THE CONFLICT RESEARCH SOCIETY GOVERNING COUNCIL

Govinda Clayton

Chair

Robert Nagel

Strategic Director

Hilary Adams

Treasurer

Kit Rickard

Secretary

Judith Large

Head of Practice Working Group

Hugh Miall

President

Kristin Bakke

Co-Chair of Sydney Bailey Prize

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Christine Cheng

Co-Chair of Sydney Bailey Prize

John Gledhill

Membership Secretary

Allard Duursma

Chair of the Book Prize

Valerie Sticher

CHAIR OF THE CEDRIC SMITH PRIZE

Corinne Barra

Council member

Tom Woodhouse

Council Member

Andrew Thomson

Council member

Gordon Burt

Council Member

Phillip Nelson

CRS Assistant

Finn Klebe

Conference Organiser

Jennifer Hodge

Conference Organiser

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Kristin Bakke

Co-Chair of Sydney Bailey Prize

Kristin M. Bakke is Professor in Political Science and International Relations at University College London (UCL) and Associate Research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). She holds a PhD and MA in political science from the University of Washington, Seattle, and has a BA in journalism and political science from Indiana University, Bloomington. She is from Norway.

Prior to joining UCL in 2009, Professor Bakke was a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard University, at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (2007-2008), and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Leiden University (2008-2009).

She is an Associate Editor at Journal of Peace Research and serves on the advisory board of Nations and Nationalism, the editorial board of Journal of Global Security Studies, and sits on the council of the British Conflict Research Society.

Professor Bakke’s research focuses on political violence, drawing on in-depth fieldwork, public opinion surveys, and cross-case statistical analyses. The questions and topics that motivate her research include why some states are better able to avoid conflicts within their borders than others, how institutions can (or cannot) promote intrastate peace, the dynamics within self-determination movements, post-war state-building, and the reasons for states’ restrictions of civil society. Her book, Decentralization and Intrastate Struggles: Chechnya, Punjab, and Québec (Cambridge University Press, 2015), received the Conflict Research Society’s Book of the Year award in 2016. Her work has also appeared in the Annals of American Association of Geographers, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Nations and Nationalism, Perspectives on Politics, Political Geography, Regional and Federal Studies, and World Politics.