Regarding the Russia-Ukraine war: Contacts for media

The most relevant researchers at our department to comment on aspects to the war are listed here:

Peter Wallensteen, professor of Peace and Conflict Research
Email: Peter.Wallensteen@pcr.uu.se
Mobile phone: 070-6752679

  • Conflicts, peace and negotiation

Isak Svensson, professor of Peace and Conflict Research
Email: Isak.Svensson@pcr.uu.se
Telephone: 018-471 5740
Mobile phone: 070-5306518

  • Conflicts, peace and negotiation
  • International mediation
  • Religion and conflict
  • Nonviolent conflicts

Erik Melander, professor of Peace and Conflict Research, director of The Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament (AMC)
Email: erik.Melander@pcr.uu.se
Mobile phone: 070-4250462

  • Nuclear threat
  • Nuclear disarmament
  • Imlications for Sweden
  • Gender aspects

Karin Johansson, researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research
Email: karin.johansson@pcr.uu.se

  • Conflict-related sexual violence (globally)
  • International responses to conflict-related sexual violence  

Espen Geelmuyden Rod, researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research
Email: espen.g.roed@pcr.uu.se
Mobile phone: 070 715 81 17

  • Dictatorships/autocracies, especially personalist dictators
  • Internet and social media
  • Propaganda
  • Protest movements

Sabine Otto, Assistant Professor and researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research (interview language English)
Email: sabine.otto@pcr.uu.se

  • Violence against civilians
  • Civil war dynamics
  • Pro-government militias
  • United Nations Security Council and different forms of international interventions

Eric Skoog, PhD, lecturer and researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research
Email: eric.skoog@pcr.uu.se

  • Psychological biases and decision making
  • Social psychology of conflict
  • Intergroup attitudes after violence
  • Effects of exposure to violence

Håvard Hegre, Dag Hammarskjöld professor of Peace and Conflict Research
Email: havard.hegre@pcr.uu.se
Mobile phone: 070-9646200 

  • Democracy and war
  • International trade and war
  • Armed conflict forecasting

Sebastian van Baalen, Assistant Professor and researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research
Email: sebastian.van-baalen@pcr.uu.se
Mobile phone: 073 84 66 270

  • Civil resistance and protest movements in war 
  • Violence against civilians 
  • Civilians in war 

Shawn Davies, researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research
Email: shawn.davies@pcr.uu.se
Mobile phone: 070 40 495 09

  • Focus on UCDP data-related issues, Ukraine 
  • Military developments on the ground
Last modified: 2022-04-13