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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 2011- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. 2014- Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Security, Strategy, and Leadership, Swedish National Defence

College. OTHER CURRENT APPOINTMENTS 2014- Research Associate, School of Anthropology, University of Oxford. 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 2012-2013 Researcher, Dept. of Security, Strategy, and Leadership, Swedish National Defence

College Spring 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, Human Security Project (UCDP), Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research,

Uppsala University PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Articles Eck, Kristine. 2014. “Coercion in Rebel Recruitment” Security Studies, forthcoming. Eck, Kristine. 2014. “The Law of the Land: Communal Conflict and Legal Authority.” Journal of Peace

Research, forthcoming. 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. Eck, Kristine. 2009. “From Armed Conflict to War: Ethnic Mobilization and Conflict Intensification.”

International Studies Quarterly, 53(2): 369-388.

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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.

Working Papers “Extraordinary Measures? Women Combatants in Civil War.” “Repression by Proxy: How Military Purges and Insurgency Impact on the Delegation of Coercion” “Chasing Causation: Unpacking the Poverty-Conflict Correlation in Nepal” 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 21st 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

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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

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)

720,000 SEK ($110,000) 2011-2014 “Government Repression: The Targets, Strategies, and Patterns of State Human Rights

Abuse.” Swedish Research Council

1.8 million SEK ($262,000) 2011-2012 “Women at War: Explaining Differential Levels of Female Participation in Rebellion.”

Swedish Research Council 1.7 million SEK ($247,000) 2011 Uppsala University Faculty of Social Sciences Post-doctoral Researcher Grant

900,000 SEK ($130,000) GRANTS (Participation) 2012-2013 “Myanmar’s Political Opening: Its Impact on Ethnic Conflicts.”

Norwegian Foreign Ministry Project Leader: Stein Tønnesson. Other Collaborators: Joakim Kreutz, Marte Nilsen.

1.9 million NOK ($313,000) 2008-2010 “Communal Conflict—Causes and Solutions.”

Swedish Research Council Project Leader: Peter Wallensteen. Other Collaborators: Johan Brosché, Joakim Kreutz, and Hanne Fjelde.

2.1 million SEK ($173,000) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & INVITED TALKS “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 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 52nd Annual

International Studies Association (ISA) Convention, Montreal, 16-19 March 2011; and the 69th Annual Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Convention, Chicago, 31 March-3 April 2011.

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“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 49th Annual

International Studies Association (ISA) Convention, San Francisco, 26-30 March 2008. “Recruiting Rebels: Indoctrination and Political Education in Nepal,” presented at the 36th Annual

Conference on South Asia; and the 2nd 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

46th Annual International Studies Association (ISA) Convention, Honolulu, 1-5 March 2005. “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.

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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, for fieldwork in Nepal 2006 The Lars Hierta Memorial Foundation, for fieldwork in Nepal 2006, 2008, 2010 Wallenberg travel grants (Uppsala University) 2006 Swedish Research Council, for attendance at ICPSR 2005 Nordic Institute for Asian Studies (NIAS) travel grant for a visit to NIAS 2005 Nordic doctoral network on the Political Economy of Governance and Conflict

(PEGC) travel grant for course attendance at NTNU 1996-2000 National Merit Scholarship, 1996-2000, University of Kansas

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, 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, Sociological Perspectives, Terrorism and Political Violence, World Politics.

Editorial Board, Himalaya (2012-). External Examiner: SOAS (PhD dissertation, 2013), University of Oslo (PhD dissertation, 2013; MA

thesis, 2008), NTNU (MA thesis, 2013).