Desirée Nilsson

Professor at Department of Peace and Conflict Research

Telephone:
+46 18 471 23 55
E-mail:
Desiree.Nilsson@pcr.uu.se
Visiting address:
Gamla Torget 3, 1tr
753 20 Uppsala
Postal address:
Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA

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ORCID:
0000-0003-0205-2843

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Professor in Peace and Conflict Research, and Director of Studies of the PhD Program.

PI of the project Civil Peace: Exploring the Diversity of Civil Society Involvement in Peacemaking

Keywords

  • peace agreements
  • conflict termination
  • multiparty conflicts
  • civil society actors in peace processes
  • spoilers
  • power sharing
  • rebel fragmentation
  • peacekeeping
  • islamist conflicts

Biography

I am a professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. My research focuses on the dynamics and resolution of civil wars, including topics such as rebel fragmentation, inclusive peace processes, peacekeeping operations, and Islamist civil wars. My work has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as International Organization, British Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, and Security Studies. I serve as Associate Editor of the Journal of Peace Research, and I am on the editorial board of Conflict Management and Peace Science and International Interactions.

I am currently the PI of a research project on the role of civil society organizations in peace processes, funded by the Swedish Research Council, and a co-investigator of a research project about mediation in civil war. I have previously acted as deputy leader of the Swedish node in the PAVE project under the European Union H2020 scheme.

I have held visiting fellowships at the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO), Notre Dame University, Stanford University, and the University of Otago. Previous positions of trust include the council of the Peace Science Society (International), the steering committee of the Network for European Peace Scientists (NEPS), the Research Workshops Grants Committee of the International Studies Association, and the Review Panel for HS-E: Political Science, Peace and Conflict Research, Media and Communication, Swedish Research Council. Since 2022, I am a member of the steering committee for the national research infrastructure Demscore.

Research

Current Projects:

Civil Peace: Exploring the Diversity of Civil Society Involvement in Peacemaking

Unwilling or unwanted? Explaining the decline of mediation in armed conflicts

Recent Projects:

The PAVE project

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

Resolving Jihadist Conflicts? Religion, Civil War, and Prospects for Peace

Desirée Nilsson

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