Team > Dr. Alžběta Šváblová

Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology

Alžběta Šváblová was a PhD Candidate at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS). She finished her PhD on 'A Tortuous Way Forward: Peacebuilding Process and Actor Interaction in Postwar Liberia' in May 2020. Alžběta now works as an adjunct lecturer for the Sociology of Africa Chair Group and is an affiliated researcher.

Her dissertation focused on the postwar reconstruction in Liberia, examining the interaction of the government of Liberia, Liberian civil society, and international actors against the backdrop of specific institutions, where these actors meet.

She holds an MA in International Relations from the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Her research interests lie at the intersection of political sociology and international relations. Alžběta has been teaching classes on development theories, post-conflict contexts, as well as research methodology.

Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology

Regional

• Liberia
  
• West Africa
  
• Central and Eastern Europe
  

Thematisch

• Peace and Conflict
  
• Post-war Societies
  
• Development Theories and Actors
  
• Gender and Conflict
  

Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology

Publications

2021

Diana Kisakye, Alzbeta Svablova, Serawit Debele: Critical Reflections on Knowledge Production and Representation in African Studies. - (Vortrag), Veranstaltung: VAD Africa Challenges, 7.-11. Juni 2021, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland, Online.

2018

Alzbeta Svablova: Skalník, Petr et al.: Afrikanistika v českých zemích a na Slovensku po roce 1960 : kritické ohlédnutí. (Czech and Slovak African Studies after 1960: A Critical Hindsight). Hradec Králové, 2017. In:Africa Spectrum, 53, S. 131-133: 2018
doi:10.1177/000203971805300207

2016

Alzbeta Svablova: Dealing with the Violent Past : Transitional Justice and Political Culture in Liberia and the Czech Republic in a Comparative Perspective. In: Modern Africa, 4 (2016). - S. 65-90.

Alzbeta Svablova: Reconciliation in Liberia : Discourse, knowledge, consequences. In: Hana Horáková, Kateřina Werkman (Hrsg.): Knowledge Production in and on Africa. - Zürich : LIT, 2016. - S. 83-104.

2015

Matthew Sabbi, Jane Ayeko-Kümmeth, Alzbeta Svablova, Lamine Doumbia, Evam Kofi Glover: Actors, Institutions and Change : Perspectives on Africa. - Matthew Sabbi, Jane Ayeko-Kümmeth (Hrsg.). - Bayreuth : 2015. - X, 120 S.

2014

The BIGSAS World 2012-2013. - Gilbert Ndi Shang, Alzbeta Svablova, Omondi R. Owino, Peter Narh, Samuel Ndogo (Hrsg.). - The BIGSAS World, 2012/2013 (2014), 99 S.

Alzbeta Svablova: Institutional Arrangements in Post-Conflict Contexts : the Land Commission and the Governance Commission in Post-War Liberia. In: Modern Africa, 2 (2014). - S. 93-116.

Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology

Dr. Alžběta Šváblová
Research Associate, Sociology of Africa Chair Group

E-mail: alzbeta.svablova@uni-bayreuth.de