@uupeace.bsky.social
Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
We are advertising two fully funded doctoral (PhD) positions:
🔹 One general PhD position in peace and conflict research
🔹 One PhD position at the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament
🗓️ Apply by 25 March 2026
👉 Full details and application instructions:
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
📢 We’re Hiring a Professor of Peace and Conflict Research! ⬇️
We are looking for an internationally recognized academic to join our ambitious and supportive research community.
📍 Location: Uppsala, Sweden
📆 Application deadline: 26 March
🔗 Apply / Learn more: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
In an interview for Newsweek, Professor Ashok Swain discusses Trump's plans for Greenland: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXdF...
@ashoswai.bsky.social
Kenya’s 2022 election proved significantly less violent than previous elections. A paper by Kristine Höglund, Patrick Mutahi from CHRIPS and Emma Elfversson looks at how changes in police conduct contributed to the reduction in violence.
Read more. 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🎙️ In our latest podcast episode, Anders Themnér discusses his research into student-led violence in sub-Saharan Africa. What are the patterns and warning signs of such violence? Should all universities be mindful of these signs?
🎧 Podbean: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-n9bck-...
🎓 Today, our research community had the joy of hearing Maxine Leis impressive defence of her dissertation ‘Signals of Violence, Patterns of Flight: Predicting and Explaining Conflict-Related Mobility’. Please join us in congratulating Maxine!
Read 60-page summary (kappa): urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...
🚨 Call for Applications: Claude Ake Visiting Chair 2026
An exciting opportunity for senior African scholars conducting research on peace, conflict, democracy, and human rights.
🗓️ Application deadline: 1 February 2026
🔗 Learn more & apply: nai.uu.se/claudeake
In a piece for Mänsklig Säkerhet, @isaksvensson.bsky.social looks back at 10 events that shaped our world in 2025. 👇
Read (in Swedish): manskligsakerhet.se/2025/12/18/k...
Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo
🎙️ For our latest podcast, we had the pleasure of talking to Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo. Tapping into her experience as a Ghanaian scholar and activist, we discuss feminism, activism, and potential pitfalls in academic collaborations.
🎧 Listen:
PodBean: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-5zt2r...
Peter Wallenstee, Ashok Swain and Desirée Nilsson
DPCR Staff kitchen filled to the brim. Peter Wallensteen gives a speach.
Today we celebrated the 40th anniversary of our PhD program. The faculty board took the formal decision on 14 November 1985. We are proud of all the amazing individuals who have earned their doctorate at the DPCR over the years and look forward to our 70th thesis defence in January!
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💡 Ashok Swain and Prakash Kashwan (Brandeis University) call on India’s decision-makers to combat domestic climate inequalities. 👇
360info.org/indias-clima...
In an article for the Telegraph, Magnus Öberg and Therese Pettersson, both from @ucdp.bsky.social, discuss how indirect deaths from war far exceed the fatalities recorded in conflict datasets.
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
UCDP Reserach Engineer Mert Can Yilmaz joined a panel on responsible use of AI at the Korean Embassy in Stockholm, where he addressed AI ethics and concerns about military applications. The MIKTA event was organised by the embassies of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey, and Australia.
08.12.2025 10:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This week, Isak Svensson and Peter Wallensteen launched their new book The Peacemaking Mandate - Nordic Experiences in International Mediation.
The launch event in Stockholm was organised with the Folke Bernadotte Academy.
Read more: www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
📷: Stefie Mayazi (FBA)
Should academics also be visionary storytellers, pointing to what is possible?
The Claude Ake Memorial lecture by Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo offered food for thought, a much-needed injection of hope and an urgent call to action.
The Nordic Africa Institute co-organised the lecture with us.
We’re thrilled to welcome Marta Lindström, who has joined us as a PhD student for the research project Political Violence in Democracies, led by Hanne Fjelde. We asked Marta to tell us more about her project: www.uu.se/en/departmen...
26.11.2025 12:39 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
💃 At Saturday’s festive ball, our students from Uppsala Peace and Development Students’ Association (UPaD) had the pleasure of welcoming their counterparts from Föreningen för Freds-och Konfliktvetenskap (FFK) at Lund University. lsak Svensson and Emma Elfversson gave greetings from staff.
24.11.2025 10:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🧠 Can mindfulness help reduce polarisation in politics?
Karen Brounéus is investigating this question in the study "Mindfulness i Riksdagen" (Mindfulness in the Swedish Parliament) in collaboration with Camilla Sköld and Otto Simonsson, both of Karolinska Institutet.
👉 www.uu.se/en/news/2025...
🎉 UCDP Research Coordinator Therese Pettersson has been named to Clarivate’s 2025 “Highly Cited Researchers” list. This is likely the first time a researcher from our department has received this distinction.
Congratulations Therese and the entire @ucdp.bsky.social team on this achievement! 💪
🎙️ Yesterday, on Swedish Radio P1, Johan Brosché debated Benjamin Dousa, Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade, on whether Sweden should increase the pressure on the UAE to end their support for the Sudanese RFS-Militia. 👇
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/deba...
Following her promotion to Professor in the spring, Desirée Nilsson today gave her inaugural lecture titled Who gets to participate in peace processes? (Vem får vara med i fredsprocesser?)
Thank you, Professor Nilsson, for an excellent lecture and congratulations once more on your promotion! 💐
You can now register for this year’s Claude Ake Memorial Lecture . Professor Ampofo is a prominent scholar and activist from Ghana. She is a wonderful speaker, who offers unique insights. A warm welcome to join us on 2 December in Uppsala and online! nai.uu.se/claudeake2025 👇
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At the 2nd International Peace Forum in Granada, Spain, Professor Ashok Swain spoke about the importance of peace and peace education. He also participated in a high-level roundtable on security, democracy, and peacebuilding. For his work in peace education, the organisers gifted him a portrait.
24.10.2025 12:03 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Today, we commemorate the 80th #anniversary of the #UN Charter coming into force. Professor @ashoswai.bsky.social
has written an #analysis on the current state of the UN and the potential for reform:
scroll.in/article/1087...
#UNDay
The Violence & Impacts Early-Warning System @viewsforecasting.org is a great example of using AI to promote #peace. Director Håvard Hegre discusses #AI and VIEWS' current predictions for the war in #Ukraine in an interview for Helsingin Sanomat, Finland’s biggest Newspaper: www.hs.fi/maailma/art-...
17.10.2025 08:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In his analysis of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, Professor Peter Wallensteen finds it noteworthy that Maria Corina Machado was nominated for the prize by a number of Republican US Senators.
Read the analysis: www.uu.se/en/departmen...
"The choice of a Venezuelan opposition leader was both safe and smart. It avoided political confrontation while reaffirming the prize’s symbolic defense of democratic ideals."
Professor @ashoswai.bsky.social comments on the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. 👇
scroll.in/article/1087...
Our department has been engaged, since last year, in establishing Italy’s first Peace School in Naples. Today, during the inauguration ceremony, Professor @ashoswai.bsky.social delivered a talk titled “The World Needs Peace Now More Than Ever.”
08.10.2025 14:56 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
In an interview for Expressen, UCDP Research Coordinator Therese Petterson explains why the UCDP’s current death toll in the war in Gaza of 61,400 is likely to be revised upward significantly, as more information becomes available. 👇
www.expressen.se/nyheter/sver...
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🌍 Who will receive the Nobel Peace Prize this year?
The annual predictions and analysis by Professor @isaksvensson.bsky.social is now available in Utrikesmagasinet. 👇 (in Swedish)
www.ui.se/utrikesmagas...
