With the fall semester approaching, the Varieties of Peace research program started its seminar activities with a workshop introducing the research of our current guest researchers Lars Waldorf (Dundee Law School) and Daniela Lai (London South Bank University). Lars presented his work on agonistic peace as well as his work on illiberal peacebuilding, while Daniela presented her research on commodity chains and transitional justice. Article drafts were also presented by VoP core group members Niklas Eklund and Malin Wimelius (on ideational analysis of peace and Russian ideas about peace), Elisabeth Olivius (on gender and development-insecurity nexus in Myanmar), Anna Jarstad (on relational pe
Varieties of Peace Research program welcomes Daniela Lai and Lars Waldorf to Uppsala and Umeå in August 2019. Daniela Lai is currently completing a book on socioeconomic justice in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as working on her new project on the role of economic actors in peace and justice processes. Her general research interest lies in the connections between post-war justice processes and the political economy of post-conflict states. Since September 2018 Daniela Lai works as a Lecturer in International Relations at London South Bank University. She completed her PhD in 2017 at Royal Holloway, University of London, and worked at University College London and the London School