My name is Zander Willoughby, and I am a recent master\u2019s graduate from the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. Over autumn and winter 2025\u20132026, I will join the \u00c5land Islands Peace Institute as a research trainee through the Erasmus+ programme.<\/p>\n
My research has focused on the gendered aspects\u2014especially masculinity norms\u2014of climate change and communal violence, as well as unarmed civilian protection, strategic nonviolence, and demilitarisation. I have previously worked with Search for Common Ground on ConnexUs, as well as with Nonviolent Peaceforce, the Alliance for Peacebuilding, and the Manchester University Peace Studies Institute.<\/p>\n
Since questions of autonomy frequently arise in peace negotiations, I look forward to deepening my understanding of the \u00c5land example to inform my future work and research in peacebuilding\u2014while also taking the opportunity to improve my Swedish during my stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My name is Zander Willoughby, and I am a recent master\u2019s graduate from the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. Over autumn and winter 2025\u20132026, I will join the \u00c5land Islands Peace Institute as a research trainee through the Erasmus+ programme. My research has focused on the gendered aspects\u2014especially masculinity norms\u2014of climate change and communal violence, as well as unarmed civilian protection, strategic nonviolence, and demilitarisation. I have previously worked with Search for Common Ground on ConnexUs, as well as with Nonviolent Peaceforce, the Alliance for Peacebuilding, and the Manchester University Peace Studies Institute. Since questions of autonomy frequently arise in peace negotiations, I look forward to deepening my understanding of the \u00c5land example to inform my future work and research in peacebuilding\u2014while also taking the opportunity to improve my Swedish during my stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":33735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[592,608],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internship","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34544,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33737\/revisions\/34544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}