Marika Sosnowski

Marika Sosnowski is an Australian-qualified lawyer, a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg and an incoming Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School (from June 2023). Her research is interdisciplinary straddling international law, international relations and politics. Her primary interests are in the fields of critical security studies, local/rebel governance and legal systems with a geographical focus on Syria.

Regulating ceasefires in the grey zone between war and peace

Recent scholarship in the social sciences – primarily in the fields of anthropology, political economy, security and development – has found that ceasefires have effects on the ground beyond only halting violence. These include for other more political areas such as governance institutions, economic resources and citizenship and property rights. While parties to an armed …

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