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Department of Peace & Conflict Research @UppsalaUni Research, education, & policy relevance. Home of @UCDP @AlvamyrdalCN and @UURotaryPeace

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Our professor and Head of Department, Ashok Swain @ashoswai , spoke at the Conference of Universities Teaching Peace Studies at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” on November 14, 2014. The talk was moderated by Luigi Mastropaolo from RAI.

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Our director Erik Melander and Prof. Peter Wallensteen had the pleasure of attending a luncheon for the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs. Many thanks to Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Anders Hagfeldt, for the invitation and to the committee members for your interest in the AMC!

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We are delighted to share the news that our department has been awarded four research project grants from the Swedish Research Council (VR). Congratulations to Erika, Karin, Sebastian, and Kathleen on this achievement!

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It is finally here! My dissertation is now available to read online: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva…

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Researchers at our department have released a paper which presents a model for forecasting electoral violence. For the upcoming US presidential election, the model predicted a relatively high likelihood of electoral violence. Read more. 👉uu.se/en/department/…

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Why are western voters increasingly embracing authoritarianism? Read the op-ed by our Prof. Ashok Swain in Scroll.in, an independent Indian digital news publication. 👇 scroll.in/article/107500…


"A second Trump term would threaten US leadership in climate action, impacting the world’s future", argues our Prof. @ashoswai in his column for Gulf News. 👇 gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds…


In his latest column for Gulf News, our Prof. Ashok Swain points out how the far right is influencing discussions around #EU #migration policies and deportation strategies. 👇 gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds…


"Elon Musk's alliance with Trump and the far right has turned X from a platform for democratic discourse into a tool for manipulating and silencing the opposition", writes our Prof. Ashok Swain in an editorial in Dagens ETC. etc.se/ledarkolumn/el…


The Claude Ake lecture on 17 Nov. by Prof. Nick Tembo will explore issues of national preparedness and psychological effects related to Cyclone Freddy, which hit Malawi in March 2023. Read more about the lecture 👉 nai.uu.se/claudeake2024 youtube.com/watch?v=nj3GL1… @NordicAfrica


“Atom bomb survivors endured, but their pain and plea for peace must never be forgotten.” Read the latest column in Gulf News our Prof. Ashok Swain. @ashoswai 👇 gn24.ae/11fae041a88740…


Pulling the UN peacekeeping force from Lebanon would be a defeat for peacekeeping missions in general, argues our Prof. Lisa Hultman in an article by SVT Nyheter. (in Swedish) svt.se/nyheter/utrike…


Our Prof. Isak Svensson joins the SVT Nobelstudion for the live TV coverage for the announcement of this year's #NobelPeacePrize . Watch on SVT Play from 10.55 am CEST. svtplay.se/video/KN36Rz1/…


🏅Who will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 11 October? Our Professor Isak Svensson presents six worthy and possible recipients of this year’s price in a column in Utrikesmagasinet. What is your prediction? ui.se/utrikesmagasin…


"In this volatile moment, it is imperative that Israel rethinks its unilateral actions and embraces multilateralism" our Prof. @ashoswai argues in today's column in Gulf News. ➡️ gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds…


What counts as a war must be determined by a global standard rather than the subjective views of different parties, argues @UCDP project leader Therese Pettersson in this recent article by Sveriges Television (SVT).👇 svt.se/nyheter/utrike…


Our Prof. Ashok Swain is one of 74 signatories calling for action against the increased hate and threats directed towards journalists and researchers. The call to action was published in Dagens Nyheter. 👇 (in Swedish, behind paywall) dn.se/kultur/upprop-…


Today we celebrate the @UN International Day of peace. This year’s theme of Cultivating a Culture of Peace is highly relevant to the holistic approach taken by our researchers as they work to identify paths towards durable peace. un.org/en/observances…


We had the privilege of welcoming a delegation from the Kajima Institute of International Peace, Japan. Accompanying President Hiraizumi Nobuyuki was Dr. Masayuki Komatsu and Mr. Tatsuo Shikata. Our Prof. @ProfAshokSwain received the guests in the Dag Hammarskjöld Room.

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During June 2024, a new dataset was published! The Peacekeeping Activity (PACT) Dataset 2.0: Check it out: uu.se/en/department/…


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