Books

  • The Micro-sociology of Peace and Conflict

    Demonstrates how micro-interaction between people shapes larger patterns of peace and conflict. This book features chapters on the methods of micro-sociology (including Video Data Analysis) as well as analytical chapters on violence, nonviolence, conflict transformation, peace talks and international meetings.

    This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

    Cambridge University press (2024)

  • Resolving International Conflict

    The book suggests a new framework for understanding conflict as a particular form of situation, interaction and tension. It shows how conflicts are shaped by varied dynamics relating to emotion, securitization, incentives, digital technology and violence; even attempts at monitoring, resolving or remembering conflicts may end up contributing to their escalation or continuation.

    Co-author with Poul Poder and Ole Wæver at Routledge (2019)

  • Route causes of conflict

    Route causes of conflict: trajectories of violent and nonviolent escalation in Bahrain, Tunisia and Syria (PhD thesis, University of Copenhagen).

    Copenhagen University Press, PhD. dissertation (2017)

  • International Konfliktløsning

    This book is a basic introduction to the conflict resolution approach to international conflicts from conflict escalation to de-escalation at elite as well as grassroots level.

    Co-authored with Vindeløv & Boye at Samfundslitteratur (2016)

ARTICLES

2023              Austin J. & Bramsen I., Video Data Analysis in International Relations, In review, European Journal of International Relations. (in review)

2023              Bramsen, I. & Hagemann, A., How research travels to policy: The case of Nordic peace research, In: International Affairs. (Accepted for publication).

2022              Bramsen I. & Austin, J., Analysing Affects and Interaction in Video Footage: The Methodological Promise of Video Data Analysis in Peace Research, Conflict, Security & Development.

2022              Bramsen, I., Transformative face-to-face diplomacy? Micro-sociological observations from the Philippine peace talks, International Affairs

2021              Bramsen, Agonistic Interaction in Practice: Laughing, Dissensus and Hegemony in the Northern Ireland Assembly, paper submitted to Third World Quarterly.

2022              Strömbom, L., Bramsen, I. & Stein A. (2022), Agonistic peace agreements? Analytical tools and dilemmas, Review of International Studies

2021              Strömbom & Bramsen, Introduction to special issue: “Advancing Agonistic Peace Analyses in Peace and Conflict Studies – unpacking and applying agonism in local-to-global transitions”. Third World Quarterly

2021              Bramsen, I. & Hagemann, A., The missing sense of peace: diplomatic approachment and virtualization during the COVID-19 lockdown, In: International Affairs.

2020              Bramsen, How did the Syrian uprising become militarized? In: Orient. 61, 4, p. 20-26.

2020              Bramsen, To Strike Together: Conflict Rituals and the Situational Power of Nonviolence, Journal of Resistance Studies.

2020              Bramsen, From civil resistance to civil war: Nonstrategic mechanisms of militarization in the Syrian Uprising, Peace and Change.

2019              Bramsen, Avoiding Violence: Eleven Ways Activists Can Confine Violence in Civil Resistance Campaigns. Conflict Resolution Quarterly.

2018              Bramsen, Micro-Dynamics of Repression: How Interactions between Protesters and Security Forces Shaped the Bahraini Uprising, Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies.

2018              Bramsen, How violence happens (or not): Situational conditions of violence and nonviolence in Bahrain, Tunisia and Syria, Psychology of Violence.

2018              Bramsen, How Civil Resistance Succeeds (Or Not): Micro-dynamics of Unity, Timing, and Escalatory Actions. Peace and Change.

2017              Bramsen How Violence Breeds Violence: Micro-dynamics and Reciprocity of Violent Interaction in the Arab Uprisings. International Journal of Conflict and Violence.

2016              Friis, Tsinovoi & Bramsen, Introduction: New Media and Conflict in the Middle East. Politik.

2014              Bramsen & Poder, Understanding three basic emotional dynamics in conflicts: A situational research agenda, Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies.

BOOK CHAPTERS

2024              “In practice, it just happens”  : How Nordics work together in peace and conflict resolution, Nordic Peace, Routledge                    

2023              Bramsen, The web of relations shaping the Philippine peace talks. In Relational peace practices (pp. 174-197). Manchester University Press.

2019              Wæver & Bramsen, Introduction: Revitalizing Conflict Studies, in Resolving International Conflict: dynamics of escalation, continuation and transformation, Routledge.

2019              Bramsen, Escalation or De-Mobilization? Diverging Dynamics of Conflict Displacement and Violent Repression in Bahrain and Syria, in Resolving International Conflict, Routledge.

2019              Bramsen & Poder, How conflict escalation happens, in Resolving International Conflict: dynamics of escalation, continuation and transformation, Routledge.

2019              Bramsen & Poder, Conclusion, in Resolving International Conflict: dynamics of escalation, continuation and transformation, Routledge.

2018              Bramsen & Poder, Emotions in Conflict and Conflict Transformation. Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation. Berghof Foundation

2017              Bramsen, Perceptions of Peace in Costa Rica, in Fred, Forsoning og Mægling.

2017              Bramsen, Hvorfor endte Syriens ikkevoldelige opstand i borgerkrig?, Politologisk Årbog.

Policy briefs & reports

2023     National Dialogues x Protest Movements, Berghof Foundation. https://berghof-foundation.org/library/national-dialogues-protest-movements

2022     At the gates to peace: mediators as gatekeepers. PRIO. https://www.prio.org/publications/13059

2022     Controversies of Inclusion in the Colombian Peace Process: The balancing Act of Introducing New Norms and Gaining Popular Support. PRIO. https://www.prio.org/publications/13050

2019     Bramsen & Hagemann, New Nordic Peace: Nordic peace and conflict resolution efforts. Report commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers. https://www.norden.org/en/publication/new-nordic-peace