Current Affiliations
Associate Research Fellow, United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies
Lecturer, University of Basel
Independent Research Projects
March 1, 2023 – September 30, 2024
June 1st, 2020 – November 30th, 2021
Journal Articles
Pring, Jamie. 2023. “Analysing the divide between technocrats and diplomats in international organizations,” International Affairs 99(5), 1995–2014.
Aeby, Michael & Pring, Jamie. 2023. “Development trajectories of mediation support structures in the AU, ECOWAS, IGAD and SADC.” South African Journal of International Affairs, 30(1), 97-120.
Pring, Jamie. 2023. “The other side of resistance: Challenges to inclusivity within civil society and the limits of international peace mediation.” Cooperation and Conflict, 58(2), 194–210.
Pring, Jamie, & Palmiano Federer, Julia. 2020. “The Normative Agency of Regional Organizations and Non‐governmental Organizations in International Peace Mediation,” Swiss Political Science Review 26(4), 364–383.
Pring, Jamie. 2021. Review of the book, “Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond,” Sarah M. H. Nouwen, Laura M. James, and Sharath Srinivasan (eds). Sudan Studies for Sudan and South Sudan, 64, July 2021.
Hellmüller, Sara, Pring, Jamie, & Richmond, Oliver. 2020. How Norms Matter in Mediation: An Introduction. Swiss Political Science Review, 26(4), 345–363.
Pring, Jamie. 2017. “Including or Excluding Civil Society? The Role of the Mediation Mandate for South Sudan (2013–2015) and Zimbabwe (2008–2009).” African Security, 10, (3-4), 223—238.
Book Chapters
Aeby, Michael and Pring, Jamie. 2021. “The Buzz about Inclusion in Peace Research, Policy, and Practice in IGAD and SADC.” In APSA Inside-Out: Researching the Inner Life of the African Peace & Security Architecture. Eds. Engel Ulf, Gelot Linnea, Katarina Döring, Jens Herpolsheimer. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.
Pring, Jamie. 2021. Towards a More Integrated Approach? Cooperation Among the UN, AU, and IGAD in Mediation Support. In C. Turner & M. Wählisch (Eds.), Rethinking Peace Mediation: Challenges of Contemporary Peacemaking Practice / edited by Catherine Turner, Martin Wählisch (1st ed., pp. 265–287). Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Pring, Jamie. 2021. Review of the book “Human Rights under the African Charter” by Allwell Uwazuruike. In Yearbook on the African Union Volume 1 (2020). Ed. Ulf Engel. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.
Pring, Jamie. 2021. “Norms and Recognition in Mediation Processes: Promoting Inclusivity in the Mediation of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in South Sudan.” In (Non-) Recognition of Armed Non-State Actors: Risks and Opportunities for Conflict Transformation. Eds. Anna Geis, Maéva Clement, and Hanna Pfeifer. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Policy-Oriented Research
Pring, Jamie. “From Transitional Justice to Dealing with the Past: The Role of Norms in International Peace Mediation.” swisspeace Essential. 2017.
Hellmüller, Sara, Julia Palmiano-Federer, and Jamie Pring. Are Mediators Norm Entrepreneurs? Exploring the Role of Mediators in Norm Diffusion. swisspeace Working Paper. 2017.
Lanz, David, Jamie Pring, Corinne von Burg, and Mathias Zeller. “Understanding Mediation Support Structures.” swisspeace Report. 2017.
Research support for the sanctions relief and negotiations for the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. Data collection and synthesis for case studies in Biersteker, T., & Lanz, D. (December 2020). Negotiated Settlement through Sanctions Relief: Options for the Korean Peninsula (Policy Brief No. 5). Retrieved from Asia-Pacific Leadership Network For Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament website: https://www.swisspeace.ch/assets/publications/downloads/APLN-Policy-Brief-No.75-Thomas-J.-Biersteker-David-Lanz.pdf.
External Reviewer for the South Sudan Case (cited in List of External Reviewers in Annex III: Jamie Pring) in Biersteker, Thomas; Brubaker, Rebecca; Lanz, David. 2019. “UN Sanctions and Mediation: Establishing Evidence to Inform Practice.” United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, 18 February 2019.
Recent Outreach
Presentation, “Strengths and Challenges of the ECOWAS Mediation Facilitation Division (MFD),” in the event, A Decade of Multi-Crisis in the Sahel: Where Are We and How Do We Move On From Here? organized by the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), United Nations University - Institute for Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), 6 March 2023 in Brussels.
Presentation, “Third-Party Coordination: Insights from Case Studies.” in the online event, Enhancing effective partnerships for peace mediation: lessons learnt from research and practice, organized by the German Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), 11 June 2021.
Presentation, “Making the Middle: Localizing Inclusivity in the IGAD-led Mediation in South Sudan.” Dies Academicus, Berghof Foundation, Berlin, 11 November 2020.
Flashlight discussion on South Sudan for students of the Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Civilian Peacebuilding Essentials, delivered on 20 September 2019, University of Basel.
Presentation, “Inclusivity in Peace Processes: The Case of South Sudan.” Basel Space for Syrian Civil Society. swisspeace, 4 September 2019, Gstadt.
Participation in the Workshop on the Review and Launch of the Report on Lessons Learned from the South Sudan Peace Talks, 2013-2015, hosted by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Mediation Support Unit on 3-4 October 2019 in Addis Ababa.
Participation in the Assessing and Influencing Progress in Peace Processes Workshop Report, organized by the University of Edinburgh, Conciliation Resources, the Kroc Institute for International Studies of the University of Notre Dame, on 30 May – 1 June 2018 in Barcelona.
Teaching
Present
Theory and Methods Courses: Understanding and Analyzing Changing Societies (Fundamental and Advanced), MA co-teaching, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Colloquium on Changing Societies, MA co-teaching, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Previous
Lecture on “Comparing peace and security architectures in Africa and the Asia-Pacific: the AU and the ASEAN,” United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Universitas Airlangga, Kazguu University, 3rd Summer School on Comparative Regionalism, Surabaya, Indonesia.
Lecture on “Knowledge transfer in regional security policy: Insights from ASEAN and the African Union,” UNU-CRIS Doctoral School on Latin American, European and Comparative Regionalism, online.
Regional Organizations and Conflict Management in the Global South, Advanced BA Hauptseminar, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
The Role of Norms in International Peace Processes, invited lecture, Hiroshima University, online.
Seminar on “Conflict and International Organizations in the Global South,” Advanced BA and MA seminar, University of Basel, Basel, Swtizerland.
Lecture on “International Peace Mediation and the Role of Norms,” MA lecture for students of Northeastern University, Boston, USA, held at the Palais des Nations, United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland.
Lecture on “Conflict and International Peace Mediation” as part of the University of Fribourg’s MA Lecture Series, “Soziale Konflikte – Typen, Ursachen und Bewältigung” at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Lecture on “Basics of Mediation,” MA Students of Northeastern University, Boston, USA, held at the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, Maison de la Paix, Geneva, Switzerland.
Mediation Workshop co-facilitator, swisspeace / University of Basel Summer School on South Sudan, Basel, Switzerland.