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Dr Jan Pospisil is an Associate Professor (Research) at Coventry University's Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations. 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, which is funded by UK FCDO, and is a co-investigator in the six-year follow-up programme Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep). He is the author of ‘Peace in Political Unsettlement’, published by Palgrave Macmillan. His most recent monograph on South Sudan as a fragment state has just been published in German by transcript.
Jan has extensive field research experience in Sub-Sahara Africa with a focus on South 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 also 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.
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Education/Academic qualification
Political Science, Doctorate, University of Vienna
Award Date: 6 Nov 2007
Political Science, MA, University of Vienna
Award Date: 23 Nov 2001
External positions
Board Member, Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution
1 Oct 2022 → …
Affiliated Researcher, Austrian Institute for International Affairs
1 Sep 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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Support to the Sudanese Peace Process: Engagement with the JPA Hold-Out Groups
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
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
1/04/20 → 31/01/21
Project: Project at former HEI
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Public Perceptions of Peace in South Sudan
Deng, D., Pospisil, J., Dawkins, S. & Oringa, C.
1/01/20 → 31/08/22
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
Open Access -
Konfliktlandschaften des Südsudan: Fragmente eines Staates
Translated title of the contribution :Conflict landscapes of South Sudan: Fragments of a State Research output: Book/Report › Book
Open AccessFile11 Downloads (Pure) -
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 Access46 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
2 Citations (Scopus)