Johanna Søderstrøm

Stilling: gjest

Mobiltelefon: na

E-post: Johanna.Soderstrom@isp.uib.no

Besøksadresse: Christiesgt. 15

Romnummer: 319

Research Interests

Synergies between peacebuilding and democratization; the role of ex-combatants in politics; conditioning factors of political reintegration of ex-combatants; policy feedback and the creation of politics as a result of policy design/implementation, such as DDR; Liberia and Africa; political sociology; electoral violence and politics; methodology; focus groups.

Söderström, Johanna. 2009. ”Valerfarenheter bland f.d. kombattanter – en ny syn på demokrati i Liberia?” Politica 41( 3): 300-314.

Söderström, Johanna. 2010. "Ex-Combatants at the Polls: Exploring Focus Groups & Electoral Meaning." Anthropology Matters 12(1).

Söderström, Johanna. 2011. “Focus Groups: Safety in Numbers?” in Peace Research: Methods and Challenges, eds. K Höglund and M Öberg, pp 146-164. London & New York: Routledge.

Söderström, Johanna. 2011. "Dissent and Opposition among Ex-Combatants in Liberia" Democratization 18(5): 1146-1167.

Uddhammar, Emil, Green, Elliott D, and Johanna Söderström. 2011. "Political Opposition and Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa." Democratization 18(5): 1057-1066.

Söderström, Johanna. 2011. Politics of Affection: Ex-Combatants, Political Engagement and Reintegration Programs in Liberia. Department of Government, Uppsala University, Uppsala. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Skrifter utgivna av Statsvetenskapliga föreningen i Uppsala: 181.

Söderström, Johanna. (forthcoming). "Political Reintegration: Making Sense of a Forgotten Dimension." In Beyond Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration: the Evolving Nexus of Conflict, Recovery, and Development (working title), ed. N. Colletta and B. Oppenheim. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank.

Teaching Interests

Substantive: political sociology, peacebuilding, democratization, comparative politics

Methodological: focus groups, experiments, participant observation, regression analysis, MLE

• Second Time Around - Ex-Combatants at the Polls in Liberia

• Caught between Big Man Politics and Democratisation