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CMES scholar Lisa Strömbom has co-edited the Special Issue "Agonistic Peace: Advancing Knowledge on Institutional Dynamics and Relational Transformation" in the journal Third World Quarterly, together with Isabel Bramsen (Lund University). The special issue contains several articles focusing specifically on the MENA region. The Special Issue is comprised of empirical studies from a wide range of c

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/agonistic-peace-middle-east - 2025-10-28

How does migration and globalisation shape the lives of individuals in various countries and how does it affect the children of immigrants in terms of integration, identity, and cultural expressions? Do they themselves use the word integration? These questions occupy sociologist Dalia Abdelhady who is about to conclude a study of three populations in the US, in France and in Germany, based on thei

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/other-side-story-how-children-immigrants-experience-life - 2025-10-28

Congratulations to Hasan Hosseini for successfully defending his thesis "Advanced Remote Sensing Precipitation Input for Improved Runoff Simulation" yesterday! Dr. Hasan Hosseini has successfully defended his PhD thesis in Water Resources Engineering, Advanced Remote Sensing Precipitation Input for Improved Runoff Simulation: Local to Regional Scale Modelling.  In conversation with faculty opponen

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/hasan-hosseini-successfully-defends-phd-thesis - 2025-10-28

New CMES Newsletter about upcoming events and recent research activities and publications. Summer greetings from CMES! The Centre will be closed from July 4 to August 14. Have a great summer and we hope to see you at our events in the fall! The CMES Newsletter provides an up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research, activities and events at Lund University and beyond. The Newsletter includes a

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-29 - 2025-10-28

In this article published in Sydsvenskan, CMES scholars Sarah Anne Rennick and Dalia Abdelhady argue that the political mobilization of Middle Eastern migrants in European states represents a unique opportunity to revitalize our own democratic practices. Read the article in Swedish in Sydsvenskan Last decade, pinpointing political mobilization in the Middle East was a straightforward affair. At pr

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-political-mobilization-opportunity-european-democracy - 2025-10-28

CMES is looking to employ an ambitious Middle Eastern scholar and political scientist. Last application day: September 15, 2022 General Information Last application date: September 15, 2022 11:59 PM CEST Type of employment: Permanent position Contract type: Full time First day of employment: By agreement Reference number: PA2022/2541 Link to the job listing in English Link to the job listing in Sw

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/open-position-associate-senior-lecturer-middle-eastern-studies-and-political-science - 2025-10-28

CMES researcher Lina Eklund has been interviewed by climate journalist Peter Alestig for his new book on the effects of climate change in Sweden. The book,Världen som väntar: vårt liv i klimatförändringens Sverige (English translation: The World That Awaits: Our Life in Sweden During Climate Change) addresses the changes we are seeing in Sweden in terms of climate change: less snow, more rain and

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lina-eklunds-research-featured-new-book-climate-change-sweden - 2025-10-28

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the chapter "Mitigation and Adaptation Measures" together with Sahar Baghban (University of Tehran), Omid Bozorg-Haddad (University of Tehran), Mike Hobbins (University of Colorado-Boulder) and Nadhir Al-Ansari (Luleå University of Technology) in a new edited volume published by Springer. The chapter, which addresses how climate change has dire

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sustainable-water-management-mitigation-and-adaptation - 2025-10-28

CMES scholar Sarah Anne Rennick has been interviewed about Tunisia in the BBC World Service Podcast "The Inquiry". The podcast episode (from July 28, 2022) addresses the question of why Tunisia turned its back on democracy. Tunisia was a beacon of hope for democracy after the Arab Spring. The country rid itself of dictator Ben Ali after 24 years of rule and moved to a more democratic system. Now t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sarah-anne-rennick-interviewed-about-tunisia-bbc-podcast - 2025-10-28

CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored the article "Towards an integrated system modeling of water scarcity with projected changes in climate and socioeconomic conditions" together with S. Dehghani (University of Tehran), A.R. Massah Bavani (University of Tehran), A. Roozbahani (University of Tehran) and A. Gohari (Isfahan University of Technology), published in Sustainable Producti

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/water-scarcity-modeling-iran - 2025-10-28

CMES Director Karin Aggestam and Coordinator Linda Eitrem Holmgren have authored the article "The gender-resilience nexus in peacebuilding: the quest for sustainable peace" published in the Journal of International Relations and Development. Resilience and gender have become new buzzwords for expressing renewal in peacebuilding. This article unpacks the gender-resilience nexus in theory and analys

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/gender-resilience-nexus-peacebuilding-quest-sustainable-peace - 2025-10-28

The well-attended CMES panel in Almedalen on democracy in the Middle East is now available on YouTube (in Swedish)! Democracy in the Middle East (Demokratispaning i Mellanöstern) July 6, 2022, 11:15-12:15, Hästgatan 13 in Visby The contemporary Middle East and North Africa is populated by authoritarian one-party states, monarchies and sheikdoms, with a few democratic states. What are the necessary

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-panel-discussion-almedalen-democracy-middle-east - 2025-10-28

Ullrika Sahlin, Researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, CEC, has been awarded Richard J. Burk Outstanding Service Award for her work in the field of risk analyses. Ullrika Sahlin, Researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, CEC, has been awarded Richard J. Burk Outstanding Service Award for her work in the field of risk analyses. The award and USD 500

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/researcher-awarded-price-society-risk-analysis - 2025-10-28

The purpose of Dr. Pejchar's visit is to advance science at the intersection of biodiversity, ecosystem services and agriculture in collaboration with BECC researchers. Dr. Liba Pejchar brings expertise in several emerging topics in BECC at the intersection of biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Her lively research program explores innovative strategies for conserving and restor

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/welcome-becc-guest-researcher-liba-pejchar-associate-professor-department-fish-wildlife-and - 2025-10-28

• Do you get your Friday emails from Research professional with the latest funding opportunities? • Is your profile in LUCRIS, ORCID-ID and PRISMA in order? • What happens with your articles once they are published? How do you get them in all these databases? Warmly welcome to a workshop on tools for researchers at LU on 9 February 10–12. This event is open to both CEC Fellows and PhD-students! He

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/workshop-tools-researchers-lu - 2025-10-28

In January 2017, Lund University signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Stockholm Environmental Institute, SEI. The relationship between Lund University and SEI has a long history, covering areas such as climate adaptation and low carbon transitions in Sweden, agriculture and food security, and, most recently, with a common 58 MSEK Mistra Geopolitics programme. Future research collaboration is

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lund-university-and-sei-sign-mou - 2025-10-28

Johanna Alkan Olsson from CEC, Lund University was awarded 5,000 Euros for her project on algorithmic potato farming at Climate-KIC Nordic Ideation Day 27 January. The project will create a method for farmers to better handle outbreaks of late blight on crops, a disease expected to become more problematic in a changing climate. This was the second ever Climate-KIC Nordic Ideation Day and it was he

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/potato-project-awarded-grant - 2025-10-28

Four different research teams have shared the assignment of evaluating the the Swedish rural programme 2007–2013. One of the groups have been responsible for the second partial report, with the assignment of evaluating the programmes effect when it comes to measures for improving the environment. This research group has worked under the supervision of Henrik Smith who has also been the editor of t

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/final-evaluation-report-swedish-rural-programme-2007-2013 - 2025-10-28

Anna Persson, researcher at the CEC is one of the authors of a new publication from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency: "Arguments for more ecosystem services". From the report; Ecosystem services are the foundation of human welfare, yet the services are often invisible in many of society’s decision-making processes. This report contains statistics, studies and research that shows how eco

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/arguments-more-ecosystem-services - 2025-10-28

The research project Valuation of ecosystem services in agriculture – a path towards effective decision making (VESA) led by Katarina Hedlund will present their results at the Environmental Protection Agency's final conference March 21 in Stockholm. One of the results of VESA is C-bank, which is a web-based tool that can be used by farmers and advisers to value ecosystem services as part of the na

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/final-conference-value-ecosystem-services - 2025-10-28