Dissertations
Dissertations by researchers at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research are listed below. For a list of all publications, please use the advanced search option in the online catalogue DiVA and add the Department's name in the "Organisation" search field.
A Scramble for Rents: Foreign Aid and Armed Conflict
2012
2007
Anarchy within: The security dilemma between ethnic groups in emerging anarchy
1999
Autonomy and Conflict: Ethnoterritoriality and Separatism in the South Caucasus - Cases in Georgia
2002
1994
2016
Bush Generals and Small Boy Battalions: Military Cohesion in Liberia and Beyond
2016
2023
Central Politics and Local Peacemaking: The Conditions for Peace after Communal Conflict
2017
Changing the Game: Consociational Theory and Ethnic Quotas in Cyprus and New Zealand
2001
Civil Resistance in the Shadow of War: Explaining popular mobilization against dams in Myanmar
2021
Climate, Conflict and Coping Capacity: The Impact of Climate Variability on Organized Violence
2016
Coercion and its Effects: Evidence from the Israel-Palestine Conflict
2019
Complex Conflicts: Causes and Consequences of Multiparty Civil Wars
2017
2020
2016
Cooperation and Conflict amid Water Scarcity
2022
2008
2010
Dismantling the Conflict Trap: Essays on Civil War Resolution and Relapse
2012
Elusive Peacemakers: A Bargaining Perspective on Mediation in Internal Armed Conflicts
2006
2015
2007
Fighting for Aid: Foreign Funding and Civil Conflict Intensity
2014
Fighting For Food?: Investigating Food Insecurity as a Source of Urban Unrest
2021
2018
Forecasting battles: New machine learning methods for predicting armed conflict
2025
2007
2022
Global Pariahs or Local Partners?: The United Nations’ Engagement with Non-State Armed Groups
2025
Guns and Governance: Local Elites and Rebel Governance in Côte d'Ivoire
2020
In the Shadow of Settlement: Multiple Rebel Groups and Precarious Peace
2006
International Relations Theory and the Problem of Internal Order after the Cold War
2006
2017
Masters of War: The Role of Elites in Sudan’s Communal Conflicts
2014
Migration and Perceptions of War: Simultaneous Surveys in Countries of Origin and Settlement
2013
1998
Neighbors at Risk: A Quantitative Study of Civil War Contagion
2009
Neutrality in Internal Armed Conflicts: Experiences at the Grassroots Level in Colombia
2009
1998
Peacemaking Up Close: Explaining Mediator Styles of International Mediators
2016
Political Ambition in the Shadow of Violence: Elections, Gender and Political Machines in Colombia
2025
Political Culture in Somalia: Tracing Paths to Peace and Conflict
2000
Power politics and peace policies: Intra-state conflict resolution in southern Africa
1998
Precarious Paths to Democracy: Electoral Violence and the Struggle for Democratization
2024
Preferences Under Pressure: Conflict, Threat Cues and Willingness to Compromise
2020
Raising Rebels: Participation and Recruitment in Civil War
2010
Raising the Costs or Lowering the Bar: International influences on conflict-related sexual violence
2022
Regional cooperation and conflict management: Lessons from the Pacific Rim
2002
2008
Roads to Repair: Extraordinary and Everyday Pathways to Reconciliation after Civil War
2023
Settling the Scales: Justice in International Environmental Negotiations and Beyond
2020
Sins of Omission and Commission: The Quality of Government and Civil Conflict
2009
Sponsors of War: State Support for Rebel Groups in Civil Conflicts
2017
Stronger than Justice: Armed Group Impunity for Sexual Violence
2015
Studies in conflict economics and economic growth
2006
Talking Threats: The Social Construction of National Security in Russia and the United States
2010
Targeting the Unarmed: Strategic Rebel Violence in Civil War
2008
The EU´s Collective Use of Force: Exploring the Factors behind its First Military Operations
2011
The Onset of Ethnic War as a Bargaining Process: Testing a Signaling Model
2002
2004
The Water Taboo: Restraining the Weaponisation of Water in International Conflict
2020
2003
2015
2004
Who knows what tomorrow will bring?: Four papers on the prediction of contentious politics
2022