Skollan Elisabeth Warnck

Researcher

Skollan Elisabeth Warnck is a Researcher in the Research Depart­ment Local Peace Orders and is part of the Research Group African Intervention Politics. Her research focuses on (non-)military inter­ventions of African regional orga­nizations and their reconstruc­tion in a data­base.

elisabeth.warnck(at)prif.org

CV

| since 2026
Researcher at PRIF

| 2022–2026
Doctoral Researcher, Research Centre Global Dy­namics, Leipzig Uni­versity

| 2020–2026
Member of the Gra­duate School Global and Area Studies, Leip­zig University

| 2019
Pre-doc Award of the Colla­borative Research Centre 1199 „Processes of Spatia­lization under the Global Condition“

| 2018–2022
Research Assis­tant in the Research Project „Inter­regionalism and Security in the Sahel: The African Union, ECO­WAS, and the Euro­pean Union“, Leipzig University

| 2017–2019
M.A. and M.Sc. in Global Studies (Eras­mus Mundus), Leipzig Uni­versity and Roskilde Uni­versity

Projects

Publications

  • Why paper matters
    | 2025
    Warnck, Skollan Elisabeth (2025): Why paper matters. Reconstructing AU and ECOWAS non-military conflict intervention practices through documents, in: A. Witt, C. Hartmann, & U. Engel (eds), Studying African non-military conflict intervention practices, London: Routledge, 139–162.

  • The Strait of Hormuz in Perspective: One Global Chokepoint, Multiple Vulnerabilities, Compounded Effects
    | 2026
    Birchinger, Sophia; Flamm, Patrick; Abb, Pascal; Al-Wally, Mariam; Driedger, Jonas J.; Kebede, Sandra; Koyier, Hilda; McKee, Sarah; Michelini, Sidney; Peters, Dirk; Sebgo, Jean-Baptiste; Simon, Hendrik; Standke-Erdmann, Madita; Stühlen, Christin; Trpkovic, Mina; Warnck, Skollan Elisabeth; Witt, Antonia; Xian, Yaolong (2026): The Strait of Hormuz in Perspective: One Global Chokepoint, Multiple Vulnerabilities, Compounded Effects, PRIF blog, Frankfurt/M..
    Publication
  • Poster presentation
    | 2023
    Warnck, Skollan Elisabeth; Schober, Vincent Joshua (2023): Poster presentation. (Re-)thinking African regional organizations’ non-military conflict intervention practices through re-iterative data modeling. Digital Humanities Day Leipzig (DHDL) 2023, Poster, Digital Humanities Day Leipzig (DHDL), 2023, Leipzig. DOI: 10.36730/2024.1.dhdl.14

  • Mapping intervention practices of ECOWAS and the African Union
    | 2020
    Herpolsheimer, Jens; Warnck, Skollan Elisabeth (2020): Mapping intervention practices of ECOWAS and the African Union. Methodological and practical challenges, SFB 1199 Working Paper: 22.
    Publication

Further Activities

| 2021–2024
Co-PhD repre­sentative of the Gra­duate School of Global and Area Studies, Leipzig Uni­versity