Jana Krause

✉️ jana.krause(@)stv.uio.no

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I am Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo. My research focuses on gender, peace and security; gender, climate crisis and social resilience; communal violence and civil wars; and civilian agency, local peace building and peace processes.  

Over the past fifteen years, I have conducted hundreds of interviews in conflict zones about how civilians protect themselves and build peace locally, including South Sudan, Kenya, Myanmar, as well as Indonesia and Nigeria. I am the author of Resilient Communities: Non-Violence and Civilian Agency in Communal War  (CUP 2018) and co-editor of Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings (OUP 2023). 

My research has won several awards, including the 2019 Lee Ann Fujii Award from the APSA Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Section for my book Resilient Communities. I also received the 2020 Nils Petter Gleditsch Article of the Year Award from the Journal of Peace Research for my article Restrained or Constrained? Election, Communal Conflicts, and Variation in Sexual Violence. My work has been funded by the European Research Council, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the Folke Bernadotte Academy in Sweden, among others.

From 2023 to 2025, I was Program Director of the MA Peace and Conflict Studies (PECOS) at the UiO. In 2024/25, I was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for International Security at the Hertie School Berlin. 

Before joining the University of Oslo, I was an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. In 2019/20, I was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Before that, I was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies in Hamburg, and at the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence at Yale University. I studied political science and international relations at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of Potsdam. I hold a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

Book

Edited Volume

Krause, Jana, Juan Masullo, Emily Paddon Rhoads and Jennifer Welsh (eds). 2023. Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings. Oxford University Press.

More than half the world’s population live in violent settings, such as civil wars, communal conflicts, cities plagued by gang violence, and entire areas governed by criminal organizations. Living exposed to diverse forms of violence, individuals and communities have found innovative—and sometimes counterintuitive—ways to protect themselves and others. Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings establishes the study of civilian agency and its protective dimension across various violent settings as a systematic and unified field of research. This book brings together researchers spanning several social science disciplines to study civilian protective agency in different violent settings, including civil war, genocide, communal violence, and organized crime, and in various geographical locations, from Syria to Mozambique, Sri Lanka to Mexico, Iraq to Colombia and Western Europe. The book also offers conceptual foundations, new theoretical insights, and detailed empirics that advance our understanding of civilian protective agency and promote future research on the topic that is comparable, tractable, and cumulative.

Krause, Jana. 2018. Resilient Communities: Non-Violence and Civilian Agency in Communal War. Cambridge University Press.

  • 2019 Book Prize Winner: Lee Ann Fujii Award for Innovation in the Interpretive Study of Political Violence, Interpretive Methodologies and Methods (IMM) Conference Group of the American Political Science Association, sponsored by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group

  • 2019 Book Prize Runner-Up: Conflict Research Society Book of the Year Award

  • Related policy brief: Women, Peace and Security: Prevention and Resolution of Communal Conflicts

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Book Chapters

Non-Peer Reviewed Writing

2022. Ceasefires and Civilian Protection Monitoring in Myanmar. Global Studies Quarterly 2:1, 1-12. With Erin Kamler.

2021. Ethics of Ethnographic Research in Conflict Zones. Journal of Peace Research, 58:3, 329-341.

2020. Restrained or Constrained? Elections, Communal Conflicts and Variation in Sexual Violence. Journal of Peace Research, 57:1, 185–198.

-        2020 Nils Petter Gleditsch Article of the Year Award of the Journal of Peace Research

 2019. Gender Dimensions of (Non)Violence in Communal Conflict: The Case of Jos, Nigeria.

Comparative Political Studies, 52:10, 1466–1499.

2019. Stabilization and Local Conflicts: Communal and Civil War in South Sudan. Ethnopolitics, 18:5, 478-493.

-        Reprinted in Belloni, Roberto and Francesco Moro (eds): Stabilization as the New Normal in International Interventions. London: Routledge.

 2018. Women’s Participation in Peace Negotiations and the Durability of Peace. International Interactions, 44:6, 985-1016. With Werner Krause and Piia Braenfors.

2017. Non-Violence and Civilian Agency in Communal War: Evidence from Jos, Nigeria. African Affairs, 116: 463, 261–283.

 2015. A Wealth of Expertise and Lived Experience: Conversations between International Women Peace Activists at the ‘Women Lead to Peace Summit’ preceding the Geneva II Peace Talks on Syria, January 2014, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 17:2, 328-338. With Cynthia Enloe.

 2011. Global and Local Policy Responses to the Resource Trap. Global Governance, 17:2, 247-264. With Carbonnier, Gilles and Fritz Brugger.

 

Forthcoming. UN Peacekeeping and Communal Violence. In: Vanessa Newby and Chiara Ruffa (eds): The Oxford Handbook of Interpreting UN Peacekeeping. Forthcoming: Oxford University Press.

 2023. Civilian Protective Agency – An Introduction. In: Krause, Jana, Juan Masullo, Emily Paddon-Rhoads and Jennifer Welsh (eds): Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings. Oxford University Press. With Juan Masullo and Emily Paddon-Rhoads.

 2023. Civilian Protection Monitoring in Myanmar. In: Krause, Jana, Juan Masullo, Emily Paddon-Rhoads and Jennifer Welsh (eds): Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings. Oxford University Press.

 2022. Women’s Participation in Peace Processes. In MacGinty, Roger and Anthony Wanis-St.John (eds): Contemporary Peacemaking: Conflict, Violence and Peace Processes. Palgrave Macmillan. With Louise Olsson.

2019. Research Dilemmas in Dangerous Places: Exploring Security Actors, Institutions and Practices in Conflict-Affected Countries. In Marieke de Goede, Polly Pallister-Wilkins and Esme Bosma: Secrecy and Methods in Security Research.London: Routledge. With Fairlie Chappuis.

2015. Revisiting Protection from Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Actors, Victims, and Power. In: Gizelis, T-I. and L. Olsson (eds): A Systematic Understanding of Gender, Peace and Security: Implementing UNSCR 1325. Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution Series.

2015. Gender Equality and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Revisiting Gender Mainstreaming in Research and Policy. In: Gizelis, T-I. and L. Olsson (eds): A Systematic Understanding of Gender, Peace and Security: Implementing UNSCR 1325. Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution Series. With Theodora-Ismene Gizelis.

2011. Die Konstruktion religiöser Gewalt im Kontext des Regimewechsels in Indonesien und Nigeria. In: Stephanie Garling/ Simon W. Fuchs (eds), Religion in Diktatur und Demokratie, Villigster Profile, Wuppertal.

2009. Democratic Governance. In: Vincent Chetail (ed), Post-Conflict Pecebuilding. A Lexicon. Oxford University Press. 2009. With Rama Mani.

UN Local Peacebuilding and Women’s Participation in South Sudan: Findings from a Database. With Marika Miner and Debjani Banerjee. [Working Paper]

 2024. Response to Ashley Jackson’s review of Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings Civil Wars. With Juan Masullo, Emily Paddon Rhoads and Jennifer Welsh.

 2020. Women, Peace and Security and the Prevention of Communal Conflicts. Research brief, Folke Bernadotte Academy, UN Women and PRIO.

2021. Budgeting and Gender Budgeting in Myanmar: The Current Situation and Opportunities for Reform. Research report. Yangon: Myanmar Institute of Gender Studies. With Lorenzo Crippa, Theodora-Ismene Gizelis and Paul Minoletti.

2021. Differences in Citizens’ Budget Preferences in Myanmar: Evidence from a New Survey. Research report. Yangon: Myanmar Institute of Gender Studies. With Lorenzo Crippa, Theodora-Ismene Gizelis and Paul Minoletti.

2018. Women’s Participation in Peace Negotiations and the Durability of Peace. Research Brief, Conflict, Security and Development Research Group, King’s College London.

 2014. Prevention of Conflict-related Sexual Violence: What does Academic Research tell us?’ in Prevention of Wartime Rape, Panel Discussion Report from the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, Global Diplomatic Forum, London.

 2011. A Deadly Cycle: Ethno-Religious Conflict in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Geneva: Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development, (65pp).

 2011. The German Civil Peace Service: Synthesis Report. Volume II: Case Studies and Annexes. With Paffenholz, Thania, Daniel Fino, Oliver Juetersonke, Sandra Reiman.

 2009. Resource Wealth, Autonomy, and Peace in Aceh: Managing the Economic Dimensions of Conflict in Peace Processes.Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding Working Paper No. 3. Geneva. With Achim Wennmann.