Kristine Eck Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research Uppsala University Box 514, 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden +46 (0)18 471 2350 kristine.eck@pcr.uu.se PRESENT POSITION 2015- Associate Professor (Docent, Universitetslektor), Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University 2010-2015 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University OTHER CURRENT APPOINTMENTS 2014-2015 Visiting Researcher at Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen DEGREES 2010 PhD, Peace and Conflict Studies, Uppsala University 2001 M.A. (Fil.Mag.), Political Science, Uppsala University 2000 Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, University of Kansas PREVIOUS POSITIONS and APPOINTMENTS 2014 Research Associate, School of Anthropology, University of Oxford 2012-2014 Researcher (2012-2013) & Visiting Lecturer (2014), Dept. of Security, Strategy, and Leadership, Swedish National Defence College 2011 Visiting Fellow at Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame 2005-2010 Doctoral candidate, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University 2003-2005 Project Leader within UCDP, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Articles Eck, Kristine. 2015. Repression by Proxy: How Military Purges and Insurgency Impact on the Delegation of Coercion. Journal of Conflict Resolution August, forthcoming. Eck, Kristine. 2014. Coercion in Rebel Recruitment. Security Studies, 23: 364-398. Eck, Kristine. 2014. The Law of the Land: Communal Conflict and Legal Authority. Journal of Peace Research 51(4): 441-454. Eck, Kristine. 2012. In Data We Trust? A Comparison of UCDP GED and ACLED Conflict Events Datasets. Cooperation and Conflict, 47(1): 124-141. Ralph Sundberg, Kristine Eck, and Joakim Kreutz. 2012. Introducing the UCDP Non-State Conflict Dataset. Journal of Peace Research, 49(2): 351-362. 1
Eck, Kristine. 2009. From Armed Conflict to War: Ethnic Mobilization and Conflict Intensification. International Studies Quarterly, 53(2): 369-388. Eck, Kristine and Lisa Hultman. 2007. One-Sided Violence against Civilians in War: Insights from New Fatality Data. Journal of Peace Research, 44(2): 233-246. Monographs Eck, Kristine. 2010. Raising Rebels: Participation and Recruitment in Civil War. Uppsala: Uppsala University Press. Book Chapters Eck, Kristine. 2011. Survey Research in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies, in Understanding Peace Research: Methods and Challenges, Kristine Höglund and Magnus Öberg, eds. London: Routledge. Eck, Kristine. 2010. Recruiting Rebels: Indoctrination and Political Education in Nepal, in The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal: Revolution in the 21 st Century, Mahendra Lawoti and Anup Pahari, eds. London: Routledge. Eck, Kristine. 2008. An Overview and Typology of Conflict Data: the Advantages of Data Diversity, Building and Using Datasets on Armed Conflicts, Mayeul Kaufmann, ed. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series, vol. 36. Amsterdam: IOS Press. Eck, Kristine, Bethany Lacina, and Magnus Öberg. 2007. Civil Conflict in the Contemporary World, in Resources, Governance and Civil Conflict, Kaare Strøm and Magnus Öberg, eds. London: Routledge. Eck, Kristine. 2007. Nepal, in International Security and the United States, Karl DeRouen and Paul Bellamy, eds. London: Praeger. Eck, Kristine. 2004. One-Sided Violence and Non-State Conflict, in States in Armed Conflict 2003, Lotta Harbom, ed. Uppsala: Uppsala University Press, p.133-142. Eck, Kristine. 2004. Collective Violence in 2002 and 2003, in States in Armed Conflict 2003, Lotta Harbom, ed. Uppsala: Uppsala University Press, p. 143-166. Reports and Other Publications Eck, Kristine. 2007. Recruiting Rebels: Indoctrination and Political Education in Nepal (abstract) Himalayan Journal of Development and Democracy, 22(2): 52. Eck, Kristine. 2005. Getting it Wrong: the Urban Myth About Civilian War Deaths, in Human Security Report: War and Peace in the 21st Century, Andrew Mack, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Eck, Kristine. 2005. A Beginner s Guide to Conflict Data: Finding and Using the Right Dataset, UCDP Research Paper Series, available at: http://www.pcr.uu.se/publications/ucdp_pub/ucdp_paper1.pdf Kreutz, Joakim and Kristine Eck. 2005. UCDP Non-State Conflict Codebook, Uppsala University. Available at: http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/ucdp/data_and_publications/datasets.htm Kreutz, Joakim and Kristine Eck. 2005. UCDP One-Sided Violence Codebook, Uppsala University. Available at: http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/ucdp/data_and_publications/datasets.htm 2
GRANTS (Principal Investigator) 2014 State Repression and the East Asian Peace East Asian Peace Program (funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences) 1.75 million SEK ($270,000) 2011-2014 Government Repression: The Targets, Strategies, and Patterns of State Human Rights Abuse. Co-PI with Peter Wallensteen. 1.8 million SEK ($262,000) 2011-2012 Women at War: Explaining Differential Levels of Female Participation in Rebellion. 1.7 million SEK ($247,000) 2011 Uppsala University Faculty of Social Sciences Post-doctoral Researcher Grant 900,000 SEK ($130,000) GRANTS (Participation) 2014 Political Institutions and Armed Conflict Research Council of Norway PI: Håvard Hegre. Other collaborators: Carl Henrik Knutsen, Bjørn Høyland, Pat Regan, Gudrun Østby and Hanne Fjelde 2012-2013 Myanmar s Political Opening: Its Impact on Ethnic Conflicts. Norwegian Foreign Ministry PI: Stein Tønnesson. Other Collaborators: Joakim Kreutz, Marte Nilsen. 1.9 million NOK ($313,000) 2008-2010 Communal Conflict Causes and Solutions. PI: Peter Wallensteen. Other Collaborators: Johan Brosché, Joakim Kreutz, and Hanne Fjelde. 2.1 million SEK ($173,000) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & INVITED TALKS A Repressive Inheritance: Decolonization and Dissent, presented at University College London, 7 May 2014; the European Political Science Association (EPSA) annual meeting, Edinburgh, 19-21 June 2014; the East Asian Peace (EAP) Program Annual Conference, Beijing, 29 October-1 November 2014; the 56 th Annual International Studies Association (ISA) Convention, 18-21 February 2015. A Field Experiment on Masculinity and Violence, with Olga Vera Hänni, presented at the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA) UNSCR 1325 Research Working Group Meeting, London, 21-22 October 2013. Repression and Civil Conflict in East Asia, presented at the East Asian Peace (EAP) Program Annual Conference, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, Hanoi, 17-18 October 2013. Law of the Land: Communal Conflict and Legal Authority, presented at the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence; Yale University, 13 April 2011; the Kroc Institute of International Peace 3
Studies, University of Notre Dame, 24 March 2011; the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO), 21 September 2011; and the American Political Science Association annual meeting, 2 September 2011. Regime Transition and Communal Violence, with Joakim Kreutz, presented at the 52 nd Annual International Studies Association (ISA) Convention, Montreal, 16-19 March 2011; and the 69 th Annual Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Convention, Chicago, 31 March-3 April 2011. Maoist Strategy, presented at the Nepal s Peace Process Conference; Chatham House, London, 19 October 2010. Microstudies under the Microscope: Poverty and Conflict in Nepal, presented at the Peace and Conflict Workshop, University of Notre Dame, 8 February 2011; Swedish National Conference on Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala, Sweden, 16-17 December 2010; and the New Researchers' Perspectives on the Nepalese People's War Workshop, Berder, France, 6-9 September 2010. Background Paper on Transitional Justice Datasets, presented at the The Role of Databases in Transitional Justice Research Workshop, University of Ulster, Belfast; 26 October 2010. Participation in Rebellion: Estimating Rebel Troop Size, 1946-2007, presented at the Jan Tinbergen Peace Science Conference, Amsterdam, 29 June-1 July 2009. Indoctrination in Rebel Recruitment: a Mechanism for Mass Mobilization, presented at the 49 th Annual International Studies Association (ISA) Convention, San Francisco, 26-30 March 2008. Recruiting Rebels: Indoctrination and Political Education in Nepal, presented at the 36 th Annual Conference on South Asia; and the 2 nd Annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference, Madison, WI, 10-14 October 2007. From Armed Conflict to War: Ethnic Mobilization and Rebel Recruitment, presented at the Jan Tinbergen Peace Science Conference, Amsterdam, 25-27 June 2007. An Overview and Typology of Conflict Data: the Advantages of Data Diversity, presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Indicators and Databases for Risk Prevention, Grenoble, France, 21-23 June 2007. Why War? Exploring a Rationalist Explanation for the Escalation of Violence in Nepal, presented at the 2006 Conference on Globalization and Peacebuilding, Uppsala, Sweden, 6-8 November 2006. Data on One-Sided Violence, presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Task Force on Political Violence Workshop, Philadelphia, 31 August-3 September 2006. From Conflict to War: Ethnic Mobilization and the Security Dilemma, presented at the 2006 Swedish Doctoral Conference on Methods, Varberg, Sweden, 12-13 June 2006. Natural Resources and the Severity of Civil Conflict, presented at 2006 Swedish PhD Student Symposium on Peace and Conflict Research, Stockholm, Sweden, 3-4 May 2006. Escalation of Intrastate Armed Conflict, presented at 2005 Swedish PhD Student Symposium on Peace and Conflict Research, Gothenburg, Sweden, 28-29 April 2005. Violence against Civilians in War: Insights from New Fatality Data, with Lisa Hultman, presented at the 46 th Annual International Studies Association (ISA) Convention, Honolulu, 1-5 March 2005. 4
Trends in Human Security, presented at The Balance of Power in Europe: Implications for Defense and Security; SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) workshop, Stockholm, 13-14 November 2003. From the Coal Face: Coding Puzzles and Solutions, presented at the Econometric Analyses of Civil War: Addressing the Problems of Contested Datasets and Findings, Rockefeller/PRIO/University of British Columbia Workshop, Oslo, Norway, 18-19 August 2003. OTHER AWARDS 2010 Visiting Fellowship, Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame 2008 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences research grant 2007 Theodor Adelswärds Memorial Fund grant 2006 The Lars Hierta Memorial Foundation grant 2006, 2008, 2010 Wallenberg travel grants (Uppsala University) 2006 ICPSR grant 2005 Nordic Institute for Asian Studies (NIAS) travel grant 2005 Nordic doctoral network on the Political Economy of Governance and Conflict (PEGC) travel grant SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Referee, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Civil Wars, Conflict Management and Peace Science, European Journal of International Relations, Himalaya, International Economic Journal, International Interactions, International Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Peace and Change, Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, Psychology of Violence, Security Studies, Sociological Perspectives, Terrorism and Political Violence, World Politics. Editorial Board, Himalaya (2012-) External Examiner: SOAS (PhD dissertation, 2013, 2014) University of Oslo (PhD dissertation, 2013; MA thesis, 2008) Uppsala University (PhD dissertation, 2014) Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (MA thesis, 2013) Graduate Supervision at Uppsala University Niklas Karlén (Chair/Main Supervisor) Sophia Hatz (Committee/Asst. Supervisor) 5