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Lisa Strömbom, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Political Science, black/white photo. Photo: Johan Persson.
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Lisa Strömbom

Associate professor | Senior lecturer | Excellent Teaching Practitioner

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Lisa Strömbom, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Political Science, black/white photo. Photo: Johan Persson.

Lisa Strömbom is Senior lecturer and Associate professor in Political Science, specialized in Peace and conflict research.

Contact details
Organisation
  • Department of Political Science
  • Room number: 420
  • Service point: 31
Webpage
Other affiliations
  • Researcher
    Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
  • Assistant director
    Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
  • Senior lecturer
    Department of Political Science
  • Member of Strategic Research Area
    MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World

Peace and conflict studies

Main research areas:

  • Peace and conflict research
  • International relations
  • Identity politics and conflict transformation

Current research and teaching:

Lisa Strömbom supervises doctoral students and teaches and tutors theses in Peace and Conflict Studies and International Relations at all levels. Her research centers on agonistic peace, conflict transformation, identity politics, recognition in intrastate conflict as well as on grassroots peacebuilding with a main empirical focus on  Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She is currently participating in two research projects. One concerns Swedish civil society and humanitarian aid to Palestine from 1967 to the present day, and the other concerns the development of agonistic diplomacy in relation to the UN and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In recent years, her research has focused on agonistic peace and peacebuilding at the local level in Colombia, Israel-Palestine, and Northern Ireland. She led the project “Pushing the boundaries of peace research – reconceptualizing and measuring agonistic peace”, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond 2019-2015. She has recently published the monograph Agonistic memory and peace. Colombia, Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine (Edinburgh University Press, 2026) and previously Israeli identity, thick recognition and conflict transformation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013), and coauthored the text-book War and Peace in Israel-Palestine (Krig och Fred i Israel/Palestina) with Professor Karin Aggestam and Ph D Anders Persson (Studentlitteratur, 2014). She co-edited the book Divided Cities - Governing Diversity with Professor Annika Björkdahl (Nordic Academic Press, 2015). She has published articles in journals such as European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Conflict Resolution,  Journal of Peace Research, Journal of International Relations and Development, European Journal of International Security, Global Society, Review of International Studies, Third World Quarterly, Space and Polity, Mediterranean Politics and Peacebuilding.  In 2020 she was promoted to Excellent Teaching Practitioner (ETP) by the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Publications

Displaying of publications. Sorted by year, then title.

For the press/media

The Israeli-Palestinian Conlfict

Conflict Resolution

Research groups

Peace and International Politics

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Last updated: 26 Feb 2026