Elisabeth Olivius

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@umeauniversitet.bsky.social is a good place to work, PhD students in Sweden are employed with regular benefits and full time salary, and Umeå is a nice city! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ume%C3%A5

1-2 PhD students for the Department of Political Science

We are hiring new PhD students! Projects can focus on any topics of relevance to pol sci or peace and conflict studies, and the positions are fully funded. Happy to answer any questions from potential applicants!
www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Issues | Journal of Refugee Studies | Oxford Academic A multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that publishes research that explores the complex problems of forced migration and national, regional and international responses. Coverage includes all categ...

Three years (!!) to finally release this Special Issue in the Jnl of Refugee Studies, of which I am immensely proud. We wrestle with concepts of space, bordering and activism. Worth the wait? U decide! @kimrygiel.bsky.social @eolivius.bsky.social @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jrs/issue

We bring resistance studies and peacebuilding into greater dialogue, and examine how CSOs and soc movm actors resist regime efforts to build illiberal peace, and instead work to imagine and construct forms of peace that are more inclusive and egalitarian, though not necessarily liberal.

While studies have examined how illiberal peacebuilding is practiced in various contexts, few have thus far asked how people respond to, and possibly resist, illiberal ideas and practices of peacebuilding.

Resistance to illiberal peacebuilding: towards a new research agenda In recent years, liberal peacebuilding has been increasingly displaced by illiberal peacebuilding – illiberal norms and practices that prioritise regime control, stability, and order through econom...

Are you interested in (illiberal) peacebuilding, resistance, or struggles between competing visions of peace? Read this new article written with @malinakebo.bsky.social, @npremaratna.bsky.social & Lars Waldorf 😃
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Elisabeth Olivius, Malin Åkebo and Jenny Hedström have recently published their new article "Navigating friction: women’s peacebuilding in hybrid regimes" in EJIR!

You can find the full publication here: t1p.de/rnpwo

malinakebo.bsky.social @hedstrom.bsky.social @eolivius.bsky.social

SWEPSA 2-4 October 2024 This year hosted by the Department of Political Science at Umeå University.

Last week to send your abstracts to the Swedish pol sci conference this fall - and in particular to the Politics and Gender group which I dare promise will be exciting! 😃
www.umu.se/statsvetensk...

Read the award decision and the article here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/eur...

Very honored to receive the EJPG 2023 Best Article Award together with @hedstrom.bsky.social and Zin Mar Phyo! In this piece we tried to theorize feminist peace, and show how the WPS agenda can be manipulated by illiberal regimes to marginalize critical voices. Thank you
@ejpgjournal.bsky.social 😍🎉

Tack @niklasbolin.bsky.social ! ☺️

If you are doing research on anything related to gender/women's activism/women's rights policies + authoritarianism/auth or hybrid regimes/illiberal peacebuilding, let's connect!

The aim of the project is to explore how women’s rights norms are mobilized as political tools in authoritarian, conflict-affected contexts, and analyze the effects of these processes. This is pursued through a comparative study of Sri Lanka and Myanmar.

Really pleased to receive a Swedish Research Council grant with @malinakebo.bsky.social to continue our research on women's rights and women's activism in hybrid or authoritarian peacebuilding contexts. Now with a stronger focus on how states mobilize women's rights norms for their own agendas!

8/ For more on our findings from this project, especially on the dynamics of the encounter between the WPS agenda and an illiberal state, see this article: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

7/ Read our policy brief here: umu.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

6/ These four recommendations can serve as a basis for reflection within international peacebuilding and donor organizations, prompting dialogue about how specific practices and forms of support can be revised to avoid entrenching existing hierarchies and better facilitate a gender-just peace.

5/ To change these patterns, we suggest that int actors need to identify local partners beyond the “usual suspects”; simplify funding processes and provide flexible funding; better analyze and understand context and conflict dynamics; and challenge the state-centrism of int peacebuilding support.

4/ Importantly, we do not suggest that people working as gender advisers, or on WPS projects intentionally seek to conserve patterns of inequality. Rather, we found that such effects result from structural constraints, organizational cultures, and established ways of working.

3/These findings resonate with studies of other peacebuilding contexts too. A key question is therefore how the tendency for international gender expertise to reinforce power imbalances can be countered. How can international gender expertise better achieve its ambition to build a gender-just peace?

2/This resulted from narrow perceptions about "local partners"; administratively demanding and donor-driven funding; insufficient contextual knowledge; and a state-centric approach which enabled the MMR gov to manipulate international aid in favor of efforts to silence and exclude critical voices.

New policy brief with @hedstrom.bsky.social and Zin Mar Phyo! Here we summarize findings from our research on the politics and effects of int gender expertise in Myanmar. Our findings show that int gender expertise frequently shaped peacebuilding in ways that reinforced existing inequalities. How?

One of the highlights of my academic career - being cited in a Cynthia Enloe book! 😍 with @hedstrom.bsky.social! In comparison receiving a rejection from a main Swedish research funder today is totally fine! 😄 See note 74 below! And the cited, open access book here: www.niaspress.dk/book/waves-o...

New edition of "Myanmar: Politics, Economy & Society" out now OPEN ACCESS! Very timely and comprehensive, historical background as well as recent post-military coup developments. Chapter on women's rights with @hedstrom.bsky.social and Val kay Soe!
www.routledge.com/Myanmar-Poli...