Jana Krause: Multi Level Conflict and Multi Level Peacebuilding: The Case of South Sudan

The Academy symposium in Social Sciences and Humanities 16.10.23.
Professor Jana Krause analyse the complexity of armed conflict in South Sudan through multi-level conflict. She focuses on the interaction of different types of political violence, namely communal conflict and civil war, and discusses the implications of violence against civilians. The presentation draws on field research in South Sudan between 2017 and 2023 and dissects variations in geographic spread and intensity of civil war and communal conflict.
Jana Krause is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo and Director of the MA program in Peace and Conflict Studies (PECOS). Her research focuses on civilian agency and protection in communal conflicts and civil wars, peace processes and local peacebuilding, and the gender dimensions of peacebuilding. She has conducted field research on these issues in South Sudan, Nigeria, Kenya, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Krause is author of ‘Resilient Communities: Non-Violence and Civilian Agency in Communal War’ (Cambridge University Press 2018), and co-editor of ‘Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings’ (Oxford University Press 2023). She currently directs the ERC Starting Grant Project ‘ResilienceBuilding: Social Resilience, Gendered Dynamics, and Local Peace in Protracted Conflicts’. Krause holds a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and was previously Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam.
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