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Johanna Söderström is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at Uppsala University's Department of Political Science, with additional affiliation as a researcher at the Institute for Research on Conflicts of Goals in Sustainable Social Transition. Her work intersects democratization, peacebuilding, and statebuilding, focusing on political mobilization of ex-combatants, relational peace conceptualization, and African taxation practices.
- PhD in Political Science (2011), Uppsala University
- MA in Political Science and Social Science (2005), Uppsala University
- BA in Political Science (2004), Uppsala University
- IB Diploma (2000), Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa
Her research spans post-war political integration of veterans, methodological exploration of focus groups and life history interviews, and taxation as an everyday political practice in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent publications analyze supervision's impact on student outcomes and frameworks for relational peace, reflecting her dual focus on pedagogy and conflict resolution.
Key article trends include:
- 2025: Evidence-based supervision in education
- 2024: Tax compliance frameworks and peacebuilding theory
- 2023: Tax systems in Namibia and elite dynamics in Cambodia
- 2022: Methodological challenges in peace research
Awarded an EURIAS research fellowship (Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions – COFUND Program – FP7) in 2017/2018, she contributes to debates on pluralism, temporality, and affect in peace research. Her work appears in journals like Journal of Political Science Education, Journal of Modern African Studies, and Qualitative Research.
She co-edited Relational Peace Practices (Manchester University Press, 2023), advancing frameworks for analyzing post-conflict governance. Her methodological innovations include life diagrams for capturing political narratives.
Current affiliations include the Institute for Research on Conflicts of Goals in Sustainable Social Transition, where she examines systemic challenges in social transformation.
