Karen Brounéus
Professor vid Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning
- Mobiltelefon:
- 073-469 71 02
- E-post:
- Karen.Brouneus@pcr.uu.se
- Besöksadress:
- Gamla Torget 3, 1tr
753 20 Uppsala - Postadress:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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- Akademiska meriter:
- FD, leg. psykolog
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Kort presentation
Karen Brounéus is Associate Professor (docent) at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research focuses on e.g. truth and reconciliation processes after war; the gendered dimensions of war and peace; psychological health in peacebuilding after war. From spring 2023, she will be teaching the new course Mindfulness-Based Stress Management at the Faculty of Medicine's Sustainability Learning and Research Centre; open to all Masters and PhD students at UU.
Nyckelord
- gender and conflict
- peacebuilding
- psychological health after war
- truth telling and reconciliation
Biografi
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Academic background
Professor in Peace and Conflict Research (2024, Uppsala)
Docent in Peace and Conflict Research (2016, Uppsala)
PhD in Peace and Conflict Research (2008, Uppsala)
Clinical psychologist (MSSc 1998, Uppsala); Teacher in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR, 2022).
Teaching
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Management at the Faculty of Medicine's Sustainability Learning and Research Centre
- Research ethics
- In-depth interviewing and active listening
- Advanced Qualitative Methods
- Transitional justice and reconciliation after war
- Testifying in Truth Commissions: A blessing or burden?
- Transitional justice and reconciliation in Rwanda
- The legacies of war: Postwar peacebuilding and reconciliation
- & Supervision at all levels.
Current and previous positions
Director of the Rotary Peace Center, 2024-ongoing.
Director of Studies, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, 2014-2019.
Lecturer, National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand, January 2011–January 2014.
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand, August 2009–December 2010.
Assistant Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, 2008–2009.
PhD candidate, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, 2002–2008.
Clinical psychologist, Private clinical practice, cognitive behavioral therapy, Uppsala, 2002–2006.
Clinical psychologist, Childrens’ psychiatric clinic (BUP), Sala, Sweden, 1999-2000.
Clinical psychologist, UNHCR, New Delhi, India, 1999.
Awards
2023: Uppsala University's Free Distinguished Teaching Award
2013: Early Career Award for Distinction in Research, University of Otago, New Zealand
2011: New Supervisor of the Year Award, University of Otago, New Zealand.
Media (a selection)
Researching Peace, Podcast, Uppsala University, on Doing Field Research, invited guest, December 13, 2021.
The Associated Press, Australia/ New Zealand/ South Pacific. Interview on reconciliation, May 9, 2019.
Konflikt, P1, Swedish national radio, “Colombia between peace and reconciliation”, October 1, 2016.
Swedish National Television, “Forska för livet [Research for life]", Kunskapskanalen, February 2015.
Radio National New Zealand, Summer Nights with Charlotte Graham, December 30, 2013.
Obs i P1, Swedish national radio, “Is the truth healing?”, interview December 10, 2013.
Radio National New Zealand, Sunday Morning with Chris Laidlaw, October 24, 2010.
ABC Radio Australia, Pacific Beat, interview September 29, 2010
Radio National New Zealand, Tangata, interview September 25, 2010
SBS Radio Australia, World View, interview September 15, 2010
Otago Daily Times, interview September 15, 2010
Radio Rhema, Auckland, interview September 13, 2010
BBC, Northern Ireland, The Stephen Nolan Show, “Moving on after the conflict”, interview September 3, 2010
Forskning
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Women, war trauma and peacebuilding
Gender, politics and violence in Thailand
Why join the protests? A joint international research project on Nepal's 2006 nonviolent uprisings
Truth for Peace - the outcomes and impacts of the Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission on attitudes toward peace (Funded by the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Marsden Fund) Report for the Solomon Islands government and ministries
Publikationer
Senaste publikationer
- Women, peace and insecurity (2024)
- The burden of war widows: gendered consequences of war and peace-building in Sri Lanka (2024)
- The bumpy road of peace research: reflections on sharing mistakes in fieldwork (2022)
- Violent Boyhoods, Masculine Honor Ideology, and Political Violence (2021)
- Implementation of Gender Provisions in Peace Agreements (2020)
Alla publikationer
Artiklar
- Women, peace and insecurity (2024)
- The burden of war widows: gendered consequences of war and peace-building in Sri Lanka (2024)
- The bumpy road of peace research: reflections on sharing mistakes in fieldwork (2022)
- Violent Boyhoods, Masculine Honor Ideology, and Political Violence (2021)
- Honor and Political Violence (2017)
- Underestimating the burden for peacekeepers? (2015)
- On Return from Peacekeeping (2014)
- The Women and Peace Hypothesis in Peacebuilding Settings (2014)
- Dialogue and Interethnic Trust (2013)
- The Trauma of Truth Telling (2010)
- Truth Telling as Talking Cure? (2008)
- Analyzing Reconciliation (2008)
- Promises and Pitfalls in Reconciliation Processes (2007)
Böcker
Kapitel
- The Challenge of Reconciling Tradition with Truth and Reconciliation Commission Processes (2018)
- Peering into the ‘Black Box’ of TRC Success (2017)
- Gender, peace and armed conflict (2015)
- Reconciliation and Development (2009)
- Reconciliation
Konferenser
- Implementation of Gender Provisions in Peace Agreements (2020)
- The Gendered Links between War-Related Trauma and Attitudes to Peace (2017)
- Healing or Retraumatizing? (2006)
Rapporter
- Truth for peace? (2016)
- Reconciliation - Theory and Practice for Development Cooperation. A Report for the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. (2003)