International and national assignments

Karin Aggestam holds a number of international and national assignments, such as panel member of European Research Council (ERC); expert for the European Commission in evaluating projects and proposals in EU 6th and 7th Framework Programmes; book series co-editor on Law, Conflict and International Relations (Routledge, together with C. Lekha Sriram, L. Elliott, J. Mertus); committee member of the Danish Strategic Research Council for peace and conflict research; and deputy board member of PRIO (Norwegian Peace Research Institute Oslo). Aggestam has also been  vice-chair of the Swedish national evaluation board of higher education in Political Science, Peace and Conflict, Development and Human Rights; committee member of the Swedish Research Council (VR); and vice-president of Nordic Association of International Studies (NISA). She has been on leave from academia for assignment by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) as  head of section for research, information, external relations and senior Swedish representative of TIPH (Temporary International Presence in Hebron) in the West Bank. She is regularly invited to comment in swedish radio, tv and newspapers .

Publications

2013

• Karin Aggestam & Lisa Strömbom (2013) "Disempowerment and marginalisation of peace NGOs: exposing peace gaps in Israel and Palestine", Journal of Peacebuilding. 1(1), pp. 109-124.
• Karin Aggestam (2013)"Politik för en fredligare värld", i Li Bennich-Björkman (red) Statsvetenskapens frågor. Lund: Studentlitteratur. 
• Karin Aggestam, (2013) "Recognitional just peace", in K. Aggestam & A. Björkdahl, eds. Rethinking Peacebuilding. The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans. Routledge.
• Karin Aggestam & Annika Björkdahl (2013) "Introduction: The study of just and durable peace", in K. Aggestam & A. Björkdahl, eds. Rethinking Peacebuilding. The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans. Routledge.
• Karin Aggestam & Annika Björkdahl (2013) "Conclusion: Rethinking just peacebuilding in theory and practice", in K. Aggestam & A. Björkdahl, eds. Rethinking Peacebuilding. The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans. Routledge.

2012

• Karin Aggestam (2012) "The Psychology of Peacemaking”, in Mona Fixdal (ed.) Ways out of War. Peacemakers in the Middle East and Balkans. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Karin Aggestam (2012) "Prolonged Peace Negotiations: Spoilers' Game" in Guy Olivier Faure (eds) Unfinished Business: Why International Negotiations Fail, University of Georgia Press.
• Karin Aggestam (2012) "Krig och fred i förändring/War and peace in transition" in K. Aggestam & K. Höglund, red/eds. Om krig och fred: Introduktion till freds- och konfliktstudier/On war and peace. An introduction to peace and conflict studies. Studentlitteratur (in swedish).
• Karin Aggestam & Kristine Höglund (2012) "Om studiet av krig och fred" (About the study of war and peace" n K. Aggestam & K. Höglund, red/eds. Om krig och fred: Introduktion till freds- och konfliktstudier/On war and peace. An introduction to peace and conflict studies. Studentlitteratur (in swedish).

International conference proceedings 2013

• Panel organiser: Hydropolitics and peacebuilding in the Middle East, Annual conference of International Studies Association (ISA), San Francisco, April 2013.
• Karin Aggestam, "Power asymmetry, hydropolitics and peacebuilding", Annual conference of International Studies Association (ISA), San Francisco, April 2013.
• Panel organiser: Hydropolitics and peacebuilding int the MIddle East, ECPR general conference, Bordeaux, September 2013. 
• Karin Aggestam & Anna Sundell, "Hydropolitics, technocracy and peacebuilding: The Jordan River Basin." ECPR general conference, Bordeaux, September 2013. 

    

• Exploring peace gaps in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
• Hydropolitics and peacebuilding in the Jordan River Basin
• Hydrosolidarity and the Nile River Basin
• Women and international mediation: Gender, power and peace negotiations

PUBLICATIONS

On Peacebuilding

• Karin Aggestam & Lisa Strömbom (2013) "Disempowerment and marginalisation of peace NGOs: exposing peace gaps in Israel and Palestine", Journal of Peacebuilding. 1(1), pp. 109-124.
• Karin Aggestam, (2013) "Recognitional just peace", in K. Aggestam & A. Björkdahl, eds. Rethinking Peacebuilding. The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans. Routledge.
• Karin Aggestam & Annika Björkdahl (2013) "Introduction: The study of just and durable peace", in K. Aggestam & A. Björkdahl, eds. Rethinking Peacebuilding. The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans. Routledge.
• Karin Aggestam & Annika Björkdahl (2013) "Conclusion: Rethinking just peacebuilding in theory and practice", in K. Aggestam & A. Björkdahl, eds. Rethinking Peacebuilding. The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans. Routledge.
• Karin Aggestam & Annika Björkdahl, eds. (2013) Rethinking Peacebuilding. The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans. London Routledge.
• Karin Aggestam & Annika Björkdahl (2011) "Unending Peace Processes and Frozen Conflict" in Höglund, Kristine & Fjelde, Hanne, eds. Building Peace, Creating Conflict? Conflictual Dimensions of Local and International Peacebuilding, Lund: Nordic Academic Press.

On Negotiation and Mediation

• Karin Aggestam (2012) "The Psychology of Peacemaking”, in Mona Fixdal (ed.) Ways out of War. Peacemakers in the Middle East and Balkans. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Karin Aggestam (2012) "Prolonged Peace Negotiations: Spoilers' Game" in Guy Olivier Faure (eds) Unfinished Business: Why International Negotiations Fail, University of Georgia Press.
• Karin Aggestam (2006) "Internal and External Dynamics of Spoiling: A Negotiation Approach" in Edwards Newman and Oliver Richmond (eds) Spoilers and Peace Processes: Conflict Settlement and Devious Objectives. UN University Press.
• Karin Aggestam (2006) "Asymmetri, identitet och medling" i Christer Jönsson & Magnus Jerneck (red) I ledande ställning. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
• Karin Aggestam (2006) "Förhandling och diplomati" i Jakob Gustavsson & Jonas Tallberg (red./eds) Internationell Politik [International Politics]. Lund: Lund University Press.
• Karin Aggestam, (2005) "Enhancing Ripeness: Transition from Conflict to Negotiation" in I. William Zartman and Guy Olivier Faure (eds) Escalation and Negotiation in Internatioal Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Karin Aggestam (2003) "Conflict Prevention: Old Wine in New Bottles?" Special Issue of International Peacekeeping. vol. 10. no. 1; also in Henry F. Carey & Oliver P. Richmond, Mitigating Conflict. The Role of NGOs. London, Portland. Frank Cass Publishers.
• Karin Aggestam (2002) "Quasi-Informal Mediation in the Oslo Channel: Larsen and Holst as Individual Mediators" in Jacob Bercovitch (ed) Studies in International Mediation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
• Karin Aggestam (2002) "Mediating Asymmetrical Conflict", Mediterranean Politics, Spring, vol. 7, no. 1.
• Karin Aggestam (2002) "Eine Analyse der Israelisch-Palästinensischen Verhandlungen: Motivation, Legitimät und Timing" in Uta Klein and Dietrich Thränhardt (Hrsg) Gewaltspirale ohne Ende? Konfliktstrukturen und Friedenschancen im Nahen Osten. Schwalbach: Wochenschau Verlag.
• Karin Aggestam (1995) "Reframing International Conflicts" Paradigms: The Kent Journal of International Relations/Global Society, vol. 9, no. 2.
• Karin Aggestam (1999) Reframing and Resolving Conflict: Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations 1988-1998. Lund: Lund University Press.
• Karin Aggestam & Christer Jönsson (1997) "(Un)Ending Conflict: Challenges in Post-War Bargaining" Millennium: Journal of International Studies, vol. 26, no. 3.
• (O)Rättfärdiga Krig/(Un)Just Wars. Lund. Lund University Press.

On Peace, War, Conflict and IR Theory

• Karin Aggestam (2013) "Politik för en fredligare värld", i Li Bennich-Björkman (red)
• Statsvetenskapens frågor. Lund: Studentlitteratur. 
• Karin Aggestam & Kristine Höglund, red/eds. (2012) Om krig och fred: Introduktion till freds- och konfliktstudier/On war and peace. An introduction to peace and conflict studies. Studentlitteratur.
• Karin Aggestam & Kristine Höglund, red/eds. (2012) Om krig och fred: Introduktion till freds- och konfliktstudier/On war and peace. An introduction to peace and conflict studies. Studentlitteratur [in swedish]
• Karin Aggestam (2012) "Krig och fred i förändring/War and peace in transition" in K. Aggestam & K. Höglund, red/eds. Om krig och fred: Introduktion till freds- och konfliktstudier/On war and peace. An introduction to peace and conflict studies. Studentlitteratur [in swedish]
• Karin Aggestam & Kristine Höglund (2012) "Om studiet av krig och fred(About the study of war and peace" in K. Aggestam & K. Höglund, red/eds. Om krig och fred: Introduktion till freds- och konfliktstudier/About war and peace. An introduction to peace and conflict studies. Studentlitteratur [in swedish]
• Karin Aggestam (2010) "Fredsforskning och internationella relationer" [Peace Research and International Relations] Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift. vol. 98.
• Karin Aggestam & Annika Björkdahl, eds. (2009) War and Peace in Transition. Changing Roles of External Actors. Lund: Nordic Academic Press.
•  Karin Aggestam (1999) "Review: Coping with International Conflict" The Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. vol. 7, no. 1. 
• Karin Aggestam, red./ed. (2004) (O)Rättfärdiga Krig/(Un)Just Wars. Lund. Lund University Press.
• Karin Aggestam (2004) "Teoritraditioner om rättfärdiga krig"[Theory traditions about just war], in K. Aggestam, red./ed. (2004) (O)Rättfärdiga Krig/(Un)Just Wars. Lund. Lund University Press.
• Karin Aggestam (2004) "Israel och al-Aqsa intifadan: Självförsvar och ockupationspolitik "[Israel and the al-Aqsa intifada: Self-defence and the politics of occupation], in K. Aggestam, red./ed. (2004) 

On Diplomacy

• Karin Aggestam & Magnus Jerneck, eds. (2009) Diplomacy in Theory and Practice. Malmö: Liber Publishers.
  
• Karin Aggestam, (2009) "Diplomacy and Peacemaking in Transition", in Karin Aggestam & Magnus Jerneck (eds) Diplomacy in Theory and Practice. Malmö: Liber Publishers.
• Christer Jönsson & Karin Aggestam (2009) "Diplomacy" in Jacob Bercovitch, Victor Kremenyuk & I William Zartman (eds) Handbook on Conflict Resolution. Sage.
• Karin Aggestam (2004) "Two-Track Diplomacy: Negotiations between Israel and the PLO through Open and Secret Channels" (vol. III), in Christer Jönsson & Richard Langhorne (eds), Diplomacy. Three Volume Set. London: Sage Publications.
• Christer Jönsson & Karin Aggestam (1999) "Trends in Diplomatic Signalling" in Jan Melissen (Ed) Innovation in Diplomatic Practice London: Macmillan.
• Christer Jönsson & Karin Aggestam (1997) "Diplomatic Signalling" Discussion Papers no. 27. Centre for the Study of Diplomacy.

On the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (see also on peacebuilding, negotiation/mediation)

• Karin Aggestam, Laura Guazzone, Helena Lindholm Schulz, Cristina Paciello, Daniela Pioppi (2009) "The Arab State and Neo-Liberal Globalization", in Guazzone, D. & Pioppi, eds The Arab State and Neo-Liberal Globalization. The Restructuring of State Power in the Middle East. Reading: Ithaca Press.
• Karin Aggestam (2005) "TIPH: Preventing Conflict Escalation in Hebron?", in Clive Jones and Ami Pedahzur (eds), Between Terrorism and Civil War. The Al-Aqsa Intifada . Abingdon, New York. Routledge.
• Karin Aggestam (2004) "Israelisk identitetspolitik och postsionismens utmaningar", i Olav Hammer & Catharina Raudvere (red./eds.) Med Gudomlig Kraft. Om Religionens Kraft i Politiken. Göteborg/Stockholm: Makadem förlag.
• Karin Aggestam (2003) "TIPH: Preventing Conflict Escalation in Hebron?", Civil Wars. Vol. 6, No. 3
• Karin Aggestam (2001) "From Theory to Practice. Temporary International Presence in Hebron", Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Spring/Summer, vol XIV, no.2.
• Karin Aggestam (2001) "Ny Amerikansk Mellanösternpolitik?", Internationella Studier no. 4
• Karin Aggestam (1997) "Review: Media and Political Conflict: News from the Middle East " The International Journal of Conflict Management, vol. 8, no. 4, October. 
• Karin Aggestam (1996) "Two-Track Diplomacy: Negotiations between Israel and the PLO through Open and Secret Channels" Davis Papers on Israel’s Foreign Policy no. 53, The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations.

On Gender, Conflict and International Relations

• Karin Aggestam (2010) "Gender, peacebuilding and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict", JAD-PbP Policy Brief of  no. 9.
• Karin Aggestam, Astrid Hedin, Annica Kronsell, Erika Svedberg, guest editors (1997) "A World in Transition. Feminist Perspectives on International Relations" Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift. no. 100.
• Karin Aggestam (1997) "Jerusalem Link: A Women's Joint Venture for Peace". Aktuellt om kvinnoforskning. no. 1.

PhD supervision

Karin Aggestam has been supervising three doctoral students who have completed their PhD dissertations:

Khaldoon Mourad Marginal and Virtual Water for Sustainable Water Resources Management in Syria, Water resources engineering, Lund University, 2012.

Ann-Catrin Andersson  Identity Politics and City Planning. The Case of Jerusalem, Political science, Örebro university, 2011.

Lisa Strömbom  Revisiting the Past. Israeli identity, conflict transformation, and thick recognition. Political science, Lund university, 2010.

She is presently supervising four doctoral students:

Fabio Cristiano: Peacebuilding, civil society and public diplomacy in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Anders Persson: EU’s peacebuilding efforts in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Sarah Ann Rennick: The Arab spring and social movements.

Anna Sundell: Water politics and feminist perspectives: The case of Aqaba.