Johanna Mannergren Selimovich

Peace and Development Research
PhD

About

• Ph.D, School of Global Studies, (Peace and Development Research) University of Gothenburg. 2010. (Funded by Sida/Sarec grant).
• M.A. in International Relations, School of Global Studies (Peace and Development Research), University of Gothenburg. 2005.
• B.A in Journalism, University of Stockholm, Sweden, 1990

Areas of interest

Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Transitional Justice, Reconciliation, Politics of Memory, Identity Politics, Nationalism, Security-Development, Conflict and Media, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda.

Ongoing research

Currently working on a project entitled Precarious Peacebuilding together with Professor Joakim Öjendal and other researchers at School of Global Studies, Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and Peace and Conflict Studies at Lund University. The project is funded by Sida. This research project aims to identify how and why conflicts emerge in the wake of, and possibly are triggered by, peacebuilding interventions. In this light we will analyse i) the multidimensionality of peacebuilding, and ii) the ways in which external interventions interact with internal dynamics to create or exacerbate internal tensions that lead to resumed conflict. In this project I will conduct research in Rwanda and in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Teaching

Head of, and lecturer at, graduate course Security and Conflict in a Changed World (15 Ect Credits). The course teaches theories of security, identity and nationalism in the context of contemporary conflicts. School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 2009 -ongoing

Lecturer at Master Course Global Media, School of Global Studies/Dept of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Gothenburg. 2008- ongoing

Lecturer at Master Course Journalism and International Conflicts, Södertörn University, Dept of Communication, Media and IT, 2010 - ongoing

Conference participation (selected)

Swedish National Peace & Conflict Conference, Uppsala, November 2010. (Paper presentation).

Mediterranean Meeting, European University, Florence, March 2010. (Paper presentation).

International Studies Association Annual Convention, New York, February 2009. (Paper presentation).

Swedish National Peace & Conflict Conference, Lund, November 2008. (Paper presentation).

Ninth International Seminar: Democracy and Human Rights in Multiethnic Societies, Konjic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2006. (Paper presentation).