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Nina Wilén, guest researcher at the Department of Political Science, has together with Bert Ingelaere at the University of Antwerpen published the article "War-torn Congo has been called the “rape capital of the world.” Here is how fighters think about sexual violence." "Here's what we've missed until now: How do rebels think about sexual violence? That's what we asked former rebels in Congo". Nin

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nina-wilen-how-rebels-think-about-sexual-violence - 2025-11-05

Annika Björkdahl och Johanna Mannergren Selimovic have published the article "Feeling Silence in a Place of Pain" in International Feminist Journal of Politics. The article describes the denial of war-time wrapes in the small town of Višegrad in eastern Bosnien-Herzegovina. "What are we doing here? We are here to experience how a place of pain is layered by silences that oppress, erase and deny, a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/silence-deny-war-time-wrape - 2025-11-05

The Swedish Research Council has decided that the Kerstin Hesselgren professorial chair for 2019 will be held by Robyn Eckersley, professor of Policitical Science at the University of Melbourne Australia. During her time in Sweden she will work at the Department of Political Science at Lund University. Full article (in Swedish) at The Swedish Research Council web site: Beslut om Kerstin Hesselgren

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/robyn-eckersley-lund-guest-professor-2019 - 2025-11-05

Fabio Cristiano, Lund University, and Emilio Distretti, London Metropolitan University, have co-authored the article “Along the Lines of the Occupation: Playing at Diminished Reality in East Jerusalem” for the journal Conflict and Society. Abstract:Augmented reality enables video game experiences that are increasingly immersive. For its focus on walking and exploration, Niantic’s location-based vi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/article-explores-pokemon-go-imaginary-east-jerusalem - 2025-11-05

The notification of the date of the defence and "posting" of Ivan Gusics thesis "War, peace & the city: urban conflict over peace(s) in the postwar cities of Belfast, Mitrovica, and Mostar." was held on Thursday, September 21, at 3:15 PM in Edens lobby. The academic tradition of nailing ones thesis to a board ("spikning" in Swedish) means that the thesis is made available to the public, who should

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ivan-gusics-doctoral-thesis-posted - 2025-11-05

Hanna Bäck, professor of political science, has published the article "Veto player theory and reform making in Western Europe" in European Journal of Political Research. The article focuses on governments' capacity to implement policy reforms, and builds on a new comparative data set on about 5,600 important economic reform measures undertaken in 13 Western European countries. Link to articleHanna

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-governments-capacity-implement-reform - 2025-11-05

Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt have authored the chapter “Political Science Perspectives” (in Swedish) in a new textbook for middle- and junior high school teacher students, published by Gleerups. Read a sample of the book here at the Gleerup web siteHanna Bäck's personal web page.Roxanna Sjöstedt's personal web page.  Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-textbook-social-sciences-teachers-grade-4-9 - 2025-11-05

Hanna Bäck has co-authored the chapter "No More Political Insiders? Ministerial Selection in Sweden During the Post-WWII period" which was published recently in a book on technocratic ministers in the European countries. The chapter investigates Swedish ministers' background and shows that most ministers have had a solid political background, and that the share of "technocrats" has not increased s

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/most-swedish-ministers-have-had-solid-political-background - 2025-11-05

The Department of Political Science is co-hosting the 2017 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance held at Lucsus in October. The conference is part of the global series organised by the Earth System Governance Project. The conference theme Allocation and access in a warming and increasingly unequal world will be addressed in five thematic streams: Environmental justice in earth system governan

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/full-programme-esg-conference-announced-fariborz-zelli-reflects-importance-conference - 2025-11-05

Carlo Knotz, who defended his dissertation "Getting Tough on Unemployment" at the Department of Political Science in Lund in December 2016, has been awarded the 2017 Research Prize by the Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds. He shares the prize with Patrik Vulkan at the University of Gothenburg.The prize sum of 75 000 SEK is shared equally between the prize winners.The SO research p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/knotz-awarded-research-prize - 2025-11-05

Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have recently published an article entitled 'Ontological Security and the Limits to a Common World: Subaltern Pasts and the Inner-Worldliness of the Tablighi Jama'at' in Postcolonial Studies. The article attends to the contested notions of transnationalism, globality and ontological security that the Islamic revivalist movement Tablighi Jama'at stands for and att

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-svensson-transnationalism-and-ontological-security - 2025-11-05

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) has granted 35,1 million SEK to the 6 year research programme "Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies". The programme is led by professor Håkan Johansson at the School of Social Work at LU. Participants from the Department of Political Science are Niklas Altermark, Sara Kalm and Anders

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-programme-civil-society-elites - 2025-11-05

Between Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 October, The Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (LUCASN) will be hosting Sweden’s very first international conference in Critical Animal Studies. As co-founders of LUCASN, Jana Canavan and Kurtis Boyer from the Political Science Department are co-organisers of the conference. The conference will take place at the Pufendorf Institute. Critical Animal

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedens-first-international-critical-animal-studies-conference-lund - 2025-11-05

Jakob Skovgaard has published the article “The Role of Finance Ministries in Environmental Policy Making: The case of European Union Emissions Trading System reform in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands” in the journal “Environmental Policy and Governance”. The article concerns the role of finance ministries on the Danish, Dutch and German government positions on the reform of the EU’s greenhous

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-finance-ministries-and-environmental-policy-making - 2025-11-05

Solen strålar med överflödande kraft mot jorden. Kan den bli vår räddare i klimatnöden? På universitetet jagas den perfekta solcellen på nya banbrytande sätt. Att dyrka solen är en svensk nationalsport och i religionshistorien så betyder solen liv och makt – från faraonernas tid till dagens wiccahäxor i de skånska skogarna. Länkar till artiklarna i temat hittas nedan. LUM 2 / 2021 LUM 2 2021 (PDF

https://www.lu.se/artikel/tema-solkraft - 2025-11-06

Fiskar kan ändra både beteende och utseende när de blir stressade. Den utlösande faktorn kan vara hotet att bli uppäten av en rovfisk, men rester av antidepressiva läkemedel i vattnet kan få liknande effekt på fiskarna, enligt en ny avhandling vid Lunds universitet. Jerker Vinterstare har studerat fiskarten ruda. I sin avhandling visar han på att rester av antidepressiva läkemedel i vattnet kan le

https://www.lu.se/artikel/fiskars-beteende-och-utseende-paverkas-av-stress - 2025-11-06

I ett nytt pilotprojekt undersöker forskare från Lunds universitet tillsammans med Marint centrum i Simrishamn hur mycket mikroplaster tumlare och sälar från svenska vatten har i sig och hur detta i förlängningen påverkar djurens hälsa. Inom två veckor hoppas man ha de första svaren. På labbet i Lund ligger rödbruna tarmar från sälar och valar (tumlare) från Sveriges kuster i olika påsar. Proverna

https://www.lu.se/artikel/forskare-i-lund-pa-jakt-efter-mikroplaster-i-valar-och-salar-fran-svenska-vatten - 2025-11-06

Forskare vid Lunds universitet och Stockholms universitet kan ha löst gåtan om varför ett foster också låg i Peder Winstrups kista i Domkyrkan i Lund. DNA från biskopen och fostret har tillsammans med en utredning av släktskapsförhållandena visat att fostret troligen var biskopens egen sonson. Något framträder mellan biskopen Peder Winstrups bägge underben. Att döma av röntgenbilden är det frågan

https://www.lu.se/artikel/fostret-i-biskop-peder-winstrups-kista-kan-ha-fatt-sin-forklaring - 2025-11-06

Ett internationellt forskarteam har hittat en ny metod att förutsäga hela pollensäsonger, något som kan hjälpa sjukvård och allergiker att planera för minskade besvär. Något liknande verktyg har inte använts inom området tidigare. Samtidigt visar forskarna att framtidens pollensäsonger kan bli 60 procent svårare på grund av klimatförändringen. Våren är äntligen här och med den kommer sol, värme oc

https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-metod-forutsager-hur-svar-sasongen-blir-graspollenallergiker - 2025-11-06

Kan man ”fejka” risk management? Och när kan riskstyrning göra skillnad – på strategisk nivå? Detta är frågor som tas upp i en nyligen släppt bok – Empowered Enterprise Risk Management: Theory and Practice (Wiley & Sons, 2021). Författare är Håkan Jankensgård, docent på Ekonomihögskolan vid Lunds universitet, och Petter Kapstad, senior specialist inom enterprise risk management (ERM) och verksam v

https://www.lu.se/artikel/sa-bor-foretag-arbeta-med-riskstyrning-lat-papperstigern-forvandlas-till-en-radar - 2025-11-06