Anna Jarstad
Professor at Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Forskare och lärare
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 23 58
- E-mail:
- Anna.Jarstad@statsvet.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Östra Ågatan 19
753 22 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0001-8048-1868
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Short presentation
Jarstad leads a project on Relational Peace which seeks to define, characterize and analyze different varieties of peace that evolve after civil war. She has done research on power sharing – when former combatants form joint governments – and the nexus of democratization and peacebuilding in war-torn societies. varietiesofpeace.net
Keywords
- afghanistan
- bosnia-herzegovina
- cyprus
- democratization
- kosovo
- new zealand
- peace
- post-war
- power sharing
- south africa
Biography
Anna K. Jarstad is Associate professor at the Department of Government, with a focus on International Politics. Her master course Taming Violent Conflict: Peacebuilding, Democratisation, and Development runs from January to March. She is also member of the Academic Senate at Uppsala University.
Jarstad is co-editor of From War to Democracy: Dilemmas of Peacebuilding (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and the special issue “Introducing Hybrid Peace Governance: Impact and Prospects of Liberal Peacebuilding”, Global Governance, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 1. Her research focuses on the nexus of democratization and peacebuilding in war-torn societies, especially in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus, Kosovo, Macedonia, and South Africa. She specializes in power sharing as a form of conflict management and has led a quantitative data collection on power sharing (IMPACT) with Desirée Nilsson and Ralph Sundberg and has conducted several case studies.
She is currently working on several projects. The main current project is Introducing democracy from the outside? which seeks to investigate the question: ”When do international and local initiatives of democratization reinforce each other?”. The project includes several case studies on external democracy promotion, as well as local initiatives to improve governance. A PhD student, Anna Ida Norén, began her work within the project in September 2014.
Another current research project deals with the causes and consequences of political violence in South Africa. One output is the article “Towards Electoral Security: Experiences from KwaZulu-Natal” (with Kristine Höglund), 2011. Africa Spectrum. Vol. 33 No.59, pp. 33-35.
A previous project (led by Louise Olsson) focused on “Opportunities and Obstacles: local Ownership of Development and Stability in Northern Afghanistan”. While the donor community has long stressed the importance of local actors for sustainable development, local ownership is now also employed by international peace operations in order to obtain security and democracy. The purpose of this project was to analyze international efforts to promote development and stability through local ownership.
Research
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Living in Contested Land
There remains a glaring lack of attention on the existing peace that coexists alongside unresolved territorial disputes. To analyze peace beyond the mere absence of war, I focus on the various actors and their interrelations, aiming to discern the different facets of peaceful coexistence. The concept of Relational Peace (Jarstad et al., 2023; Söderström et al., 2021) offers a framework that places actors at the forefront, elucidating the diverse manifestations of both peaceful and antagonistic relationships. The overarching research objective is to explore the phenomenon of peace amid adversity: How does the issue of contested land manifest in Cyprus and Kosovo?
Varieties of Peace
Today’s headlines show that peace in South Africa is very different from peace in Cambodia or Sri Lanka. However, research thus far has not managed to analyze and explain the different varieties of peace that evolve after civil war. In the project Varieties of peace: a relational peace, we suggest that taking a relational approach to peace seriously is a fruitful avenue for expanding current theoretical frameworks surrounding peace as a concept as well as providing more theoretically grounded empirical work. This project focuses on describing and explaining the varieties of peace from a relational approach in countries such as Cambodia, Myanmar/Burma, South Africa and Sri Lanka. The project is funded by RJ 2020-2022. The project includes the following researchers: project leader Anna Jarstad, Elisabeth Olivius, Nilanjana Premaratna, Johanna Söderström, and Malin Åkebo. An open access book came out 2023: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526168955/
Media
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Publications
Recent publications
- Peace with Adjectives: Conceptual Fragmentation or Conceptual Innovation? (2024)
- Relational peace practices (2023)
- Peace, Development, and the Unresolved Land Issue in South Africa (2021)
- Revisiting the local turn in peacebuilding (2021)
- Friends, Fellows, and Foes (2021)
All publications
Articles
- Peace with Adjectives: Conceptual Fragmentation or Conceptual Innovation? (2024)
- Peace, Development, and the Unresolved Land Issue in South Africa (2021)
- Revisiting the local turn in peacebuilding (2021)
- Friends, Fellows, and Foes (2021)
- Grasping the empirical realities of peace in post-war northern Mitrovica (2019)
- Making and keeping promises: regime type and powersharing pacts in peace agreements (2018)
- Local violence and politics in KwaZulu-Natal: perceptions of agency in a post-conflict society (2015)
- Costly democracy: peacebuilding and democratization after war, edited by Christoph Zürcher, Carrie Manning, Kristie Evenson, Rachel Hayman, Sarah Riese, and Nora Roehner, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2013, 189 pp., index, £24.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8047-8197-8 (2014)
- Unpacking Friction in Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan (2014)
- Review – The Peace In Between (2013)
- Introducing Hybrid Peace Governance (2012)
- Hybrid Peace Ownership in Afghanistan (2012)
- Toward Electoral Security (2011)
- Local Peace Agreements (2010)
- The Predicament of Elections in War-Torn Societies (2009)
- The predicament of elections in war-torn societies (2009)
- The Prevalence of Power-Sharing (2009)
- From words to deeds (2008)
- Osäker valutgång om Cyperns enande (2004)
- Cypern ger EU nya problem (2004)
Books
- Relational peace practices (2023)
- Det hotade universitetet (2016)
- Det hotade universitetet (2016)
- From war to democracy (2008)
Chapters
- Democratization after Civil War (2016)
- Sharing Power to Build States (2013)
- När kan demokratisering leda till krig? (2013)
- Local ownership of peace (2011)
- Dilemmas of war-to-democracy transitions (2008)
- Power sharing (2008)
- Introduction (2008)
- Ur askan i elden? Om etnisk kvotering som medel för politisk integration (2004)
Conferences
- Powersharing for Peace and Democracy? (2006)
- Dilemmas of Democratization and Peace-building in War-Torn Societies (2006)
- Political Pacts- No Promise of Peace? (2006)
- Peace by Pact (2006)
- Powersharing for Peace and democracy? (2005)
- Powersharing for Peace and Democracy? (2005)
- Peace Agreements and Power Sharing (2005)
- Democratisation in postconflict societies: Lessons from the Balkans, Prospects for Iraq (2005)
- Consociational Theory and Ethnic Quotas in the Future Re-Unified Cyprus: Striking a balance between a functional state and the equality of two constituent states (2004)
Reports
- Kunskapslägesrapport på kärnavfallsområdet 2010 (2010)
- International assistance to democratisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2005)
- International assistance to democratisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia (2005)