Lisa Strömbom was promoted to Associate Professor at the board meeting of the Faculty of Social Sciences on the 2nd of February. Lisa Strömbom conducts research on topics such as identity politics and conflict transformation in intrastate conflicts and cities, with a special focus on Israel-Palestine, and teaches peace and conflict studies.Lisa Strömbom’s personal page.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lisa-strombom-promoted-associate-professor - 2025-08-27

The globally leading academic association on international relations ISA elected our researcher Fariborz Zelli to their Governing Council last week. Fariborz Zelli with Susan Park, his predecessor as chair of the ISA environmental studies section.  ISA, the International Studies Association, has over 6,500 members grouped in thematic sections. At the ISA annual convention in Baltimore last week, F

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/fariborz-zelli-elected-isa-governing-council - 2025-08-27

Catarina Kinnvall and Jennifer Mitzen have published a Special Issue with the journal Cooperation and Conflict, entitled ’Ontological Security and World Politics’. Catarina has also an article in the same issue, entitled: ’Feeling Ontologically (In)secure: States, traumas and the governing of gendered space’. "A few years ago, as we began a conversation about ontological security, we were struck b

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ontological-security-approach-security-and-identity-world-politics - 2025-08-27

Jakob Skovgaard is co-editor of and contributing to a special edition of the journal "International Environmental Agreements" entitled "Managing fragmentation and complexity in the emerging system of international climate finance". The special edition addresses which factors have influenced how financing for climate action in developing countries (climate financing) is governed, and how it could b

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-special-edition-fragmentation-climate-financing - 2025-08-27

OUTREACH: Professor Annica Kronsell is on a fellowship sponsored by the EU Center on Shared Complex Challenges at University of Melbourne and gave a talk to Australian Policy makers in Canberra on 'Green Industrial Transitions in line with Climate Objectives' Thursday March 16. Annica Kronsell's personal page.Visit the website of the University of Melbourne, where Annica Kronsell is a Visting Fell

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kronsell-spoke-canberra-about-green-industrial-transitions - 2025-08-27

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Per Andersson has published an article in the journal Studies in Comparative International Development. AbstractDuring the last two centuries, taxation has not only increased dramatically in level and volume; its structure has also changed: from a heavy reliance on customs revenue in the early nineteenth century to a stronger emphasis on income taxation in the twentieth.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/democracy-urbanization-and-tax-revenue - 2025-08-27

OUTREACH: Annika Bergman Rosamond’s keynote ”Cities and Citizens for Peace - The Importance of Dialogue” at the opening of HÖFÐI Reykjavik Peace Centre, 7th October 2016 is now available online. The objective of the opening of HÖFÐI Reykjavik Peace Centre at the University of Iceland is to support Reykjavik in its mission of becoming a city of peace, and to advise on how Reykjavik can promote peac

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/watch-annika-bergman-rosamond-talk-about-celebraty-humanitarianism - 2025-08-27

OUTREACH: Professor Annica Kronsell gave a talk on ‘Gender perspectives on Climate Change’ at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday 22nd March. Annica Kronsell's personal page.Visit the website of the University of Melbourne, where Annica Kronsell is a Visting Fellow.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/gave-talk-melbourne-about-gender-perspectives-climate-change - 2025-08-27

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annica Kronsell has co-authored the following two articles, both are available via open access. Together with Anna Kaijser ”Who gets to know about nature? Biodiversity and ecosystem services through an intersectional lens” in Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien.Together with Gunnhildur Magnusdottir ”The double democratic deficit in climate policy-making by the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kronsell-two-new-articles-about-biodiversity-and-climate-policy-making - 2025-08-27

OUTREACH: Professor Annica Kronsell gave a talk on Collaborative urban sustainability governance through experimentation, hosted by the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the Singapore Theatre, Basement Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne on Thursday 23rd March. From the poster:Innovations in urban governance such as Urban Living Labs (ULL) are expected to accelerate the tr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kronsell-talked-melbourne-about-more-sustainable-and-climate-resilient-cities - 2025-08-27

The article ”Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy in the Making: Ethics, Politics, and Gender”, co-authored by Karin Aggestam and Annika Bergman Rosamond, is part of the Carnegie Council Special Collection of "Editors' Picks" from the 30th Anniversary volym of the journal "Ethics & International Affairs”. In 2014 the world’s first self-defined feminist government was formed in Sweden. As part of that a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/editors-pick-swedish-feminist-foreign-policy-making - 2025-08-27

Peace-building, mediation and justice issues are on the agenda for Karin Aggestam who holds the prestigious Pufendorf chair, which provides the holder the opportunity to devote most of her time to research. – The chair is a research position but I have made sure to retain some teaching. Interaction with the students is very rewarding, says Karin Aggestam to the magazine LUM, Lund University Magazi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-first-woman-and-political-scientist-appointed-pufendorf-chair-0 - 2025-08-27

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: In the recently released Palgrave Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations in World Politics, Christer Jönsson contributes with the chapter "IR Paradigms and Inter-Organizational Theory: Situating the Research Program Within the Discipline". The editors' comment on Jönsson's contribution: "By inviting Christer Jönsson, who had presented remarkable research on IOR [inter

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonsson-palgrave-handbook-inter-organizational-relations-world-politics - 2025-08-27

The notification of the date of the defence and "posting" of Linda Nybergs thesis "Market Bureaucracy" was held on Tuesday, April 4, at. 15:15 in Edens lobby.  The academic tradition of nailing ones thesis to a board ("spikning" in Swedish) means that the thesis is made available to the public, who should be given the chance to read it in advance and then ask questions at the defence.Linda Nyberg

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/linda-nybergs-doctoral-thesis-posted - 2025-08-27

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl has together with Johanna Mannergren Selimovic contributed with a chapter on Gender and Transitional Justice, and one chapter with Susanne Buckley-Zistel on Memorials and Transitional Justice in the book An Introduction to Transitional Justice edited by Olivera Simic. Learn more about the book on routledge.comAnnika Björkdahl's personal page here on the d

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-gender-and-transitional-justice - 2025-08-27

Linda Nyberg defended her dissertation "Market Bureaucracy : Neoliberalism, Competition, and EU State Aid Policy" today, 21st April at 10:15 am in the Eden auditorium, Paradisgatan 5h, Lund. Discussant was Ben Rosamond from Copenhagen University.Market Bureaucracy : Neoliberalism, Competition, and EU State Aid PolicyLinda Nyberg's personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/linda-nyberg-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-08-27

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Nina Wilén, peace and conflict researcher and guest researchers at the department, has written the article "Peacekeeping deployment abroad and the self-perceptions of the effect on career advancement, status and reintegration” published in print a few weeks ago (published online in August). Read the article at tandfonline.comNina Wilén is a peace and conflict researcher w

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/what-happens-military-careers-un-soldiers-after-their-un-service - 2025-08-27

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Nina Wilén, peace and conflict researcher and guest researchers at the department, has written the article ”The civilised Self and the barbaric Other: ex-rebels making sense of sexual violence in the DR Congo” which was recently published online. Read the article at tandfonline.comNina Wilén is a peace and conflict researcher who focuses on gender, security architecture a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-do-ex-rebels-make-sense-sexual-violence - 2025-08-27

OUTREACH: Today, 26th April, Niklas Altermark will participate in the parliamentary hearing on personal assistance. Also participating are representatives of the disability movement, other researchers from a variety of disciplines and a number of people heavily involved when personal assistance was introduced. The purpose of the event is to highlight personal assistance and allow assistance users,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/altermark-parliamentary-seminar-personal-assistance - 2025-08-27

Annika Björkdahl was invited to give a talk entitled ”Peace and the Politics of Memory” at St. Andrews University in Scotland on Monday the 17th April at the Arts Lecture Theatre. The talk was part of the School of International Relations, IR Monday Seminar Series.St. Andrews University's websiteAnnika Björkdahl's personal page here on the department's website.   

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-gave-talk-scotland-peace-and-politics-memory - 2025-08-27