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Dr Jannie Lilja
Director of Studies
Dr Jannie Lilja
Dr Jannie Lilja was previously the Director of Studies for Peace and Development Research at SIPRI. Before that, she served as a senior fragility specialist with the World Bank’s Fragility Conflict Violence Group. Prior to joining the World Bank she was a Swedish diplomat and researcher with the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University.
Her areas of expertise cover peacebuilding, war and peace dynamics, disinformation, resilience, negotiations, and development in conflict settings. She has published several articles and book chapters on these topics. Jannie has contributed to the development of peacebuilding policy, including SDG 16, in her former capacity as lead on security and development in the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. She has also served as Swedish Delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Subject expertise
Peacebuilding, prevention, war and peace dynamics, resilience, disinformation, development in conflict settings, non-state armed groups, civilians during conflict, negotiations, gender, youth
Regional expertise
South Asia, Middle East and North Africa.
Languages
English, French, Swedish
Education
PhD Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
MSc Development Studies, London School of Economics
MSc and BSc International Economics and Business, Stockholm School of Economics
BA International Relations, Stockholm University.
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Financing peacebuilding ecosystems (Blog, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Mapping Pathways for Peace through the Composition of Official Development Assistance (SIPRI, Stockholm: August 2023)
- Chronic Crisis Financing? Fifty Years of Humanitarian Aid and Future Prospects (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2022)
External publications
- Lilja, J., Eklund, N., & Tottie, E. (2024). Civic Literacy and Disinformation in Democracies. Social Sciences, 13(8), 405.
- Lilja, J., Ferrari, G., Alvarado, J., Fabich, L. A., Kyzy, G. A., Kenny, L., & Hossain, M. (2024). Territorial control by non-state armed groups and gendered access to healthcare in conflict using a new complex adaptive systems framework. Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1), 1-18.
- Lilja, J., Fear of the future? The missing peace, Institute for Development and Peace, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Duisberg Essen (2024)
- Lilja, J. and Ahmad, A. S., Health system resilience and peacebuilding in fragile and conflict-affected settings, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Volume 63 (Aug 2023)
- Lilja, J., Hossain, M., Ferrari, G. et al., Territorial control and nonstate armed groups: What are the implications for healthcare in conflict-affected settings? SIPRI Working Paper for the Lancet Commission on Peaceful Societies through Health Equity and Gender Equality (2021)
- Milante, G., J. Lilja, J. Kluyskens, J. Lindström, Practicing Peacebuilding Principles: A Study of Sweden’s Engagement with Fragile and Conflict-Affected States, EBA Report 2021:08, The Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA), Sweden (Feb 2022)