📢 On 15–17 June, we are co-hosting the next edition of the Data for Peace conference. This will be the first time the conference is held in Europe! The call for proposals is open until Monday, 13 April.
Read more: www.uu.se/en/departmen...
🎙️ @sebastianvanbaalen.se and his team are conducting the most extensive study of election boycotts to date. In a new podcast episode, we discuss why political parties or candidates choose to drop out of elections and what they hope to achieve by doing so.
Listen: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-m8txn...
Join us May 20 for the 2026 Peter Wallensteen Lecture with Prof. T.V. Paul from McGill University: “When Peace Unravels: Status Recognition and the Return of Great Power Conflicts.”
📅 May 20, 14:00
📍 Uppsala University Main Building, Hall IX
Read more and register:
www.uu.se/en/departmen...
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📢 We are hiring a Professor of Peace and Conflict Research. Application deadline: 26 March! ⬇️
We are seeking an internationally recognised scholar to join our dynamic and supportive research environment in the very livable city of Uppsala, Sweden!
🔗 Apply / Learn more: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
The Peter Wallensteen Lecture, by Professor T.V. Paul, offered a riveting analysis of how the pursuit of status drives great power behaviour.
ashoswai.bsky.social introduced the speaker, while Professor Desirée Nilsson offered concluding remarks. Professor Peter Wallensteen gave a short speech.
Apply by 25 March for two fully funded doctoral (PhD) positions:
🔹 One general PhD position in peace and conflict research
🔹 One PhD position at the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament
👉 Full details and application instructions: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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🎙️ In a new episode for our pod Researching Peace, we discuss power-sharing as a tool for ethnic conflict management with @awraffoul.bsky.social, who recently defended his thesis on the subject. His data reveal some striking findings.
🎧 Podbean: researchingpeace.podbean.com/e/45-a-new-l...
In a recent opinion piece, Mert Can Yilmaz argues that we should welcome the fact that AI writing tools are helping to level the uneven playing field in academia created by the dominance of the English language.
Mert is a Research Engineer at (UCDP).
universitetslararen.se/2026/04/23/a...
The datasets covering the year 2025 from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) have now been released.
Read more 👉 www.uu.se/en/news/2026...
The datasets are available through the UCDP website 👉 www.uu.se/en/departmen...
Detailed analysis in Journal of Peace Research 👉 doi.org/10.1093/jopr...
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Yesterday, we celebrated the launch of Volume 13 (2026) of the Pax et Bellum Journal, an open-access, student-run academic journal dedicated to Peace and Conflict Studies.
🔗 The journal, containing 5 insightful articles, is available here. 👉 journals.uu.se/pax-et-bellu...
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