Published 8 June 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Lisa Strömbom has co-authored an article with Johanna Mannergren Selimovic (Utrikespolitiska institutet) titled "Whose Place? Emplaced narratives and the politics of belonging in East Jerusalem’s contested neighbourhood of Silwan", published in the journal Space and Polity. Links:“Whose Place? Emplaced narratives and the politics of belonging in East

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Published 8 June 2015 Erik Ringmar is participating in a conference in Berlin (8-9 June) on the topic of "200 Years of Conference Diplomacy. From the Congress of Vienna to the G7 Meeting". Learn more at academia.eduErik Ringmar 

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Published 10 June 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annica Kronsell has written the article "Sexed Bodies and Military Masculinities. Gender Path Dependence in EU's Common Security and Defense Policy" in the journal Men and Masculinities. Links:“Sexed Bodies and Military Masculinities. Gender Path Dependence in EU’s Common Security and Defense Policy in Men and Masculinities”Annica Kronsell

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annica-kronsell-gendered-identity-eus-security-and-defense-policy-institutions - 2025-04-29

Published 12 June 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Mats Fred's article "Projectification in Swedish municipalities. A case of porous organizations" has been published in Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration. Links:Projectification in Swedish municipalities. A case of porous organizationsMats Fred

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/mats-fred-projectification-swedish-municipalities - 2025-04-29

Published 12 June 2015 RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Tobias Dan Nielsen and Karin Bäckstrand presented yesterday at a side-event at the current UN climate negotiations in Bonn on 'Carbon footprints for effective climate policy on international trade’. The event was covered in the widely circulated ISSD newsletter.Links:Newsletter on ‘Carbon footprints for effective climate policy on international trade’Tob

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Published 16 June 2015 RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Tobias Dan Nielsen blogs on LU Sustainability Forum about last weeks UN climate negotiations. The blog post titled “Green light for REDD+” covered a ‘historical’ conclusion of the negotiations on the methodological guidance for UN based mechanism aimed at reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD+). Links:“G

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Published 23 June 2015 On June 24, Erik Ringmar holds a lecture in the series "Theorizing Global Order" at the Goethe University in Frankfurt Links:“Theorizing Global Order”Erik Ringmar

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Published 26 June 2015 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Erik Ringmar's review of "Violent Protest, Contentious Politics and the Neoliberal State,” edited by Seraphim Seferiades & Hank Johnston, has just been published by Contemporary Sociology. Links:The book reviewErik Ringmar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/erik-ringmar-reviews-violent-protest-contentious-politics-and-neoliberal-state - 2025-04-29

Published 27 May 2021 Photo: Jonathan Meyer on Unsplash External research grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC). This project aims to interrogate existing boundaries to women’s participation in peace processes and identifies reasons for the failure of peace making to address the gendered foundations and impacts of conflict. The interdisciplinary research team consists of Karin Aggestam

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-research-project-gendering-peacemaking-middle-east - 2025-04-29

Published 27 May 2021 Photo: Isiah Gibson on Unsplash A major global challenge during the coming decades is working towards sustainability. However, integrative methods for joint social, ethical, human, and engineering approaches in SDG implementations are to a great extent still lacking. Access to safe water is a key element in many of the SDGs. Hydrosolidarity principles are important on a natio

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-pufendorf-research-theme-hydrosolidarity-20 - 2025-04-29

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 1 June 2021 Photo: Maria Malmström Several researchers at the Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies were doing field work during the Arab Spring. It has left deep traces in them - but also resulted in new research projects. The Arab Spring is a term describing the uprisings that started in several countries in Nor

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By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 3 June 2021 #21 May, 2021 Message from the director   Summer greetings from the team at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies Finally, warm sunny weather has arrived and slowly but surely Sweden is opening up again since the vaccination program is now in full swing. At CMES, we are able to enjoy outdoor “Coron

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter - 2025-04-29

Published 18 June 2021 Photo: Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash One important step in binary modeling of environmental problems is the generation of absence-datasets that are traditionally generated by random sampling and can undermine the quality of outputs.   To solve this problem, this study by Seyed Amir Naghibi, Hossein Hashemi and Biswajeet Pradhand, develops the Absence Point Generation (APG) toolb

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/apg-novel-python-based-arcgis-toolbox-generate-absence-datasets-geospatial-studies - 2025-04-29

Published 18 June 2021 Photo: Daniel Olah on Unsplash A new study by Ivan Radelyuk, Mehran Naseri Rad, Hossein Hashemi, Magnus Persson, Ronny Berndtsson, Madeniyet Yelubay and Kamshat Tussupova. A common problem when studying groundwater contamination in low-income countries is that data required for a detailed risk assessment are limited. This study presents a method for assessment of the potenti

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/assessing-data-scarce-contaminated-groundwater-sites-surrounding-petrochemical-industries - 2025-04-29

Published 17 August 2021 Published Open Access in the journal Human Ecology. The article is authored by Pinar Dinc, Lina Eklundh, Aiman Shahpurwala, Ali Mansourian, August Aturinde and Petter Pilesjö Environmental destruction has long been used as a military strategy in times of conflict. A long-term example of environmental destruction in a conflict zone can be found in Dersim/Tunceli province, l

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/fighting-insurgency-ruining-environment-dersim-province-turkey - 2025-04-29

Published 26 August 2021 Anti-Black Racism is still very present in Yemen, with a discriminatory caste system that is based on skin colour. Nevertheless, there are initiatives and solutions being put forward to combat this and ways in which awareness is being raised. This paper seeks to explore the dynamics of anti-Black racism in Yemen and how resistance against this is expressed, as well as the

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/anti-black-racism-yemen-manifestations-and-responses - 2025-04-29

Published 26 August 2021 Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored two chapters on water security and comprehensive integrated water management. Water security by Baghban, S., O. Bozorg-Haddad, and R. Berndtsson (2021) in Water Resources: Future Perspectives, Challenges, Concepts and Necessities, Edited by Omid Bozorg-Haddad, IWA Publishing. Read more about the contribution here Comprehensive integrated wa

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-publications-water-security-and-integrated-water-management - 2025-04-29

Published 26 August 2021 Photo: Pixabay The Middle East, which is experiencing severe environmental challenges such as dust-storms, is most vulnerable to climate and human-induced environmental changes. The goals of this interdisciplinary project are to identify the climate- and human-induced sources of dust and to determine and explain the factors affecting the dust-source areas such as climate v

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-mecw-project-ai-and-dust-storm-control-middle-east - 2025-04-29

Published 6 September 2021 A new article authored by Maria Frederika Malmström, "Making and unmaking masculinities in Cairo through sonic infrastructural violence", was recently published in the journal Urban Studies.  Maria Frederika Malmström's article explores the Egyptian state’s production of desired manhood and destruction of unwanted masculinities in relation to home and displacement throug

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/masculinities-and-infrastructural-violence-cairo - 2025-04-29

Published 8 September 2021 Lisa Strömbom has coauthored with Bahar Rumelili the article "Agonistic recognition as a remedy for identity backlash: Lessons from Israel and Turkey" which is now available online (open access) in Third World Quarterly. The article is part of a forthcoming Special Issue on agonistic peace, edited by Lisa Strömbom and Isabel Bramsen.  Abstract While an extensive part of

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/agonistic-recognition-turkey-and-israel-palestine - 2025-04-29