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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Annika Björkdahl has together with Johanna Mannergren Selimovic (UI), Stefanie Kappler (Durham University) and Susanne Buckley-Zistel (Marburg University) received a research grant for the project ”Peace and the Politics of Memory”. The project "Peace and the Politics of Memory" investigates how a post-conflict societ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/research-grant-peace-and-politics-memory - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hanna Bäck is one of the authors of the article ”Multiparty government and economic policy-making. Coalition agreements, prime ministerial power and spending in Western European Cabinets” which has been published in the journal Public Choice. AbstractMultiparty government has often been associated with poor economic p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-coalition-governments-and-policy-making - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Catarina Kinnvall is keynote speaker at three universities in New Delhi (India) this week; South Asia University, O.P. Jindal University och på Delhi University. She will give talks on:”The position of the Ahmadiyyas: Minority Rights in Pakistan” at South Asia University”Ontological Security and the Political Psycholo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/outreach-new-delhi - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Martin Hall has together with Ted Svensson and Annika Bergman-Rosamond gained research money from Vetenskapsrådet for the project ”Världsarvets politik”. Part of abstract:The project identifies two tensions that characterise global modernity and investigates how these can help to explain the contemporary design and pu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/82-million-sek-funding - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-05-19

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 - 2026-05-19

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 - 2026-05-19

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 - 2026-05-19

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 - 2026-05-19

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 - 2026-05-19

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 - 2026-05-19

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 - 2026-05-19

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 - 2026-05-19

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 - 2026-05-19

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 - 2026-05-19

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 - 2026-05-19

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 - 2026-05-19

Our DNA is very similar to that of the chimpanzee, which in evolutionary terms is our closest living relative. Stem cell researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now found a previously overlooked part of our DNA, so-called non-coded DNA, that appears to contribute to a difference which, despite all our similarities, may explain why our brains work differently. The study is published in the jo

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/what-makes-us-human-answer-may-be-found-overlooked-dna - 2026-05-19

During her thesis project, Nadja Gustavsson has characterized structural changes inside neurons of a new mouse model for mixed neurogenerative disorders. On the 21st of October, she is defending her thesis supervised by Oxana Klementieva. In this interview, Nadja shares her ups and downs during her time as a Ph.D. student in MultiPark. Tell us about your Ph.D. research! Our lab utilizes a novel ap

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-nadja-gustavsson - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The article ”Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy in the Making: Ethics, Politics, and Gender”, co-authored by Karin Aggestam and Annika Bergman Rosamond, is part of the Carnegie Council Special Collection of "Editors' Picks" from the 30th Anniversary volym of the journal "Ethics & International Affairs”. In 2014 the world

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/editors-pick-swedish-feminist-foreign-policy-making - 2026-05-19