Nina Wilén is an External Associate at PRIO.
Additional positions:
Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Political Science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
Email: nina.wilen@ulb.ac.be
Twitter: @WilenNina
Nina Wilén is Director for the Africa Program at the Egmont Institute for International Relations and Assistant Professor in Political Science at Lund University. Prior to taking up these posts, she was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB); Antwerp University and the Royal Military Academy in Belgium. She was a Visiting Researcher at Stellenbosch University in 2015 and at Lund University in 2017. She has also been a lecturer at Sciences Po, Paris. Her research interests include conflict resolution and peace processes and more specifically the role of gender and the military in peace processes. She has published extensively on these themes in a range of international journals such as Gender, Work and Organization, Third World Quarterly and International Peacekeeping. She is the author of the book: Justifying Interventions in Africa: (De) Stabilizing Sovereignty in Liberia, Burundi and the Congo. Nina is the Editor-in-Chief for International Peacekeeping since January 2020. In 2018 she was appointed a PRIO Global Fellow.
Book Chapter in The Justification of War and International Order: from Past to Present
Journal Article in PRISM
Report - Other
Journal Article in International Affairs
Report - External Series
Report - External Series
Report - External Series
Book Chapter in Handbook on Intervention and Statebuilding
Journal Article in Armed Forces & Society
Journal Article in International Feminist Journal of Politics
The Sahel region is increasingly affected by transnational security threats which spill across national borders, such as insurgency, terror attacks, uncontrolled migration and illicit trafficking in commodities. A key reason for the persistence of those threats is the poor performance of the region’s security forces.