Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament (AMC)

Lisa Hultman is professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research and the Director of the Alva Myrdal Centre (AMC) for Nuclear Disarmament at Uppsala University. Before joining AMC, she served as Deputy Head of Department for more than seven years. She has previously held research positions at the Swedish National Defence University and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.

Lisa Hultman’s research interests include conflict dynamics and violence against civilians, international norms and institutions, protection of civilians, and intervention effectiveness.

Peter Andersson is an Associate Professor in the division of Applied Nuclear Physics at Uppsala University, where he leads a working group on technical verification and monitoring for the Alva Myrdal Centre on nuclear disarmament. His research focuses on non-destructive assay of nuclear materials, to look inside without opening, utilizing neutron and gamma-ray techniques for applications in disarmament verification, nuclear fuel performance, and nuclear safeguards.

Peter has a PhD from Uppsala University, specializing in fast-neutron tomography using portable neutron generators. Following his doctoral studies, he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Halden Reactor Project in Norway, pioneering passive gamma tomography for examination of used nuclear fuel. In 2023, he joined the International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification (IPNDV), contributing to global efforts in advancing verification mechanisms for nuclear disarmament. Follow link to contact info and publication lists.

Dr Isak Svensson is the Dag Hammarskjöld Professor in Peace and Conflict Research at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, where he teaches and does research on various aspects of conflict resolution.

His research focuses on international mediation and negotiations, religious dimensions of armed conflict, and dynamics of nonviolent civil resistance.

Dr. Thomas Jonter is Guest Professor at the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament (AMC), Uppsala University.

He has a PhD in History from Uppsala University and a degree in Organisational Leadership (Postgraduate Diploma) from University of Oxford. Before Jonter joined the AMC, he was professor of International Relations at the Department of Economic History and International Relations, Stockholm University. At Stockholm University, he served as Head of Department 2006-2009 and 2016-2020 and was director of the Stockholm University Graduate School of International Studies at SU, 2013-2016.

Since 2024, he leads one of AMC’s working groups. Dr. Jonter has also been a visiting researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Stanford University and Cornell University. He is also chair of the Swedish Pugwash group.

Jonter’s research is focused on disarmament policy, nuclear non-proliferation and NATO’s enlargement in a Nordic perspective. He has published a number of books and articles and received the 2019 Atomic Bomb Diploma from Swedish Physicians Against Nuclear Weapons for, amongst other things, the book The Key to Nuclear Restraint. The Swedish Plans to Acquire Nuclear Weapons, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). He is on the editorial board of Global Nuclear Histories, McGill-Queen’s University Press and is an advisor to the research program Nuclear Knowledges, Sciences Po, Paris.

Dr Sibylle Bauer is Director of Studies, Armament and Disarmament at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), with responsibility for SIPRI’s work on arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation; dual-use and arms trade control; emerging technologies; and arms production, arms transfer and military expenditure. She is also the current Chair of the EU Non-proliferation and Disarmament Consortium.

Before joining SIPRI in 2003, Dr Sibylle Bauer was a Researcher at the Institute for European Studies (Université libre de Bruxelles) in Brussels. She holds a PhD jointly from the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and the Free University of Berlin.

Dr Peter Wallensteen is Professor emeritus of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and Richard G. Starmann Sr. Research Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame, USA. He initiated and directed the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) 1978-2015 and was the head of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, 1972-1999. He was the first holder of the Dag Hammarskjöld Chair at Uppsala University, 1985-2012, and of the Richard G. Starmann Chair at University of Notre Dame, 2006-2018. Since 2021 he is Deputy Chair of the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament, Uppsala University, and leads its working group on sanctions for prevention of nuclear proliferation.

The volume Peter Wallensteen: A Pioneer in Making Peace Researchable (Springer 2021) explains his involvement in peace research and presents ten of the major research fields he has contributed to. One deals with experiences of peace agreements and his Understanding Conflict Resolution is now in its 6th edition (2023, with editions in Arabic and Korean). Another major field has been the use of sanctions for different purposes, including ending wars and preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. In 2022, Peter Wallensteen and Armend Bekaj co-authored a book, detailing Alva Myrdal’s contributions to nuclear weapons negotiations. In 2024 Wallensteen and Bekaj published their edited volume on Sanctions and Nuclear Weapons, a result of the deliberations of AMC’s working group on sanctions.

Dr Wilfred Wan is the Director of SIPRI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme. His recent research focuses on nuclear weapon risk reduction, nuclear disarmament verification, and other issues related to arms control and disarmament. He is the author of Regional Pathways to Nuclear Nonproliferation (University of Georgia Press, 2018).

Previously he worked at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (Geneva, Switzerland). He has a PhD in political science from the University of California, Irvine.