socialization

Besides my work, I am passionate about books, pets, plants, and knitting.