Dr Charlotte Hille has a background as an international lawyer and political scientist. Before joining the department of political science at the University of Amsterdam she was senior advisor to the Deputy Minister of Emancipation Policy, responsible for international emancipation policy and implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325. She coordinated with the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the implementation of the resolution. Dr Hille ordered and coordinated a report on the roles of women before, during and after conflict from Clingendael. She represented the Netherlands at the UN Committee on CEDAW and on emancipation issues at the Council of Europe. She previously worked at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Division of Alien and Visa Affairs and the Division of Asylum and Migration. At the Ministry of Justice dr Hille has worked in the Division of Asylum. Dr Charlotte Hille started her career at the international Non-Governmental Organisation UNPO, where she organized a fact-finding mission to Abkhazia and Chechnya (1992), and wrote rules how to organize fact-finding missions, mediation missions and election monitoring missions (1993). Dr Hille followed the Leergang Buitenlandse Betrekkingen of the Institute for International Relations Clingendael. She briefly worked for the employers’ organization VNO in the public relations department.

Dr Hille has previously taught at the department of political science and the department of state and constitutional law of Leiden University. She is trained as a mediator, specializing in peace negotiations, and published with Elodie van Sytzama LLM the monograph Introductie (internationale) mediation: Voor iedereen die mediation wil begrijpen en toepassen, Boom, Den Haag, 2019.  
Dr Charlotte Hille is a regional specialist on state building and conflict resolution in the Caucasus, having published three monographs on the region: State Building in the Transcaucasus Since 1917 (2003, dissertation), State Building and Conflict Resolution in the Caucasus (2010, Brill) and Clans and Democratization, Chechnya, Albania, Afghanistan and Iraq (2020, Brill).

Dr Hille has completed a monograph for the 25th anniversary of resolution 1325 on the Contribution of Women to Formal Peace Negotiations. Currently, dr Hille does research on territorial conflicts in the Arctic, with a forthcoming monograph on Territorial Conflicts in the Arctic (2026/2027). 

Dr Hille is vice chair of the Central Works Council of the University of Amsterdam, concentrating on HRM topics, and she is a member of the Works Council of the FMG. Among her achievements are the following: The organization of a university-wide meeting on HRM issues, resulting in the formulation and adoption of the university Agenda 2020 (2015). She organized a faculty-wide meeting on work pressure and how to lower this at all positions in academia (2017). Dr Hille organized a university-wide meeting on career obstruction, resulting in the acceptance of career obstruction as part of social insecurity at work (2020). Dr Hille organized a university-wide meeting on the female life cycle and how to make work more equal and accessible for women during their life cycle, resulting in the inclusion of the female life cycle in the RI&E policies of some faculties (2025). 

Dr Hille previously was a member of the Exam Committee at the Department of Political Science. 

Research expertise

• State Building
• Conflict Resolution
• Military Intervention and Gender
• Caucasus
• Arctic

Other links

• Programme group Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV)

Research methods

• Qualitative

Current research projects

• The Contribution of Women to Formal Peace Negotiations (monograph)
• Territorial Conflicts in the Arctic (monograph, working title)

Grants

• Stimuleringsbeurs

Dr Charlotte Hille is teaching a BA elective on military intervention and gender before, during and after conflict. She is also teaching a BA elective on clans and democratization, and she has been coordinator and lead lecturer of the course (international) law for political scientists. For this course dr Hille has written a handbook on international law for political scientists, Internationaal Publiekrecht voor Politicologen (2010, 2011 (2nd edition) and 2015 (3rd edition), Republic of Letters). She organizes simulation games as part of her courses, and has published on organizing and writing simulation games with big groups (300+ students) on conflict resolution in international conflicts.