@uupeace.bsky.social
Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
🎉 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 👇
29.10.2025 12:21 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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 — 👍 0 🔁 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...
@ucdp.bsky.social
🌍 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...
In an interview for Dagens Nyheter, Professor @isaksvensson.bsky.social offers his take on Trump's 20-point #Gaza #peace plan. The article is available on the DN website: www.dn.se/varlden/expe...
01.10.2025 13:43 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📢 Join us in Stockholm for EBA’s seminar Conflict, Democracy & Peace: Exploring What Works (15 Oct, 13:30).
Jennina Kotajoki, Gudlaug Olafsdottir, and Juan Diego Duque Salazar will present policy briefs based on their recent dissertations at the DPCR.
👉 Info & register: eba.se/seminars/con...
✨📖 A new book by @isaksvensson.bsky.social & Peter Wallensteen focuses on the experiences of mediators and their mandates in Nordic countries. Isak recently presented the book at a pre-launch event at Peking University, Beijing.
Read more and pre-order: www.cambridge.org/se/universit...
Several of our reserachers are among the 122 expert signatories in an #op-ed calling for the Swedish goverment to take immidiate action to prevent #genocide in #Gaza:
🔗 dagensarena.se/opinion/sverige-lever-inte-upp-till-internationella-ataganden-att-forhindra-folkmord
A new policy brief by Lisa Hultman and Ornella Corsant-Colat looks at how UN peacekeeping missions with protection of civilians mandates adjust their military presence in response to attacks on civilians. 👇
www.ipinst.org/2025/09/peac...
🎙️Professor Ashok Swain shares his expertise on the International Risk Podcast:
22.09.2025 08:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Since we first advertised these postdoctoral positions, the project looking at political violence in democracies has unfortunately become even timelier. Apply now to join this important project led by distinguished Professor @hannefjelde.bsky.social.
Apply by 1 October: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
🎙️In a recent podcast by Expert Group For Aid Studies / EBA Associate Professor Johan Brosché and Affiliated Visiting Researcher Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs discuss how peace processes should be designed to achieve lasting peace.
🎧 Listen (in Swedish): soundcloud.com/user-7156653...?
Today's presentation by Professor @anjaneundorf.bsky.social of her research into the #politicisation of #education in times of #conflict set a high bar for our autumn speaker series.
We thank Anja for her insightful talk and the audience for an active Q&A!
Coming talks: www.uu.se/en/departmen...
Following Sunday’s devastating landslide in Darfur, Associate Professor Johan Broché shares an update on the worsening situation in Sudan in an interview with Swedish Radio P1:
🔗 www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/tuse...
🆕 From conflict to cohesion: Coordinating local and international action to promote peace
Today on VoxDev, Lisa Hultman (Uppsala University) & Salma Mousa (UCLA) discuss the micro- and macro-level efforts necessary to achieve lasting global peace: voxdev.org/topic/instit...
Today, Professor @ashoswai.bsky.social spoke on transboundary #water #geopolitics at a conference in Abu Dhabi. The conference on #sustainable water #security is hosted by TRENDS Research & Advisory.
02.09.2025 12:49 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
In the series SVT verifierar (SVT verififies) Professor @isaksvensson.bsky.social examines Trump's claims that he’s “settled 6 wars in 6 months”. This popular series by the Swedish public service television company uses short format videos to combat misinformation online.👇
www.svt.se/nyheter/utri...
🎙️In this episode, Karen Brounéus, one of our professors and clinical psychologist, takes us on a journey there and back again. Her research helps us think more deeply about the intrinsic link between #MentalHealth and #ConflictReduction.
Listen:
🎧 Podbean: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-i2jm6-...
In his recent article, just attributed to the latest issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, PhD candidate Alexandre Raffoul explores conceptual issues in the typology of ethnic power-sharing – and proposes ways to "reassemble" the framework more productively: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
22.08.2025 12:54 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Data from @ucdp.bsky.social put to good use in this important article from The Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Today we had the pleasure of welcoming a delegation from @sidasweden.bsky.social, which manages Sweden's foreign aid. Thank you for this opportunity to hear about your impactful work around the globe, and discuss how our research and data could further support these efforts!
21.08.2025 13:40 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
📊 The two most used sources of conflict data are @ucdp.bsky.social and ACLED. A recent article examines which factors drive the differences observed in these two datasets.
🔗 Open access article in Research & Politics by Magnus Öberg and Mert Can Yilmaz: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
