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Dr Angela Muvumba Sellström
Associate Senior Researcher
Dr Angela Muvumba Sellström
Dr Angela Muvumba Sellström is an Associate Senior Researcher with SIPRI’s Peace and Development studies. Her work focuses on the determinants of Africa’s security policies and the gendered dimensions of conflict and peace processes. She is Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI). With over 25 years of experience, she has led multiyear projects on sexual violence and armed groups’ wartime behaviour; and the role of elected members of the UN Security Council. She She is currently exploring how global governance and geopolitical competition shape peace and security dynamics.
Dr Muvumba Sellström is also a Visiting Researcher at Uppsala University’s Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Life and Peace Institute (LPI), and a Non-resident Fellow at the International Peace Institute (IPI).
Subject expertise
UN Security Council, non-permanent members of the Security Council, African Union (AU), women, peace and security (WPS) agenda, conflict-related sexual violence, Armed actors, conflict mediation, amnesties
Regional expertise
Africa, Great Lakes, South Africa
CONTACT Dr Angela Muvumba Sellström
Languages
English
Education
PhD, Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden
External publications
- Muvumba Sellström, A., ‘At the Watchtower: Africa and the UN Security Council’s Elected Ten (E10)’, International Peacekeeping, 27 May 2023.
- Elfversson, E., Höglund, K., Muvumba Sellström, A., Pellerin, C., ‘Contesting the Growing City? Forms of Urban Growth and Consequences for Communal Violence’, Political Geography (2023).
- Olsson, L., Chang, P., Sellström, A.M., ‘Examining E10 Strategies and Decisions’, Global Governance (2023).
- Muvumba Sellström, A., Beyond the Weapon-of-War Thesis: Ordered and Enabled Wartime Sexual Violence, Folke Bernadotte Academy, 21 April 2021.
- Olsson, L., Muvumba Sellström, A., Moncrief, S., Wood, E.J., Johansson, K., Lotze, W., Ruffa, C., Hoover Green, A., Sjöberg, A.K., Kishi, R., ‘Peacekeeping Prevention: Strengthening Efforts to Preempt Conflict-related Sexual Violence’, International Peacekeeping (2020).
- Muvumba Sellström, A., ‘Lifting the Burden? The Ethical Implications of Studying Exemplary, Not Pathological, Wartime Sexual Conduct’, in Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention: A Guide to Research in Violent and Closed Contexts, 4 June 2020.
- Muvumba Sellström, A., ‘Burundi’s Rebel Groups and the Stigmatisation of Wartime Sexual Violence’, Journal of Sexual Aggression (2019).
- Wallensteen, P., Wieviorka, M., Abraham, I., Aggestam, K., Bellamy, A., Cederman, L.E., Ferret, J., Vilmer, J.B.J., Heitmeyer, W., Muvumba-Sellström, A. et al., ‘Violence, Wars, Peace, Security’, in Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Report of the International Panel on Social Progress, Volume 2: Political Regulation, Governance and Societal Transformations (2018).
- Hultman, L., Sellström, A.M., ‘WPS and Protection of Civilians’, in Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace and Security (2018).