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Joakim Öjendal
Professor
School of Global StudiesAbout Joakim Öjendal
I have a BA in international Relation and received my Ph D in Peace and Development Research. I have extensive experience in international issues of both research and policy nature and span naturally from. Often Asia has been my primary geographical interest.
Areas of interestI have several active fields as a researcher. Primarily I work with “peacebuilding” and “post-conflict reconstruction” after deep-seated violence, genocide and/or civil war. Related to this interest, I also engage in issues of democratization with a special interest in local governance, decentralisation, and local democracy. I also work actively with the political economy of natural resource management, especially transboundary water management. I have worked most extensively in Cambodia, but also in many other parts of Asia, and, increasingly, the Global South. For my interest in resource issues, the greater Mekong Basin (spanning from Northwest China to Southern Vietnam) has been my primary focus.
Current researchI currently work in a book projecr named ”The imperative of good local governance: Challenges for the next decade of decentralization” med ICLD och UNU Press (Tokyo). I lead a multidisciplinary research project extending over several Universities, labelled ”Precarious peacebuilding”. I am a partner in a research project named ”Global climate change and transboundary water management”, which involves several researchers and universities/institutes. I am also pursuing a, as of yet unfunded, research project tentatively named “Taking it to the Ground - Peacebuilding through a Local Government Approach”, which may start up more fully by 2013.
Teaching and tutoringI teach at all levels at the university system, primarily at Masters and Ph D level. I am the main supervisor for six Ph D Candidates, and a number of Masters students every year.
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Externally Funded Civil Society in Nationally Owned Development. Rwandan and Cambodian CSO-Experiences Illustrating yet a Clash of
Ideals
Malin Hasselskog, Vedaste Ndizera, Joakim Öjendal
Journal of Development Studies - 2025 -
8. Local Participation in the Context of National Ownership: The Playing out of Aid Nurtured Ideals in Rwanda and
Cambodia
Malin Hasselskog, Vedaste Ndizera, Joakim Öjendal
Fragile Aid. Development Cooperation in Weak States and Conflict Contexts - 2025 -
Routledge Handbook of Water and
Development
Sofie Hellberg, Fredrik Söderbaum, Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal
2024 -
Introduction: The Water–Development
Nexus
Sofie Hellberg, Fredrik Söderbaum, Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal
Routledge Handbook of Water and Development - 2024 -
Water as a Tool for
Modernity
Joakim Öjendal, Sofie Hellberg
Routledge Handbook of Water and Development - 2024 -
The Political Economy of Land-Water Resource Governance in the Context of Food Security in Cambodia, CDRI Working Paper Series No.
142
Joakim Öjendal, Nong Monin, Sean Chanmony, Bunnath Zoe, Ngin Chanrith
2023 -
‘Connecting National Ownership and Local Participation in Aid Recipient Countries: The Cases of Rwanda and
Cambodia’.
Malin Hasselskog, Joakim Öjendal, Vedaste Ndizera
2023 -
“Case Studies on Water and Development:
Cambodia”
Joakim Öjendal
Handbook on Water and Development - 2023 -
Handbook of Security and the
Environment
Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal, Anders Jägerskog
2021 -
Introduction–Peacebuilding Amidst
Violence
Joakim Öjendal, Jan Bachmann, Maria Stern, Hanna Leonardsson
Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding - 2021 -
Achieving peaceful climate change adaptation through transformative
governance
Hanna Leonardsson, Annica Kronsell, Erik Andersson, Anders Burman, Ruy Blanes, Karen da Costa, Malin Hasselskog, Olga Stepanova, Joakim Öjendal
World Development - 2021 -
Introduction: Security and the environment - The
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A. Swain, Joakim Öjendal, A. Jägerskog
Handbook of Security and the Environment - 2021 -
Peacebuilding Amidst
Violence
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Peace through Security-Development:
Nebulous Connections, Desirable
Confluences?
Maria Stern, Joakim Öjendal
In Toje and Bard (eds), The Causes of Peace: What We Now Know - 2019 -
“Environmental Conflict and peacebuilding: An
Introduction”,
Joakim Öjendal, Ashok Swain
Routledge Handbook of Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding - 2018 -
Atomised and subordinated? Unpacking the role of international involvement in ‘the local turn’ of peacebuilding in Nepal and
Cambodia
Martin Lundqvist, Joakim Öjendal
Journal of Peacebuilding and Development - 2018 -
The ‘Local Turn’ in Peacebuilding: The Liberal Peace
Challenged
Joakim Öjendal, Isabell Schierenbeck, Caroline Hughes
2017 -
'Something has to yield’ – climate change undermining transboundary water governance (as we know
it)
Joakim Öjendal, Gustav Rudd
The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy - 2017 -
Local Peacebuilding - Challenges and
Opportunities
Joakim Öjendal, Hanna Leonardsson, Martin Lundqvist
2017 -
Advancing 'development' through an ips
approach
Stina Hansson, Joakim Öjendal
Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology - 2016 -
The imperative of good water governance in
Cambodia
Joakim Öjendal, R. Bandeth
The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia - 2016 -
The ‘awkward’ success of peacebuilding in Cambodia: creative and incomplete, unsustainable yet resilient, progressing but
stalling
Joakim Öjendal, Sivhuoch Ou
Peacebuilding and Friction. Global and Local Encounters in Post-Conflict Societies - 2016 -
Transboundary water management and the climate change
debate
Anton Earle, Ana Cascao, Stina Hansson, Anders Jägerskog, Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal
2015 -
The ‘local turn’ saving liberal peacebuilding? Unpacking virtual peace in
Cambodia
Joakim Öjendal, Sivhouch Ou
Third World Quarterly - 2015 -
Transboundary Water Management and the Climate Change
Debate
Stina Hansson, Joakim Öjendal, Ashok Swain, Anton Earle, Ana Cascao, Anders Jägerskog
2015 -
The struggle versus the song: the local turn in
peacebuilding
Caroline Hughes, Joakim Öjendal, Isabell Schierenbeck
Third World Quarterly - 2015 -
Gender Policy in Political Parties in Cambodia, Working Paper No
87
Joakim Öjendal, Kim Sedara
2014 -
Gendering Decentralization in
Cambodia,
Joakim Öjendal, Kim Sedara
2014 -
Water Security – Origins and Foundations, Volume
I
Anders Jägerskog, Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal
2014 -
Water Security – International Conflict and Cooperation, Volume
II
Anders Jägerskog, Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal
2014 -
Water Security and Development: An intimate relation, Volume
III
Anders Jägerskog, Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal
2014 -
The Age of Water Security: Current dilemmas and future challenges, Volume
IV
Anders Jägerskog, Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal
2014 -
Voice, Choice, and Decision: A Study of Local Governance
Processes
Joakim Öjendal, Robin Biddulph, Pak Kimchoeun
2013 -
In Search of a Civil Society - Re-negotiating State-Society Relations in
Cambodia’
Joakim Öjendal
Southeast Asia and the Civil Society Gaze: Scoping a Contested Concept in Cambodia and Vietnam - 2013 -
Voice, Choice, and Decision: A Study of Local Basic Service Delivery in
Cambodia
Joakim Öjendal, Pak Kimchoeun
2013 -
Cambodian election levels political playing
field
Joakim Öjendal
The Oxford Analytica Daily Brief - 2013 -
Introduction: Local Governance as an Under-Researched
Field’,
Joakim Öjendal, Anki Dellnäs
The Imperative of Good Local Governance: State of the Art of Local Governance and the Challenges for the Next Decade - 2013 -
Reconstruction and Local Democratization in Cambodia? – An Empirical Review of the Potential of a Decentralization
Reform’
Joakim Öjendal, Kim Sedara
The Imperative of Good Local Governance: State of the Art of Local Governance and the Challenges for the Next Decade - 2013 -
Challenges for Local Governance for the Next
Decade
Joakim Öjendal, Anki Dellnäs
The Imperative of Good Local Governance: State of the Art of Local Governance and the Challenges for the Next Decade - 2013 -
From friction to hybridity in Cambodia: 20 years of unfinished
peacebuilding’
Joakim Öjendal, OU Sivhuoch
Peacebuilding - 2013 -
The ‘Local Turn’ Saving Liberal Peacebuilding? - Unpacking virtual peace in
Cambodia’
Joakim Öjendal, Ou Sivhuoch
Presented at The Local Turn of Peacebuilding, conference at Bradford, UK, 30-31/8 2013. - 2013 -
A Gendered Anbalysis of decentralisation Reform in
Cambodia
kin sedara, Joakim Öjendal
2013 -
The Imperative of Good Local Governance: State of the Art of Local Governance and the Challenges for the Next
Decade
Joakim Öjendal, Anki Dellnäs
2013 -
Voice, Choice, and Decision: A Study of Local Governance
Processes
Joakim Öjendal, Robin Biddulph, Kim Sedara
2012 -
Statsbyggnad, demokrati och mänskliga
rättigheter
Joakim Öjendal, Peter Johansson
Om krig och fred / Karin Aggestam & Kristine Höglund (red.) - 2012 -
Politics and Development of the Mekong River Basin - Transboundary dilemmas and participatory
ambitions
Joakim Öjendal, Kurt Mørck Jensen
Politics and Development in a Transboundary Watershed – The Case of the Lower Mekong Region - 2012 -
Politics and Development in a Transboundary Watershed - The Case of the Lower Mekong
Basin
Joakim Öjendal, Stina Hansson, Sofie Hellberg
2012 -
The Security-Development Nexus: Peace, Conflict and
Development
Ramses Amer, Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal
2012 -
Politics vs Development in a Transboundary River Basin – The Case of the Mekong
Basin
Joakim Öjendal, Stina Hansson, Sofie Hellberg
Politics and development in a transboundary watershed : the case of the Lower Mekong Basin - 2012 -
Politics and Development in a Transboundary Watershed: The Case of the Lower Mekong
Basin
Stina Hansson, Sofie Hellberg, Joakim Öjendal
Politics and development in a transboundary watershed : the case of the Lower Mekong Basin - 2012
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