Johan Brosché

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Peace and Conflict Research

Telephone:
+46 18 471 61 06
E-mail:
Johan.Brosche@pcr.uu.se
Visiting address:
Gamla Torget 3, 1tr
753 20 Uppsala
Postal address:
Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA

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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Peace and Conflict Research

E-mail:
johan.brosche@pcr.uu.se
Visiting address:
Gamla Torget 3, 1tr
753 20 Uppsala
Postal address:
Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA

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I am an Associate Professor (Docent) currently working in four research projects. 1) Causes of Peace – The Botswana, Malawi and Zambia “Zone of Peace” 2) What are they fighting for? Conflict Issues and the Resolution of Civil War 3) Crossing the Rubicon? The Dynamics of Restraint in Civil War and 4) Conflicts, Connections, Complexities: Towards a Multi-layered Understanding of Civil War. I am teaching at the NOHA Master's Program and convene the course Causes of Peace .

Keywords

  • africa
  • civil wars
  • causes of war
  • communal conflicts
  • conflict complementarities
  • causes of peace
  • common-pool resources
  • field work
  • sudan
  • south sudan
  • zambia
  • botswana
  • malawi

Biography

I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. My research centers on civil war, peace, and political violence, with a particular focus on the diversity of peace and war in Africa. I have co-authored a book published by Routledge, and my work has been appeared in leading journals such as Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, and Security Studies.

I currently serve as the PI of two research projects. The first, What are they fighting for? Conflict Issues and the Resolution of Civil War, investigates how conflict issues affect conflict resolution. As part of the project, we have created a global dataset on conflict issues. The second project, Crossing the Rubicon? The Dynamics of Restraint in Civil War addresses why some civil wars, such as those in Afghanistan or Syria, results in far greater causalities than others. This project focuses on the sources of restraint in civil wars, aiming to advance our understanding of how to build resilient societies and contain ongoing conflicts.

I am also co-PI for two additional projects: Causes of Peace – The Botswana, Malawi and Zambia “Zone of Peace” and Conflicts, Connections, Complexities: Towards a Multi-layered Understanding of Civil War.

Field research is a cornerstone of my work, and I have conducted extensive field research in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Sudan, South Sudan, and Zambia. I have held visiting fellowships at at Durham University and New York University.

Beyond academia, I have worked as a consultant for the UN’s Mediation Support Unit and been part of an academic taskforce supporting Ambassador Jan Eliasson in his role as the United Nations special envoy to Darfur.

Committed to disseminating knowledge beyond academic circles, I have made over 100 media appearances in Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Denmark.

Research

My current research is carried out within four projects.

1). Causes of Peace – The Botswana, Malawi and Zambia “Zone of Peace”

Botswana, Malawi and Zambia constitute a “Zone of Peace” spared from violent conflict since independence. The project aims to explain why peace has prevailed in these countries despite being located in the world’s most volatile continent with all their neighbors struck by conflict.

2). What are they fighting for? Conflict Issues and the Resolution of Civil War

What are the issues that parties fight civil wars over? How do the issues at stake influence the possibilities of conflict resolution? Surprisingly, we have little knowledge in these regards, even though all civil wars involve contested issues and despite issues being one of the three cornerstones of the concept of conflict.

In this project we delve deeper into the question of conflict issues in civil wars. To do this we will (1) create a theoretically derived and empirically validated typology of conflict issues (2) based on the typology, create and disseminate a global dataset on conflict issues, and, (3) use these theoretical and empirical insights to examine – qualitatively and quantitatively – how the question of conflict issues affect possibilities for conflict resolution.

3). Crossing the Rubicon? The Dynamics of Restraint in Civil War

In recent times, more than half of all people killed in civil wars died in Afghanistan or Syria. This raises a question to which we have surprisingly few answers so far: Why do some civil wars become so much more severe than others?

This project has set out to find answers to this important question, with a focus on the sources of restraint in civil war. Deepening knowledge on restraint in war is crucial for building resilient societies and contain existing civil wars.

4). Conflicts, Connections, Complexities: Towards a Multi-layered Understanding of Civil War.

This project examines why some civil wars – like Syria, Afghanistan and South Sudan – become complex interlinked patchworks of different conflict types while others do not.

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