Stefan Döring
Associate senior lecturer/Assistant Professor at Department of Peace and Conflict Research
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 469 71 22
- E-mail:
- stefan.doring@pcr.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Gamla Torget 3, 1tr
753 20 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
- Research areas: role of water in violent communal conflict; non-state water cooperation; natural resource sharing; access to water during armed conflict; IWRM
- My research is part of the Societies at Risk/ ViEWS program (https://viewsforecasting.org/about/staff/)
- I am currently also a visiting scholar at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) (https://www.prio.org/people/11224) and I am affiliated with the Swedish Centre for Impacts of Climate Extremes (climes) (https://www.climes.se/)
Keywords
- communal conflict
- water resources
- gis
- non-state actors
- water cooperation
Biography
Research areas
role of water in violent communal conflict; natural resource sharing; access to water during armed conflict.
Other
Member at Research School for International Water Cooperation, in partnership with the International Centre for Water Cooperation (under the auspices of UNESCO).
Current Teaching
Theory, Research and Methods (Bachelor level): Lecturer
C-Thesis Course (Bachelor level): Supervisor, grader
Master thesis course (Master level): Supervisor, grader
Causes of War (Master level): Co-Course Convener
Previous teaching
Conflict Resolution B (Bachelor level) - Co-Course Convener
B-Thesis Course (Bachelor level) – Supervisor
Methods course (Master level) – Course Convener, Lecturer and Seminar Teacher
Publications
Selection of publications
Part of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025
- DOI for Risk perception of climate change and global crises: Influences of socio-economic drivers and political orientations
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Part of Trials, 2025
- DOI for Combining mental health and climate-smart agricultural interventions to improve food security in humanitarian settings: study protocol for the THRIVE cluster-randomized controlled trial with mothers in Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda
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Climate Impacts on Conflict: The Role of Water
Part of Climate Change-Conflict Nexus, p. 15-20, MEDRC, 2025
Part of Ambio, p. 774-792, 2025
- DOI for Climate, peace, and conflict — past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research
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Water Diplomacy as a Successful Tool for Environmental Peacebuildung
Part of Welternährung: das Fachjournal der Welthungerhilfe, 2025
Bridging Gaps in Water Governance: Addressing Conflict and Climate Challenges
2025
The impacts of armed conflict on human development: A review of the literature
Part of World Development, 2025
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Spatial Patterns of Communal Violence in sub-Saharan Africa
Part of Journal of Peace Research, p. 858-873, 2024
- DOI for Spatial Patterns of Communal Violence in sub-Saharan Africa
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Sustainable transformations for healthcare systems in a changing climate
Part of Cell Reports Sustainability, 2024
- DOI for Sustainable transformations for healthcare systems in a changing climate
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Integrating socio-hydrology, and peace and conflict research
Part of Journal of Hydrology, 2024
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Drought exposure decreases altruism with salient group identities as key moderator
Part of Nature Climate Change, p. 856-861, 2023
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Bridge over Troubled Water: Conflict and cooperation during water scarcity
2022
Cooperation and Conflict amid Water Scarcity
2022
Part of Global Environmental Change, 2020
- DOI for From Bullets to Boreholes: A Disaggregated Analysis of Domestic Water Cooperation in Drought-prone Regions
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Come rain, or come wells: How access to groundwater affects communal violence
Part of Political Geography, 2020
- DOI for Come rain, or come wells: How access to groundwater affects communal violence
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Negotiating Water across Levels: A Peace and Conflict “Toolbox” for Water Diplomacy
Part of Journal of Hydrology, p. 100-109, 2018
Recent publications
Part of Nature Health, 2026
Water and Communal Conflict: A Review of the Literature
Part of WIREs Water, 2026
- DOI for Water and Communal Conflict: A Review of the Literature
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Streams of contestation, streams of cooperation: Toward a research agenda on water and peace
Part of Environment and Security, p. 405-425, 2025
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Part of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025
- DOI for Risk perception of climate change and global crises: Influences of socio-economic drivers and political orientations
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Part of Trials, 2025
- DOI for Combining mental health and climate-smart agricultural interventions to improve food security in humanitarian settings: study protocol for the THRIVE cluster-randomized controlled trial with mothers in Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda
- Download full text (pdf) of Combining mental health and climate-smart agricultural interventions to improve food security in humanitarian settings: study protocol for the THRIVE cluster-randomized controlled trial with mothers in Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Nature Health, 2026
Streams of contestation, streams of cooperation: Toward a research agenda on water and peace
Part of Environment and Security, p. 405-425, 2025
- DOI for Streams of contestation, streams of cooperation: Toward a research agenda on water and peace
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Part of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2025
- DOI for Risk perception of climate change and global crises: Influences of socio-economic drivers and political orientations
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Part of Trials, 2025
- DOI for Combining mental health and climate-smart agricultural interventions to improve food security in humanitarian settings: study protocol for the THRIVE cluster-randomized controlled trial with mothers in Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda
- Download full text (pdf) of Combining mental health and climate-smart agricultural interventions to improve food security in humanitarian settings: study protocol for the THRIVE cluster-randomized controlled trial with mothers in Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda
Part of Ambio, p. 774-792, 2025
- DOI for Climate, peace, and conflict — past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research
- Download full text (pdf) of Climate, peace, and conflict — past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research
Water Diplomacy as a Successful Tool for Environmental Peacebuildung
Part of Welternährung: das Fachjournal der Welthungerhilfe, 2025
Spatial Patterns of Communal Violence in sub-Saharan Africa
Part of Journal of Peace Research, p. 858-873, 2024
- DOI for Spatial Patterns of Communal Violence in sub-Saharan Africa
- Download full text (pdf) of Spatial Patterns of Communal Violence in sub-Saharan Africa
Sustainable transformations for healthcare systems in a changing climate
Part of Cell Reports Sustainability, 2024
- DOI for Sustainable transformations for healthcare systems in a changing climate
- Download full text (pdf) of Sustainable transformations for healthcare systems in a changing climate
Integrating socio-hydrology, and peace and conflict research
Part of Journal of Hydrology, 2024
- DOI for Integrating socio-hydrology, and peace and conflict research
- Download full text (pdf) of Integrating socio-hydrology, and peace and conflict research
Drought exposure decreases altruism with salient group identities as key moderator
Part of Nature Climate Change, p. 856-861, 2023
- DOI for Drought exposure decreases altruism with salient group identities as key moderator
- Download full text (pdf) of Drought exposure decreases altruism with salient group identities as key moderator
Part of Global Environmental Change, 2020
- DOI for From Bullets to Boreholes: A Disaggregated Analysis of Domestic Water Cooperation in Drought-prone Regions
- Download full text (pdf) of From Bullets to Boreholes: A Disaggregated Analysis of Domestic Water Cooperation in Drought-prone Regions
Come rain, or come wells: How access to groundwater affects communal violence
Part of Political Geography, 2020
- DOI for Come rain, or come wells: How access to groundwater affects communal violence
- Download full text (pdf) of Come rain, or come wells: How access to groundwater affects communal violence
Negotiating Water across Levels: A Peace and Conflict “Toolbox” for Water Diplomacy
Part of Journal of Hydrology, p. 100-109, 2018
Articles, review/survey
Water and Communal Conflict: A Review of the Literature
Part of WIREs Water, 2026
- DOI for Water and Communal Conflict: A Review of the Literature
- Download full text (pdf) of Water and Communal Conflict: A Review of the Literature
The impacts of armed conflict on human development: A review of the literature
Part of World Development, 2025
- DOI for The impacts of armed conflict on human development: A review of the literature
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Chapters in book
Climate Impacts on Conflict: The Role of Water
Part of Climate Change-Conflict Nexus, p. 15-20, MEDRC, 2025
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Manuscripts (preprints)
Reports
Other
Part of International Affairs, p. 387-389, 2023