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Marko Lehti

Senior Research Fellow, Research Director of Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI); Academic Director of MA programme in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research (PEACE)
Faculty of Social Sciences | Unit of Social Research | Tampere Peace Research Institute TAPRI
Tampere University
marko.lehti [at] tuni.fi (marko[dot]lehti[at]tuni[dot]fi)
+358401901595
City Centre Campus
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7974-6013

About me

I am a Research Director of Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI) and an academic director of MA programme in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research. 

PI of PROFI7 Sustainable Security Practices (SUPRA) at Faculty of Social Sciences as well as  Curriculum Reform to Promote Education for Peace in Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova (PeaceEdu) (ERASMUS-EDU-2023-CBHE-STRAND-2) and CEE Security Hub (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02)

Fields of expertise

My research in the field of peace and conflict research focusses currently on peace mediation and peacebuilding, multilateralism and changing global order, the idea of Nordic peace, and agonistic peace. In my research, I have also dealt with transnational encounters, identifications as well as perceptions of Europe's imaginary dividing lines among others in the Baltic countries, the Nordics, Ukraine, the South Caucasus, and the Balkans.

Research topics

  • Politics of Memory and Conflict Transformation
  • Peace Mediation
  • Agonistic Peacebuilding
  • Multilateralism and global ordering
  • History of Peacemaking
  • Ontological (In)security and Representations of Crises 

 

Funding

Academy of Finland: PROFI7 Sustainable Security Practices (SUPRA) (2023-26); OSCE Network project “Cross-regional Corridors of Dialogue: Developing a Complementing Track for Transforming Long-standing Conflicts” (2018-19) German MFA.

Selected publications

(2024) Christopher Browning, Marko Lehti & Johan Strang,   Nordic Peace in Question: A Region of and for Peace. Nordic Studies in Global Context. Routledge.

(2024) Marko Lehti, “Agonistic Peacebuilding” in Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding, 2nd edition, ed. Roger Mac Ginty. London: Routledge 2025, pp. 138-149. 

(2022) Marko Lehti & Vadim Romashov, “Suspending the Antagonism: Situated Agonistic Peace in a Border Bazaar”, (with Vadim Romashov), Third World Quarterly, 43:6, 1288-1306 

(2020) Marko Lehti, Henna-Riikka Pennanen & Jukka Jouhki (eds), Contestations of Liberal Order. The West in Crisis?, Palgrave.

(2019) Marko Lehti. The Era of Private Peacemakers. A New Dialogic Approach to Mediation (Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies, Palgrave,) 

(2014) “The Quest for Solidarity and Tamed Nationalism: Envisioning Sustainable Peace in the Balkans”, Peace & Change. A Journal of Peace Research 39(1): 101-132.

(2010) Marko Lehti & Christopher Brwoning (eds.), The Struggle for the West. Divided and Contested Legacy of the West. Routledge. 

 

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