Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs
Affiliated Visiting researcher at Department of Peace and Conflict Research
- E-mail:
- mimmi.soderbergkovacs@pcr.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Gamla Torget 3, 1tr
753 20 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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Publications
Recent publications
Dealing with Divergence: Intra-party Dynamics and Spoiler Management in Civil Wars
Part of Journal of Global Security Studies, 2023
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Autonomous Peace?: The Bangsamoro Region in the Philippines Beyond the 2014 Agreement
Part of Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, p. 55-69, 2021
Part of Government and Opposition, p. 245-259, 2021
Reintegration or Recividism? : Why Ex-combatants in the DRC return to arms
2021
A Matter of Faith?: Negotiations with Boko Haram in Nigeria
Part of International Negotiation, p. 435-462, 2020
All publications
Articles in journal
Dealing with Divergence: Intra-party Dynamics and Spoiler Management in Civil Wars
Part of Journal of Global Security Studies, 2023
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Autonomous Peace?: The Bangsamoro Region in the Philippines Beyond the 2014 Agreement
Part of Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, p. 55-69, 2021
Part of Government and Opposition, p. 245-259, 2021
A Matter of Faith?: Negotiations with Boko Haram in Nigeria
Part of International Negotiation, p. 435-462, 2020
Part of Journal of International Relations and Development, p. 560-583, 2019
- DOI for Demagogues of Hate or Shepherds of Peace?: Examining the Threat Construction Processes of Warlord Democrats in Sierra Leone and Liberia
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Rebel-to-party transformations in civil war peace processes 1975–2011
Part of Democratization, p. 990-1008, 2016
Rebel-to-party transformations in civil war peace processes 1975-2011
Part of Democratization, p. 990-1008, 2016
Part of Dala-Demokraten, 2014
Different Paths of Reconstruction: Military Reform in Post-War Sierra Leone and Liberia
Part of International Peacekeeping, p. 2-16, 2013
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Revisiting an Elusive Concept: A Review of the Debate on Spoilers in Peace Processes
Part of International Studies Review, p. 606-626, 2011
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Beyond the Absence of War: The Diversity of Peace in Post-Settlement Societies
Part of Review of International Studies, p. 367-390, 2010
Beyond the absence of war: The diversity of peace in post-settlement societies
Part of Review of International Studies, p. 367-390, 2010
The Predicament of Elections in War-Torn Societies
Part of Democratization, p. 530-557, 2009
The predicament of elections in war-torn societies
Part of Democratization, p. 530-557, 2009
Breaking the Cycle of Violence?: Promises and Pitfalls of the Liberian Peace Process
Part of Civil Wars, p. 19, 2005
Chapters in book
Competition, uncertainty and violence in Sierra Leone's swing district
Part of Violence in African Elections, p. 114-134, Zed Books, 2018
Shape Shifters in the Struggle for Survival: Warlord Democrats in Sierra Leone
Part of Warlord Democrats in Africa, Zed Books, 2017
The Peace Triangle: Capturing Peace After Military Victory in Sri Lanka
Part of Practical Approaches to Peacebuilding, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2016
Part of New Armies from Old, p. 195-212, Georgetown University Press, 2014
From Rebel Groups to Political Parties: Renamo in Mozambique and RUF in Sierra Leone
Part of From Intra-State War to Durable Peace, Republic of Letters Publishing, 2012
When rebels change their stripes: Armed insurgents in post-war politics
Part of From War to Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 2008
Peace through democracy: the challenges of post-war democratization in weak and war-torn states
Part of The democratization project, Anthem Press, 2008
Collections (editor)
Conference papers
A Matter of Faith?: Mediation attempts with Boko Haram in Nigeria
2017
The Rise of Islamist Armed Conflicts and Challenges to Conflict Resolution
2017
The Return of Victories?: The Growing Trend of Militancy in Ending Armed Conflicts
2013
2012
Uncertainty, Competition and Violence in the 2007 Elections in Sierra Leone
2011
Part of Authors’ conference at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA, 2010
2010
2010
Between Violence and Democracy: Military-Political Organisations in Electoral Processes
2008
The Predicament of Elections in War-Torn Societies
2007
Just Peace, or Just Peace?: The Character of Peace in Post-War Societies
2007
Part of Annual Peace Network Conference, Uppsala, 23–24 October, 2007
Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Promises and Pitfalls of the Liberian Peace Process
Part of Presented at the Nordic Africa Days, Uppsala, 30 Sept-2 Oct, 2005
Conference proceedings (editor)
Monograph doctoral thesis
Reports
Other
Peace agreements: finding solutions to intra-state conflicts
Part of Cambridge Review of International Affairs, p. 294-297, 2017
When conflict resolution fails: an alternative to negotiation and dialogue
Part of Cambridge Review of International Affairs, p. 294-297, 2017
Costly Democracy: Peacebuilding and Democratization after war
Part of Perspectives on Politics, p. 300-301, 2014
”Ampa Ampoh!”: Sierra Leone after the announcement of the 2012 election results
2012
From Intra-State War to Democratic Peace in Weak States
2002