Publications
Edited Volume & Special Journal Issue
Krause, Jana, Juan Masullo, Emily Paddon Rhoads and Jennifer Welsh (eds). 2023. Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings. Oxford University Press.
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Reviewed by Ashley Jackson for Civil Wars; Editors’ response to Ashley Jackson in Civil Wars
Reviewed by Imrana Buba for International Peacekeeping
Krause, Jana (ed). Reclaiming Resilience: Women’s Peacebuilding Agency in Protracted Crises. Special journal issue in preparation for Review of International Studies
Based on the 2025 conference Gender, Peace and Security: Resistance and Resilience.
Articles & Book Chapters
Buba, Imrana (2026). Consequences of Conflict-induced Displacement on Host Communities. International Studies Review.
Buba, Imrana (2026). Civilian Compliance and Displacement in the Boko Haram Insurgency. Journal of Peace Research (forthcoming).
Buba, Imrana and Jana Krause. (2026). Civilian Militia Formation and Protection Against Rebel Violence: Evidence from Nigeria. Political Geography.
Toscano, Leonor. (2026). Women's Institutional Choices and Local Peacebuilding: Insights from Nairobi and Mombasa's Informal Settlements.Peacebuilding.
Bellini, C., Sauter, M. (2025). Humanitarian Nationalism During Autocratic Disaster Governance: The Politicization of the Earthquake Response in Türkiye. St Comp Int Dev
Sauter, Melanie (2024). #AidToo, or when situation permits rape: sexual violence among humanitarian aid workers. Journal of International Humanitarian Action 9(1).
Jana Krause, Juan Masullo, Emily Paddon-Rhoads. (2023). Civilian Protective Agency – An Introduction. In Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings. Oxford University Press.
Jana Krause. (2023) Civilian Protection Monitoring in War and Ceasefire Contexts: Evidence from Myanmar’s Kachin and Karen States. In Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings. Oxford University Press.
Duursma, Allard et al (2023). UN Peacekeeping at 75: Achievements, Challenges, and Prospects. International Peacekeeping, published online. Co-authored by Melanie Sauter.
Buba, Imrana (2023). Civilian Protection Payment and the Escalation of Violence against Civilians in Northwestern Nigeria. Global Studies Quarterly, 3:2.
Winner of the 2024 Cedric Smith Prize, awarded by the Conflict Research Society to the best article or thesis chapter in peace and conflict research by a PhD student,
Jana Krause and Louise Olsson. (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.
Preprints & Working Papers
Krause Jana, Marika Miner, Imrana Buba, Melanie Sauter. (2025). Advancing Communal Violence Research: Concept, Definition, and Measurement. Preprint https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ry2e9_v2
Krause, Jana, Kathleen Klaus and Marika Miner (2024). Can Peacebuilding Strengthen Social Resilience to Communal Violence? Evidence from Kenya. Preprint https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/6r2n7.
Sauter, Melanie, Christoph Dworschak (2025). Protecting civilians in inter-communal conflict through remote sensing of climate impacts. https://osf.io/preprints/osf/c8hqs_v1
In the Pipeline
Toscano, Leonor. Navigating Agency in Local Peacebuilding: Women's Participation in Local Peace Committees in Kenya. Revise and Resubmit.
Toscano, Leonor. Unpacking Women’s Contribution to Local Peace: Women as Custodians of Information in Kenya’s Local Peace Committees. Under Review.
Krause, Jana. The Promise and Peril of Resilience Building in Protracted Conflict: Findings from South Sudan. Working Paper.
Krause, Jana. All for the Birds? Local Peace Agreements and Resilience building in South Sudan. Working Paper.
Buba, Imrana. From Survival to Subjugation: Civilian Cooperation and Boko Haram’s Rule in Nigeria. Working Paper.
Blogposts
Toscano, Leonor, Jana Krause and Marika Miner: Kenya’s peacebuilding efforts hold valuable lessons for the rest of the world, but gaps remain. The Conversation, 16 June 2025.
Buba, Imrana: Bandits in Nigeria: how protection payments to militias escalate conflict in the north-west. The Conversation, 15 August 2023.
Krause, Jana and Buba, Imrana: Security in Nigeria: Bola Tinubu will increase tension in some parts of the country and reduce it in others. The Conversation, 10 April 2023.
Buba, Imrana: How Nigeria avoided organised violence during the 2023 elections. African Arguments, 6 April 2023.
Buba, Imrana: Nigeria, It’s Time to Strengthen Security Engagements at Local Level. Neptune Prime, 6 November 2021.
Policy Briefs
Vern, Camille, and Leonor Toscano. 2026. Cooperation Across Scales: Networks As a Tool to Implement the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. IPSS Policy Brief Series, Special Edition Vol. 2 ‘Women in the Horn of Africa’, Addis Ababa University, Institute for Peace and Security Studies.
Krause, Jana. 2020. Women, Peace and Security: Prevention and Resolution of Communal Conflicts. Joint Brief Series ‘New Insights on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) for the Next Decade’, Folke Bernadotte Academy, Peace Research Institute Oslo and UN Women.