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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 2015- Associate Professor (Docent, Universitetslektor), Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research,

Uppsala University 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 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2010-2015 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University (on leave

2012-2013) 2014 Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Security, Strategy, and Leadership, Swedish National Defence

College 2012-2013 Researcher, Dept. of Security, Strategy, and Leadership, Swedish National Defence

College 2005-2010 Doctoral candidate, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University 2003-2005 Project Leader, UCDP, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University VISITING FELLOWSHIPS 2014-2015 Visiting Researcher, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen 2014 Research Associate, School of Anthropology, University of Oxford 2011 Visiting Research Fellow, Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Articles Eck, Kristine. 2015. “Repression by Proxy: How Military Purges and Insurgency Impact on the

Delegation of Coercion.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 59(5): 924-946. Eck, Kristine. 2014. “Coercion in Rebel Recruitment.” Security Studies, 23: 364-398. Eck, Kristine. 2014. “The Law of the Land: Communal Conflict and Legal Authority.” Journal of Peace

Research 51(4): 441-454. 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.

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Eck, Kristine. 2009. “From Armed Conflict to War: Ethnic Mobilization and Conflict Intensification.” International Studies Quarterly, 53(2): 369-388.

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. Work in Progress “Ill-Treatment and Torture in Sweden.” With Christopher Fariss. “Respect for Human Rights in East Asia and the World.” With Christopher Fariss. A Repressive Inheritance: Dissent and Decolonization. Book manuscript. “Examining the Influence of International Norms and Sanctioning on State Respect for Prisoners’ Rights:

A Field Experiment with Foreign Embassies.” With Zhanna Terechshenko, Charles Crabtree, and Christopher Fariss.

Book Chapters Eck, Kristine. 2016. “The Repressive Peace,” in Debating the East Asian Peace, Elin Bjärnegård and Joakim

Kreutz, eds. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, forthcoming. 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. 2015. “Cracking Down on Conflict: East Asia’s Repressive Peace,” Global Asia 10(4): 46-51. 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.

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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 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) 2017-2019 “Encouraging State Respect for Human Rights: A Series of Randomized Experiments” With Chris Fariss and Charles Crabtree (University of Michigan)

Swedish Research Council (Nr. 2016-02632) 3.6 million SEK ($400,000)

2014-2016 “State Repression and the East Asian Peace”

East Asian Peace Program (funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences) (Nr. M10-0100:1)

2.25 million SEK ($270,000) 2011-2014 “Government Repression: The Targets, Strategies, and Patterns of State Human Rights

Abuse.” Co-PI with Peter Wallensteen. Swedish Research Council (Nr. 421-2010-1514)

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

Swedish Research Council (Nr. 435-2010-6662) 1.7 million SEK ($247,000) 2011 Uppsala University Faculty of Social Sciences Post-doctoral Researcher Grant

900,000 SEK ($130,000) GRANTS (Participation) 2014 “Political Institutions and Armed Conflict” Research Council of Norway (Nr. V10/217995) PI: Håvard Hegre. Other collaborators: Carl Henrik Knutsen, Bjørn Høyland, Pat Regan,

Gudrun Østby and Hanne Fjelde. 2012-2013 “Myanmar’s Political Opening: Its Impact on Ethnic Conflicts.”

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

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

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

2.1 million SEK ($173,000)

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & INVITED TALKS “A Repressive Inheritance: Decolonization and Dissent”

- Political Economy of State Repression workshop, Princeton University, 21-22 October 2016 - University of Kent, School of Politics & International Relations, 24 February 2016 - 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA), Giardini-Naxos, Italy, 23-26

September 2015 - 111th American Political Science Association (APSA) meeting, San Francisco, 4-7 September 2015 - 56th International Studies Association (ISA) Convention, New Orleans, 18-21 February 2015 - 4th East Asian Peace (EAP) Program Conference, Beijing, 29 October-1 November 2014 - European Political Science Association (EPSA) annual meeting, Edinburgh, 19-21 June 2014 - University College London (UCL), Dept. of Political Science, 7 May 2014

“The Origins of Policing Institutions: Legacies of Colonial Insurgency”

- Workshop on New Findings from the Archives of Political Conflict at the 50th annual meeting of the Peace Science Society, South Bend, IN, 20 October 2016

“The Price of Peace: Repression and Quiescence in East Asia”

- Keynote address, 6th East Asian Peace (EAP) Program Conference, Uppsala, 15-16 June 2016 “Trends in One-Sided Violence by Non-State Actors” (with Lisa Hultman)

- Sudikoff Annual Interdisciplinary Seminar on Genocide Prevention: Advancing Research on Mass Atrocities Perpetrated by Non-State Actors, Washington D.C. (via videolink), 3 June 2016

“Respect for Human Rights in East Asia and the World” (with Chris Fariss)

- 5th annual East Asian Peace (EAP) Program Conference, Singapore, 5-8 November 2015 “A Field Experiment on Masculinity and Violence” (with Olga Vera Hänni)

- Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA) UNSCR 1325 Research Working Group Meeting, London, 21-22 October 2013

“Repression and Civil Conflict in East Asia”

- 3rd 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”

- 107th American Political Science Association (APSA) meeting, 2 September 2011 - Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO), 21 September 2011 - Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, 24 March 2011 - Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence, Yale University, 13 April 2011

“Regime Transition and Communal Violence” (with Joakim Kreutz)

- 69th Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Convention, Chicago, 31 March-3 April 2011 - 52nd International Studies Association (ISA) Convention, Montreal, 16-19 March 2011

“Maoist Strategy”

- Nepal’s Peace Process Conference; Chatham House, London, 19 October 2010 “Microstudies under the Microscope: Poverty and Conflict in Nepal”

- New Researchers' Perspectives on the Nepalese People's War Workshop, Berder, France, 6-9 September 2010

- Swedish National Conference on Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala, Sweden, 16-17 December 2010

- Peace and Conflict Workshop, University of Notre Dame, 8 February 2011

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“Background Paper on Transitional Justice Datasets” - 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”

- Jan Tinbergen Peace Science Conference, Amsterdam, 29 June-1 July 2009 “Indoctrination in Rebel Recruitment: a Mechanism for Mass Mobilization”

- 49th International Studies Association (ISA) Convention, San Francisco, 26-30 March 2008 “Recruiting Rebels: Indoctrination and Political Education in Nepal”

- 36th Conference on South Asia, 11-14 October 2007 - 2nd Himalayan Policy Research Conference, Madison, WI, 10 October 2007

“From Armed Conflict to War: Ethnic Mobilization and Rebel Recruitment”

- Jan Tinbergen Peace Science Conference, Amsterdam, 25-27 June 2007 “An Overview and Typology of Conflict Data: the Advantages of Data Diversity”

- NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Indicators and Databases for Risk Prevention, Grenoble, France, 21-23 June 2007

“Data on One-Sided Violence”

- Task Force on Political Violence Workshop, American Political Science Association (APSA), Philadelphia, 31 August-3 September 2006

“Violence against Civilians in War: Insights from New Fatality Data” (with Lisa Hultman)

- 46th International Studies Association (ISA) Convention, Honolulu, 1-5 March 2005 “Trends in Human Security”

- 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”

- 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

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 grant 2006 The Lars Hierta Memorial Foundation grant 2006, 2008, 2010 Wallenberg travel grants (Uppsala University) 2006 Swedish Research Council ICPSR grant 2005 Nordic Institute for Asian Studies (NIAS) travel grant 2005 Nordic network on the Political Economy of Governance and Conflict (PEGC)

travel grant

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SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Referee, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science,

Civil Wars, Comparative Political Studies, Conflict Management and Peace Science, European Journal of International Relations, Himalaya, International Economic Journal, International Interactions, International Peacekeeping, International Political Science Review, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, National Science Foundation, Peace and Change, Perspectives on Politics, Political Geography, Political Research Quarterly, Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, Psychology of Violence, Security Studies, Sociological Perspectives, Terrorism and Political Violence, World Politics.

Editorial Board, Himalaya (2012-) External Examiner

SOAS (PhD dissertation: 2013, 2014) University of Oslo (PhD dissertation: 2013; MA thesis: 2008) Uppsala University (PhD dissertation: 2014, 2016) Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (MA thesis: 2013) Swedish National Defense College (6 MA theses: 2014)

Doctoral Supervision at Uppsala University

Niklas Karlén (Chair/Main Supervisor), PhD expected 2017 Sophia Hatz (Committee/Asst. Supervisor), PhD expected 2018

Supervision of MA Theses at Uppsala University Aušra Padskoimaite (2009), Lars Trautmann (2009), Lucia Perna (2010), Julia Tzolova (2010), Josefin Eriksson (2012), Olga Vera Hänni (2013), Aron Dannrin (2013), Niccolo Tobia (2014), Ingrid van der Heijden (2015), Eric Röst (2015), Johannes Wander (2016), Claire Maizonnier (2016), Chris Marshall (2016), David Dews (2016)

Supervision of MA Theses at Swedish National Defense College

Niklas Berger (2014), Magnus Blimark (2014), Peter Bovét (2014), Jangseok Choi (2014), Carl-Erik Lyzell (2014), Ylva Pekkari (2014)

Dissertation Reader

Roxanna Sjöstedt Illmari Käihkö

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