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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Fariborz Zelli will chair the Earth System Governance conference in Nairobi on December 7-9. This year’s conference, the seventh in the series, is the first one in Africa. The overarching theme “Confronting Complexity and Inequality” will be discussed in panel and plenary sessions over three days. Environmental govern

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/zelli-will-chair-leading-environmental-governance-conference-nairobi - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Kurtis Boyer and Fabio Cristiano will be talking at ISVW in Netherlands on November 12-13. They will talk about their article on drone warfare and humane meat as representations of the politics of empathy. Learn more on isvw.nlKurtis Boyer’s personal pageFabio Cristiano’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/outreach-animal-politics - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Faculty of Social Sciences at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland, has appointed Annika Bergman Rosamond as External Examiner for the Politics Programme for the academic years 2016-2019. Annika Bergman Rosamond’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-appointed-external-examiner-maynooth-university - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson have authored the article ”Responsibility and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals”, published in Forum for Development Studies. The article can be found on tandfonline.comAbstract:This article asks what key concerns emerge from the way responsibility is framed in Uni

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bexell-and-jonsson-united-nations-sustainable-development-goals - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers from our and other Lund University departments will launch the Lund Human Rights Research Hub on December 8, at 14.00-17.00 in the aula of the Main University Building. This network hub will stimulate cooperation on research, education and dissemination of human rights issues. See link for more information

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/launch-lund-human-right-research-hub - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Serena Kelly and Natalia Chaban have together with Ole Elgström published the article "Perceptions of the European Union's Fledgling Delegations: More Coherence, More Effectiveness?" in the journal European Foreign Affairs Review (vol. 21, no. 4). Abstract in English:The debate surrounding th

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/perceptions-european-unions-fledgling-delegations - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Swedish government is putting forward a range of proposals based on Maria Strömvik’s government report (SOU 2016: 10). The site europaportalen.se. has published an interview with the Minister for EU Affairs Ann Linde about the proposals she is putting forward based on Strömvik’s current investigation (in Swedish).

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/government-launches-initiative-following-stromviks-investigation - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Johannes Lindvall has received a large grant from the Swedish Research Council for the project Policing, Schooling, and Health Care in Historical and Comparative Perspective.

 Over the course of six years Johannes Lindvall will study the emergence of new types of public services in the nineteenth century, and its con

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/12-million-sek-project-policing-schools-and-health-care - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESERACHERS: Anders Uhlin has co-edited the book Demanding Justice in the Global South: Claiming Rights, published by Palgrave Macmillan. The politics of claiming rights and strategies of mobilisation exhibited by marginalised social groups lie at the heart of this volume.Theoretically, the authors aim to

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/politics-claiming-rights - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Catarina Kinnvall has co-authored a chapter entitled: 'Saffron and Orange: Religion, Nation and Masculinity in Canada and India’. The chapter has been published in 'The Routledge Handbook on Narrative and Life History', edited by Ivor Goodson, Ari Antikainen, Pat Sikes and Molly Andrews (Lond

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/masculinity-canada-and-india - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Kurtis Boyer has co-authored a chapter entitled: Beyond Complicity And Denial: Animal Advocacy And The Right To Living Justly. The chapter was co-authored with Guy Scotton and Katehryne Wayne and is published in “Intervention or Protest: Acting for Nonhuman Animals”, edited by Gabriel Garmend

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/right-not-be-perpetrator-violence-towards-animals - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ole Elgström was the external examiner at the University of Bath. The thesis, written by Magdalena Nasieniak, examined the changes that have taken place in the role of the Council Presidency post-Lisbon, with an emphasis on the Presidency's role in EU foreign policy. Notably, the supervisor was Leslie Wehner, who grad

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-visited-bath-thesis-eu-foreign-policy - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Sebhatu writes about Gender-Just Peace and the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. Rahel Weldeab Sebhatu has recently authored the article “Reaching Higher: Women Liberators and Gender” which was published in the Horn of Africa Bulletin of the Life & Peace Institute in Uppsala (N

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/reaching-higher-women-liberators-and-gender - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Douglas Brommesson has published a new book together with Ann-Marie Ekengren at the University of Gothenburg called The Mediatization of Foreign Policy, Political Decision-making and Humanitarian Intervention and published by Palgrave Macmillan. More information about the book is available he

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/foreign-policy-adjusting-media-logic - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström has, together with Natalia Chaban and Olga Gulyaeva, authored the article "Russian images of the European Union: Before and after Maidan", now published by Foreign Policy Analysis. Abstract:This article probes into scope conditions for image change, investigating what changes in

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/russian-images-european-union - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lisa Strömbom was promoted to Associate Professor at the board meeting of the Faculty of Social Sciences on the 2nd of February. Lisa Strömbom conducts research on topics such as identity politics and conflict transformation in intrastate conflicts and cities, with a special focus on Israel-Palestine, and teaches peac

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lisa-strombom-promoted-associate-professor - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The globally leading academic association on international relations ISA elected our researcher Fariborz Zelli to their Governing Council last week.  ISA, the International Studies Association, has over 6,500 members grouped in thematic sections. At the ISA annual convention in Baltimore last week, Fariborz Zelli was

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/fariborz-zelli-elected-isa-governing-council - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Catarina Kinnvall and Jennifer Mitzen have published a Special Issue with the journal Cooperation and Conflict, entitled ’Ontological Security and World Politics’. Catarina has also an article in the same issue, entitled: ’Feeling Ontologically (In)secure: States, traumas and the governing of gendered space’. "A few y

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ontological-security-approach-security-and-identity-world-politics - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Jakob Skovgaard is co-editor of and contributing to a special edition of the journal "International Environmental Agreements" entitled "Managing fragmentation and complexity in the emerging system of international climate finance". The special edition addresses which factors have influenced how financing for climate a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-special-edition-fragmentation-climate-financing - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. OUTREACH: Professor Annica Kronsell is on a fellowship sponsored by the EU Center on Shared Complex Challenges at University of Melbourne and gave a talk to Australian Policy makers in Canberra on 'Green Industrial Transitions in line with Climate Objectives' Thursday March 16. Annica Kronsell's personal page.Visit th

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kronsell-spoke-canberra-about-green-industrial-transitions - 2026-04-29