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Dr Jan Pospisil is an Associate Professor (Research) at Coventry University's Centre for Peace and Security. His work focuses on peace and transition processes and political settlements, peace mediation, donor politics in peacebuilding, competitive regionalism, resilience, the Horn of Africa region, and South Sudanese and Sudanese politics. Jan has headed the workstream on local peace agreements in the Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP) at the University of Edinburgh and is a co-investigator in the six-year follow-up programme Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep), funded by UK FCDO. He is the author of ‘Peace in Political Unsettlement’, published by Palgrave Macmillan. His monograph on South Sudan as a fragment state has been published in German by transcript in 2021.
Jan has extensive field research experience in Sub-Sahara Africa with a focus on South Sudan and Sudan. Over the last years, he has been part of a team conducting the South Sudan public perceptions of peace survey, a project that is continuing in collaboration with Detcro Research and Advisory. Jan is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Austrian Centre for Peace (ACP) and an Associate Professor (venia docendi for Political Science) at the University of Vienna.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Education/Academic qualification
Political Science, Habilitation, Resilience: The postliberal transformation of peace and security
Award Date: 17 Jul 2019
Political Science, Doctorate, Die Entwicklung von Sicherheit. Zu den gouvernementalen Rationalitäten US-amerikanischer und europäischer Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im Konfliktkontext, University of Vienna
Award Date: 6 Nov 2007
Political Science, MA, Iran in the World System, University of Vienna
Award Date: 23 Nov 2001
External positions
Affiliated Staff, London School of Economics and Political Science
1 Jan 2023 → …
Board Member, Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution
1 Oct 2022 → …
Affiliated Researcher, Austrian Institute for International Affairs
1 Sept 2022 → …
Associate Professor, University of Vienna
17 Jul 2019 → …
Keywords
- JZ International relations
- Horn of Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- peace processes
- democratic transitions
- political settlemens
- governance
- armed violence
- conflict studies
- resilience
- humanitarianism
- JF Political institutions (General)
- neo-institutionalism
- constructivism
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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PeaceRep: Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform
Bell, C. (Principal Investigator), Kaldor, M. (Co-Investigator), Peter, M. (Co-Investigator), Pospisil, J. (Co-Investigator) & Magara, I. (Researcher)
1/10/21 → 30/03/27
Project: Research
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Decolonising Resilience: African Voices in Conversation
Pospisil, J. (Principal Investigator), Chandler, D. (Co-Investigator), Amo-Agyemang, C. (Researcher), Amponsah, C. (Researcher), Deng, A. A. (Researcher), Furaha, A. (Researcher), Garang, A. A. (Researcher) & Oringa, C. (Researcher)
1/01/24 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
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Support to the Sudanese Peace Process: Engagement with the JPA Hold-Out Groups
Pospisil, J. (Principal Investigator)
1/10/21 → 30/11/22
Project: Project at former HEI
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Sustaining Peace in South Sudan – peace and conflict at the community level with support from the UN Peacebuilding Fund
Pospisil, J. (Principal Investigator)
1/06/20 → 31/01/21
Project: Project at former HEI
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The HDP Nexus in the Context of Peace Support Operations in Sub-Sahara Africa
Pospisil, J. (Principal Investigator)
1/04/20 → 31/01/21
Project: Project at former HEI
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Perceptions of Peace in South Sudan: Longitudinal Findings
Deng, D., Dawkins, S., Oringa, C. & Pospisil, J., 19 Oct 2022, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh. 132 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Konfliktlandschaften des Südsudan: Fragmente eines Staates
Pospisil, J., 9 Jul 2021, Transcript-Verlag. 337 p.Translated title of the contribution :Conflict landscapes of South Sudan: Fragments of a State Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Peace in Political Unsettlement: Beyond Solving Conflict
Pospisil, J., 1 Jan 2019, 1 ed. Palgrave Macmillan. 240 p. (Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Navigating Inclusion in Transitions from Conflict: The Formalised Political Un settlement: Navigating Inclusion
Bell, C. & Pospisil, J., 6 Jul 2017, In: Journal of International Development. 29, 5, p. 576-593 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access82 Citations (Scopus) -
The ungovernance of peace: transitional processes in contemporary conflictscapes
Pospisil, J., Oct 2020, In: Transnational Legal Theory. 11, 3, p. 329-352 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
4 Citations (Scopus)
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World Order, ideological (re)alignments and the War Against Ukraine
Pospisil, J. (Speaker)
5 Mar 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Workshop on ‘decolonising resilience’
Pospisil, J. (Organising Committee), Chandler, D. (Organising Committee), Furaha, A. (Organising Committee) & Mutesi Rehema, R. (Organising Committee)
3 Apr 2025 → 4 Apr 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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The Crisis in South Sudan
Pospisil, J. (Speaker)
19 Mar 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Geopolitics at the Horn of Africa
Pospisil, J. (Speaker)
10 Apr 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Becoming Resilient to Violence? Counter-radicalisation Strategies in Development Programming in South Sudan
Pospisil, J. (Speaker)
2 Mar 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Press/Media
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Rapid Support Forces attack the Red Sea city of Port Sudan with drones
6/05/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Wie sich im Sudan die größte humanitäre Krise der Welt anbahnt
21/04/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Of False Narratives and Shortcomings [Von falschen Narrativen und Versäumnissen]
10/04/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Sudanese army says it has taken control of Khartoum from RSF
26/03/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment