Dr. Gabriela Manea is a political scientist and senior advisor in the Research & Training (RT) entity at DCAF Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance, where she leads the Climate Change cluster and contributes to the Security Sector Governance/ Reform (SSG/R) cluster on post-war/conflict SSR and as the editor of DCAF`s two flagship publications SSR Backgrounders and SSR Papers (with the Ubiquity Press). She has over two decades of international experience in teaching and research, including policy-informing, specializing in SSG/R and civil-military relations, democratic oversight mechanisms, climate security and SSG/R, human rights and regionalism/inter-regionalism.
Gabriela also served for over a decade at the University of Freiburg (Germany) as a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher in international relations, and coordinator of the Southeast Asian Research Group, and published on topics ranging from parliamentary oversight of armed forces in Indonesia and Nigeria to EU-ASEAN relations, human rights norms diffusion, and climate-security governance.
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