Publications

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

Buba, Imrana (2024). Review of Stian Kjeksrud’s Using force to protect civilians: successes and failures of United Nations peace operations in Africa. International Affairs. 100: 4 (2024).
Sauter, Melanie (2024). #AidToo, or when situation permits rape: sexual violence among humanitarian aid workers. Journal of International Humanitarian Action 9(1).
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.
Buba, Imrana (2023) Review of Corinna Jentzsch’s Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. International Affairs. 99: 4 (2023).

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 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.

Krause, Jana, Kathleen Klaus and Marika Miner. Can Peacebuilding Strengthen Social Resilience to Communal Violence? Survey Evidence from Kenya.
Krause, Jana, Marika Miner, Imrana Buba, Melanie Sauter. Communal Conflict Research and Event Data Bias. Working Paper.
Buba, Imrana and Jana Krause. Displacing Violence? Civilian Defence Militias and Rebel Violence against Civilians in Northeast Nigeria. Under Review.
Sauter, Melanie, Christoph Dworschak and Sebastian Frowein. Go where you are needed: Improving early warning systems in UN peacekeeping through remote sensing. Under Review.
Krause, Jana. Multi-Level Conflict and Violence against Civilians in South Sudan. Working paper presented at several conferences.
Toscano, Leonor. Gender Inclusion and Local Peacebuilding: Women’s Agency and Participation in Peace Committees in Kenya. Under Review.
Toscano, Leonor. “Custodians of Information”: Women’s Networks and Influence in Local Peacebuilding in Kenya. Working Paper.
Buba, Imrana. From Survival to Subjugation: Civilian Cooperation and Boko Haram’s Rule in Nigeria. Working Paper.

Buba, Imrana: The drug menace in the heartland of the Boko Haram insurgency. African Arguments, 3 July, 2024.
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.
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.