Jana Krause

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I am Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo and currently Director of the MA program in Peace and Conflict Studies (PECOS). My research focuses focuses on civilian agency and protection in communal conflicts and civil wars, peace processes and local peacebuilding, and the gender dimensions of peacebuilding. 

Previously, I was Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. In 2019/20, I was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS). Before that, I was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies in Hamburg, and at the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence at Yale University. I studied political science and international relations at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of Potsdam. I hold a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

Over the past fifteen years, I have conducted hundreds of interviews in conflict zones about how civilians protect themselves and build peace locally, including South Sudan, Kenya, Myanmar, as well as Indonesia and Nigeria. I am the 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).

I currently lead the research project 'ResilienceBuilding: Social Resilience, Gendered Dynamics and Local Peace in Protracted Conflicts', funded by an ERC Starting Grant. 

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Academic interests

Communal conflicts, civil war, civilian agency, civilian protection, peacebuilding, gender, Sub-Sahara Africa, South/Southeast Asia

Teaching

PECOS 4025 - Analytical Perspectives on Peace and Conflict

STV 4031 - Field Research for Political Science 

STV 4284 - Conflict and Security in Africa

Projects

ERC Project 'ResilienceBuilding: Social Resilience, Gendered Dynamics, and Local Peace in Protracted Conflicts' (2020-2026)

Awards

2020 Nils Petter Gleditsch Article of the Year Award of the Journal of Peace Research 

2019 Lee Ann Fujii Book Award for Innovation in the Interpretive Study of Political Violence, American Political Science Association

2019 Conflict Research Society Book of the Year Award (Runner-Up)

Appointments

2021 - Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo

2020 - Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo

2016 - Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam

2013-2016 Visiting Research Fellow, Conflict, Security and Development Research Group, Department of War Studies, King's College London

2013-2016 Lead Researcher and Project Coordinator for 'Gender Dimensions of Conflict' project, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva 

2013 - PhD, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

2011 - Visiting Doctoral Researcher, Program on Order, Conflict and Violence, Yale University 

 

Tags: Comparative Politics, International relations, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Gender

Publications

Selected Publications

Books

Krause, Jana. 2018. Resilient Communities: Non-Violence and Civilian Agency in Communal WarCambridge University Press.

Krause, Jana, Juan Masullo, Emily Paddon Rhoads and Jennifer Welsh (eds). 2023. Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings. Oxford University Press.

 

Articles 

Krause, Jana and Erin Kamler. 2022. Ceasefires and Civilian Protection Monitoring in MyanmarGlobal Studies Quarterly 2:1, 1-12.

Krause, Jana. 2021. Ethics of Ethnographic Methods in Conflict ZonesJournal of Peace Research, 58:3329-341.

Krause, Jana. 2020. Restrained or Constrained? Elections, Communal Conflicts and Variation in Sexual Violence.Journal of Peace Research 57:1, 185-198 .Krause, Jana. 2019. Stabilization and Local Conflicts: Communal and Civil War in South Sudan. Ethnopolitics, 18:5, 478-493.

Krause, Jana. 2019. Gender Dimensions of (Non)Violence in Communal Conflict: The Case of Jos, Nigeria.Comparative Political Studies, 52:10, 1466-499.
| Ethics & Methods Appendix

Krause, Jana, Werner Krause and Piia Braenfors. 2018. Women's Participation in Peace Negotiations and the Durability of PeaceInternational Interactions, 44:6, 985-1016. | Replication Data

Krause, Jana. 2017. Non-Violence and Civilian Agency in Communal War: Evidence from Jos, NigeriaAfrican Affairs,116 (463): 261-283.

Krause, Jana and Cynthia Enloe. 2015. A Wealth of Expertise and Lived Experience: Conversations between International Women Peace Activists at the Women Lead to Peace Summit preceding the Geneva II Peace Talks on Syria, January 2014International Feminist Journal of Politics, 17:2.

Carbonnier, Gilles, Fritz Brugger and Jana Krause. 2011. Global and Local Policy Responses to the Resource TrapGlobal Governance, 17:2, 247-264.

 

  • Krause, Jana; Masullo, Juan & Paddon Rhoads, Emily (2023). Civilian protective Agency: An Introduction. . In Krause, Jana; Masullo, Juan; Paddon Rhoads, Emily & Welsh, Jennifer (Ed.), Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings. A Comparative Perspective. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780192866714. Full text in Research Archive
  • Krause, Jana & Kamler, Erin (2022). Ceasefires and Civilian Protection Monitoring in Myanmar. Global Studies Quarterly. ISSN 2634-3797. 2(1), p. 1–12. doi: 10.1093/isagsq/ksac005. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Krause, Jana; Masullo, Juan; Paddon Rhoads, Emily & Welsh, Jennifer (2023). Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings. A Comparative Perspective. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192866714. 288 p.

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  • Krause, Jana (2023). Civilian Protection Monitoring in War and Ceasefire Contexts: Evidence from Myanmar’s Kachin and Karen States. In Krause, Jana; Masullo, Juan; Paddon Rhoads, Emily & Welsh, Jennifer (Ed.), Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings. A Comparative Perspective. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780192866714.

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