DR EMMA ELFVERSSON
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DR EMMA ELFVERSSON
DR EMMA ELFVERSSON

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Dr. Emma Elfversson is an Associate Professor (docent) and hold a position as Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Government, Uppsala University. She is the project leader of two collaborative projects:

  • “The Urban Dilemma: Urbanization and ethnocommunal conflict” (Swedish Research Council, 2018-03924), which analyzes how urban politics and urban-rural dynamics shape the risk of intergroup conflict in rapidly growing cities in subSaharan Africa. Within this project, I conduct research on Nairobi (Kenya) as well as quantitative research using global data.
  • “The Continuation of Conflict-related Violence in Postwar Cities: Mapping violence at the street level” (Swedish Research Council, 2019-02563), which combines the collection of micro-level geocoded data with in-depth case studies to analyze intracity patterns and dynamics of violence in postwar cities. Within this project, I oversee data collection and am main responsible for quantitative analysis and systematic case comparisons.

She is also involved in the project “Urban-rural Dynamics of Community-based Conflict Management” (Formas 2019-00269), which studies conditions for conflict management and community policing in urban and rural contexts, using qualitative and quantitative analysis of empirics from Kenya; as well as two smaller projects, “Land tenure and climate resilience: Evidence from Kenya” (PI: Kathleen Klaus) and “Communities at Risk: Mediation as a Tool to Defuse Ethnic Tensions in Post-War Liberia and Beyond” (PI: Anders Themnér).

 

 

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

  • Murtagh, Brendan, Emma Elfversson, Ivan Gusic & Marie-Therese Meye, 2023. “Urban restructuring and the reproduction of spaces of violence in Belfast.” Peacebuilding, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2023.2284579
  • Elfversson, Emma & Kristine Höglund, 2023. “Urban Growth, Resilience, and Violence.” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Volume 64: 101356, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101356
  • Elfversson, Emma, Thao-Nguyen Ha & Kristine Höglund, 2023. “The urban-rural divide in police trust: insights from Kenya.” Policing and Society, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2023.2239430
  • Elfversson, Emma, Ivan Gusic & Jonathan Rokem, 2023. “Peace in cities, peace through cities? Theorising and exploring geographies of peace in violently contested cities.” (Special Issue introduction.) Peacebuilding, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2023.2225914
  • Elfversson, Emma, Ivan Gusic & Brendan Murtagh, 2023. “Postwar cities: Conceptualizing and mapping the research agenda.” Political Geography 105: 102912. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102912
  • Elfversson, Emma, Ivan Gusic & Marie-Therese Meye, 2023. “The bridge to violence: Mapping and understanding conflict-related violence in postwar Mitrovica.” Journal of Peace Research, online first, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433221147942.
  • Elfversson, Emma, Kristine Höglund, Angela Muvumba Sellström & Camille Pellerin, 2023. “Contesting the growing city? Forms of urban growth and consequences for communal violence.” Political Geography, Volume 100, 102810. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102810.
  • Elfversson, Emma & Desirée Nilsson, 2022. “The pursuit of inclusion: Conditions for civil society inclusion in peace processes in communal conflicts in Kenya.” Cooperation & Conflict, Volume 57, Issue 2, pp. 171-190. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367211047136
  • Elfversson, Emma & Kristine Höglund, 2021. “Are armed conflicts becoming more urban?” Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, Volume 119, 103356. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103356
  • Elfversson, Emma & Anders Sjögren, 2020. “Do local power-sharing deals reduce ethnopolitical hostility? The effects of ‘negotiated democracy’ in Kenya.” Ethnopolitics, Volume 19, Issue 1, pp. 45–63. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2019.1583483
  • Elfversson, Emma, 2019. “The political conditions for local peacemaking: A comparative study of communal conflict resolution in Kenya.” Comparative Political Studies, Volume 52, Issue 13-14, pp. 2061–2096. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414019830734
  • Elfversson, Emma, Ivan Gusic & Kristine Höglund, 2019. “The spatiality of violence in postwar cities: Introduction to a special issue.” Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, Volume 4, Issue 2-3, pp. 81–93. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2019.1675533
  • Elfversson, Emma, Sara Lindberg Bromley & Paul D. Williams, 2019. “Urban peacekeeping under siege: Attacks on African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu, 2007-2009.” Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, Volume 4, Issue 2-3, pp. 158–178. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2019.1678399
  • Elfversson, Emma & Kristine Höglund, 2019. “Violence in the city that belongs to no-one: Urban distinctiveness and interconnected insecurities in Nairobi (Kenya).” Conflict, Security and Development, Volume 19, Issue 4, pp. 347–370. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2019.1640493
  • Elfversson, Emma & Kristine Höglund, 2018. “Home of last resort: Urban land conflict and the Nubians in Kibera, Kenya”. Urban Studies, Volume 55, Issue 8, pp. 1749–1765. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098017698416
  • Elfversson, Emma, 2016. “Peace from below: Governance and peacebuilding in Kerio Valley, Kenya”. Journal of Modern African Studies, Volume 54, Issue 3, pp. 469–493. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X16000227
  • Elfversson, Emma, 2015. “Providing security or protecting interests? Government interventions in violent communal conflicts in Africa”. Journal of Peace Research, Volume 52, Issue 6, pp. 791–805. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343315597968
  • Brosché, Johan & Emma Elfversson, 2012. “Communal Conflict, Civil War, and the State: Complexities, Connections, and the Case of Sudan”. African Journal on Conflict Resolution, Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 33–60.

Book

  • Elfversson, Emma, Ivan Gusic & Kristine Höglund (eds.), 2020. The Spatiality of Violence in Post-war Cities. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN: 9780367471361.

Book chapters

  • Camille Pellerin & Emma Elfversson, 2023. “(Re)claiming Finfinne? Violent protest and the right to Addis Ababa.” In Rebellious Riots: Entangled geographies of contention in Africa, eds: Karen Büscher & Sam Kniknie, Brill, ISBN: 978-90-04-54239-6
  • Emma Elfversson, Ivan Gusic, Marie-Therese Meye, & Thao-Nguyen Ha, 2022. “Geocoding as a method for mapping conflict-related violence.” In: Oliver Richmond & Gëzim Visoka (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11795-5_214-1
  • Elfversson, Emma & Kristine Höglund, 2020. “Den våldsamma staden”. In RJ:s årsbok 2020: Staden. Stockholm & Göteborg: Makadam Förlag.
  • Elfversson, Emma, 2019. “Patterns and drivers of communal conflict in Kenya”. In Steven Ratuva (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0242-8_50-1.

PhD Dissertation

  • Elfversson, Emma, 2017. Central Politics and Local Peacemaking: The Conditions for Peace after Communal Conflict. Uppsala: Uppsala University Press.

Other articles & reports (selection)

  • Elfversson, Emma, 2021. “Cities and armed conflict: A systematic urban-rural coding of UCDP conflict events data.” Data in Brief 107554,
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.107554
  • Elfversson, Emma, 2019. “Book Review: Mustafa Dikeç (2017), Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded.” Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paz067
  • Elfversson, Emma, 2017. “Peace and Politics: Promoting durable solutions to communal conflicts”. Development Dissertation Brief 2017:09. Stockholm: Expert group for aid studies (EBA).
  • Elfversson, Emma, 2011. “Local peacebuilding: Inspiring examples from African countries”. Peace Monitor , Volume 1, the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society, pp. 14–17.
  • Johansson, Emma, Joakim Kreutz, Peter Wallensteen, Christian Altpeter, Sara Lindberg, Mathilda Lindgren & Ausra Padskocimaite, 2010: A New Start for EU Peacemaking? Past Record and Future Potential, UCDP Paper No. 7, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Uppsala University

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