Karl Sandstrom
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Biography
Karl has a military and security background before entering into university studies. He completed his Masters degree in Peace and Conflict studies at Malmoe University, Sweden, in 2005. His Masters dissertation 'Shadowlands' addressed international terrorism and international law.
Karl is currently in his final year of his PhD thesis at the University of St Andrews’ School of International Relations. The thesis focuses on issues faced in international peacebuilding and is a constructive attempt to bridge theory and practice of strategy formation. It is informed by field research in the US, the UK, Somaliland (NW Somalia), and Afghanistan during 2009.
Main focus of interests: Afghanistan, AfPak, Somalia, Somaliland, International peacebuilding, interventions, Horn of Africa.
Thesis Title
Context sensitive peacebuilding - a strategy development
Supervisor
Prof. Oliver Richmond & Prof. Andy Williams
Research Interests
Peacebuilding, state building, Afghanistan, Somalia, Somaliland, international strategies, civilian-military interaction, institutional ethnography, social formations, state structures, societal organisation
Papers
Pax Liberalis ¿ Spreading 'Enlightenment' to the 'Barbaric' fringes (for presentation at a conference at Yale University
Conferences
Yale University 27-8 March 2009. Presented ‘Pax Liberalis – Spreading enlightenment to the barbaric fringes’ about Somalia at a conference on ‘Neo-Imperialism in post-independence Africa’.
University of Leeds 4-5 December 2009. Presented ‘Under the shade of the Meeting tree’ about Somaliland at conference on ‘Democratization in Africa: Retrospective and future prospects’.
University of Glasgow 15-6 March 2010 Paper accepted ‘Beyond the Taliban – Understanding a complex operational environment’ To be presented at conference on ‘Afghanistan’s Next Crossroads: Ten Years of International Intervention, 2001-2011’.
University of St Andrews 24-5 March 2010. Paper accepted ‘Contextual disconnect – The failure of the international community in Somalia’ to be presented at conference on ‘The globalization(s) of the conflict in Somalia’.
University of Bonn 26-9 July 2010. Paper accepted ‘Walking the line – Peacebuilding in the AfPak border region’ to be presented at conference on ‘Taliban, Durand Line, and Refugees – the Afghan-Pakistan border region under stress’.
