Dr Klejda Mulaj

Klejda’s research interests centre on conflict, security and peace studies – including causes of war, nationalism, state-formation, reconciliation, and post-conflict rebuilding. She has undertaken extensive work on the causes and consequences of war/s and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans with particular reference to the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, results of which have been published in various journals as well as a book entitled Politics of Ethnic Cleansing (Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, 2010).

Recently she has completed editing a volume entitled Violent Non-State Actors in World Politics (2010), published jointly with Hurst and Columbia University Press. In exploring the correlation between violent non-state actors (VNSAs) and the environment that creates and nurtures them, this book unravels conditions which give rise to VNSAs and afterwards sustain them with a view to identifying suitable policy responses.

Klejda is currently working on a project on Statebuilding, Intervention and Legitimation which interrogates ways in which the legitimacy of statebuilding might be achieved; how might the legitimacy of statebuilding projects be evaluated; and what forms critiques of such legitimacy might take.

Klejda has taught at university level since 2001 and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She welcomes PhD proposals on any aspect of conflict analysis and post-conflict rebuilding.