News from the Department

DPCR Alumni Association ready for launch

On the 5th of June, the Alumni Association for students from the Department of Peace and Conflict Research will be launched. All current and former students of the Department are welcome to join the Association and also to run for board positions! The event will take place at 17.15, lecture hall 1, at the Department, Gamla Torget 3, 1st fl.

More info under www.pcr.uu.se/alumni or send an e-mail to dpcr@alumni.uu.se

Welcome!

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Dissertations 2012

Joakim Kreutz defended his dissertation: "Dismantling the Conflict Trap: Essays on Civil War Resolution and Relapse" on 25 May, 10:15, in Sal IV, Main University building.

Margareta Sollenberg defended her dissertation: "A Scramble for Rents: Foreign Aid and Armed Conflict" on 12 May, 12:15, in Sal IV, Main University building.

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Claude Ake Visiting Chair 2012

Dr. Pamela Mbabazi, Associate Professor of Development Studies at Mbabara University of Science & Technology, Uganda, and currently the Deputy Vice Chancellor, has been appointed the Ake Professor 2012.

For more information see the Claude Ake Visiting Chair webpage.

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UCDP GED YouTube-video

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A short video of organized violence in 1989-2010, over time and space. A derivative of the UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset (out now!)

Watch the video on YouTube.

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Nytt Kandidatprogram

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Department welcomes East Asian Peace Program visiting research fellow

Yongwook Ryu

Yongwook Ryu will be visiting our department from 13 May until 14 June as part of the East Asian Peace program. Dr. Yongwook Ryu is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations, The Australian National University. His research focuses on East Asian international relations, foreign policies of China, Japan, Korea and ASEAN, regional organizations, and identity in IR. 

Yongwook Ryu will hold a public lecture titled War Memories, Identity Distance, and Interstate Conflict in Northeast Asia this Wednesday 15 May 15.15 – 17.00, in Hall 1, at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research.

Seminar on Strategic Nonviolent Conflict arranged in Uppsala

In the picture: Dr Maciej Bartkowski, Senior Director for Education and Research, ICNC; Asistant Professor Erica Chenoweth, Denver University; and Ivan Marovic, former leader of Serbian OTPOR movement. 

An academic seminar, Strategic Nonviolent Conflict, is organized by the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, during 8-10 of May 2013, in collaboration with International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), Washington, D.C. During the seminar different empirical cases and basic concepts of strategic nonviolent conflict are discussed. Thematic areas covered include strategic nonviolent conflict, how civil resistance works, nonviolent discipline and violent flanks, and backfire mechanisms. For more information, contact Isak Svensson.

Workshop – Keeping the Peace on Track in West Africa

Workshop – Keeping the Peace on Track in West Africa

On 2-3 May the Department of Peace and Conflict Research hosted a workshop “Keeping the Peace on Track: Security Challenges and Third Party Management in Civil War Peace Processes” at Akademihotellet in Uppsala. The workshop included both research paper presentations and discussions with a more policy-oriented focus. The thematic focus was on security challenges within the context of civil war peace processes and various efforts by both domestic and international third party actors and organizations to try to manage or resolve such challenges. The workshop addressed this topic against the background of three peace processes in West Africa – Sierra Leone, Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire.

The participants included prominent scholars, practitioners and diplomats from, for example, the Kofi Annan Institute for Conflict Transformation, University of Liberia; Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone; Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Ghana; FAFO - Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway; the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden; the Swedish International Development Peace & Security Cooperation Agency (Sida), and the Swedish Defence Research Agency.

The workshop was sponsored by the research project “Turning Spoilers into Statesmen: Third Party Strategies for Sustainable Peace in West Africa”, funded by Sida, and the Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice. 

For the full program, see Workshop Programme - Keeping the Peace on Track. For further information please contact Desirée Nilsson or Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs.

Contact persons for further information on the Department:

Magnus Öberg (Head of Department)
Phone: +46 (0)18 471 27 87
Fax: +46 (0)18 69 51 02
E-mail: Magnus.Oberg@pcr.uu.se 

Jan Ångström (Director of Studies)
Phone: +46 (0)18-471 23 27
Fax: +46 (0)18 69 51 02
E-mail: Jan.Angstrom@pcr.uu.se

For information about the PhD programme, e-mail phdprogramme@pcr.uu.se.

More news from the Department     

Department welcomes New Zealand research students 

From Civil War to Strong Peace in Africa: the Thomas Ohlson Memorial Conference and Dinner 

Cooperation between Uppsala and New Zealand

“New Wars, Old Wars and the Critics”, UCDP Seminar Series 

New Agendas in Statebuilding: Hybridity, contingency and history   

UCDP report on EU used in comments on Nobel Peace Prize 

UCDP presented at a seminar on VR funded research  

Ending Holy Wars: Religion and Conflict Resolution in Civil Wars

Inauguration of the Rotary Peace Center

Education at the department receives highest mark in national quality evaluation 

Expert evaluation gives high marks to the Department’s Research 

New data release: UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset (UCDP GED) version 1.0-2011 

For more news, please see News Archive

UCDP Conflict Counter 2011, Click image for the UCDP website

Click image for the East Asian Peace Program's webpage

Newly published books

Recent Publications

For a complete list of publications from the Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research, please see Publications.

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Special Issue: "Explaining Coordination and Breakdown in Complex Operations" (Guest editor: Chiara Ruffa), Small Wars & Insurgencies, Vol. 24, i. 2, 2013 

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Chiara Ruffa, “Introduction: Coordinating actors in complex operations”, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol. 24, i. 2, 2013, DOI: 
10.1080/09592318.2013.778031, 
206-210 

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Peter Haldén, “Fundamental but not eternal: The public–private distinction, from normative projects to cognitive grid in Western political thought”, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol. 24, i. 2, 2013, DOI:10.1080/09592318.2013.778020, 211-223

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Jan Ångström”, The changing norms of civil and military and civil-military relations theory”, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol. 24, i. 2, 2013, DOI:10.1080/09592318.2013.778014, 224-236

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Robert Egnell, “Civil–military coordination for operational effectiveness: Towards a measured approach”, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol. 24, i. 2, 2013, 
DOI:10.1080/09592318.2013.778017, 237-256

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Chiara Ruffa, Christopher Dandeker & Pascal Vennesson, “Soldiers drawn into politics? The influence of tactics in civil–military relations”, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol. 24, i. 2, 2013, DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2013.778035, 322-334

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Lisa Karlborg, "International quest for local legitimacy in Afghanistan: A tower of Babel?", Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol. 24, i. 2, 2013, DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2013.778021, 
349-369 

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Isak Svensson: Research on Bias in Mediation: Policy Implications Penn State, Journal of Law & International Affairs Volume 2(1): April 2013; p. 17-26

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Kreutz, Joakim and Johan Brosché (2013) "A Responsiblity to Talk: Mediation and Violence Against Civilians." Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 19(1):26-38.

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Ruffa, Chiara, "What Peacekeepers Think and Do? An Exploratory Study of French, Ghanaian, Italian, and South Korean Armies in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon”, Armed Forces & Society, 0095327X12468856, first published on March 28, 2013 as doi:10.1177/0095327X12468856

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Nilsson, Desirée and Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs. 2013. Different Paths of Reconstruction: Military Reform in Post-war Sierra Leone and Liberia, International Peacekeeping 20(1):2-16. 

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Roxanna Sjöstedt (2013) "Ideas, identities and internalization: Explaining
securitizing moves", Cooperation and Conflict 48(1) 143–164.

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Niall O´Dochartaigh & Isak Svensson, “The Exit Option: Mediation and the Termination of Negotiations in the Northern Ireland Conflict”, International Journal of Conflict Management: vol. 24, no 1, 2013, pp. 40- 55