Isak Svensson
Professor at Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 57 40
- E-mail:
- Isak.Svensson@pcr.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Gamla Torget 3, 1tr
753 20 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Isak Svensson is Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden.
His three main areas of expertise are:
1) international mediation
2) religion and conflict
3) nonviolent conflicts.
Keywords
- mediation
- nonviolence
- religion
Biography
Professor, October 2015, Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
Associate Professor, February 2009, Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
Doctor of Philosophy, October 2007, Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
Research
I am project leader for the international research project, 2016-2021, Resolving Jihadist Conflicts? Religion, Civil War, and Prospect for Peace, see:
http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/resolving-jihadist-conflicts/
For research on nonviolence, see
http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/non-violent-conflict/
Publications
Recent publications
- Fueling protest? (2024)
- Resisting Radical Rebels (2023)
- Local Ceasefires and De-escalation (2023)
- Divided We Fall (2023)
- Pushing the doors open (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Fueling protest? (2024)
- Resisting Radical Rebels (2023)
- Local Ceasefires and De-escalation (2023)
- Divided We Fall (2023)
- Pushing the doors open (2023)
- Capitalizing on Cleavages (2022)
- Violent Political Protest (2022)
- The Intractability of Islamist Insurgencies (2021)
- Confronting the caliphate? (2021)
- Peace Talks and Valid Spokespersons (2020)
- Between the Bombs (2020)
- The surprising decline of international mediation in armed conflicts (2020)
- Resisting Resolution (2020)
- In the Streets and at the Table (2020)
- Letter to the Editors (2020)
- Introducing an Agenda-based Measurement of Mediation Success (2019)
- Is Shia-Sunni Violence on the Rise? (2019)
- Why Is There So Little Shia-Sunni Dialogue? (2019)
- The missing jihad (2018)
- From Revolution to Resolution: (2018)
- Disputes over the Divine (2018)
- Manufacturing Dissent (2016)
- Conceptualizing the Religious Dimensions of Armed Conflicts (2016)
- Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation (2016)
- Manufacturing Dissent (2016)
- Leanings and Dealings (2014)
- Explaining Political Jujitsu (2014)
- Talking Peace (2014)
- Rivers of Peace (2013)
- Believers and Belligerents (2013)
- The Exit Option (2013)
- Research on Bias in Mediation (2013)
- International Mediation (2013)
- One God, Many Wars (2013)
- Dialogue and Interethnic Trust (2013)
- Peace from the Inside (2013)
- The Exit Option (2013)
- Should I Stay or Should I Go? (2011)
- Schizophrenic Soothers (2011)
- East Asian Peacemaking (2011)
- How Holy Wars End (2011)
- From Bombs to Banners? (2011)
- Community and Consent (2011)
- Mediating between tigers and lions (2009)
- Incentives for Talking (2009)
- Who Brings Which Peace? (2009)
- Peace and protest (2009)
- 'Damned if you do, and damned if you don’t': nordic involvement and third-party neutrality in Sri Lanka (2008)
- Fighting with faith - Religion and conflict resolution a in civil wars (2007)
- Bargaining, bias and peace brokers (2007)
- Mediation with Muscles or Minds? (2007)
- "Sticking one's neck out" (2006)
Books
- Religion, Conflict, and Global Society (2021)
- Religion and the International System (2016)
- Fredens Diplomater (2016)
- Fredens diplomater. (2016)
- International mediation bias and peacemaking (2014)
- Ending Holy Wars (2012)
- The Go-Between (2010)
Chapters
- Resolving Religious Conflicts through Peace Agreements (2021)
- Mediation of Interstate Conflicts and Civil Wars (2020)
- Biased mediation (2019)
- Civil war and religion (2019)
- Mediating Closure (2019)
- Where Are the Women in Peace Mediation? (2018)
- The East Asian Peace (2017)
- Mapping armed conflicts over Islamist claims: exploring regional variations (2017)
- A reversal of peace? The role of foreign involvement in armed conflict (2016)
- Isak Svensson (2016): ”Conflict and Peace”, in David Yamane (ed): Handbook of Religion and Society (2nd EDITION), Springer (2016)
- When do we mediate? Global trends in armed conflict and peace mediation. (2016)
- Conflict Mediation, in (2015)
- Conflict Resolution in Civil Wars (2014)
- Mediation and peace agreements (2014)
- The fragile peace in East and South East Asia (2013)
- Conflict resolution and religious dimensions of armed conflicts (2012)
- Partial Peacemakers (2012)
- Fallacies of the Peace Ownership Approach (2011)
- Mediating between Tigers and Lions (2009)
- Guaranteeing Peace (2009)
- Demos or Deus (2009)
- Democracies, Disengagement and Deals (2008)
Conferences
- From the Balcony to the Barricades (2018)
- Pause or Peace? (2018)
- The Shia-Sunni Schism: Exploring Trends in Intra-Muslim Organized Violence, 1989-2016 (2018)
- How Do Islamist Conflicts End? (2017)
- How Do Islamist Conflicts End? (2017)
- The Rise of Islamist Armed Conflicts and Challenges to Conflict Resolution (2017)
- A New Category of Organized Violence (2017)
- How Jihadist States End (2017)
- How Jihadist States End (2017)
- The Missing Jihad (2014)
- “Manufacturing Dissent: Economic Structure and the Onset of Major Nonviolent Resistance Campaigns”, (2013)
- Talking Peace (2013)
- Protecting Protégés? (2012)
- Karin Aggestam & Isak Svensson: Where Are the Women in International Mediation? (2012)
- Peacemaking in Who’s Authority? (2012)
- East Asian Peacemaking? Some Empirical Observations on Patterns of Conflict Management and Termination Stipulations in Civil Wars (2008)
- Schizophrenic Soothers (2008)
Other
- Civil society protests and inclusive peace talks (2023)
- Women, Peace and Security (2020)
- What We Know - and Don't Know - about Religious Civil Wars (2018)
- Förhastad slutsats om kvinnors roll i fredsprocesser”, 2018-01-05, Replik, DN Debatt (2018)
- Nobelpriset 2018 – några högoddsare och lågoddsare,posted 2018-09-25 (2018)
- Krig och fred 2018: de 8 viktigaste trenderna, posted 2018-12-17 (2018)
- Gene Sharp (1928-2018) – ickevåld som strategi (2018)
- Nio punkter för global fred (Nine Points for Global Peace) (2015)
