Peter Wallensteen
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He is recognized in the scholarly community through his studies of international economic sanctions, where he is leading [https://pcr.uu.se/research/smartsanctions/ SPITS], the Special Program on the Implementation of Targeted Sanctions. The program deals primarily with UN economic sanctions.
One of his major contributions to international peace research is the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), which he initiated in 1978 and led until 2015. UCDP collects data on armed conflict throughout the world, and has become a leading data provider on organized violence. In 2011 the program was specifically awarded by APSA, the American Political Science Association.
At Uppsala University he chairs the University Committee for the Holmdahl Prize in Human Rights (since 2014) and at the Regina Theatre, Uppsala, he is conducting its regular sessions ''Philosophy Tea'' together with lecturer Daniel Ogden, discussing authors, practitioners and philosophers concerned with issues of peace, war and social justice.
For the period 2016-2021 he was the Inspector of the Västmanlands-Dala Nation (a student club with 5 000 members). He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Folke Bernadotte Academy, Stockholm, since 2017. Provided by Wikipedia