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Lisa Strömbom

Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer

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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: 35
Webpage
Other affiliations
  • Researcher
    MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World
  • Researcher
    Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
  • Senior lecturer
    Department of Political Science

Main research areas:

  • Peace and Conflict Research
  • International relations
  • Identity politics and conflict transformation

 

Current research and teaching:

Lisa Strömbom supervises Ph D 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 leads the project “Pushing the boundaries of peace research – reconceptualizing and measuring agonistic peace”, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. She has published the monograph 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 has 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 International Relations and Development, 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

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Ongoing research projects

Strömbom currently serves as PI for project “Pushing the boundaries of peace research – reconceptualizing and measuring agonistic peace”, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2019-2025.

Strömbom led the project "The military as an 'agent of change' for gender-relations in post-conflict societies? -evidence from Liberia and Mali (Gendered Militaries), funded by Vetenskapsrådet/SIDA 2019-2023. 

During 2018 Lisa Strömbom was affiliated with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, as a researcher on a project on alternative narrative tourism in Israel and Palestine. 

During 2017  Lisa Strömbom served as a researcher in the project "Divided Cities: Challenges to Peacebuilding and Development", funded by The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskaprådet) and SIDA.

Between 2012 and 2015 Strömbom participated in the project "Contested Administrations: Conflict Resolution and the Development of Democracy", financed by The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).

Between 2010 and 2012 Lisa Strömbom served as a Post Doc in the projekt "Exploring Peace Gaps", funded by the the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).

For the press/media

The Israeli-Palestinian Conlfict

Conflict Resolution

Research groups

Peace and International Politics

19 Mar 2024