Kristine Höglund
Professor at Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 63 87
- E-mail:
- Kristine.Hoglund@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
Areas of expertise include the causes of peace; the dynamics of peace processes, peacebuilding and transitional justice; and the causes and consequences of electoral violence.
Research
Areas of expertise include the causes of peace; the dynamics of peace processes, peacebuilding and transitional justice; and the causes and consequences of electoral violence. I currently direct two research projects: Urban-rural dynamics of community-based conflict management (Formas), and Alliances of Anarchy: Actor Constellations and Patterns of Electoral Violence (VR). I am also involved in two collaborative projects: "Vulnerable Cities: Conflict Prevention in Urban Planning, Urban Regeneration & Urban Governance" and "The Urban Dilemma: Urbanization and Ethnocommunal Conflict."
I recently concluded two projects: The Institutional Roots of Electoral Violence and "The Causes of Peace."
Recent Blog Posts, Op Eds and Popular Science Articles
Brosché, Johan & Kristine Höglund, 2021. Zambians go to elections amid turmoil. What’s at stake. The Conversation, August 9
Brosché, Johan, Hanne Fjelde, & Kristine Höglund, 2020. “How History Explains Election Violence: Kenya and Zambia Tell the Story.” The Conversation, February 17
Höglund, Kristine, Emma Elfversson, & Ivan Gusic, 2020. “The Promise and Perils of Postwar Cities.” January 24.
Elfversson, Emma, Kristine Höglund, & Anders Sjögren, 2017. ”Djup splittring i Kenya efter valet.” Mänsklig Säkerhet, December 20.
Brosché, Johan, Kristine Höglund, & Sebastian van Baalen, 2017. ”Jasaffären i Botswana strider mot Sveriges mål” Svenska Dagbladet, March 23. Updated and republished in Mänsklig säkerhet, June 20.
Elfversson, Emma & Kristine Höglund, 2017. “Home of Last Resort: Fighting over Land in Kibera’s Slum” Urban Studies Blog, April 24.
Johan Brosché & Kristine Höglund, 2017. “A “Zone of Peace” in Southern Africa: Exploring the Causes of Peace." Peace News, March 11.
Fjelde, Hanne & Kristine Höglund, 2016. “Here’s One Way to Prevent Electoral Violence.” Monkey Cage, April 27.
Fjelde, Hanne & Kristine Höglund, 2016. ”Våld vid valurnorna – vad beror det på?” Mänsklig säkerhet, June 1.
Brosché, Johan and Kristine Höglund, 2016. “Hur ska vi förstå det fredliga Malawi?” (How Should We Understand Malawi’s Peace?). Mänsklig säkerhet, 2016-02-12.
Publications
Selection of publications
- The burden of war widows: gendered consequences of war and peace-building in Sri Lanka (2023)
- The urban-rural divide in police trust: insights from Kenya (2023)
- Contesting the growing city? (2023)
- Introducing the Deadly Electoral Conflict Dataset (DECO) (2022)
- Electoral violence (2020)
- “So, the Killings Continued” (2019)
- Home of last resort (2018)
- The Role of the External in Local Peacebuilding (2018)
- Peacebuilding and Friction: Global and Local Encounters in Post Conflict Societies. (2016)
- Crisis of governance in South Sudan (2016)
- Electoral Institutions and Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa (2016)
- Electoral Violence: The Emergence of a Research Field (2016)
- Precarious Peacebuilding (2013)
- Friction and the Pursuit of Justice in Post-war Sri Lanka (2013)
- Om krig och fred (2012)
- Understanding Peace Research (2011)
- Peace Negotiations in the Shadow of Violence (2008)
Recent publications
- Insecurity and Conflict Management in Urban Slums: Findings from a Household Survey in Kawangware and Korogocho, Nairobi (2024)
- Urban Kenyans mistrust police even more than rural residents do: study sets out why it matters (2024)
- The burden of war widows: gendered consequences of war and peace-building in Sri Lanka (2023)
- The urban-rural divide in police trust: insights from Kenya (2023)
- Urban growth, resilience, and violence (2023)
All publications
Articles
- The burden of war widows: gendered consequences of war and peace-building in Sri Lanka (2023)
- The urban-rural divide in police trust: insights from Kenya (2023)
- Urban growth, resilience, and violence (2023)
- Contesting the growing city? (2023)
- Introducing the Deadly Electoral Conflict Dataset (DECO) (2022)
- Are armed conflicts becoming more urban? (2021)
- Autonomous Peace? (2021)
- Electoral violence (2020)
- Electoral violence and the legacy of authoritarian rule in Kenya and Zambia (2020)
- The spatiality of violence in post-war cities (2019)
- Violence in the city that belongs to no one (2019)
- Testimony Under Threat (2019)
- “So, the Killings Continued” (2019)
- Home of last resort (2018)
- The Role of the External in Local Peacebuilding (2018)
- Crisis of governance in South Sudan (2016)
- Electoral Institutions and Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa (2016)
- Electoral Violence: The Emergence of a Research Field (2016)
- When the Going Gets Tough… Monitoring Missions and a Changing Conflict Environment in Sri Lanka, 2002–2008 (2015)
- Local violence and politics in KwaZulu-Natal: perceptions of agency in a post-conflict society (2015)
- Precarious Peacebuilding (2013)
- Fredslobotomi eller hållbar demokrati? (2013)
- Friction and the Pursuit of Justice in Post-war Sri Lanka (2013)
- Including Peace (2013)
- Hybrid Peace Governance and Illiberal Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka (2012)
- Obstacles to Monitoring (2011)
- Priset för demokrati får inte bli våldsamma val (2011)
- Toward Electoral Security (2011)
- Winning the peace (2011)
- Should I Stay or Should I Go? (2011)
- Schizophrenic Soothers (2011)
- Beyond the absence of war (2010)
- Beyond the Absence of War (2010)
- Electoral Violence in Conflict-Ridden Societies (2009)
- The Predicament of Elections in War-Torn Societies (2009)
- The predicament of elections in war-torn societies (2009)
- Paying the Price for Patronage (2009)
- Mediating between tigers and lions (2009)
- 'Damned if you do, and damned if you don’t': nordic involvement and third-party neutrality in Sri Lanka (2008)
- Reconciliation through sports? The case of South Africa (2008)
- Sverige och krishantering: Erfarenheter från marsupploppen i Kosovo 2004 (2007)
- Managing Violent Crisis: Swedish Peacekeeping and the 2004 Ethnic Violence in Kosovo (2007)
- "Sticking one's neck out" (2006)
- Violencia y negociaciones de paz (2005)
- Violence and the Peace Process in Sri Lanka (2005)
- The Peace Process in Sri Lanka (2002)
Books
- The Spatiality of Violence in Post-war Cities (2020)
- Den våldsamma staden (2020)
- Om krig och fred: En introduktion till freds- och konfliktstudier (2017)
- Peacebuilding and Friction: Global and Local Encounters in Post Conflict Societies. (2016)
- Om krig och fred (2012)
- Building peace, creating conflict? (2011)
- Understanding Peace Research (2011)
- Post-War Reconstruction in Sri Lanka (2010)
- Peace Negotiations in the Shadow of Violence (2008)
Chapters
- Violence and Peace Processes (2022)
- Ethnic Politics and Elite Competition (2018)
- Om studiet av krig och fred (2017)
- Riek Machar: Warlord-Doctor in South Sudan (2017)
- Konfliktanalys (2017)
- Conclusions: Peacebuilding and the Significance of Friction (2016)
- Introduction: Peacebuilding through the Lens of Friction (2016)
- När val leder till konflikt (2016)
- The Peace Triangle: Capturing Peace After Military Victory (2016)
- Armed Conflict and Space: Exploring Urban–Rural Patterns of Violence (2016)
- Friction over Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka: Actors in Local-Global Encounters (2016)
- The Peace Triangle (2016)
- The diversity of peace and war in Africa (2015)
- Making Peace Through Negotiation (2013)
- Om studiet av krig och fred (2012)
- Violence in the South African Peace Process (2012)
- Konfliktanalys (2012)
- Building Peace, Creating Conflict? (2011)
- Tactics in Negotiations between States and Extremists (2011)
- Comparative Field Research in War-Torn Societies (2011)
- Fallacies of the Peace Ownership Approach (2011)
- Doing Empirical Peace Research (2011)
- Improving Information Gathering and Evaluation (2011)
- International Negotiation (2009)
- Elections and Violence in Sri Lanka: Understanding Variation across Three Parliamentary Elections (2009)
- Mediating between Tigers and Lions (2009)
- Violence in War-to-Democracy Transitions (2008)
- Violence by the State: Official Spoilers and Their Allies (2006)
Conferences
- Schizophrenic Soothers (2008)
- Just Peace, or Just Peace? (2007)
- The Predicament of Elections in War-Torn Societies (2007)
Reports
- Insecurity and Conflict Management in Urban Slums: Findings from a Household Survey in Kawangware and Korogocho, Nairobi (2024)
- Peace agreements in the 1990s – what are the outcomes 20 years later? (2015)
- States in Armed Conflict 2001 (2002)
- Krig och fred på Sri Lanka (2002)
- States in Armed Conflict 2000 (2001)
- Violence – Catalyst or Obstacle to Conflict Resolution? (2001)
Other
- Urban Kenyans mistrust police even more than rural residents do: study sets out why it matters (2024)
- Why Kenya wants to send police to Haiti and prospects for success (2023)
- Martha Karua is taking centre stage in Kenya’s elections: what it means for women in politics (2022)
- The struggle for gender-equal representation: The 2022 election in Kenya (2022)
- Zambians go to elections amid turmoil. What’s at stake (2021)
- Have cities become the main battlegrounds in armed conflicts? (2021)
- The promise and perils of postwar cities (2020)
- A ’Zone of Peace’ in Southern Africa: Exploring the Causes of Peace (2017)
- Zambia eroding (2017)
- Jasaffären i Botswana strider mot Sveriges mål (Selling JAS to Botswana goes against Sweden’s Foreign Policy Goals) (2017)
- Home of Last Resort: Fighting over Land in Kibera's Slum (2017)
- Djup splittring i Kenya efter valet (2017)
- Hur ska vi förstå det fredliga Malawi? (How Should We Understand Malawi’s Peace?) (2016)
- Here's One Way to Prevent Electoral Violence (2016)
- Våld vid valurnorna - vad beror det på? (2016)
- Nio punkter för global fred (Nine Points for Global Peace) (2015)
- Strategies to Prevent and Manage Electoral Violence (2010)
