Dr. Stein Tønnesson is Research Professor
Emeritus at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), associate editor for Asia
in the Journal of Peace Research, and
member of the editorial board of Global
Asia. His
areas of research are peace in East Asia, nation-building in Southeast Asia, conflict
in the South China Sea, revolution and war in Vietnam, the role of social media
in Myanmar’s internal conflicts, and the history of peace research. During 2011–17 he led
the East Asian Peace program at the University of Uppsala, from which he
published the monograph Explaining the
East Asian Peace (NIAS Press 2017). During 2018–21 he partnered with the
Myanmar Institute for Peace and Security (MIPS) in Yangon on three projecs
studying social media in Myanmar’s armed conflicts. His latest publication is
Stein Tønnesson, ed. Lives in Peace Research: The Oslo Stories (Springer
2022).