Christoph Kohl is a research fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany. He holds a PhD in social anthropology from the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, and has previously worked at the Institute of Sociology at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany, and at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany. He has extensive fieldwork experience from Guinea-Bissau and Angola.