I am Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in Sweden. My research focuses on the dynamics of resistance and cooperation in civil war and authoritarian states, including topics such as rebel governance, nonviolent resistance, wartime cooperation, electoral conflict, and election boycotts.

I received my PhD in 2021 for my dissertation “Guns and Governance: Local Elites and Rebel Governance in Côte d’Ivoire”. In 2020, the Conflict Research Society awarded me with the Cedric Smith Prize for the best article in peace and conflict research by a PhD student. My research has been published in journals such as American Political Science Review, Journal of Peace Research, Comparative Political Studies, World Development, Political Geography, Terrorism & Political Violence, and African Affairs.

I am the Principal Investigator of Opting Out? Explaining the Effectiveness of Election Boycotts, a three-year research project funded by the Swedish Research Council, and Cooperation Across Enemy Lines: Explaining Prisoner Releases and Exchanges in War, a three-year research project funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

Some of my recent op-eds featured in Political Violence @ a Glance, Democracy in Africa, and Global Bar Magazine.

Prior to completing my PhD, I worked as a freelance journalist and ski instructor. When not doing research I enjoy watching football (Liverpool, Barcelona, Ajax, the Netherlands), traveling, and cooking.

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