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Uppsala University 3<strong>KoF11</strong>Democracy and Justice, which includes Peace and Conflict Research, Political Science,Law, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Genocide Studies. The cross-disciplinaryinternational programmes on East Asian Peace and Improving the Effectiveness ofMultilateral Trade Negotiations are coordinated from the Department and involvepolitical scientists, historians, economists, geographers, legal scholars, and internationalrelations experts, as well as practitioners. The programmes receive major funding fromRiksbankens Jubileumsfond and Handelsbanken, respectively. Another example ofinterdisciplinary collaboration with national and leading international academicinstitutions is the EU-funded Just and Durable Peace by Piece. In collaboration withUppsala Center for Sustainable Development, projects on Climate Change and WaterConflicts are undertaken in partnership with various research institutes, and Sida-fundedresearch on Precarious Peacebuilding is carried out in collaboration with politicalscientists, development scholars and anthropologists from other universities. TheDepartment is also active in several research networks, for instance, the SwedishNetwork of Peace, Conflict and Development Research, which since 2005 has receivedSida funding.A2.i) Describe current, particularly successful research activities.ii) List institutions or groups nationally and internationally, which are consideredsuitable for benchmarking (in relation to activities selected under A2.i), and state thedepartment’s view on its own standing in comparison to these.i) Describe current, particularly successful research activities.The Department is widely recognized internationally as being at the forefront of producingnew knowledge in peace and conflict research. Its competitive edge and attractiveness as aresearch partner, nationally and internationally, rest on at least five pillars. First, theDepartment's researchers combine theoretical knowledge with detailed, empirical caseexpertise from around the world. Second, it has excellent methodological expertise in bothquantitative and qualitative approaches which are increasingly used in combination so as tocomplement each other. Third, the Department has its own unique database with the UppsalaConflict Data Programme, widely used by researchers, policymakers and journalists fromaround the world. Fourth, it covers comprehensively a wide range of core issues in the field,from causes of war to conditions for sustainable peace. Fifth, the internationalization level ishigh and includes partnerships and collaboration with renowned researchers and institutionsaround the world.On this basis three successful research areas have crystallized (see A1). All have attained highlevels of international publication in leading outlets, have attracted external funding and haveproduced strong doctoral dissertations in recent years.First, in the area of causes and dynamics of conflict, successful research encompassestopics such as: one-sided violence against civilians; electoral violence and rebel strategies(including intra-ethnic violence) in civil wars; the effect of external economic andenvironmental factors on the risk of civil conflict; causes and mechanisms behind ethnicmobilization and the spreading of ethnic conflict; and governance, corruption and civil war.2011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0
Uppsala University 4<strong>KoF11</strong>This work, as well as work on the other areas, connects to other research in the Department onthe broadened security agenda; notably how states interact and cope with threats such asterrorism, migration, pandemics, and global climate change.Second, in the area of peace and negotiation processes, new original work has beenproduced on a number of topics. These include third-party intervention, including the role ofbiased mediators in civil wars and mediation styles; justice and other factors impacting uponeffectiveness in international negotiations (bilateral and multilateral) in different issue areas;and the role of factors such as diaspora populations, violence and mistrust specifically inpeace negotiations.Third, in the area of the requirements and conditions for sustainable peace, research inthe Department has identified and investigated a number of critical factors which, after thetermination of armed conflict, threaten the durability of peace. High quality publications inthis area address issues such as security dilemmas, democratization processes includingelectoral violence and power sharing, the role of governance and state delivery capacity, andsustainable development in post conflict state building, including challenges to reconciliation.Increasingly, research cutting across and integrating these three areas has generated neworiginal insights. Among them are published findings about rebel mobilization for warfare andpeace negotiations, about the role of justice in civil war negotiations and in durable peace, andthe impact of climate change on resource governance strategies and post-conflict statebuilding. The Department has several programs and a number of projects which successfullyintegrate two of or all these three themes.Reflective of the cross-cutting frontline research carried out at the Department is a newmethodology book for peace researchers – Understanding Peace Research: Methods andChallenges (London: Routledge, 2011) – to which many departmental researchers havecontributed. The book focuses on information-gathering methodology ranging from in-depthinterviews, surveys and comparative field work to the production of large scale data bases.Encompassing both qualitative and quantitative methods, and building on vast experience, thefindings of the book suggests ways to overcome challenges in the research of peace andconflict.ii) List institutions or groups nationally and internationally, which are consideredsuitable for benchmarking (in relation to activities selected under A2.i), and state thedepartment’s view on its own standing in comparison to these.National institutions* The Peace and Development section within the School of Global Studies at GothenburgUniversity is the most suitable national institution for benchmarking. This section is built ontwo disciplinary traditions, one being Peace Research in line with the Department of Peaceand Conflict Research at Uppsala University and the other Development Research, focusingon topics such as poverty, structural inequalities and reasons for underdevelopment.2011-02-28 Dept of Peace and Conflict Research v 1.0
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