The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and the
Institute for African Studies present Book Talk: RESILIENT
COMMUNITIES: Non-VIOLENCE AND CIVILIAN AGENCY IN COMMUNAL WAR
(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 2018) Dr. Jana Kraus,
Author Senior Lecturer in Security/Conflict Department of Political
Science University of Amsterdam Moderated by Séverine Autesserre
Senior Research Scholar, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies;
Professor of Political Science, Barnard College Abstract In RESILIENT
COMMUNITIES: Non-VIOLENCE AND CIVILIAN AGENCY IN COMMUNAL WAR
(Cambridge University Press, 2018), Jana Krause analyzes CIVILIAN
AGENCY IN COMMUNAL CONFLICTS AND MOBILIZATION FOR VIOLENCE AND
NON-VIOLENCE ‘from below’. The book explains the causal role of
CIVILIAN AGENCY IN CONFLICT ESCALATION TO COMMUNAL WARS AND IN THE
EMERGENCE OF NONVIOLENT COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL RESILIENCE. Her
analysis draws on extensive fieldwork in ethno-religious conflicts in
eastern Indonesia (Ambon, Maluku province) and in central Nigeria
(Jos, Plateau State). RESILIENT COMMUNITIES WON THE 2019 LEE ANN FUJII
AWARD FOR INNOVATION IN THE INTERPRETIVE STUDY OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE
OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION’s Interpretive
Methodologies and Methods (IMM) Section and was Finalist for the 2019
Conflict Research Society Book of the Year Award. Bio Jana Krause is a
Senior Lecturer in Security and Conflict in the Department of
Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses
on CIVILIAN AGENCY AND CIVILIAN PROTECTION IN COMMUNAL CONFLICTS AND
CIVIL WARS; local peacebuilding and social resilience; and the gender
dimensions of peacebuilding. She has conducted extensive field
research on these issues in Indonesia and Nigeria, and more recently
in Kenya, South Sudan, and Myanmar. Krause holds a PhD from the
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva
and has been Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies
at King’s College London and at the Program on Order, Conflict and
VIOLENCE AT YALE UNIVERSITY. Event Contact Information: Brian
Fitzgerald 212-854-4616 bjf2141@columbia.edu
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