Sökresultat

On 13 June, Anne Lene Stein successfully defended her PhD thesis "Agonism against the odds: Epistemic disruptions and bodies of dissent in Palestine and Israel" at the Department of Political Science. Anne Lene Stein's thesis explores how protests and performances in Palestine and Israel are used to challenge dominant versions of history and identity - especially those that silence or exclude marg

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/agonism-against-odds-epistemic-disruptions-and-bodies-dissent-palestine-and-israel - 2026-06-15

On June 12–13, CMES hosted the symposium "Beyond Sacred/Secular Cities: Imagining the Nation in Urban Space" in the LUX building at Lund University. The event marked the conclusion of the three-year research project Beyond Sacred/Secular Cities: Exploring the Politics of Memory, Space, and Religion, led by project chair Torsten Janson.Gathering both Swedish and international scholars from a wide r

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-symposium-explores-urban-memory-beyond-sacredsecular-divides - 2026-06-15

CMES is happy to announce the new MECW project for 2025-2028 which will focus on satellite water investigation of fragile terrains in the Middle East. The Middle East faces a critical water crisis exacerbated by climate change-induced aridity, unsustainable overexploitation, weak governance, and the weaponization of water in conflicts. Rising temperatures and prolonged droughts diminish surface wa

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-mecw-project-satellite-water-investigation-fragile-terrains-monitoring-and-managing - 2026-06-15

Read the May-June CMES Newsletter about upcoming events, recent research activities, and new publications. The CMES Newsletter offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research. It is distributed regularly to a diverse audience of scholars, both within Lund University and beyond. Each issue features:Message From the DirectorLatest Research NewsUpcoming EventsRecent Publicat

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-52 - 2026-06-15

This CMES Regional Outlook (2025:2) by Lisa Strömbom focuses on the global responses to the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza. In February 2025, a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas came into force, briefly easing the intense humanitarian crisis in Gaza after months of devastating conflict. The truce was structured in three phases. The first stage was implemented and included the ex

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-global-responses-escalating-humanitarian-crisis-gaza - 2026-06-15

Two CMES Yearbooks (2024 and 2021-2023 respectively), are now available to read and download. The CMES Yearbooks summarize the Centre's activities during a year or a selected period, including chapters covering:Research projectsResearch seminarsPublic lectures and eventsPolicy-dialogues, workshops, and conferencesCMES Regional OutlookTeaching and Arabic studies at CMESCMES in media and on digital

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/now-available-cmes-yearbooks-2021-2023-and-2024 - 2026-06-15

​​​​​​​The IIIEE in collaboration with Viable Cities has launched a new online course on cities, climate and change with a focus on developing transformative skills and capacities. This course explores how we can design, create and achieve climate neutral and sustainable cities. We embrace the “mission to the moon” approach for tackling greenhouse emissions from cities putting an emphasis on pathw

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/cities-climate-and-change-new-online-course-iiiee - 2026-06-15

The Knowledge platform Climate-neutral cities 2030 – Open Academy continues the quest to bring researchers and Mission cities together to explore the paths forward for climate-neutrality. After focusing on the mobility and transportation sector in spring, we now turn our attention towards the role of carbon storage as a means to support cities to become climate-neutral. We kick-started November by

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/climate-neutral-cities-2030-next-steps-carbon-storage - 2026-06-15

IIIEE will be co-hosting a webinar and high-level panel discussion on Energy Efficiency, on the 17th of November, and Lena Neij will be the moderator, Can we transform the energy system without energy efficiency?  The growing challenges of today's society calls for a wider discussion on energy efficiency. A key question is if we can transform the energy system without energy efficiency.  The IIIEE

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/high-level-panel-energy-efficiency - 2026-06-15

IIIEE researchers Anna Elfström and Josefine Henman presented research findings on rebound effects and social risks of lifestyle changes in line with the 1.5° target at the Lund University conference "Knowledge for Sustainable Development - How to make impact". On November 7, Lund University's organized the annual conference focusing on sustainability research. This year’s theme was "Knowledge for

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/conference-presentation-rebound-effects-and-social-risks-lifestyle-changes - 2026-06-15

A recent grant from Formas will support a new transdisciplinary project exploring “Re-” activities of reuse, repair, refurbishing and recycling in practice. Jessika Richter, IIIEE, together with Hervé Corvellec, the Department of Service Studies at Lund University, and Anna Seravalli, School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University, will undertake a new research project exploring the organizi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-research-project-reuse-repair-and-recycling-consumers-good-and-their-components - 2026-06-15

Malmö, Helsingborg and Lund, all aiming to be climate-neutral cities by 2030, will together with the IIIEE conduct pilot studies focusing on citizen dialogue and climate investment plans. The Mission cities Helsingborg, Lund, and Malmö have all been granted funding for pilot studies concerning accelerating climate-neutrality. The knowledge platform Climate-neutral cities 2030 – Open Academy, which

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/three-new-pilot-studies-accelerating-climate-neutrality - 2026-06-15

In mid-November, the annual national conference for student chaplains were held in Lund. The doctoral students of IIIEE, Frans Libertson and Gustav Osberg, were invited to talk about the opinion piece that they authored for Sydsvenskan earlier this year. The student chaplains have recently experienced an increase in the amount of students that seek help for climate anxiety and existential reflecti

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/hope-agency-and-future-inner-transitions-and-tools-continued-hope - 2026-06-15

The IIIEE alumna Iryna Stavchuk, student in our Master in Environmental Management and Policy, 2004-2005, is nominated as one of the BBC 100 most inspiring and influential women 2023! There is a lot going on about our alumna Iryna Stavchuk. The war pushed her out of her deputy-minster of the environment post in Kiev and out of her country, picking new roles in relation to Ukraine and climate issue

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-alumna-bbc-100-list-most-inspiring-and-influential-women-2023 - 2026-06-15

IIIEE researcher Matthias Lehner recently featured in an article for Mistra, discussing the intricate relationship between digitization and sustainable consumption. Children who prioritize Minecoins over real currency, and young men engrossed in driving virtual cars in computer games could be early signs of a larger shift in values and preferences triggered by increasing digitalization of everyday

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/digitization-friend-or-foe-sustainable-consumption-interview-iiiee-researcher - 2026-06-15

In the recent assessment from QS World University Rankings, Lund University was ranked as number 8 in the world, number three in Europe and number one in Sweden! The ranking is an assessment on how universities are tackling the global challenges within sustainability. This is the second year the rankings have been produced, and LU has climbed four places compared with last year’s position. The ran

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lund-university-climbs-global-sustainability-global-ranking - 2026-06-15

How can we advance and deliver solutions to our pressing sustainability challenges? This question motivates our master students and in the final year they get to practice their skills in real-life consulting projects. Nine student teams got the opportunity to explore, analyse and propose solutions to a client partnering with the IIIEE. The projects completed include:Circularity of rare earth metal

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/capstone-project-successfully-concluded-creating-impact-while-studying - 2026-06-15

In order to achieve the 1.5-degree target set by the Paris Agreement, massive cuts in carbon emissions are needed. For the EU, this requires a reduction of household carbon footprints from 2015 of almost 70% by 2030 and over 90% by 2050. Too often, climate policies are not placed within a broader social context and policy makers neglect to see that welfare policies are vital to climate mitigation.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/eu-project-shows-welfare-policies-are-vital-climate-mitigation - 2026-06-15

How easy is it to determine which travel route is more sustainable or to adopt a sufficiency approach? IIIEE researcher gives her reflections on her mitigated travel patterns in a new LU blog post series highlighting sustainable travelling. In summer 2023, Lund University launched a new blog series with to shed some light on sustainable travelling. The blog features LU researchers who try to reduc

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/can-sufficiency-help-define-travel-quality-time-climate-crisis - 2026-06-15

2023 turned out to be a year with many milestones such as an ever-growing alumni group (Batch 30 has joined!), a record diversity of student nationalities, new and highly relevant research projects, renovation work up to the roof (including solar panels!) and great achievements in our educational program and courses. The past year had not been possible without the devotion and involvement of all o

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/looking-forward-new-year-2024 - 2026-06-15