Stein Tønnesson Author & Editor

Stein Tønnesson is Research Professor and former Director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), associate editor for Asia in the Journal of Peace Research, a Toda Senior Research Fellow, 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, and the role of social media in Myanmar’s internal armed conflicts. 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) and the book chapters  ‘Peace by Development’ in E. Bjarnegård & J. Kreutz, eds. Debating the East Asian Peace (NIAS Press, 2017) and ‘The East Asian Peace,’ in T. Inoguchi, ed. The SAGE Handbook on Asia Foreign Policy (SAGE, 2020).