New PAW-Report: Negotiating the Political Integration of Armed Groups in and Era of New Conflict Patterns and Changing Peacemaking Practices (2025) Co-published with FBA and Berghof.
Please see below a collection of recent publications by PAW and PAW-affiliated researchers (in progress of being updated)
2023
PAW-book: John Ishiyama and Gyda Sindre co-edited book with PAW researchers: The effects of Rebel Parties on Governance, Democracy and Civil Wars: From Guns to Governing. Routledge (2023). More details and abstracts here.
Carrie Manning, Ian Smith and Ozlem Tuncel Gurlek | Parties, Politics, Peace: Electoral Inclusion as Peacebuilding. Routledge (2023).
2022
Joint Research Brief Series on the Political Dynamics of DDR co-produced by PAW, FBA and UN DPO/DDR Section. Access the briefs and more information here.
2021
January Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs with Kristine Höglund and Mélida Jiménez | Autonomous Peace? The Bangsamoro Region in the Philippines Beyond the 2014 Agreement, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development.
January Matthew Whiting with Zeynep N. Kaya | Autocratization, permanent emergency rule and local politics: lessons from the Kurds in Turkey, Democratization.
January Giulia Piccolino with Philip A. Martin and Jeremy S. Speight | Ex-Rebel Authority after Civil War: Theory and Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire, Comparative Politics.
2020
October Sara Hellmüller| Meaning-Making in Peace-Making: The Inclusion Norm at the Interplay between the United Nations and Civil Society in the Syrian Peace Process, Swiss Political Science Review.
October Sara Hellmüller| “Mediation“, in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies, Oliver Richmond and Gëzim Visoka (eds.), Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
August Gyda M. Sindre| “Gatekeepers“, in The Companion to Peace and Conflict Fieldwork, Roger Mac Ginty, Roddy Brett and Birte Vogel (eds.), Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
July Giulia Piccolino with Philip Martin and Jeremy Speight| Ex-Rebel Authority after Civil War: Theory and Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire, Journal of Comparative Politics.
June Johanna Söderström, Malin Åkebo and Anna Jarstad | Friends, Fellows and Foes: A New Framework for Studying Relational Peace, International Studies Review
June Serhat Tutkal | Power, knowledge, and universities: Turkey’s dismissed ‘academics for peace’, Critical Studies in Education.
June Serhat Tutkal | Dehumanization on Twitter in the Turkish–Kurdish conflict, Media, War & Conflict.
April Albert Sharra | Watchdog role: How Malawi media utilise question time during press briefings, KAS Media Africa.
April Rafael Quishpe | Insurgent quavers: uses and functions of FARC-EP music during the armed conflict in Colombia (Corcheas insurgentes: usos y funciones de la música de las FARC-EP durante el conflicto armado en Colombia), Izquierdas.
March Jenny Hedström with Elisabeth Olivius|Insecurity, Dispossession, Depletion: Women’s Experiences of Post‑War Development in Myanmar, The European Journal of Development Research.
February Karina Mroß with Charlotte Fiedler, Jörn Grävingholt and Julia Leininger | Gradual, Cooperative, Coordinated: Effective Support for Peace and Democracy in Conflict-Affected States, International Studies Perspectives.
January Jenny Hedström | Militarized social reproduction: women’s labour and parastate armed conflict, Critical Military Studies.
2019
PAW-Special Issue co-edited by Devon Curtis and Gyda Sindre| What Happens to Ideas and Ideology in Armed Groups Turned Political Parties? Government and Opposition.
November Gyda Sindre | Adapting to peacetime politics? Rebranding and ideological change in former rebel parties, Government and Opposition
November Devon Curtis and Gyda Sindre | Transforming state visions: Ideologies and ideas in armed groups turned political parties| Government and Opposition
October Agnieszka Paczynska | The New Politics of Aid: Emerging Donors and Conflict-Affected States, Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
July Terrence Lyons | The Puzzle of Ethiopian Politics, Boulder CO.: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
July Johanna Söderström | The Gendered Impact of Crime on Political Knowledge: How Crime Impacts Cognition among Citizens in Sub-Saharan Africa, Democracy and Security.
June Devon E.A. Curtis | What Is Our Research For? Responsibility, Humility and the Production of Knowledge about Burundi, Africa Spectrum.
April Matthew Whiting with Alpaslan Özerdem | The Routledge Handbook of Turkish Politics, London: Routledge.
March Giulia Piccolino | Local Peacebuilding in a Victor’s Peace. Why Local Peace Fails Without National Reconciliation, International Peacekeeping.
January John Ishiyama and Michael Widmeier | From “bush bureaucracies” to electoral competition: what explains the political success of rebel parties after civil wars? Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.
January Johanna Söderström | Life diagrams: a methodological and analytical tool for accessing life histories, Qualitative Research.
2018
December Karina Mroß | First Peace, then Democracy? Evaluating Strategies of International Support at Critical Junctures after Civil War, International Peacekeeping.
November Matthew Whiting with Zeynep N. Kaya| The HDP, the AKP and the Battle for Turkish Democracy, Ethnopolitics.
April Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs with Jesper Bjarnesen | Violence in African Elections, Zed Books.
April Ralph Sprenkels | After Insurgency: Revolution and Electoral Politics in El Salvador, University of Notre Dame.
2017
December Matthew Whiting | Sinn Féin and the IRA: From Revolution to Moderation, Edinburgh University Press.
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