Select Publications

Journal articles

Schmeidl S; Blomfield I, 2018, 'Exile voices: Syrian refugee children as visual storytellers of their own destiny', Human Rights Defender, 27, pp. 29 - 33

Schmeidl S, 2018, 'No country for old men?: Growing old in the global south', Human Rights Defender, 27, pp. 22 - 22

Schmeidl S; Miszak, M. , 2017, 'The Afghan Local Police: unpacking a hybrid security arrangement', Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 2017, pp. 1 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2017.1353891

Heap B; Bain M; Wobcke W; Krzywicki A; Schmeidl S, 2017, 'Word Vector Enrichment of Low Frequency Words in the Bag-of-Words Model for Short Text Multi-class Classification Problems.', CoRR, abs/1709.05778

Schmeidl S, 2016, 'The contradictions of democracy in Afghanistan: elites, elections and ‘people’s rule’ post-2001', Conflict, Security & Development, 16, pp. 575 - 594, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2016.1248427

Schmeidl S; Bose S, 2016, 'Youth Interrupted: The Consequences of Urban Displacement for Young Men and Women in Afghanistan', Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 11, pp. 68 - 82, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15423166.2016.1230023

Schmeidl S, 2016, 'Deconstructing Afghan displacement data: Acknowledging the elephant in the dark', Migration Policy Practice, 7, pp. 10 - 16, http://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/migration_policy_practice_journal_27.pdf

Schmeidl S, 2015, 'Darkness at the Edge of Towns - The Plight of Young Displaced Women in Urban Afghanistan', Human Rights Defender, 24, pp. 15 - 18, http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/hurighdef24&id=1&size=2&collection=journals&index=journals/hurighdef

Schmeidl S, 2015, 'Youth in Transition', Perspectives Asia, 2015, pp. 56 - 63, https://www.boell.de/sites/default/files/perspectives_asia.pdf

Schmeidl S, 2014, 'Heeding the warning signs: further displacement predicted for Afghanistan', Forced Migration Review, May 2014, pp. 41 - 44, http://www.fmreview.org/en/afghanistan.pdf

Tyler D; Schmeidl S, 2014, 'Urban realities for displaced young women and girls', Force Migration Review, 2014, pp. 37 - 38, http://www.fmreview.org/en/afghanistan.pdf

Schmeidl S, 2011, 'The quest for transitional justice in Afghanistan: Exploring the untapped potential of customary justice', Journal fur Entwicklungspolitik, 27, pp. 43 - 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-27-3-43

Schmeidl S, 2009, ''The Lives of Others: Living Under East Germany's 'Big Brother' or the Quest for Good Men', Movie Review of Das Leven der Anderen/The Lives of Others', Human Rights Quarterly

Schmeidl S, 2009, 'Repatriation to Afghanistan: Durable Solution or Responsibility Shifting?', Forced Migration Review, 33, http://fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/FMR33/20-22.pdf

Schmeidl S; Karokhail M, 2009, 'The Role of Non-State Actors in 'Community-Based Policing' - An Exploration of the Arbakai (Tribal Police) in South-Eastern Afghanistan', Contemporary Security Policy, 30, pp. 318 - 342

Brookings S; Schmeidl S, 2008, 'When nobody guards the guards: The quest to regulate private security companies in Afghanistan', Security and Peace

Schmeidl S, 2007, 'The emperor's new cloth: The unravelling of peacebuilding in Afghanistan', Journal of International Peace and Organizations, 1, pp. 69 - 86

Schmeidl S, 2003, 'Measuring international forced migration, 1969-1999: The global forced migration project', International Journal of Sociology, 33, pp. 70 - 87

Schmeidl S; Jenkins JC, 2003, 'Measuring International Forced Migration, 1969–1999', International Journal of Sociology, 33, pp. 70 - 87, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15579336.2003.11770271

Schmeidl S, 2002, '(Human) security dilemmas: Long-term implications of the Afghan refugee crisis', Third World Quarterly, 23, pp. 7 - 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436590120114328

Schmeidl S, 2001, 'Early Warning and Integrated Response Development', Romanian Journal of Political Science, 1, pp. 4 - 50

Schmeidl S, 2000, 'Frühwarnung und Konfliktprävention: Was haven wir gelernt?', Wissenschaft und Frieden, 4, pp. 29 - 33, http://www.wissenschaft-und-frieden.de/seite.php?artlikeID=0071

Schmeidl S, 1999, 'HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION IN THE WAKE OF THE KOSOVO CRISIS', Refuge, 18, pp. 1 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.22013

Wayland S; Schmeidl S, 1999, 'Book Review of Jacobson D, 1996, Rights Across Borders: Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship, Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press (181p)', International Migration Review, 31, pp. 735 - 736

Schmeidl S; Jenkins JC, 1998, 'The early warning of humanitarian disasters: problems in building an early warning system', International Migration Review, 32, pp. 471 - 486, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2547192

Schmeidl S, 1997, 'Fast workshop report: Early warning in practice: The case of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrg Yzstan', Soviet and Post Soviet Review, 24, pp. 161 - 173, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187633297X00077

Krummenacher H; Schmeidl S, 1997, 'Fast: An integrated and infractive early warning system-the example of central Asia', Soviet and Post Soviet Review, 24, pp. 147 - 159, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187633297X00068

Schmeidl S, 1997, 'Exploring the causes of forced migration: A pooled time-series analysis, 1971-1990', Social Science Quarterly, 78, pp. 284 - 308

Schmeidl S; Adelman H, 1997, 'Synergy in Early Warning Conference: Background', Refuge, 16, pp. 29 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21911

Schmeidl S; Jenkins JC, 1996, 'Issues in Quantitative Modelling in the Early Warning of Refugee Migration', Refuge, 15, pp. 4 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21877

Schmeidl S, 1996, 'Selected Efforts/Research in the Area of Early Warning', Refuge, 15, pp. 29 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21883

Schmeidl S, 1996, 'SPECIALI SSUOEN EARLYW ARNINGO N REFUGEEM IGRATION Some Thoughts on Early Warning', Refuge, 15, pp. 1 - 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21876

Adelman H; Schmeidl S, 1996, 'Towards the Development of an Early WarningdkesponseN Network', Refuge, 15, pp. 21 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21882

Schmeidl S; Jenkins C, 1996, 'Issues in Quantitative Modeling of Early Warning Analysis', Refuge: Canada's periodical on refugees, 15, pp. 4 - 8

Schmeidl S; Adelman H, 1996, 'Towards the Development of an Early Warning / Response Network', Refuge: Canada's periodical on refugees, 15, pp. 21 - 28

Jenkins C; Schmeidl S, 1995, 'Flight from Violence: The Origins and Implications of the World Refugee Crisis', Sociological Focus, 28, pp. 63 - 82

Schmeidl S, 1994, 'Ethnic Dynamics in Forced Migration: A Comparison of Afghan and Palestinian Refugees', International Journal of Group Tensions, 24, pp. 333 - 360

Conference Papers

Krzywicki A; Heap B; Bain M; Wobcke W; Schmeidl S, 2018, 'Using word embeddings with linear models for short text classification', in Mitrovic T; Xue B; Li X (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Springer, Cham, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 819 - 827, presented at AI 2018 - The 31st Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 11 December 2018 - 14 December 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03991-2_74

Krzywicki A; Wobcke W; Bain M; Schmeidl S; Heap B, 2018, 'A knowledge acquisition method for event extraction and coding based on deep patterns', in Yoshida K; Lee M (ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Springer Nature, Nanjing, China, pp. 16 - 31, presented at Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, Nanjing, China, 27 August 2018 - 28 August 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97289-3_2

Heap B; Krzywicki A; Schmeidl S; Wobcke W; Bain M, 2017, 'A joint human/machine process for coding events and conflict drivers', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Singapore, pp. 639 - 654, presented at 13th International Conference, ADMA 2017, Singapore, 05 November 2017 - 06 November 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69179-4_45

Conference Presentations

Schmeidl S, 2016, 'Local Peace Infrastructures in Afghanistan: Looking beyond Facades of Power to Inclusive Building Blocks for Peace', presented at 57th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 16 March 2016 - 19 March 2016

Reports

Schmeidl S, 2019, Four Decades of Afghan Displacement, German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb), Germany, https://www.bpb.de/gesellschaft/migration/laenderprofile/284416/four-decades-of-afghan-displacement

Schmeidl S, 2019, Vier Jahrzehnte afghanischer Flucht und Vertreibung, German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb), Germany, https://www.bpb.de/gesellschaft/migration/laenderprofile/283689/vier-jahrzehnte-afghanischer-flucht-und-vertreibung

Dansie A; Schmeidl S; Spurway K; Chin M; Leslie G, 2018, Australia-Vietnam Water Utilities Twinning Program Monitoring Report, University of New South Wales Global Water Institute, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/26572

Schmeidl S; Tyler D, 2015, Listen to Women and Girls Displaced to Urban Afghanistan, Norwegian Refugee Council and The Liaison Office, http://www.nrc.no/?did=9194479#.VWZqJtLLc1l

Schmeidl S, 2014, Going, Going... Once again Gone? The Human Capital Outflow from Afghanistan Post 2014 Election, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs - CIDOB, Barcelona, Spain, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/26018, https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/stap_rp/policy_research_papers/going_going_once_again_gone_the_human_capital_outflow_from_afghanistan_post_2014_elections/(language)/eng-US

Schmeidl S, 2011, Protracted Displacement in Afghanistan: Will History Be Repeated?, Washington DC / Paris, http://www.refugeecooperation.org/publications/afghanistan/pdf/10_schmeidl.pdf

Schmeidl S; Gaston E; Reid R, 2011, The Cost of Kill/Capture: Impact of the Night Raid Surge on Afghan Civilians, Kabul: Open Society Foundations and The Liaison Office, http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/Night-Raids-Report-FINAL-092011.pdf

Schmeidl S; Mundt A; Miszak N, 2010, Beyond the Blanket: Towards more Effective Protection for Internally Displaced Persons in Southern Afghanista, Washington DC., http://www.brookings.edu/reports/05_idp_protection_afghanistan.aspx

Schmeidl S; Gaston E; Horowitz J, 2010, Strangers at the Door: Night Raids by International Forces Lose Hearts and Minds of Afghans, Kabul, http://www.soros.org/initiatives/washington/articles_publications/publications/afghan-night-raids-20100222


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