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