Peter wallerstein biography

Peter Wallensteen, born 29 July in Stockholm, is a peace and conflict researcher in Sweden, now Senior Professor in Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. He was the first holder of the Dag Hammarskjöld Chair in Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, He was the Richard G.

Starmann Sr. Research Professor of Peace Studies, at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA), From to he directed the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University.

He is recognized in the scholarly community through his studies of international economic sanctions, where he is leading SPITS, the Special Program on the Implementation of Targeted Sanctions.

The program deals primarily with UN economic sanctions.^[1]

One of his major contributions to international peace research is the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), which he initiated in and led until UCDP collects data on armed c