Dag Hammarskjöld Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University; Richard G. Starmann Sr. Research Professor of Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

Curriculum Vitae

Research | Teaching | Publications | Other

Research Areas

Causes of War, Conflict Analysis, Conflict Resolution, International Sanctions, Mediation, Conflict Prevention, Global Governance, Peacebuilding.

Current Research

Conflict Prevention, Conflict Resolution, Conflict Trends, Targeted Sanctions, The UN System, Mediation, Peacebuilding.

Some Ongoing Projects

Directing the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)

Directing The Special Program on Implementing Targeted Sanctions (SPITS)

Teaching

Classical Peace Research, The Global System, and other courses (Ph.D. level, Uppsala)

International Peace Research (Ph.D. level, Notre Dame)

Supervises MA:s and Ph.D:s (Uppsala and Notre Dame)

Lectures at different levels (Uppsala)

Public speaking (Sweden).

Publications (for full record, see CV)

Recent Books

Peace Research - Theory and Practice. London: Routledge, August 2011. 278 p.

The Go-Between. Jan Eliasson and the Styles of Mediation, Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, September 2010, with Isak Svensson.

Understanding Conflict Resolution. War, Peace and the Global System, London: Sage. (first edition 2002, Arabic translation 2006, second edition 2007, third edition 2011).

Third Parties and Conflict Prevention. 2008. Gidlunds, edited with Anders Mellbourn. 240p. Fifth volume in the Anna Lindh Programme on Conflict Prevention.

International Sanctions. Between words and wars in the global system. 2005. Edited with Carina Staibano, New York, London: Routledge/Frank Cass. 256

Articles, 2009-10

Wallensteen, Peter. 2010. ‘Sanctions, Positive’ in Nigel Young (ed) The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace, Oxford University Press.

Harbom, Lotta and Peter Wallensteen, 2010. “Armed Conflicts, 1946-2009”. Journal of Peace Research, Vol 47: 501-509.

Harbom, Lotta and Peter Wallensteen, 2010. “Patterns of Major Armed Conflicts, 2000-2009, SIPRI Yearbook 2010, Appendix 2 A.

Wallensteen, Peter. 2010. ‘Nuclear Weapons and Peace’. Läkare mot kärnvapen, Special issue on Nuclear Weapons and Non-Proliferation. No 1.

Wallensteen, Peter. 2010. “Strategic Peacebuilding: Concepts and Challenges” in Daniel Philpott and Gerard F. Powers (eds), Strategies of Peace, Oxford University Press, pp 45-64.

Wallensteen, Peter and Mikael Eriksson 2009. Negotiating Peace: Lessons from Three Comprehensive Peace Agreements, New York, Uppsala Mediation Support Unit, 37p.

Wallensteen, Peter. 2009. The Evolving Field of International Mediation. Development Dialogue, 53: 27-31.

DeRouen Jr, Karl, Lea, Jenna and Peter Wallensteen 2009. ’The Duration of Civil War Peace Agreements’, Conflict Management and Peace Science 26 (4): 367-387.

Wallensteen, Peter, Karl DeRouen, Jr., Jacob Bercovitch and Frida Möller 2009. ’Democracy and Mediation in Territorial Civil Wars in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific’. Asia Europe Journal 7 (2): 241—264.

Harbom, Lotta and Peter Wallensteen 2009. ’Armed Conflict, 1946-2008’ Journal of Peace Research, 46 (4): 577-587

Wallensteen, Peter. 2009. ’The Strengths and Limits of Academic Diplomacy: The Case of Bougainville’, in Aggestam, K and B. Järnek (eds) Diplomacy in Theory and Practice, Essays in honor of Christer Jönsson, Liber: Malmö. 258-281.

Öberg, Magnus, Frida Möller and Peter Wallensteen, 2009. “Early Conflict Prevention in Ethnic Crises, 1990-98: A New Dataset”. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 26 (1): 67-91. 

Other

Recent Public Lectures and Statements

Human Security and the Challenges of Armed Conflict, ASAN Foundation, 30th Anniversary, Seoul, Korea, June 22, 2007

Professor Sture Linnér 90 år, 15 juni 2007 (in Swedish)

Inaugural Address, The Joan. B. Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA, November 5, 2006.

"Unionsupplösningen: Lärdomar för fred och för forskning", (The Ending of a Union: Lessons for Peace and for Research) konferens i Stockholm kring Unionsupplösningen, 13 april 2005, published in Huldt, Bo & Olav Fagerlund Knudsen (eds). 2005. Fred og Forsoning: 1905 - hundre år etter (Peace and Reconciliation 1905 - 100 year later), Stockholm: Utrikespolitiska institutet och Försvarshögskolan, pp 61- 67

"Conflict Prevention and the South Pacific". Plenary Address. The international conference on Securing a Peaceful Pacific, Christchuch, New Zealand, October 16,2004.

Preventing Genocide: Three Agendas of Action” in Eva Fried (ed) Stockholm International Forum 2004. Preventing Genocide. Threats and Responsibilities, Stockholm: Regeringskansliet, pp 187-189.

Key Note Speech on the 20th Anniversary of the Life and Peace Conference, October 8, 2003

Om FN och Irakkrisen(tillsammans med sju andra forskare), Dagens Nyheter, 5 februari 2003.

Peace and Disarmament: Lessons and Challenges. Speech to the conference

'Alva Myrdal's Questions to Our Time', Uppsala University, March 8, 2002.

"Kriget, freden och Förenta Nationerna" Promotionsföreläsning vid Uppsala universitet, den 25 januari 2002.

"Conflict Patterns: Recent Lessons - Implications for the Future." Presentation to the International Air Power Symposium, Uppsala, August 24, 2001.

"War and Peace: Lessons from the 20th Century." The Høirup Inaugural Lecture, American Scandinavian Foundation, May 4, 2001. Scandinvian Review, New York, and The American - Scandinavian Foundation.