Dr. Achim Wennmann is an expert in economic perspectives on violent conflict, conflict resolution, and peacebuilding. He is currently working on conflict prevention in contexts of large scale business investments, negotiated exits from criminal violence, and statebuilding in hybrid political orders. Currently, Dr. Wennmann is also Executive Coordinator of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform where he co-facilitates a Technical Working Group on the Confluence of Urban Safety and Peacebuilding in collaboration with the United Nations Office at Geneva and UNHABITAT.