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Annika Björkdahl, Jenny Lorentzen, and Inger Skjensbæck have contributed to and edited the new book Backlash Against the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. Contesting Gender Norms. In recent years, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has faced mounting resistance from regressive political forces seeking to undermine its hard-won normative gains. This Open Access book offers a timely and rigo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-lorentzen-and-skjensbaeck-have-contributed-and-edited-new-book-backlash-against-women - 2026-05-07

Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund, and Johanna Mannergren have co-authored the book "Troubling Testimonies. Women's narratives of war, genocide and sexual violence" (New York University Press, 2026). This book explores women’s testimonies of war across four powerful cases: Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Yazidi women in Syria and Northern Iraq. We develop a theoretical framework li

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bjorkdahl-kristine-hoglund-and-johanna-mannergren-give-voice-womens-testimonies-war - 2026-05-07

Jana Canavan has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Interspecies Freedom: Toward a Rethinking of Human-Animal Relations'. Congratulations to Dr. Canavan! External reviewer: Senior lecturer Per-Anders Svärd, Södertörns högskolaSupervisors/AdvisorsKalm, Sara, SupervisorBadersten, Björn, Assistant supervisorCudworth, Erika , Assistant supervisor, External personMore information about the thes

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jana-canavan-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2026-05-07

Matteo de Donà and Kristina Jönsson have published the article ”Responsible Accountability? Multi‐Stakeholder Partnerships, Sustainable Development and Global Health” in the journal Global Policy. In a comparative study of two global health multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs), we investigate the interplay between accountability and responsibility. We show that the ways in which global health MSP

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/de-dona-and-jonsson-about-multi-stakeholder-partnerships-and-responsible-accountability - 2026-05-07

Lisa Strömbom has recently published Agonistic Memory and Peace. Colombia, Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine (Edinburgh University Press). The book investigates the role of memory politics in societies marked by deep conflict and shows how certain forms of local dialogue initiatives can counteract simplified understandings of a conflict’s history. Drawing on interview-based case studies from t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lisa-strombom-explores-memory-dialogues-during-and-after-war-new-book-agonistic-memory-and-peace - 2026-05-07

Malte Breiding has been awarded the Oscar II Stipend for his doctoral thesis European Sexual Dis/Integration: An Agonistic Paradox of Legitimacy in a Contested Union. The stipend is awarded following a competitive selection process at both the faculty and university level and recognises outstanding doctoral research.Congratulations Malte and well deserved!

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/oscar-ii-stipend-awarded-malte-breiding - 2026-05-07

Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren has been awarded SEK 6 million through FORMAS’s open call for the project “Church Environments as a Resource in Sustainable Community Building: Between the Enduring and the Changing.” The project is carried out in collaboration with researchers in theology and architecture and explores the institutional and ethical dimensions of how church environments can serve as a resourc

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/dalia-mukhtar-landgren-awarded-formas-grant-project-church-environments-resource-sustainable - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Ted Svensson has penned the article Humanising the subaltern: unbounded caste and the limits of a rights regime, which has recently been published in Third World Quarterly. Learn more. 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/seeking-overcome-caste-based-discrimination - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Annika Bergman Rosamond presents her research on celebrity contestations in global politics at the University of Edinburgh on 24 November. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/celebrity-contestations-global-politics - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Do you want to become a research assistant in an exciting research project? Apply by 30 Nov. STANCEProfessor Jan Teorell and the rest of the team behind STANCE – the department’s new research program on political developments in the nineteenth century and beyond – are looking for one or more research assistants. This

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/job-offer - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Maysam Behravesh talks about The Political Psychology of Iran's Nuclear Program: An Ontological Security Approach at Linköping university on 20 November. Learn more. 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/political-psychology-irans-nuclear-program - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Roger Hildingsson will defend his dissertation Governing Decarbonisation. The State and the New Politics of Climate Change December 5 i the Eden main auditorium (faculty opponent: professor James Meadowcroft). AbstractThis dissertation examines the “new climate politics of decarbonisation” and the role of the state as

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roger-hildingssons-dissertation-finished - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Karin Aggestam has penned a chapter entitled Conflict Analysis and International Relations in the recently published anthology The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/conflict-analysis-and-international-relations - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SYMPOSIUM. Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies invites the public to the symposium Social Resistance in Non-Democracies 25-26 November. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/social-resistance-non-democracies - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Christian Göbel speaks about Digitalisation instead of Democracy: Online Complaints as Drivers of Regime Institutionalization in China at the Researching the Chinese Internet: New insights, approaches and methodologies conference.  Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/digitalisation-instead-democracy - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The milestone 2000 likes on the department's Facebook has just been reached. Thanks all Fb-friends! Learn more, go to our facebook.

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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Catarina Kinnvall has co-edited the recently published anthology The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology. Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/palgrave-handbook-global-political-psychology - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The European University Institute is offering 160 grants for a fully funded PhD programme (including political science). Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/phd-grants - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Emil Persson has penned the article Banning “Homosexual Propaganda”: Belonging and Visibility in Contemporary Russian Media, which has recently been published in Sexuality & Culture Learn more.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/banning-homosexual-propaganda - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CONFERENCE. The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies present: Researching the Chinese Internet: New insights, approaches and methodologies event takes place on 13 November 2014. At this one day conference they have invited speakers from different disciplines, including political science, anthropology, and medi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/researching-chinese-internet - 2026-05-07