Dr. Nina Wilén is Director for the Africa Programme at the Egmont Institute for International
Relations and Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the Lund University. She
is a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO) and the Editor-in-Chief of
International Peacekeeping. She has published extensively on women, peace and security and more
particularly on women and SSR, with a focus on the military institution.
Her research interests include conflict analysis and peace processes and the relation between
sovereignty and intervention. More specifically she has been doing research on Security Sector
Reform (SSR), the politics of peacekeeping operations and gender and the military. Geographically
her research has been concentrated to Sub-Saharan Africa, where she has conducted fieldwork in
Liberia, the DRC, Burundi, Rwanda and South Africa. She has published extensively the challenges of
peacebuilding and peace operations in a range of international academic journals such as Gender,
Work and Organization, Third World Quarterly and Journal of Eastern African Studies.