Personal Date of birth 23 March 1979 Address Avenue René Gobert 78, 1180 Uccle, Belgium E-mail caroline.holmqvist@gmail.com Employment Current 2014 Researcher, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) 2011 Senior lecturer, Department of Security and Strategy, Swedish National Defence College, Stockholm Previous 2010 2011 Postdoc Researcher, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) 2004 2006 Research Associate, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) 2001 2002 Internship, Foreign Policy Centre, London 1999 2001 (periodic) Researcher, British Embassy, Stockholm Academic affiliations and editorial board membership 2014 - Fellow (collaboratrice scientifique), Centre de Recherche et Enseignements en Politique Internationale (REPI), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). 2014 - Member of editorial board of Critical Military Studies Journal (Taylor and Francis) 2010 - Member of the International Studies Association (International Political Sociology section) 2011 2013 Visiting Researcher, Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). 2002 2003 Member of editorial board of Millennium Journal of International Studies Education 2006-2010 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in War Studies, King s College London
2002-2003 Master of Science (MSc) in International Relations London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 1998 2001 Bachelor of Science (BSc) in International Relations 1 st Class Honours London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 1997 1998 Université catholique de l Ouest, Angers, France Alliance Française Diplôme Supérieur de Langue et Littérature Publications Monographs Policing Wars: On Military Intervention in the Twenty-First Century (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Edited volumes War, Police and Assemblages of Intervention (co-edited with Jan Bachmann and Colleen Bell) (London: Routledge, 2014). The Character of War in the 21st Century (co-edited with Christopher Coker) (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2010). Journal articles (peer review) War, strategic communication and the violence of non-recognition, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, vol. 26, no. 4 (2013). Undoing war: war ontologies and the materiality of drone warfare, Millennium Journal of International Studies, vol. 41, no. 3 (2013). War/space: shifting spatialities and the absence of politics in contemporary accounts of war, Global Crime, vol. 13, no. 4 (2012). Les affairs et la sécurité: quel role pour le secteur privé?, Politique Étrangère, issue 1 (2006) [ Business and security: what role for the private sector? ] Co-author with Alyson Bailes. Book chapters Enlisting Madison Avenue: contemporary war masquerading as a communications enterprise in Masquerades of War ed. Christine Sylvester (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2015). Perpetual policing wars in The Character of War in the 21st Century eds. Christopher Coker and Caroline Holmqvist (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2010). Engaging armed non-state actors in Security Governance and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding eds. A. Bryden and H. Hänggi (Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2005). Major armed conflicts, SIPRI Yearbook 2006: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Major armed conflicts, SIPRI Yearbook 2005: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) Co-author with Renata Dwan. Reports The Increasing Role of Private Military and Security Companies, study requested by the European Parliament Subcommittee on Security and Defence (Brussels: European Parliament, 2007) Co-author with Alyson Bailes. The Private Security Industry, States, and the Lack of an International Response, study commissioned by the Programme on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard University Findings presented at seminar convened March 2007 by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (HEI, Geneva). Private Security Companies The Case for Regulation, SIPRI Policy Paper no. 9 (Stockholm: SIPRI, 2005). Research funding and grants Recipient of grant of 4,2 million SEK (457,000 EURO) for three year research project entitled TIME AND DISCOURSES OF GLOBAL POLITICS from the Swedish Research Council (2014-2017). (Joint application with Dr Tom Lundborg, Researcher, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI).) Recipient of grant of 110,000 SEK (12,000 EURO) from the Swedish Foundation of Humanities and Social Sciences for hosting of international workshop at the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, entitled From defeating the enemy to creating good order? Exploring police-military assemblages in Western interventions, 25-26 Sept. 2011. (Joint application with Dr Jan Bachmann, Gothenburg University.) Recipient of postdoctoral research grant, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), funded by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2010). Recipient of School of Social Sciences and Public Policy (SSPP), King s College London, full studentship (fees plus maintenance grant) for three years of doctoral research (2006-2009). Speeches and conference papers (select) Temporalities of warfare, paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association ANNUAL GLOBAL IR AND REGIONAL WORLDS, New Orleans, Hilton, LA, 18-22 Feb. 2015. The human experience of war, in a world that seems to be speeding up, Keynote speech given at international workshop Virtual Zones of Peace and Conflict, Centre for Resolution of International Conflicts (CRIC), Copenhagen University, 12-13 Jan. 2015. Undoing war, Guest seminar held at Lund University, 27 Nov. 2014.
Reflections on Mark Neocleous War Power, Police Power, Book symposium, London School of Economics and Political Science, 20 Nov. 2014. Automation and undoing : (re)thinking materialities and virtualities of war, paper presented at the Millennium Annual Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Materialism and World Politics, Oct. 2012. War, strategic communication and the violence of non-recognition, paper presented at workshop From defeating the enemy to creating good order? Exploring police-military assemblages in Western interventions, Gothenburg University, Sept. 2011. Enlisting Madison Avenue, paper presented at Masquerades of War, Lund University, May 2012. War, strategic communication and the violence of non-recognition, workshop Wars beyond war, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. The study of war, Paper presented at the International Relations Seminar Series, organised jointly by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), Swedish National Defence College (SNDC) and the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Dec. 2011. Conceptualisations of space in contemporary policing wars, Paper presented at the International Relations Seminar Series, organised jointly by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), Swedish National Defence College (SNDC) and the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, June 2009. War and statebuilding in the 21st century, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 50th ANNUAL CONVENTION EXPLORING THE PAST, ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE, New York Marriott Marquis, New York City, NY, USA, Feb. 2009. The policing approach to war and the trivialisation of conflict, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 2009. Presentation of The Private Security Industry, States, and the Lack of an International Response, study commissioned by the Programme on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard University Findings presented at seminar convened March 2007 by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (HEI, Geneva) Analytical overview of the issue of PMCs/PSCs [private military/security companies], 7 TH BRUGES COLLOQUIUM, Private Military/Security Companies Operating in Situations of Armed Conflict, Collège d Europe (College of Europe), Bruges, Belgium, 19 Oct. 2006. Teaching Swedish National Defence College 2013 Security Studies (Political Science advanced level) 2012 Security Studies (Political Science advanced level) 2012 Supervised eight Bachelor theses 2012 Pedagogic qualification Higher Education 1 King s College London
2007-2008 The Causes of War Seminar instructor Consultancy and Media Presented research findings at the European Council (Conseil d Europe), Paris, May 2008. Presented research findings at the European Parliament, Subcommittee on Security and Defence, Brussels, 2007. Consultant to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva and the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs in their inter-state dialogue on the use of Private Security Companies 2005-2008, resulting in the Montreux Document on Pertinent International Legal Obligations and Good Practices for States related to the Operations of Private Military and Security Companies during Conflict (17 September 2008). Miscellaneous Reviewer for articles in, i.a., Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Relations, International Political Sociology, Regulation and Governance and for Oxford University Press (book manuscript). Sept. 2010 Sept. 2011 Parental leave 12 months May 2013 May 2014 Parental leave 12 months