Research Interests
I conduct research on the effect of military and non-military third-party interventions on civil war outcomes. My Phd examined the competing interventions of Saudi Arabia and Iran in Yemen between 2004 and 2018. My current research focuses on how disarmament is negotiated and implemented in civil wars and the links between education and conflict.
Background
Working experience
Senior Researcher, Conditions of Violence and Peace, PRIO 2020-
Researcher, Conditions of Violence and Peace, PRIO 2019-2020
Research Assistant, Conditions of Violence and Peace, PRIO 2017-2019
Project manager, Middle-East Office, Antall Jozsef Knowledge Centre, Hungary 2014-2016
Research Assistant, Desalinization fields vulnerability to terrorist attacks, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh 2016
Education
Phd (2020) Corvinus University of Budapest, Security and Conflict Studies
M.Phil, International Relations and Political Science, Corvinus University of Budapest
BA, International Relations, Corvinus University
Blog Posts
Posted by Júlia Palik on Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Yemen’s conflict has been described as a forgotten war. Peace, up until recently, has been even more forgotten. The new US administration has begun a new a military and diplomatic track to end the fighting. Biden has made Yemen one of his foreign policy priorities, selected veteran diplomat Timothy Lenderking ... Read more »
Posted by Júlia Palik on Thursday, 14 May 2020
This piece is part of our blog series Beyond the COVID Curve. COVID-19 has quickly changed everything from our daily routines, to the policies of governments, to the fortunes of the global economy. How will it continue to shape society and the conditions for peace and conflict globally in the near ... Read more »
Posted by Júlia Palik, Govinda Clayton, Simon J. A. Mason & Siri Camilla Aas Rustad on Wednesday, 23 October 2019
On the surface, it should be easy. Practitioners and policy makers always require better knowledge to make informed decisions, and academics (nearly) always seek that their research makes an impact in the “real” world. Yet this rarely works out. In most cases academic-practice-policy dialogues, forums, meetings and conferences rarely produce ... Read more »
Posted by Júlia Palik on Friday, 7 December 2018
This week the spotlight is on Sweden and UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths: On Wednesday representatives of the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels arrived in Stockholm to find solutions to what the UN described as the ‘worst [humanitarian] crisis in the world’. The Saudi Arabia-led nine-member coalition has been at ... Read more »
Posted by Júlia Palik on Thursday, 25 October 2018
Hungary is in the international spotlight again. On 12 September 2018, the European Parliament voted in favor of the Sargentini report – named after the author, the Dutch MEP Judith Sargentini– with a two-thirds majority. The report called for the activation of Article 7 (1) of the Treaty on European ... Read more »
Posted by Júlia Palik on Thursday, 5 April 2018
Looking at the most recent polls, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán can be calm about the upcoming elections on the 8th of April. The only real question is whether his Fidesz party will win with a simple or a constitutional majority. But what is the secret of this football enthusiast? ... Read more »