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Jamie-Pring

Jamie Pring

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
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English

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Jamie Pring is a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She is also an Associate Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) and a lecturer at the University of Basel. Her research and teaching focus on norm diffusion in peacebuilding, inclusivity in peace processes, memory and transitional justice/Dealing with the Past in post-conflict societies, and the agency and security architectures of regional intergovernmental organizations in the Global South. As a CCDP Postdoctoral Researcher, Jamie's Swiss National Science Foundation return grant project examines the fragmentation of regional peace and security regimes in Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America.

Before her current roles, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Freie Universität Berlin, where she conducted a comparative study of the conflict prevention trend in major regional organizations in the Global South and analyzed the fragmentation of conflict early warning mechanisms in the African Union. Her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Basel examines the promotion of inclusivity in the mediation process of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in South Sudan.

Jamie has also worked in government and non-government organizations engaging in policy and research on regional peace and security. She was a program officer at swisspeace, where she supported swisspeace' work in the Horn of Africa and published policy reports and practitioners' guides. She obtained her Masters' degree at the Geneva Graduate Institute and worked in Geneva-based think tanks on donor coordination in humanitarian demining, briefing and training policy officials on regional security developments, and evaluating peacebuilding and demining projects. Before arriving in Switzerland, Jamie served at the Philippine Department of National Defense, where she was the defense research officer for the Philippines' defense relations with the United States and the country's participation in the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meetings. She obtained her bachelor's degree in Political Science at the University of the Philippines in Diliman.

THEMATIC Expertise:

  • Regional security organizations in Africa and Asia-Pacific
  • Inclusivity in peace mediation
  • Norm diffusion in peace and conflict

Select Publications:

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.

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. Eds. by Catherine Turner, Martin Wählisch (1st ed., pp. 265–287). Bristol: Bristol University Press.

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 Armed Non-state Actors and the Politics of Recognition. Eds. Anna Geis, Maéva Clement, and Hanna Pfeifer. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

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. “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.

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.