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Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University

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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Following the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize, join @isaksvensson.bsky.social, former Minister for Foreign Affairs Margot Wallström, and Nobel Prize expert Gustav Källstrand for a discussion on the recipient. 📍 Nobel Prize Museum, Stockholm 🗣️ Swedish www.nobelprizemuseum.se/en/event/all...
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All about this year’s peace prize
Hear experts weigh and dissect the peace prize announced just hours earlier.
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We are delighted to welcome Professor Jo-Ansie van Wyk as the 2026 Claude Ake Visiting Chair. Van Wyk is Professor of International Politics at the University of South Africa. During her stay in Uppsala, she will examine nuclear colonialism and nuclear coloniality in Africa.
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
📣 H.E. Annalena Baerbock, President of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, will deliver the 2026 Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture. 📍 The Grand Auditorium at the Uppsala University main building 📅 26 October 2026 🕔 17:00–18:30 Read more: www.daghammarskjold.se/event/the-da...
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The Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture 2026
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
'Jihadist Peace: Ending Islamist Civil Wars', by Desirée Nilsson and @isaksvensson.bsky.social, identifies key hurdles to resolving Islamist armed conflicts and presents novel, evidence-based solutions. Read more on the Cambridge University Press website: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Stefan Döring @stefandoring.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Our new study (w/ T. Hecker and J. Hall) investigates how drought and war jointly affect mental health among Syrian and Iraqi refugees. We find drought amplifies the psychological burden of war. OA link: doi.org/10.1038/s418... @climes-swe.bsky.social @uupeace.bsky.social @prioresearch.bsky.social
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Drought amplifies the psychological burden of war - Nature Sustainability
Integrating georeferenced drought data from respondents’ pre-displacement regions with survey data from Syrian and Iraqi refugees, this study finds a stronger association between war exposure and post...
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Magnus Öberg @magnusoberg.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Seminar today in Visby on the effect of organized violence on civilian population with @erikmelander.bsky.social from the National Defense University and Malin Dahlberg Markstedt from OperationAid. Here are three numbers from my presentation... 1/3 @uupeace.bsky.social @ucdp.bsky.social
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
🎙️ In our final podcast of the season, professor and clinical psychologist Karen Brounéus offers reflection and practical advice to researchers and others whose work requires them to ingest material containing violence and suffering. 🎧 Podbean: researchingpeace.podbean.com/e/49-the-imp...
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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...
The 5 members of the editorial board posing with copies of the journal.
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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.
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🎙️ @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...
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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...
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AI is breaking down academia's language barriers and that is a good thing - Universitetsläraren
This text was written with AI assistance. The arguments are mine, the thinking is mine, the experience is mine. The language was shaped with Claude. If that makes you uncomfortable, this piece is for ...
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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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Peter Wallensteen lecture 2026 – When Peace Unravels: Status Recognition and the Return of Great Power Conflicts – Department of Peace and Conflict Research – Uppsala University
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
📢 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...
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
📢 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/...
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
🎙️ 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...
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
We are thrilled to co-host the 2026 #Data4Peace Conference in June. Call for proposals is now open! 👇
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The UN is under growing pressure, politically, financially, and institutionally. In this sharp analysis for Utrikesmagasinet, Isak Svensson examines how respect for the UN Charter is eroding, how major powers bypass the organization, and what this means for the future. 👇 www.ui.se/utrikesmagas...
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FN under hård attack
FN angrips på flera fronter. Ryssland och USA frångår dess principer, president Trump har ett konkurrerande organ och finansiell kollaps hotar.
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
We congratulate Alexandre Raffoul on successfully defending his thesis “The Logics of Multi-Ethnic Coalitions: Power-Sharing, Party Systems, and Ethnic Conflict Management”. Alexandre has provided a helpful summary of the findings and their implications: www.uu.se/en/departmen...
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
We are advertising 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 🗓️ Apply by 25 March 2026 👉 Full details and application instructions: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
📢 We’re Hiring a Professor of Peace and Conflict Research! ⬇️ We are looking for an internationally recognized academic to join our ambitious and supportive research community. 📍 Location: Uppsala, Sweden 📆 Application deadline: 26 March 🔗 Apply / Learn more: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
In an interview for Newsweek, Professor Ashok Swain discusses Trump's plans for Greenland: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXdF... @ashoswai.bsky.social
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What Trump Is Really Up to With His Greenland Conquest
YouTube video by Newsweek
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Kenya’s 2022 election proved significantly less violent than previous elections. A paper by Kristine Höglund, Patrick Mutahi from CHRIPS and Emma Elfversson looks at how changes in police conduct contributed to the reduction in violence. Read more. 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
🎙️ In our latest podcast episode, Anders Themnér discusses his research into student-led violence in sub-Saharan Africa. What are the patterns and warning signs of such violence? Should all universities be mindful of these signs? 🎧 Podbean: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-n9bck-...
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
🎓 Today, our research community had the joy of hearing Maxine Leis impressive defence of her dissertation ‘Signals of Violence, Patterns of Flight: Predicting and Explaining Conflict-Related Mobility’. Please join us in congratulating Maxine! Read 60-page summary (kappa): urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🚨 Call for Applications: Claude Ake Visiting Chair 2026 An exciting opportunity for senior African scholars conducting research on peace, conflict, democracy, and human rights. 🗓️ Application deadline: 1 February 2026 🔗 Learn more & apply: nai.uu.se/claudeake
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Claude Ake Visiting Chair - The Nordic Africa Institute
For senior scholars from African universities.
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
In a piece for Mänsklig Säkerhet, @isaksvensson.bsky.social looks back at 10 events that shaped our world in 2025. 👇 Read (in Swedish): manskligsakerhet.se/2025/12/18/k...
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Krig och fred under 2025: de tio viktigaste händelserna
Föredrag av Isak Svensson vid Senioruniversitetet i Uppsala, december 2025 1.Vapenvilan i Gaza.  Kriget rasade under de första tre kvartalen av 2025 och orsakade enormt mänskligt lidande...
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🎙️ For our latest podcast, we had the pleasure of talking to Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo. Tapping into her experience as a Ghanaian scholar and activist, we discuss feminism, activism, and potential pitfalls in academic collaborations. 🎧 Listen: PodBean: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-5zt2r...
Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Today we celebrated the 40th anniversary of our PhD program. The faculty board took the formal decision on 14 November 1985. We are proud of all the amazing individuals who have earned their doctorate at the DPCR over the years and look forward to our 70th thesis defence in January!
Peter Wallenstee, Ashok Swain and Desirée NilssonDPCR Staff kitchen filled to the brim. Peter Wallensteen gives a speach.
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
💡 Ashok Swain and Prakash Kashwan (Brandeis University) call on India’s decision-makers to combat domestic climate inequalities. 👇 360info.org/indias-clima...
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India’s climate diplomacy must account for domestic inequalities - 360
Economic liberalization in India has shifted the emissions burden from more equal and developed states to less equal ones. This needs to change. Climate negotiators, researchers, and activists converg...
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
In an article for the Telegraph, Magnus Öberg and Therese Pettersson, both from @ucdp.bsky.social, discuss how indirect deaths from war far exceed the fatalities recorded in conflict datasets. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
UCDP Reserach Engineer Mert Can Yilmaz joined a panel on responsible use of AI at the Korean Embassy in Stockholm, where he addressed AI ethics and concerns about military applications. The MIKTA event was organised by the embassies of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey, and Australia.
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This week, Isak Svensson and Peter Wallensteen launched their new book The Peacemaking Mandate - Nordic Experiences in International Mediation. The launch event in Stockholm was organised with the Folke Bernadotte Academy. Read more: www.cambridge.org/core/books/p... 📷: Stefie Mayazi (FBA)
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Should academics also be visionary storytellers, pointing to what is possible? The Claude Ake Memorial lecture by Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo offered food for thought, a much-needed injection of hope and an urgent call to action. The Nordic Africa Institute co-organised the lecture with us.
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
We’re thrilled to welcome Marta Lindström, who has joined us as a PhD student for the research project Political Violence in Democracies, led by Hanne Fjelde. We asked Marta to tell us more about her project: www.uu.se/en/departmen...
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
💃 At Saturday’s festive ball, our students from Uppsala Peace and Development Students’ Association (UPaD) had the pleasure of welcoming their counterparts from Föreningen för Freds-och Konfliktvetenskap (FFK) at Lund University. lsak Svensson and Emma Elfversson gave greetings from staff.
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🧠 Can mindfulness help reduce polarisation in politics? Karen Brounéus is investigating this question in the study "Mindfulness i Riksdagen" (Mindfulness in the Swedish Parliament) in collaboration with Camilla Sköld and Otto Simonsson, both of Karolinska Institutet. 👉 www.uu.se/en/news/2025...
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Mindfulness as a tool to reduce political polarisation - Uppsala University
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
🎉 UCDP Research Coordinator Therese Pettersson has been named to Clarivate’s 2025 “Highly Cited Researchers” list. This is likely the first time a researcher from our department has received this distinction. Congratulations Therese and the entire @ucdp.bsky.social team on this achievement! 💪
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🎙️ Yesterday, on Swedish Radio P1, Johan Brosché debated Benjamin Dousa, Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade, on whether Sweden should increase the pressure on the UAE to end their support for the Sudanese RFS-Militia. 👇 www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/deba...
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Debatt: Ska Sverige sätta mer press på Förenade arabemiraten? - P1 Morgon
Forskare menar att Sverige bör överväga att stoppa exporten av krigsmateriel till Förenade arabemiraten – det land som svenska försvarsföretag sålde allra ...
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Following her promotion to Professor in the spring, Desirée Nilsson today gave her inaugural lecture titled Who gets to participate in peace processes? (Vem får vara med i fredsprocesser?) Thank you, Professor Nilsson, for an excellent lecture and congratulations once more on your promotion! 💐
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
You can now register for this year’s Claude Ake Memorial Lecture . Professor Ampofo is a prominent scholar and activist from Ghana. She is a wonderful speaker, who offers unique insights. A warm welcome to join us on 2 December in Uppsala and online! nai.uu.se/claudeake2025 👇
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Claude Ake Memorial Lecture Peacemaking and Healing Strategies : Chronicling Stories of Kindness and Justice Work - Uppsala University
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
At the 2nd International Peace Forum in Granada, Spain, Professor Ashok Swain spoke about the importance of peace and peace education. He also participated in a high-level roundtable on security, democracy, and peacebuilding. For his work in peace education, the organisers gifted him a portrait.
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Today, we commemorate the 80th #anniversary of the #UN Charter coming into force. Professor @ashoswai.bsky.social has written an #analysis on the current state of the UN and the potential for reform: scroll.in/article/1087... #UNDay
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The United Nations is 80. It has never been more fragile – or so necessary
The institution has flaws, inertia and bureaucratic bottlenecks. But in a world of cascading crises and rising fragmentation, there is no substitute to it.
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The Violence & Impacts Early-Warning System @viewsforecasting.org is a great example of using AI to promote #peace. Director Håvard Hegre discusses #AI and VIEWS' current predictions for the war in #Ukraine in an interview for Helsingin Sanomat, Finland’s biggest Newspaper: www.hs.fi/maailma/art-...
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Tekoäly | Tekoäly ennustaa sodan hiipuvan Ukrainassa
Ukrainan sotatoimissa tekoälyllä on jo merkittävä rooli. Tulevaisuudessa sitä voitaneen hyödyntää myös rauhanrakennuksessa.
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
In his analysis of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, Professor Peter Wallensteen finds it noteworthy that Maria Corina Machado was nominated for the prize by a number of Republican US Senators. Read the analysis: www.uu.se/en/departmen...
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
"The choice of a Venezuelan opposition leader was both safe and smart. It avoided political confrontation while reaffirming the prize’s symbolic defense of democratic ideals." Professor @ashoswai.bsky.social comments on the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. 👇 scroll.in/article/1087...
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A safe bet for freedom: Why the Nobel committee chose María Corina Machado for the peace prize
The award to Machado reinforces the contention that democracy is not a finished project – it must be defended, sometimes at great cost.
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Our department has been engaged, since last year, in establishing Italy’s first Peace School in Naples. Today, during the inauguration ceremony, Professor @ashoswai.bsky.social delivered a talk titled “The World Needs Peace Now More Than Ever.”
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
In an interview for Expressen, UCDP Research Coordinator Therese Petterson explains why the UCDP’s current death toll in the war in Gaza of 61,400 is likely to be revised upward significantly, as more information becomes available. 👇 www.expressen.se/nyheter/sver... @ucdp.bsky.social
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Räknar antalet döda i Gaza: ”Siffran kommer skrivas upp”
Dödstalen i Gaza stiger. Samtidigt är det svårt att verifiera uppgifterna som kommer från det palestinska hälsoministeriet. Vid Uppsala universitet kartlägger flera forskare hur många som dött i krige...
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
🌍 Who will receive the Nobel Peace Prize this year? The annual predictions and analysis by Professor @isaksvensson.bsky.social is now available in Utrikesmagasinet. 👇 (in Swedish) www.ui.se/utrikesmagas...
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Nej, Trump får inte Nobels fredspris i år
Den 10/10 vet vi vem som får Nobels fredspris. Det blir inte Trump fastän han gärna vill. Troligare någon som arbetar för fred i Mellanöstern.
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