Emma Elfversson

Emma Elfversson is Associate Professor at the Department of Government, Uppsala University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of peace and conflict research, development studies, and comparative politics. More specifically, her ongoing and recent research concerns ethnic politics and communal violence, local conflict resolution, community policing, land rights, and urban violence. Empirically, she combines quantitative and in-depth qualitative research, with case studies focused on East Africa (in particular Kenya).