Christ P. M. Klep (born 1959) is a Dutch military historian. He is a lecturer at

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and freelance historian and publicist. He has appeared amongst others on

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and Knevel & Van de Brink, and has written for

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and

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- commenting on topics as the

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, the

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and the recruiting practices of the

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Education and career

Klep studied to become a teacher of English and history between 1982 and 1986. He subsequently went to

, specializing in Eastern-European studies, Russian studies, contemporary history and international relations between 1986 and 1988. Afterwards he became a lecturer of history at same University, where he worked until 1992. Klep worked for the Dutch Institute for Military History of the

Dutch Ministry of Defence The Ministry of Defence (; MinDef) is the Dutch ministry responsible for the armed forces of the Netherlands and veterans' affairs. The ministry was created in 1813 as the Ministry of War and in 1928 was combined with the Ministry of the Navy. ...

from 1992 to 2000. From 2000 to 2001 he worked for the Institute of Dutch History. Later he became a freelance historian and publicist. In 2006 he worked a semester as lecturer at

University College Roosevelt University College Roosevelt (UCR), formerly known as Roosevelt Academy (RA), is a small, honors undergraduate liberal arts and science college located in Middelburg in the Netherlands and the sole university in Zeeland. It offers a resident ...

. In 2006 Klep returned to Utrecht University, where he was a lecturer and researcher until 2010. He earned his doctorate on a study of three peace keeping missions in

Somalia Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa. The country is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, th ...

Rwanda Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by ...

and

Srebrenica Srebrenica ( sr-cyrl, Сребреница, ) is a town and municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a small mountain town, with its main industry being salt mining and a nearby spa. During the Bosnian War in 1995, Srebr ...

. He currently is a lecturer at

Claims of Dutchbat leadership having knowledge of an impending massacre at Srebrenica

In 2011 he disputed

Thom Karremans Thomas Jakob Peter Karremans (born 29 December 1948) is the former commander of Dutchbat troops in Srebrenica at the time of the Srebrenica genocide during the Bosnian War. Dutchbat had been assigned to defend the Bosniak The Bosniaks ...

account about not knowing about the impending genocide at

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Publications

* ''Somalië, Rwanda, Srebrenica. De nasleep van drie ontspoorde vredesmissies'' (Amsterdam, 2008) * ''Uruzgan. Nederlandse militairen op missie, 2005–2010'' (Amsterdam, 2011)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Klep, Christ 1959 births Living people 20th-century Dutch historians Dutch military historians Utrecht University alumni Academic staff of Utrecht University 21st-century Dutch historians