Ingrid Samset
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. I. Samset
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9500
- i.samset@luc.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3846-3807
Ingrid Samset is a political scientist who teaches at Leiden University College. Her research and teaching address questions related to peace and conflict dynamics, transitional justice, postcolonial studies, and memory studies.
Biography
Ingrid Samset is an Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Leiden University College. She earned her doctoral degree in comparative politics from the University of Bergen. Dr Samset’s research is qualitative in orientation, and she has broad experience from data collection and fieldwork, particularly from Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr Samset has served as a visiting scholar at Columbia University, the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Ulster University, and the University of Lisbon. She co-founded the Ethics Advisory Board at Leiden University College and served on the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs from 2021-23. At LUC she teaches in the World Politics and International Justice majors and in the Global Citizenship component. In 2022, Dr Samset earned Leiden University’s Senior Teaching Qualification.
Academic Expertise
- Peace and conflict studies
- Transitional justice
- Conflict resolution and peacebuilding
- Postcolonial studies
- Memory studies
Courses
- Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies
- Transitional Justice
- Regional Trends: African History and Politics
- Postcolonial World
- The Lusophone South Atlantic
- Research Design in International Justice
Assistant Professor
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Leiden University College
Work address
Anna van BuerenpleinAnna van Buerenplein 301
2595 DG The Hague
Room number 4.01
Contact
- Samset I. (2022), The Struggle to Remember: Rhodes Must Fall in South Africa. In: Rauschenbach M, Viebach J & Parmentier S (Eds.), Localising Memory in Transitional Justice: The Dynamics and Informal Practices of Memorialisation after Mass Violence and Dictatorship. Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge. 151-176.
- Samset I. (2020), Review Essay: Towards Decolonial Justice, International Journal of Transitional Justice 14(3): 596-607.
- Suhrke A., Wimpelmann T. & Samset I. (2017), Violent conflict and intervention. In: Suhrke A., Wimpelmann T. & Samset I. (Eds.), Politics in the Developing World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Samset I. (2017) Review Essay on The Distinction of Peace: A Social Analysis of Peacebuilding. Review of: Goetze Catherine (2017), The Distinction of Peace: A Social Analysis of Peacebuilding. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan (32).
- Samset I. (2015) Todd Cleveland, Stones of Contention: a history of Africa's diamonds. Athens OH: Ohio University Press in association with the Ohio University Center for International Studies (pb US$26.95 – 978 0 8214 2100 0). 2014, 240 pp. Review of: Cleveland T. (2015), Stones of Contention: A History of Africa's Diamonds. Africa 85(4): 724-725.
- Samset I. (2014), "For the guarantee of law and order": The armed forces and public security in Brazil no. 2014: 11. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute.
- Samset I. (2012), Sexual violence: The case of Eastern Congo. In: Suhrke A. & Berdal M. (Eds.), The Peace in Between: Post-War Violence and Peacebuilding. Abingdon: Routledge. 229-247.
- Samset I. (2011), Building a Repressive Peace: The Case of Post-Genocide Rwanda, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 5(3): 265-283.
- Samset I. (2010), UN Peacekeeping in the Congo: When is the Job Done? no. Policy Brief no. 6, 2010. Oslo: Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre.
- Petersen S., Samset I. & Wang V. (2009), Foreign Aid to Transitional Justice: The Cases of Rwanda and Guatemala. In: Ambos K., Large J. & Wierda M. (Eds.), Building a Future on Peace and Justice: Studies on Transitional Justice, Peace and Development. Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer. 439-468.
- Samset I. (2009), Natural Resource Wealth, Conflict, and Peacebuilding. New York: Program on States and Security, City University of New York.
- Suhrke A. & Samset I. (2007), What's in a Figure? Estimating Recurrence of Civil War, International peacekeeping 14(2): 195-203.
- Samset I. (2007), A Promising Experience: Building Peace Through Community Development, Lines 6(3): 1-4.
- Samset I. (2004), Whose Mission? Limits and Potentials of the SLMM, Lines 3(2): .
- Samset I. (2002), Conflict of interests or interests in conflict? Diamonds & war in the DRC, Review of African Political Economy 29(93/94): 463-480.