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Annika Björkdahl

Annika Björkdahl

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Political Science

D-Index
28
Citations
3232
World Ranking
1394
National Ranking
22

Overview

Annika Björkdahl is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden. Their research is situated within the broad domain of social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology, political science, and international relations. Björkdahl's work extends into gender studies, geography, planning and development, and general arts and humanities.

Their research topics cover a variety of aspects related to peace and security, including:

  • Peacebuilding and International Security
  • Global Peace and Security Dynamics
  • Global Security and Public Health
  • Gender, Security, and Conflict
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • International Law and Human Rights

Björkdahl has several recent publications, with articles published in prominent journals. Notable papers include:

  • "Space for Peace: A Research Agenda," 2022, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
  • "Friction in Transitional Justice Processes: The Colombian Judicial System and the ICC," 2021, International Journal of Transitional Justice
  • "Introducing Space for Peace," 2022, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
  • "Places of Pain and Spaces of Silence: Re-Visiting a Bosnian Rape Camp," 2023, Geopolitics

Björkdahl has also contributed to collaborative work, evident through frequent co-authorships with researchers such as Stefanie Kappler, Johanna Mannergren, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Timothy Williams, and Ted Svensson.

The main publication venues where Björkdahl's work appears include:

  • Manchester University Press eBooks
  • Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
  • Cooperation and Conflict
  • International Journal of Transitional Justice
  • Geopolitics

In addition to journal articles, Björkdahl has published books, including "Peace and the politics of memory" (2024) through Winchester University Press.

Best Publications

  • Norms in international relations: some theoretical and methodological reflections

    Annika Björkdahl

  • Norm advocacy: a small state strategy to influence the EU

    Annika Björkdahl

  • Precarious peacebuilding: friction in global–local encounters

    Annika Björkdahl;Kristine Höglund

  • From Idea to Norm - Promoting Conflict Prevention

    Annika Björkdahl

  • Norm-maker and Norm-taker: Exploring the normative influence of the EU in Macedonia

    Annika Björkdahl

  • The emerging EU peacebuilding framework: confirming or transcending liberal peacebuilding?

    Oliver Richmond;Annika Björkdahl;Stefanie Kappler

  • Gendering agency in transitional justice

    Annika Björkdahl;Johanna Mannergren Selimovic

  • ‘Global’ norms and ‘local’ agency: frictional peacebuilding in Kosovo

    Annika Björkdahl;Ivan Gusic

  • Peacebuilding and Friction: Global and Local Encounters in Post-Conflict Societies.

    Annika Björkdahl;Kristine Höglund;Gearoid Millar;Jaïr van der Lijn

  • A Gender‐Just Peace? Exploring the Post‐Dayton Peace Process in Bosnia

    Annika Björkdahl

  • Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation: Peace, Space and Place

    Annika Björkdahl;Stefanie Kappler;Johan Galtung

  • Importing EU norms? Conceptual Framework and Empirical Findings

    Annika Björkdahl;Natalia Chaban;John Leslie;Annick Masselot

  • Promoting norms through peacekeeping: UNPREDEP and conflict prevention

    Annika Björkdahl

  • Urban peacebuilding

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  • Space for Peace: A Research Agenda

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  • Swedish Norm Entrepreneurship in the UN

    Annika Björkdahl

  • Ideas and Norms in Swedish Peace Policy

    Annika Björkdahl

  • Everyday international relations: Editors’ introduction

    Annika Björkdahl;Martin Hall;Ted Svensson

  • Importing EU Norms

    Annika Björkdahl;Natalia Chaban;John Leslie;Annick Masselot

  • A tale of three bridges: agency and agonism in peace building

    Annika Björkdahl;Johanna Mannergren Selimovic

  • The ‘field’ in the age of intervention : power, legitimacy, and authority versus the ‘local’.

    Oliver P. Richmond;Stefanie Kappler;Annika Björkdahl

  • Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation

    Annika Björkdahl;Stefanie Kappler

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver P. Richmond
Oliver P. Richmond University of Manchester
Ole Elgström
Ole Elgström Lund University
Hanna Bäck
Hanna Bäck Lund University

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