Honorary Professor Karin Aggestam

Karin Aggestam is professor in Political Science at Lund University and holds the Samuel Pufendorf Chair 2016-2020 (Torsten Söderberg Foundation & Ragnar Söderberg Foundation). 

Researcher biography

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2017

1. Gendering diplomacy and international negotiation (2017), co-edited with Ann Towns. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
2. Where are the women as peace mediation? (2017), with Isak Svensson, in Gendering diplomacy and international negotiation (2017), Karin Aggestam & Ann Towns, eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
3. Om Krig och Fred [On War and Peace] (fortcoming 2017, second edition) co-edited with Kristine Höglund. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
4. Peace negotiations and peace agreements (forthcoming), Oxford University Press Handbook on Women, Peace, Security, edited by Sara Davies and Jacqui True.
5. Politics, technocracy and environmental peacebuilding (forthcoming), Routledge Handbook of Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding, edited by Ashok Swain and Joakim Öjendahl.
6. Diplomacy - a gendered institution (forthcoming, 2017), with Ann Towns, in Diplomacy in a Globalising World, Pauline Kerr and George Wiseman, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2016

1. Swedish feminist foreign policy in the making: Ethics, politics and gender (2016), with Annika Bergman-Rosamond. Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 30, Issue 3, Fall. [Editors' pick for the 30th Anniversary Issue Selection]
2. The failure of diplomacy and protection in Syria (2016) with Tim Dunne. Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases, Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield, Tim Dunne (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
3. Diplomatic  mediation (2016). The SAGE Handbook of Diplomacy, Costas Constantinou, Pauline Kerr, Paul Sharp, eds.
4. Genus, medling och fredsdiplomati, (2016) i Jenny Björkman, red. RJ:s årsbok 2016. Stockholm: Makadam förlag.
5. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Conflict and Water Diplomacy in the Nile Basin (2016), with R. Berndtsson, K. Madani, D.-E. Andersson. Water Diplomacy in Action. Contingent Approaches to Managing Complex Water Problems. Shafiqul Islam and Kaveh Madani, eds. London: Anthem.
6. Depoliticising water conflict. The quest for functional peacebuilding in the Red Sea-Dead-Sea-Water-Conveyance project. (2016) with Anna Sundell, Hydrological Sciences Journal. DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2104.99978
7. Preface: Hydrology and peace in the Middle East (2016), guest editors with Ronny Berndtsson. Special section in Hydrological Sciences Journal. 

2015

1. Peace mediation and the minefield of international recognition games, (2015). International Negotiation. Journal of Theory and Practice.20(3): 496-514
2. Towards agonistic peacebuilding? Exploring the antagonism-agonism nexus in the Middle East Peace Process. (2015). with Fabio Cristiano and Lisa Strömbom, Third World Quarterly. 36(9): 1736-53.
3. Desecuritisation of water and the technocratic turn in peacebuilding. (2015). Journal of International Environmental Agreement. Politics, Law and Economics.15(3): 327-340
4.  The Nile and the Grand Ethiopian Rennaissance Dam: Is there a meeting point between nationalism and hydrosolidarity?, (2015) with Dalia Abdelhady, Dan-Erik Andersson, Olof Beckman, Ronny Berndtsson, Karin Broberg Palmgren, Kaveh Madani, Umut Ozkirimli, Kenneth Persson, Petter Pilesjö, (2015). Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, Issue 155.
5. The Nile Basin and Hydrosolidarity, (2015) with Dan-Erik Andersson, Ronny Berntsson and Kaveh Madani. The Middle East in London. 11(2).
6. Kvinnliga medlare och hållbara fredsprocesser. (2015). Mänsklig säkerhet.
7. Att bygga rättvis och hållbar 'blå' fred. (2015). 15 hållbara lösningar för framtiden. Nina Nordh, red. Lunds universitet: Hållbarhetsforum.
8. Freds- och konfliktforskning. Omtvistad policyrelevans?, (2015). Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten i Lund - en vital 50-åring. En jubileumsskrift, Gunnar Andersson & Magnus Jerneck (red). Lund: Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten.

2014

1. Mellan krig och fred i Israel Palestina/Between war and peace in Israel Palestine (2014) with Anders Persson and Lisa Strömbom, Lund: Studentlitteratur
2. Situating water in peacebuilding. (2014) with Anna Sundell. Journal of Water International. 39(1): 10-22.
3. Conflict Analysis and International Relations (2014), Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology. Nesbitt-Larkin, P.,KInnvall, C., Capelos, T. with Dekker, H. (eds).
4. Review of Gender, Nationalism and War. (2014) Journal of Political Psychology. 35(4)

2013

1. Rethinking Peacebuilding. The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans (2013, paperback 2014) co-edited with Annika Björkdahl, London: Routledge.
2. Disempowerment and marginalisation of peace NGOs: exposing peace gaps in Israel and Palestine, (2013) with Lisa Strömbom. Journal of Peacebuilding. 1(1), pp. 109-124.
3. Recognitional just peace, (2013) in K. Aggestam & A. Björkdahl, eds. Rethinking Peacebuilding. The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans. Routledge.
4. Politik för en fredligare värld (2013). i Li Bennich-Björkman (red) Statsvetenskapens frågor. Lund: Studentlitteratur. 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 2017

• Environmental Peacebuilding to Sustainable Peace, Presidential Roundtable, International Studies Association, Baltimore, 22-25 February, 2017.
• The Sage Handbook of Diplomacy, Roundtable, International Studies Association, Baltimore, 22-25 February, 2017.
• Towards a gender-just diplomacy: Gendered norms in the foreign service and practice of negotiation, with Ann Towns, International Studies Association, Baltimore, 22-25 February, 2017.
• Environmental peacebuilding, technocracy and depoliticisation, International Studies Association, Baltimore, 22-25 February, 2017.