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- Bjarnegård, Elin, 1976-, et al.
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Gender, peace and armed conflict
- 2015
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Ingår i: SIPRI Yearbook 2015. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780198737810 ; , s. 101-109
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Brosché, Johan, 1978-, et al.
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Nio punkter för global fred (Nine Points for Global Peace)
- 2015
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Insatserna för global fred måste stärkas skriver tolv företrädare för institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning apropå att världens ledare samlas i dag i New York för att anta 17 nya globala mål för en bättre värld och mer hållbar utveckling.
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- Brounéus, Karen, 1973-, et al.
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The bumpy road of peace research: reflections on sharing mistakes in fieldwork
- 2022
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Ingår i: Third World Quarterly. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0143-6597 .- 1360-2241. ; , s. 1-9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As medicine strives to find cures to illness, peace researchers strive to find cures for war-broken societies. To this end, we depend on learning from people who have survived political violence, in sensitive conflict settings. There is increasing awareness of the imperative of ethical reflection before, during and after ‘fieldwork’. However, the rocky road of doing the actual fieldwork in conflict settings is seldom part of our polished articles. The messiness, the ethical dilemmas, our hesitations, mistakes, regrets remain hidden. We argue this needs to change. We believe it is time for conflict-research to join the novel self-reflexive footsteps of neuroscience and psychology, and build a research culture of reflection and honesty, which includes the sharing of mistakes. If not, we will inevitably continue making the same mistakes over and over again. Reflexive honesty will make our research sustainable ethically, scientifically, and financially. Our aim with this article is to open such a conversation by sharing some recent experiences of fieldwork in Nepal: what went well, what we did wrong, and what we learned in this process. Hopefully, by sharing our lessons learned we can together, in time, make conflict research safer, richer, and more meaningful – for everyone involved.
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- Brounéus, Karen, 1973-, et al.
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The burden of war widows: gendered consequences of war and peace-building in Sri Lanka
- 2023
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Ingår i: Third World Quarterly. - 0143-6597 .- 1360-2241. ; , s. 1-17
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research shows that war affects various groups of survivors differently, yet the severe consequences faced by war widows are often overlooked. Combining insights from fieldwork in Sri Lanka with secondary sources, we conclude that the time is ripe for the daunting challenges of war widows to be brought into the limelight. We argue that widowhood after war is conditioned both by the post-war context and society’s gendered constructions. The social expectations that follow pose exceptional trials in everyday life for war widows globally. As an important case and illustrative example, we analyse Sri Lanka: a decade ago emerging from civil war; today, in dire need of economic and political transformation. We demonstrate how war widows are caught in the crossfire of demographic change, post-war insecurities, economic hardship, and gender discriminating norms and traditions. This unseen group of survivors play a critical role for the prospects for economic, social and political development in the transition from war to peace, in Sri Lanka and beyond. We conclude by calling for a concerted effort wherein research and policy come together to outline a new research and policy agenda with the aim of lessening the burden of war widows.
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- Brounéus, Karen, 1973-, et al.
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The Gendered Links between War-Related Trauma and Attitudes to Peace : Exploring Survey Data from Guatemala, Nepal, and Northern Ireland
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- While some studies suggest that women hold more peaceful attitudes than man, few studies have explored this question in the context of post-conflict countries. We argue that women, in this context, may in fact hold more negative views regarding attitudes of relevance for peacebuilding, for three reasons. First, the ways in which women are negatively affected by armed conflict are generally not sufficiently prioritized in the post-conflict period. Second, women and men are often subjected to different types of violence during armed conflict and the types of violence affecting women may to a larger extent carry stigma. Third, women are more likely to develop PTSD after traumatic events. These three factors all lead us to expect women to hold more negative towards peacebuilding. We explore these interconnections using data from a survey fielded in three post-conflict countries: Guatemala, Nepal, and Northern Ireland. Our preliminary analysis indicates support for our proposition, as women, for instance, are less positive than men towards truth-telling initiatives, less willing to allow refugees and ex-combatants return to their homes, and less likely to support amnesties.
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- Brounéus, Karen, 1973-, et al.
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Women, peace and insecurity : The risks of peacebuilding in everyday life for women in Sri Lanka and Nepal
- 2024
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Ingår i: PLOS ONE. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1932-6203. ; 19:5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Truth telling processes, initiatives to prosecute war-time perpetrators, and ex-combatant reintegration are examples of common peacebuilding practices after war. Yet, little is known of how women are affected by peacebuilding initiatives such as these, or how they perceive these initiatives for peace. For many women, peace after war does not bring peace to everyday life; research shows that domestic violence increases during and after war. In addition, some peacebuilding measures have been found to increase risk and insecurity, not least for women. To better understand the interconnections between gender and post-conflict attitudes to peacebuilding, we asked 2,041 women and men in Sri Lanka and Nepal of their views on post-war peace initiatives. In line with our expectations, we find that women are more skeptical than men towards peacebuilding measures that involve increased risk in everyday life, such as truth-telling and coexisting with former adversaries and warring groups reintegrating in local communities. There are no gender differences pertaining to peacebuilding initiatives that take place far away at the national level, for example, concerning accountability or, in the case of Nepal, the peace agreement. Our findings suggest that international peacebuilding practice is blind to the everyday insecurities of women after war. That a basic gendered lens is missing from most peacebuilding designs is both alarming and deeply troubling, but identifying this critical aspect provides the opportunity for imperative change. By shedding light on the challenges women face after war, we hope this article contributes to finding ways to mitigate unknown and unintended side-effects of peacebuilding efforts, and thereby to the development of better, evidence-based peacebuilding practice–of benefit to both men and women.
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- Dalmo, Erika, et al.
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Targeting SOX2 in glioblastoma cells reveals heterogeneity in SOX2 dependency
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Glioblastoma (GBM) is a lethal disease with no curative treatment. SOX2 is a stem cell transcription factor which is widely expressed across human GBM tumors. Downregulation of SOX2 inhibits tumor formation and its depletion leads to a complete stop of cell proliferation. Despite its known important role in GBM, there is a lack of SOX2 overexpression studies in human GBM cells cultured under stem cell conditions. Previous work in our lab suggests that SOX2 levels need to be precisely maintained for GBM cells to thrive. In this project, we have investigated how altered SOX2 expression affects primary human GBM lines. We found that elevated SOX2 expression inhibited proliferation in a dose-dependent manner in three out of four GBM cell lines. Global gene expression in the resistant line was shifted towards that of the proliferation-inhibited lines upon SOX2 induction. However, SOX2 induction also led to an increase in a GBM stem cell injury response phenotype, which was not present in proliferation-inhibited lines. Furthermore, CRISPR/Cas9-mediated SOX2 knockout revealed a SOX2 independence in the resistant cell line, where SOX2-negative cells could be propagated both in vitro and in vivo.
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- Duque-Salazar, Juan Diego, et al.
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Implementing Gender Provisions : A Study of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro in the Philippines
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Negotiation. - : Brill Nijhoff. - 1382-340X .- 1571-8069. ; 28:2, s. 306-337
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While scholars on gender provisions have focused on why and how this type of peace agreement clause gets incorporated, few studies have sought to improve our understanding of the implementation process. Addressing this gap empirically, this study utilizes unique interview material to analyze the initial stages of realizing the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro in the Philippines. The article bridges and expands on key theoretical insights based on three explanations suggested by previous research: 1) state capacity on promoting gender equality; 2) the mobilization of women's organizations; and 3) gender awareness of international actors. We find that the strategic actions of women's organizations combined with state capacity accelerated the implementation. However, their influence was dependent on whether or not the government prioritized the gender provisions, and whether international actors provided financial support to the agreement infrastructure.
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