Dr. Juliana Tappe Ortiz

Dr. Juliana Tappe Ortiz is a research associate (PostDoc) and lecturer at the Department of International Relations / Peace and Conflict Studies since February 2025. She completed her doctorate at the University of Hamburg on state and rebel leaders in armed conflicts. During her PhD, she was a member of the doctoral program at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and a visiting scholar at Columbia University. She holds a MPhil in Latin American Politics from the University of Oxford and a B.A. in International Relations and Romance Studies from the University of Erfurt. Before joining Tübingen, Juliana was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bergen and the GIGA.

Juliana Tappe Ortiz' research focuses on individuals in armed conflicts in Colombia, El Salvador, Niger and Timor-Leste. From rebels and state leaders to civilians, she examines how individuals make decisions, protect themselves and how their experiences and gender influence their political preferences, including their attitudes towards peace.

Further information can be found on her personal website

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journals

2024. Dovish Hawks: How Leaders’ Combat Experience Influences the End of Civil Conflicts in Peace Agreements, Journal of Conflict Resolution. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220027241309284

2024. No-campaigns in peace referendums, Contemporary Politics [with J. Arévalo]. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2024.2384209

2024. The Politics of Risking Peace Revisited: The Fate of Rebel Leaders Who Signed Peace Agreements, Journal of Global Security Studies 9 (1). https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogae006

2024. Social Dominance Orientation and exposure to violence as predictors of support for peace agreements, Social Influence 19 (1). https://doi.org/10.1080/15534510.2024.2335590

2023. 100 Years of Solitude Revisited: A Critical Analysis of 25 Years of Scholarship on Colombia’s Civil Conflict, Civil Wars 25 (2-3): 398-427. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2023.2249321

2022. Dear White German Academia: What is Your Role in African Knowledge Production?, Africa Spectrum 57 (1): 72-82 [with L. Iroulo]. https://doi.org/10.1177/00020397221085982

2020. Political leadership for peace processes: Juan Manuel Santos – Between hawk and dove, Leadership 17 (1): 99-117. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715020951229

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

2020. Psicología política en el desarrollo de procesos de paz en Colombia: El Liderazgo Político de Juan Manuel Santos, in: Negociación y cooperación. Teoría y experiencias en resolución de conflictos (edited by J. Arévalo), Bogotá: Universidad Externado de Colombia (pp. 355-418).

Other Publications

2022. Queen Mothers: Women in Leadership in Sub-Saharan Africa, GIGA Focus Number 5 [with J. Köbrich].

2022. Kriegstreiber oder Friedensbringer? Kampferfahrung und militärisches Training können bei Führungspersonen ganz unterschiedliche Wirkung haben, Katapult Magazin 24: 36-41.

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