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Dr Jonathan Hall
Senior Researcher
Dr Jonathan Hall
Jonathan Hall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in Sweden. He was previously a Senior Researcher on Peacebuilding in the SIPRI Peace and Development research area. He received his PhD in Peace and Conflict Research in 2013 and has served as the head of the Uppsala Peace Lab – a program on experimental peace and conflict research – since 2016. The Lab conducts continuous field experiments in challenging environments such as in post-conflict settings and among refugees in host countries across the Middle East and Europe.
His particular area of expertise lies in understanding how the experience of warfare shapes human social cooperation and the psychological mechanisms involved using experimental methods. He has received multiple grants for which he has served as Principal Investigator from the United States Federal Government, Sweden and EU institutions, and has coordinated grants with multiple partners across North America, Europe and the Middle East. His research has appeared in such prestigious outlets as the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Social Psychological and Personality Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution and numerous other international peer-reviewed journals.
Subject expertise
Political psychology of cooperation and conflict, war exposure, traumatic stress and traumatic growth, displacement, discrimination, intergroup trust and altruism in conflict and post-conflict settings
Regional expertise
Former Yugoslavia, Middle East
Languages
English, Swedish
Education
PhD Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University; MA Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University; BA Political Science, Seattle Pacific University
Citizenship
United States
Sweden
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Child development and resilience in war, conflict and displacement (Topical backgrounder, )
External publications
- Gustaf Gredebäck, G., Haas, S., Hall, J. et al, Social cognition in refugee children: An experimental cross-sectional study of emotional processing with Syrian families in Turkish communities, R. Soc. Open Sci. 8: 210362 (Aug 2021)
- Canevello, A., Hall, J. and Walsh, J. I., Empathy-mediated altruism in intergroup contexts: The role of posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth, Emotion (2021) - Forthcoming
- Hall, J., Kahn, D., Skoog, E. and Öberg, M., War exposure, altruism and the recalibration of welfare tradeoffs towards threatening social categories, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2021)
- Hall, J.and Khan, D., Exposure to war-time trauma decreases positive emotions and altruism towards rival outgroups (but not non-rival outgroups): a field experiment among Syrian refugees, Social Psychological and Personality Science 11(4): 552-559 (2020)
- Eikemo, T. A., Hall, J. and Rapp, C., Does individual health have implications for individuals’ attitudes towards minority groups? A case study from the Greek population, Journal of Refugee Studies 32(1): i238-2i52 (2019)
- Hall, J., Integration of refugees and support for the ethos of conflict, Journal of Conflict Resolution 62(9): 2040-2067 (2018)
- Hall, J., Kovras, I., Stefanovic, D., and Loizides, N., Exposure to violence and attitudes towards transitional justice, Political Psychology 49(2): 345-363 (2018)
- Hall, J., Are migrants more extreme than locals after war? Evidence from a simultaneous survey of migrants in Sweden and locals in Bosnia, Journal of Conflict Resolution 60(1):89-117 (2016)
- Melander, E., Öberg, M. and Hall, J., Are ‘new wars’ more atrocious? Battle severity, civilians killed and forced migration before and after the end of the Cold War, European Journal of International Relations 15(3): 505-536 (2009)