Department of Peace and Conflict Research
Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

News from the Department

Call for Applications

The Department of Peace and Conflict Research invites applications to its Master Programme in Politics and International Studies, Specialization Peace and Conflict Studies (120 Swedish points / 120 ECTS). The application period is 1 December 2009 - 15 January 2010 for international students.

 

Read more about the Master programme.

 

Call for Applications (pdf)

Application process (pdf)

General information (pdf)

 

NB! We cannot make assessments of your merits before the application deadline!


 

2 vacant Ph.D. Candidate positions

The Department of Peace and Conflict Research hereby announces 2 vacant Ph.D. Candidate positions: one on faculty funding and one on external funding. Final application date is 15 December 2009.
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Claude Ake Memorial Chair

Professor Yash Tandon, the 2009 holder of the Claude Ake Memorial Chair, is visiting the Department this autumn. Professor Tandon was the Executive Director of the South Centre, an intergovernmental think tank for the developing countries, in Geneva until February 2009. Before joining the South Centre, Tandon was the Founding Director of the Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI).

Professor Tandon has authored and edited books on subjects such as African politics, peace and security, trade and the WTO, international economics, South—South cooperation and human rights. On December 16, 2009 Professor Tandon will give the annual Claude Ake Memorial Lecture. More information on this event will be announced towards the end of November.

Department Researchers Present
Reports to the UN

Three Cases Studies and one general report are presented to the UN Mediation Support Unit of the UN Department of Political Affairs, Thursday 19, 2009. At a workshop in New York, entirely devoted to the Uppsala work, researchers Desirée Nilsson, Johan Brosché and Peter Wallensteen will present the work of the Uppsala team which also has involved Roland Kostic and Mikael Eriksson.

The team has analyzed three peace agreements, Liberia, Sudan and Bosnia-Herzegovina from three separate angles: public security, power-sharing and reconciliation. A set of lessons learned has been distilled for each of the three cases. Together with the outcomes of the Uppsala workshop held in September this has resulted in 18 additional general recommendations ('the Uppsala recommendations').

The purpose of this research is to draw conclusions of general value for the work of the Mediation Support Unit. This Unit is a new body in the UN created to further peacemaking efforts of the UN Secretariat in conflict situations around the world. The Uppsala work was commissioned on a grant given to the UN by the government of Canada.

The above mentioned reports can be downloaded here or purchased by the Department. The price is 50 SEK + distributional cost (without value added tax). For further info, contact: Ulla.öberg@pcr.uu.se


Contact person for further information on the Department:

Erik Noreen (Head of Department)
Phone: +46 (0)18 471 23 56
Fax: +46 (0)18 69 51 02
E-mail: Erik.Noreen@pcr.uu.se


Major Norwegian Research Award goes to Partner of the Department, Professor Nils Petter Gleditsch, PRIO, Oslo

Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama

UN Workshop on UN Day of Peace

Top thirty of 1400 applicants starting the Master programme in Peace and Conflict Studies

UCDP launches new datasets

UCDP launches 2008 update at PRIO's 50th anniversary

Two Department Directors Get the Laurels

NEW RESEARCH PROJECT- Peace Agreement Evaluation Project

TOPS Global 2009 successfully completed!

The Democratization Project - Opportunities and Challenges

Researchers present findings at International Studies Association’s Convention

Uppsala University supports the Uppsala Conflict Data Program

Ahtisaari receives Nobel Peace Prize

New Students, New Courses - some 250 students studying at the Dept

Global Peace and Global Health: Sharon Stone visits the Department of Peace and Conflict Research to receive input from Deptartment experts

The World after Iraq: New Challenges for the International System - Professor Peter Wallensteen met Samantha Power and Jan Eliasson

Kofi Annan became honorary doctor of Uppsala University

Eriksson, Mikael. In Search of a Due Process - Listing and Delisting Practices of the European Union


Spagat, Michael; Andrew Mack, Tara Cooper, and Joakim Kreutz "Estimating War Deaths: An Arena of Contestation," Journal of Conflict Resolution 53 (6)


Nilsson Desirée, Crafting a Secure Peace Evaluating Liberia’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement 2003. Uppsala, November 2009.


Wallensteen Peter, Eriksson Mikael . Negotiating Peace Lessons from Three Comprehensive Peace Agreements. Uppsala, November 2009.


Kostic Roland. Reconciling the Past and the Present Evaluating the Dayton Peace Agreement 1995 Uppsala, November 2009.


Brosché, Johan. Sharing Power — Enabling Peace? Evaluating Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement 2005. Uppsala, November 2009.


Karl DeRouen, Jenna Lea, Peter Wallensteen 2009. 'The Duration of Civil War Peace Agreements,' Conflict Management and Peace Science, Vol. 26 (4): 367-87.


Ashok Swain, The Indus II and Siachen Peace Park: Pushing India-Pakistan Peace Process Forward?, The Round Table (London), vol. 98, Issue 404; October 2009.


Feargal Cochrane, Bahar Baser and Ashok Swain, "Home Thoughts from Abroad: Diasporas and Peace-Building in Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka", Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (Washington DC), vol. 32, Issue 8, 2009, pp. 681-704.


Ashok Swain, "Nile: Troubled Waters", The Africa Report (Paris), no. 17, June-July 2009, pp. 34-39.


Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal and Michael  Schulz, "Security in the  Middle East-Increasingly Multidimensional and Challenging, A Study  Commissioned by the Strategic Perspective Project within the Swedish  Armed Forces Headquarters", Stockholm, August 2009.


Daniela Corti and Ashok Swain "War on Drugs and War on Terror: Case of Afghanistan", The Peace and Conflict Review (UPeace), vol. 3, issue 2, Spring 2009, pp. 41-53.


Erik Melander, Magnus Öberg and Jonathan Hall. 2009. 'Are "New Wars" More Atrocious? Battle Severity, Civilians Killed and Forced Migration Before and After the End of the Cold War', European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 15, No. 3, 505-536.


Jonathan Hall and Roland Kostic. 2009. "Does Integration Encourage Reconciliatory Attitudes among Diasporas?" Global Migration and Transnational Politics Working Paper No. 7. Arlington, VA: Center for Global Studies, George Mason University. ISSN 1941-7586.


Höglund, Kristine, and Anton Iyarathne. 2009. Paying the Price of Patronage: Electoral Violence in Sri Lanka. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 47 (3), 287-307.


Harbom, Lotta & Peter Wallensteen. 2009. ' Armed Conflict, 1946-2008', Journal of Peace Research 46(4): 577-587. Press release (Swedish)


Höglund, Kristine, and Isak Svensson. 2009. "Mediating between Tigers and Lions: Norwegian Peace Diplomacy in Sri Lanka's Civil War". In War and Peace in Transition: Changing Roles of External Actors, edited by K. Aggestam and A. Björkdahl. Lund: Nordic Academic Press.


Peter Wallensteen (2009) 'The strengths and limits of academic diplomacy: the case of Bougainville' in Karin Aggestam and Magnus Jerneck (eds), Diplomacy in Theory and Practice, Essays in honor of Christer Jönsson, Malmö: Liber, pp 258-281.


Albin, Cecilia, Jonathan Hall, Kristine Höglund, and Swanström Niklas. 2009. International Negotiations: Theories and Practices. In Peace, Justice, and Security Studies: A Curriculum Guide, edited by T. McElwee, B. W. Hall, J. Liechty and J. Garber. Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers.