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On behalf of Lund University and the United Nations University (UNU), Prof. Erik Renström and Prof. Kaveh Madani invite you to the official launch ceremony for the UNU Hub on “Water in a Changing Environment” at Lund University. Lund University is proud to become the second UNU Hub in Europe to address the global issues related to Water in a Changing Environment (WISE). This initiative is created

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/united-nations-university-hub-launch-ceremony - 2025-11-27

The Inverse Modelling group at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES), Lund University, seeks to appoint a post-doctoral fellows to work on the quantification of biogenic and anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions based on assimilating relevant observational data. The main duties involved in a post-doctoral posistion is to conduct research. Teaching may also be inc

https://www.nateko.lu.se/pdf_ccmodelling - 2025-11-27

Postdoctoral fellow in Earth Observation of land cover and vegetation dynamics in the Middle East. The Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) announce one vacant position as a 2-year postdoctoral fellow with an orientation towards earth observation of land cover and vegetation dynamics.More than a decade has passed since the

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/open-position-postdoctoral-fellow-earth-observation - 2025-11-27

Researcher Patrik Vestin writes in a " news and views " article in Nature that the woody surfaces of trees may take up methane on a scale of global importance. This is a missing piece in the estimation of global methane budgets, and hence in climate models. Future research should involve not just stems and trunks, but also leaves and small branches to get a fuller picture. Forests play a crucial r

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/bigger-role-trees-global-carbon-cycling - 2025-11-27

Africa, despite its large area and thus large impact on the global carbon cycle, is relatively unexplored with respect to ecosystem functions and impact on climate change. Now one of few in situ studies over a long period of time, 2010-2022, shows that the Sahel area has lost a lot of its power as a carbon sink during the time period examined. Africa, despite its large area and thus large impact o

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/reduced-carbon-sink-power-sahel - 2025-11-27

Allowing nature to cover up after human activities, known as rewilding, has several benefits. It improves the resilience of ecosystems, increases biodiversity and favours the interaction between nature and society. This is according to a new study from Lund University. Rewilding is a method that aims to re-establish animal and plant species that have disappeared from a particular area. In a new st

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/rewilding-good-planet-and-people - 2025-11-27

AI and future research was the central question when researchers from across Europe gathered at Lund University earlier this summer for the second full consortium meeting of AI4PEX, a research project focused on improving Earth System Models (ESMs) using the latest AI methods. Bridging AI and Climate Modelling across disciplinesAI4PEX is short for Artificial Intelligence for Process Enhancement in

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/how-can-artificial-intelligence-help-us-better-predict-future-our-planet - 2025-11-27

This Regional Outlook focuses on the 2024 Jordanian parliamentary elections, their political consequences, and how the elections were affected by the War on Gaza. Earlier this fall, on September 10th, almost 1.5 million Jordanians (31% of eligible voters) cast their ballots to elect the country’s 20th parliament. The election’s major victor was the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, the

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-jordanian-parliamentary-elections - 2025-11-27

During Almedalsveckan 2024, CMES hosted a variety of events. Two panel discussions are now available to watch in their entirety: "Israel Palestina en olöslig konflikt" and "Kriser, krig och klimatförändringar – hur tar vi hand om begränsade vattenresurser?" Please note that the following article as well as the Almedalen videos are in Swedish.Israel Palestina – en olöslig konflikt?Vilka är de lång

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/watch-cmes-events-almedalsveckan-2024 - 2025-11-27

This Regional Outlook focuses on the prospect for Israeli and Palestinian peace activism and how, during times of pressure, solidarity groups redress their methods. In the aftermath of October 7th, with Israeli hostages still in captivity and ongoing war, destruction and violence in Gaza, prospects for future peaceful coexistence in the region seem more distant than ever. In conjunction, Hamas’ ha

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-any-prospect-peace-activism - 2025-11-27

Application deadline: 9 December 2024. A 4-year fully funded PhD position at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) is now open for applications.The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies is coordinating the Strategic Research Area (SRA) and the research program “The Middle East in the Contemporary World” (MECW). The program conducts cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on th

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/job-opening-phd-student-political-science-nuclear-politics-middle-east - 2025-11-27

CMES Researcher Lisa Strömbom has written an article published in The Conversation on Israel's relations with the United Nations. AbstractIsrael’s relationship with the United Nations has historically been strained, but over the past year, tensions have reached new levels. On October 28, the Israeli parliament (the Knesset) passed a law to prohibit operations of the UN’s relief and works agency (U

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/israels-relations-un-hit-new-low-unrwa-ban-0 - 2025-11-27

CMES Researcher Torsten Janson has written a review of Alison Scott-Baumann’s study "Paul Ricoeur: Empowering Education, Politics and Society" (published in 2023). The review is published on The London School of Economics and Political Science website blog. Review summaryAlison Scott–Baumann’s Paul Ricoeur: Empowering Education, Politics and Society employs Ricoeur’s philosophy to unpack contempor

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/paul-ricoeur-empowering-education-politics-and-society-review - 2025-11-27

Read the November 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-47 - 2025-11-27

CMES Researcher Lisa Strömbom was interviewed in the Danish newspaper Politiken on Israel's relations with the UN, following the UNRWA ban. Lisa Strömbom is Associate Professor in Political Science and researcher at CMES. She studies identities in conflict, conflict transformation and historiography, recognition in intrastate conflict as well as on grassroots peacebuilding. Her main empirical focu

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lisa-strombom-interviewed-politiken-israels-relations-un - 2025-11-27

LUCSUS researcher Sinem Kavak visited CMES to hold a seminar on Syrian refugees in Turkey and Lebanon. How can we understand the complex dynamics of gender and bodily strategies in the context of forced migration? As part of the CMES Seminar Series, Sinem Kavak, researcher at the Center for Sustainability Studies at Lund University (LUCSUS) and a research affiliate at the Raoul Wallenberg Institut

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/gendered-refugee-bodies-feminist-analysis-syrian-refugee-mobility-turkey-and-lebanon - 2025-11-27

CMES researcher Sami Al-Daghistani has recently published an edited volume on premodern and contemporary economic and environmental approaches in Islamic traditions. Recovering Environmental and Economic Traditions in the Islamic World. Leiden: Brill’s Themes in Islamic Studies Series, Volume 9, 2024.The book is published in Open Access thanks to financial support from Lund University Library Fund

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/recovering-environmental-and-economic-traditions-islamic-world - 2025-11-27

CMES researcher Altea Pericoli has co-authored an article published in The International Spectator. Donelli, F., Pericoli, A. (2024). Foreign aid, identities, and interests: Qatar and the UAE in Sudan. The International Spectator. DOI: 10.1080/03932729.2024.2416892.The article is published with Open Access. Read it here.About Altea PericoliDr. Altea Pericoli is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in ge

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/foreign-aid-identities-and-interests-qatar-and-uae-sudan - 2025-11-27

Det händer mycket i Iran just nu. Irankännaren Laleh Foroughanfar, forskare vid Centrum för Mellanösternstudier vid Lunds universitet, analyserar läget just nu och vad som har lett fram till dagens situation. To the full article

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/det-iranska-samhallet-mer-uppdelat-nagonsin - 2025-11-27

A 4-year fully funded PhD position at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR) is now open for applications. Application deadline: 22 December 2024.About the PhD PositionThe Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies is coordinating the Strategic Research Area (SRA) and the research program “The Middle East in the Contemporary World”

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/job-opening-phd-student-islamic-studies-islamic-ethics-and-moral-economy-middle-east - 2025-11-27