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FBA conducts scientific research in peace, security, and development. Our research is developed through close collaboration with both FBA’s practitioners and the international research community, ensuring that our inquiries are directly relevant to our policy, advisory, and operational work.
You can read more about our ongoing research projects here.
FBA promotes research through our International Research Working Groups. Members are offered the opportunity to collaborate closely with practitioners working within their area of expertise. Members of the working groups can apply for research grants from FBA to conduct empirical, scientific research with high relevance for decision-making. We work to build-up the capacity of individual researchers, to promote both male and female researchers, and put a particular emphasis on working with researchers from the Global South.
FBA is a knowledge-based organisation. Our staff use research in all phases of their work and combine it with their expertise and contextual analyses to achieve the best result.
Through our International Research Working Groups, we ensure that our work has a direct link to researchers, who in turn can give advice about contextual analysis, relevant scholarly literature, and additional research contacts.
FBA staff has access to databases with up-do-date scientific literature as well as the research we conduct and promote. We educate our staff on how research is best applied in their work, and we make relevant research accessible to practitioners at partner organizations through our tailored FBA Research Briefs.
We also create meeting places between researchers and practitioners, both FBA staff and those at partner organizations through, for instance, research seminars.
Johanna Malm, Head of Research
Abdalhadi Alijla, Senior Researcher
Mathilda Lindgren, Senior Research Officer
Contact FBA to receive e-mails about FBA's research with information about, for example, new research publications and application deadlines for research groups: researchunit@fba.se
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