Published 27 May 2016 Ellen Ravndal has written a briefing paper for "One World Trust" and "The 1 for 7 billion campaign" on how the appointment of Trygve Lie as the United Nations’ first secretary-general in 1946 still influences the process to appoint a new secretary-general today. The appointment of Trygve Lie as the first UN Secretary-General (PDF)Ellen Ravndal’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ravndal-un-secretary-general-selection-process - 2025-04-01

Published 29 May 2016 Annika Björkdahl and Susanne Buckley Zistel has co-edited the book "Spatialising Peace and Conflict: Mapping the Production of Places, Sites and Scales of Violence" (Palgrave 2016), which investigates the relationship linking peace and conflict with space and place. Learn more on palgrave.comAnnika Björkdahl’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-relationship-linking-peace-and-conflict-space-and-place - 2025-04-01

Published 30 May 2016 Fariborz Zelli was co-organiser of a two-day workshop on ‘Enhancing Legitimacy in Polycentric Climate Governance’ at the European University Institute in Florence (May 19-20). The workshop brought together some of the leading scholars on international institutions, legitimacy and climate governance, including keynote speakers Robert Keohane, Liliana Andonova, Karin Bäckstrand

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/workshop-legitimacy-climate-governance - 2025-04-01

Published 31 May 2016 Annika Björkdahl and Håkan Magnusson participated in the conference “The Future of Local Government in a new Development Agenda” hosted by “International Centre for Local Democracy”. The conference took place in Visby, May 22-24. Challenging themes such as the role of local government in development, vulnerability governance, why gender matters to local democracy, the shadows

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/local-government-new-development-agenda - 2025-04-01

Published 2 June 2016 Annika Bergman Rosamond has authored the book chapter ”The digital politics of celebrity activism against sexual violence: Angelina Jolie as global mother” in the edited collection ”Understanding Culture and World Politics in the Digital Age, popular Culture and World Politics in the Digital Age”, edited by Laura. J. Shepherd & Caitlin Hamiltion, Oxford: Routledge, 2016. Anni

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-writes-about-angelina-jolies-humanitarian-work-against-sexual-violence - 2025-04-01

Published 3 June 2016 May 31 to June 1 Annika Björkdahl and Håkan Magnusson participated in an international conference in Skopje, Macedonia, with participants from both Western Balkan and other countries from the region. The theme was gender policy implementation at the local level in Western Balkans and their implication for the sustainable development goals.Annika Björkdahl’s personal pageHåkan

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/gender-policy-implementation-local-level-western-balkans - 2025-04-01

Published 6 June 2016 Annika Bergman Rosamond has received a grant of 94 000 SEK from the Crafoord Foundation to investigate the topic of 'Danish and Swedish veteran narratives', with emphasis on cosmopolitan obligation. The study is based on interviews in Stockholm and Denmark and a focus group exercise.Annika Bergman Rosamond’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/study-danish-and-swedish-veterans-war-narratives-receives-94-000-sek - 2025-04-01

Published 7 June 2016 Jan Teorell is one of the authors of two articles from a special issue of Comparative Political Studies. He has together with Daniel Ziblatt and Fabrice Lehoucq co-authored the article ”An Introduction to Special Issue: The Causes and Consequences of Secret Ballot Reform”.He has also together with Didi Kuo co-authored the article ”Illicit Tactics as Substitutes: Election Frau

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-secret-ballot - 2025-04-01

Published 8 June 2016 Karin Aggestam gives a talk on feminist foreign policy and peace diplomacy on the international conference at Oslo University on 9 June. Learn more on Oslo University’s websiteKarin Aggestam’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-feminist-foreign-policy-and-peace-diplomacy - 2025-04-01

Published 9 June 2016 Today on June 9th Ole Elgström is in Helsinki to act as opponent on Hanna Tuominen's PhD thesis "The European Union at the UN Human Rights Council", in which she investigates the normative power role of the EU in this context. Ole Elgström’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-opponent-phd-thesis - 2025-04-01

Published 16 June 2016 Jakob Skovgaard is one of the organizers of a workshop concerning fossil fuel subsidies at Stockholm Environment Institute. The workshop starts today (16 June) and ends tomorrow. Learn more on Stockholm Environment Institute’s websiteJakob Skovgaard’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/workshop-fossil-fuel-subsidies - 2025-04-01

Published 4 July 2016 Karin Aggestam has been appointed the Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Foundations Chair in Commemoration of Samuel Pufendorf. Karin Aggestam’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-appointed-pufendorf-chair - 2025-04-01

Published 6 July 2016 Annica Kronsell and Annika Bergman Rosamond participated in the launching workshop of the Feminist Peace Research Network at the University of Tampere, Finland (27-30 June). The next workshop will take place in Lund in 2017. You can read more about the network on their websiteAnnica Kronsell’s personal pageAnnika Bergman Rosamond’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/feminist-peace-research-network - 2025-04-01

Published 30 August 2016 Ole Elgström's article "Norm Advocacy Networks: Nordic and Like-Minded Countries in EU Gender and Development Policy" has been accepted and published electronically by Cooperation and Conflict. The article analyses how informal Member State groupings act to promote their values to fellow Member States. Abstract:This article investigates the informal networks of Member Stat

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-how-state-groupings-act-promote-their-values - 2025-04-01

Published 31 August 2016 Karin Aggestam and Tim Dunne have co-authored ”The failure of diplomacy and protection in Syria” in Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (Oxford University Press), edited by Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield and Tim Dunne. Learn more on Oxford University Press’s webbsiteKarin Aggestam’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/agggestam-and-dunne-failure-diplomacy-and-protection-syria - 2025-04-01

Published 2 September 2016 Lisa Strömbom’s article “Counter-conduct in divided cities – resisting urban planning practices in Jerusalem” has been published in Peacebuilding. Abstract:This article explores practices of counter-conduct in Jerusalem. Its aims are threefold: (1) to deepen understandings of how practices of counter-conduct relates to the structures it aims to subvert; (2) to probe how

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-counter-conduct-jerusalem - 2025-04-01

Published 16 September 2016 Cecilia von Schéele defended her dissertation "The void: Urban wasteland as political space" today at 10:00 in Edens Hörsal, Paradisgatan 5h, Lund. External reviewer: Associate Professor Nils Hertting, Uppsala University.The void: Urban wasteland as political spaceCecilia von Schéele’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/cecilia-von-scheele-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-04-01

Published 5 September 2016 Fabio Cristiano presented his work on augmented reality and Pokémon Go at the University of York’s event “Imagining Jerusalem”, in East Jerusalem on September 1. Programme for “Imagining Jerusalem” (PDF)Fabio Cristiano’s personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/cristiano-augmented-reality-and-pokemon-go - 2025-04-01

Published 8 September 2016 Roxanna Sjöstedt, Erik Noreen and Jan Ångström have co-authored the article "Why small states join big wars: The case of Sweden in Afghanistan 2002–2014" in International Relations. Abstract:The security behavior of small states has traditionally been explained by different takes of realism, liberalism, or constructivism – focusing on the behavior that aims toward safegu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-why-small-states-join-big-wars - 2025-04-01

Published 13 September 2016 Karin Aggestam has contributed with a chapter on ”Diplomatic Mediation” in The Sage Handbook of Diplomacy. Learn more on sagepub.comKarin Aggestam's personal page 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-diplomatic-mediation - 2025-04-01