Christian Olsson
Co-coordinator de l’OMAM
Christian Olsson is Associate Professor in IR at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He is director of its REPI research unit in international relations as well as of its OMAM observatory of the Arab and Muslim worlds. He is member of the CREG (Centre de recherche sur l’expérience de guerre) . His primary research interests include conflict studies, the colonial genealogies of contemporary military doctrine, the historical sociology of security practices, the role of private military companies in recent overseas military interventions, especially in Afghanistan and Iraq where he has carried out field-research. He is currently working on the internationalization of non-state armed groups. Recent work has been published in Critical Military Studies, Millenium, Cultures & Conflits and PArtecipazione e COnflitto.
