Publications

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Book

Krause, Jana. 2018. Resilient Communities: Non-Violence and Civilian Agency in Communal War. Cambridge University Press. 

  • Winner, Lee Ann Fujii Award for Innovation in the Interpretive Study of Political Violence (2019), awarded by the American Political Science Association Interpretive Methodologies and Methods (IMM) Section 

  • Finalist, UK Conflict Research Society Book of the Year Award (2019) 

  • Reviewed in Perspectives on Politics, International Peacekeeping, Global Policy Journal

Edited Volumes & Special Issues

[In preparation] Krause, Jana and Louise Olsson. Gender, Peace and Security: Resistance and Resilience. Special journal issue, workshop scheduled for 1-3 December, Nairobi.  

 Krause, Jana, Juan Masullo, Emily Paddon-Rhoads and Jennifer Welsh. 2023. Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings. Oxford University Press.  

  • Reviewed in Civil Wars; International Peacekeeping 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Ceasefires and Civilian Protection Monitoring in Myanmar. Global Studies Quarterly 2:1, 1-12, 2022. With Erin Kamler.  

Ethics of Ethnographic Research in Conflict Zones. Journal of Peace Research, 58:3, 329-341, 2021.  

 Restrained or Constrained? Elections, Communal Conflicts and Variation in Sexual Violence. Journal of Peace Research, 57:1 185–198, 2020.
- 2020 Nils Petter Gleditsch Article of the Year Award of the Journal of Peace Research  

 2019. Gender Dimensions of (Non)Violence in Communal Conflict: The Case of Jos, Nigeria. Comparative Political Studies, 52:10, 2019, 1466–1499.  

 Women’s Participation in Peace Negotiations and the Durability of Peace. International Interactions, 44:6, 985-1016, 2018. With Werner Krause and Piia Braenfors. 

Stabilization and Local Conflicts: Communal and Civil War in South Sudan. Ethnopolitics, 18:5, 478-493, 2019. 
- Reprinted in Belloni, Roberto and Francesco Moro (eds): Stabilization as the New Normal in International Interventions. London: Routledge.  

 Non-Violence and Civilian Agency in Communal War: Evidence from Jos, Nigeria. African Affairs, 116: 463, 261–283, 2019. 

A Wealth of Expertise and Lived Experience: Conversations between International Women Peace Activists at the ‘Women Lead to Peace Summit’ preceding the Geneva II Peace Talks on Syria, January 2014, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 17:2, 328-338, 2015. With Cynthia Enloe. 

 Global and Local Policy Responses to the Resource Trap. Global Governance, 17:2, 247-264, 2011. With Carbonnier, Gilles and Fritz Brugger. 

Work in Progress

Gender, Peace and Security: Resistance and Resilience. Introduction article to special issue (with Louise Olsson). [In progress] 

The Promise and Peril of Resilience Building in Protracted Conflict: Findings from South Sudan. Last presented at the Conflict Research Society Annual Meeting 2025. [Working paper] 

Communal Violence Exposure Worsens Violence Against Women: Findings from Kenya. With Marika Miner. [Working Paper] 

All for the Birds? Local Peace Agreements and Resilience building in South Sudan. Last presented at Swisspeace, May 2025. [Working paper] 

Multi-Level Conflict: Communal Violence and Civil War in South Sudan. Last presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2025. [Working paper] 

Community Capacity and NGO Resilience Building: Findings from Northern Nigeria. With Imrana Buba [Working Paper] 

Advancing Communal Violence Research: Concept, Definition and Measurement. With Marika Miner, Imrana Buba and Melanie Sauter. [Preprint, Under Review] 

Can Local Peacebuilding Strengthen Social Resilience to Communal Violence? Insights from Kenya. (Kathleen Klaus and Marika Miner. [Preprint, Under Review] 

Civilian Militia Formation and Civilian Protection from Rebel Violence. With Imrana Buba. [Under review] 

How Climate Change Worsens Communal Violence in South Sudan. With Marika Miner. [Working Paper]

Book Chapters 

UN Peacekeeping and Communal Violence. In: Vanessa Newby and Chiara Ruffa (eds): The Oxford Handbook of Interpreting UN Peacekeeping. Forthcoming: Oxford University Press.  

 Civilian Protective Agency – An Introduction. In: Krause, Jana, Juan Masullo, Emily Paddon-Rhoads and Jennifer Welsh (eds): Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings. Oxford University Press. 2023. With Juan Masullo and Emily Paddon-Rhoads.  

 Civilian Protection Monitoring in Myanmar. In: Krause, Jana, Juan Masullo, Emily Paddon-Rhoads and Jennifer Welsh (eds): Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings. Oxford University Press, 2023.  

Women’s Participation in Peace Processes. In MacGinty, Roger and Anthony Wanis-St.John (eds): Contemporary Peacemaking: Conflict, Violence and Peace Processes. Palgrave Macmillan. With Louise Olsson.  

Research Dilemmas in Dangerous Places: Exploring Security Actors, Institutions and Practices in Conflict-Affected Countries. In Marieke de Goede, Polly Pallister-Wilkins and Esme Bosma: Secrecy and Methods in Security Research. London: Routledge. With Fairlie Chappuis.  

Revisiting Protection from Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Actors, Victims, and Power. In: Gizelis, T-I. and L. Olsson (eds): A Systematic Understanding of Gender, Peace and Security: Implementing UNSCR 1325. Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution Series, 2015.  

 Gender Equality and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Revisiting Gender Mainstreaming in Research and Policy. In: Gizelis, T-I. and L. Olsson (eds): A Systematic Understanding of Gender, Peace and Security: Implementing UNSCR 1325. Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution Series, 2015. With Theodora-Ismene Gizelis. 

 Die Konstruktion religiöser Gewalt im Kontext des Regimewechsels in Indonesien und Nigeria. In: Stephanie Garling/ Simon W. Fuchs (eds), Religion in Diktatur und Demokratie, Villigster Profile, Wuppertal, 2011. 

Democratic Governance. In: Vincent Chetail (ed), Post-Conflict Pecebuilding. A Lexicon. Oxford University Press. 2009. With Rama Mani.

Non Peer-reviewed Writing & Policy Papers 

UN Local Peacebuilding and Women’s Participation in South Sudan: Findings from a Database. With Marika Miner and Debjani Banerjee. [Working Paper] 

Response to Ashley Jackson’s review of Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings Civil Wars, 2024. With Juan Masullo, Emily Paddon Rhoads and Jennifer Welsh.  

Women, Peace and Security and the Prevention of Communal Conflicts. Research brief, Folke Bernadotte Academy, UN Women and PRIO, 2020.  

Budgeting and Gender Budgeting in Myanmar: The Current Situation and Opportunities for Reform. Research report. Yangon: Myanmar Institute of Gender Studies. With Lorenzo Crippa, Theodora-Ismene Gizelis and Paul Minoletti. 2021.

Differences in Citizens’ Budget Preferences in Myanmar: Evidence from a New Survey. Research report. Yangon: Myanmar Institute of Gender Studies. With Lorenzo Crippa, Theodora-Ismene Gizelis and Paul Minoletti.  2021.

Women’s Participation in Peace Negotiations and the Durability of Peace. Research Brief, Conflict, Security and Development Research Group, King’s College London.  2018.

Prevention of Conflict-related Sexual Violence: What does Academic Research tell us?’ in Prevention of Wartime Rape, Panel Discussion Report from the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, Global Diplomatic Forum, London. 2014.

A Deadly Cycle: Ethno-Religious Conflict in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Geneva: Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development, (65pp).  2011.

The German Civil Peace Service: Synthesis Report. Volume II: Case Studies and Annexes (with Paffenholz, Thania, Daniel Fino, Oliver Juetersonke, Sandra Reiman).  2011

Resource Wealth, Autonomy, and Peace in Aceh: Managing the Economic Dimensions of Conflict in Peace Processes. Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding Working Paper No. 3. Geneva, 2009. With Achim Wennmann. 

Media Commentary & Op-Eds 

Kenya’s peacebuilding efforts hold valuable lessons for the rest of the world, but gaps remain. The Conversation (with Leonor Toscano and Marika Miner). 2025.

Security in Nigeria: Bola Tinubu will increase tension in some parts of the country and reduce it in others. The Conversation (with Imrana Buba). 2023.

 Explaining Nigeria’s Christmas Killings. openDemocracy, 3 January 2011.