Lecturer

Emma Elfversson

Institute: Department of Government, Uppsala University
Research area: Conflict resolution, Peace and inclusive societies
Research region: Africa

About

I am Associate Professor (Docent) and work on issues spanning development studies, comparative politics and peace research. I currently lead a large research project exploring The Continuation of Conflict-related Violence in Postwar Cities. Other current research investigates community policing in urban and rural areas (focusing on Kenya), land rights and climate resilience strategies (Kenya), and the social networks of urban mediators (Liberia). Twitter: @emmaelfversson.


Publications

Providing security or protecting interests? Government interventions in violent communal conflicts in Africa

Journal of Peace Research
Peace from below: Governance and peacebuilding in Kerio Valley, Kenya

The Journal of Modern African Studies
Home of last resort: Urban land conflict and the Nubians in Kibera, Kenya

Urban Studies
Patterns and Drivers of Communal Conflict in Kenya

The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity
Patterns and Drivers of Communal Conflict in Kenya

The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity
Do Local Power-Sharing Deals Reduce Ethnopolitical Hostility? The Effects of ‘Negotiated Democracy’ in a Devolved Kenya

Ethnopolitics
Violence in the city that belongs to no one: urban distinctiveness and interconnected insecurities in Nairobi (Kenya)

Conflict, Security & Development
Urban peacekeeping under siege: attacks on African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu, 2007–2009

Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal
The Spatiality of Violence in Post-war Cities

Uncategorized
The Political Conditions for Local Peacemaking: A Comparative Study of Communal Conflict Resolution in Kenya

Comparative Political Studies
Open Access: Introduction

The Spatiality of Violence in Post-war Cities
The pursuit of inclusion: Conditions for civil society inclusion in peace processes in communal conflicts in Kenya

Cooperation and Conflict
Are armed conflicts becoming more urban?

Cities
Contesting the growing city? Forms of urban growth and consequences for communal violence

Political Geography
The bridge to violence – Mapping and understanding conflict-related violence in postwar Mitrovica

Journal of Peace Research
Peace in cities, peace through cities? Theorising and exploring geographies of peace in violently contested cities

Peacebuilding
The urban-rural divide in police trust: insights from Kenya

Policing and Society
Postwar cities: Conceptualizing and mapping the research agenda

Political Geography
Urban growth, resilience, and violence

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Urban restructuring and the reproduction of spaces of violence in Belfast

Peacebuilding