Published 14 November 2023 Hanna Bäck, Robert Klemmensen and Florence So have received a three-year grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the project "Divided Parliaments? Polarization, Moralization, and the Risk of Gridlock". The project will start next year. Congratulations! Description In well-functioning democracies, political representatives are capable of compromising to pass legislation

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Published 15 November 2023 New paper on critical pedagogies published in International Studies Perspectives (@ISP_Journal) by two teachers and a current student at Lund University’s Department of Political Science.   Christie Nicoson, Barbara Magalhães Teixeira, and Alva Mårtensson examine an ongoing elective course at the Department, Peace in the 21st Century: Critical Debates on Violence, Justic

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/why-do-we-study-peace-and-what - 2025-04-17

Published 20 November 2023 Professor Hanna Bäck and Associate Professor Roxanna Sjöstedt, Lund University. At the annual meeting in Gothenburg on 5 October, Hanna Bäck was elected as the new chair and Roxanna Sjöstedt as the new secretary of the Swedish Political Science Association. Congratulations on these honorary assignments! With this, the federation's website has also got an updated layout a

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Published 20 November 2023 'Caring feminist states? Paternalistic feminist foreign policies and the silencing of Indigenous justice claims in Sweden and Canada' by Annika Bergman Rosamond, Georgia De Leeuw and Jessica Cheung in INTERNATIONAL FEMINIST JOURNAL OF POLITICS. Annika Rosamond Bergman Georgia de Leeuw ABSTRACTThe self-identification of Sweden and Canada as exceptionally caring and ethica

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Published 21 November 2023 Associate Professors Ted Svensson and Agustín Goenaga, Lund University. Congratulations on the grant! Abstract Previous research has offered important insights about the instruments that states use to govern their populations. It has also shown that colonial experiences had far-reaching consequences for contemporary levels of political and economic development. However,

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Published 24 November 2023 Mats Fred, Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren and Lina Berglund-Snodgrass (SLU) have received a 4-year grant from Formas for the project ”NavRISK: Achieving sustainability through risk-taking? The navigating between risk and and stability in urban experiments in planning”. Congratulations! SummaryThe notion that we must go beyond business-as-usual and innovate to achieve climate- an

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Published 27 November 2023 Associate Professor Roxanna Sjöstedt and Professor Hanna Bäck, Lund University. Roxanna Sjöstedt, Hanna Bäck, and Louise Olsson at PRIO in Oslo have received a four-year research grant from the Swedish Research Council, the call Project Grant for Research on Societal Preparedness and Security. Congratulations! Project: All Aboard!? A multi-level analysis of societal secu

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Published 27 November 2023 Annika Fredén has co-authored a new field experiment article in the US-based journal Election Law Journal in collaboration with Peter Esaiasson, University of Gothenburg, and Jan Teorell, Stockholm University. We conducted the study in close collaboration with the Swedish election authorities and show that the infrastructure for voting and whether voters can select the b

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Published 28 November 2023 Professor Annika Björkdahl, together with Associate Professor Johanna Mannergren Selimovic at Södertörn University, have received research funding from the Swedish Research Council for three years of research with the project 'Beyond the Archive: Gendering Holocaust knowledge production through women's testimonies in the Ravensbrück archive'. Congratulations on the resea

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Published 12 December 2023 Professor Catarina Kinnvall and Professor Ian Manners, Lund University. The project is focused on the emotional economy of anti/pro-democratic expressions of grievances, with an aim to explain how anti-social grievance politics transform into democratic political action. Congratulations on the research grant! Project name: Politics of Grievance and Democratic Governance

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Published 19 December 2023 Associate Professor Sara Kalm, Lund University. The distinctive features of modern citizenship include, among other things, that it is both internally inclusive and externally exclusive. These characteristics largely evolved during the “long nineteenth century”, the period between the French Revolution and the First World War. Similar to that of today, the historical sit

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Published 9 January 2024 Gustav Agneman and Lisa Strömbom has co-authored a new article in Journal of Conflict Resolution (open access). It presents results from a conjoint field-experiment in Meta, Colombia. Associate Professor Lisa Strömbom, Lund University. Associate Professor Gustav Agneman, Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The article helps increase und

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Published 11 January 2024 Anders Uhlin has together with Malin Arvidsson authored the chapter “Civil Society Boundary Crossing and Elite Integration” published in Civil Society Elites: Exploring the Composition, Reproduction, Integration, and Contestation of Civil Society Actors at the Top, edited by Håkan Johansson & Anna Meeuwisse. Professor Anders Uhlin, Department of Political Sciences, Lund U

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Published 11 January 2024 Barbara Magalhães Teixeira has published a paper in Geopolitics: “Room to grow and the right to say no: theorizing the liberatory power of peace in the Global South”. How do we make space for peace in the Global South, in a context of rising economic and political inequalities as well as environmental and climate change impacts?AbstractThis article builds on feminist and

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Publicerad 24 mars 2025 Professorerna Christine Wamsler, Max Liljefors och Martin Garwicz är koordinatorer för samverkansinitiativet Existentiell resiliens, ERiCi. Foto: Kenneth Ruona Kan konst, eftertanke och medlidande vara svaret på vår tids stora existentiella utmaningar? Det tror forskarna bakom samverkansinitiativet ERiCi. Kring ett konferensbord inne i byggnaden LUX sitter tre professorer s

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Publicerad 16 januari 2014 Christine Sylvester från USA var först ut med att anlägga ett feministiskt perspektiv på forskningen om internationella relationer. Den 5 juni 2014 promoverades hon till hedersdoktor vid Lunds universitets samhällsvetenskapliga fakultet. Christine Sylvester är även ett namn inom fältet utvecklingsstudier. Hon inledde sin forskarkarriär i Zimbabwe, ett land som hon återvä

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Publicerad 5 mars 2014 Dagens otydliga karriärvägar och osäkra anställningsförhållanden riskerar att skapa en rädd och tyst doktor. Men en tyst doktor har svårt att bidra till den förnyelse och föryngring som krävs för att möta en ökad internationell konkurrens.Det menar lundaforskarna Sara Eldén och Anna Jonsson som lyfter fram behovet av samlade röster för en starkare akademi, i boken Efter fest

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Publicerad 11 april 2014 Att funktionshindrade människor har sexuella behov är erkänt i både Danmark och Sverige. Men i Danmark finns flera hundra särskilt utbildade sexualrådgivare till de funktionshindrades hjälp. I Sverige finns ingenting motsvarande. - Det är ett märkligt tomrum och en påfallande skillnad mellan grannländerna, menar professorn i genusvetenskap Jens Rydström. Han var en av före

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Publicerad 16 april 2014 Den 12-15 maj bjuder Lunds universitet in till Social Business Week, fyra dagar fyllda av seminarier, workshops och föreläsningar kring socialt företagande.Detta är ett startskott för innovationssatsningar i Skåne som ska öka förståelsen för hur sociala innovationer kan bidra till ett bättre samhälle och ökad tillväxt. Frågeställningarna handlar om tillväxt, utanförskap, j

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Publicerad 5 maj 2014 Forskare bjuder på samtal om ideologier, högerpopulism, eurokrisen, genusfrågor, miljö, jordbrukspolitik och soffliggare. Journalister och medieexperter diskuterar medias förmåga att väcka intresse för EU-frågor. Dessutom rapporterar europeiska utbytesstudenter om valet från sina respektive hemländer. Detta och mycket annat händer på Centrum för Europaforsknings valvaka den 2

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