Author: annekathrinkreft

I am looking for a researcher with an interest in political violence, very good statistics skills and an interest in a mixed-methods designs to join my DFG-funded project "Violence against Political Actors at the Grassroots Level". 👉 https://en.kfn.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/08/Stellenausschreibung_Politische-Gewalt-an-der-Basis_englisch.pdf

I am delighted to report that I have received a grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the three-year, mixed-methods project "Violence against political actors at the grassroots level." The focus will lie on individuals active in civil society organizations, political parties and party youth organizations in Germany, who have never competed in democratic … Continue reading New research grant

Karin Johansson Schaftenaar (Uppsala University) and I have received a grant from the Swedish Research Council for a 3-year project entitled "Between Exigency and Backlash: International Responses to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence."With transnational anti-feminist and anti-gender movements on the rise, and in a context of major geopolitical transformations, prior commitments to combatting CRSV have weakened in … Continue reading New research grant

The article "Imperfect Victims? Civilian Men, Vulnerability and Policy Preferences," co-authored with Mattias Agerberg, is now included in the most recent issue of the American Political Science Review. Using survey experiments of U.S. and UK respondents, we show that people underestimate the extent to which civilian men become victims in war, consider them less innocent … Continue reading Article on public attitudes towards male victims of conflict violence in new APSR issue

At the beginning of 2024, I started my new position as researcher at the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony. I have been warmly welcomed and look forward to working with a wonderful team over the next years. As co-head of the research unit "Victimology," my research will focus even more than in the past … Continue reading Started new position

I have a new publication out with Ida Bastiaens and Evgeny Postnikov. We examine the relationship between labor provisions in preferential trade agreements and women's rights in the Global South: http://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13267

Our article (with A. Towns and B. Niklasson) on gender patterns in ambassador appointments is an Editor’s Pick for the European Journal of Politics and Gender 2023 Student Reading List. All articles on the reading list, from the three categories of "gender and IR", "LGBTQIA* politics and policies" and "gender equality and public policy" are … Continue reading Article on gender patterns in ambassador appointments on EJPG Student Reading List 2023

Karin Johansson, postdoctoral fellow at Uppsala University, and I have a new short article out in a special issue commemorating the 75th anniversary of UN peacekeeping in Global Governance. We take stock of what research tells us about the responsiveness of (UN) peacekeeping to conflict-related sexual violence, its effectiveness in reducing this violence, and we … Continue reading New short article on sexual violence and peacekeeping

My new article "Imperfect Victims? Civilian Men, Vulnerability, and Policy Preferences," co-authored with Mattias Agerberg, is now published in the American Political Science review. In different survey experiments among the U.S. public - and with replications in the UK - we show that respondents underestimate the extent of men's victimization and vulnerability in war, perceive … Continue reading New article in APSR