Dr. Chelsea Johnson

Biography

Chelsea Johnson's research focuses on negotiated solutions in armed conflict, particularly in the developing world, with a specific emphasis on the design and implementation of power-sharing institutions and the participation of rebels in post-conflict democracies. She has developed original, cross-national data on negotiated settlements in intra-state conflict, dis-aggregating the content, characteristics, and trajectories of rebel signatory parties during the post-settlement period. Her datasets are available upon request for researchers. Utilizing a mixed-method approach, her findings shed new light on the variation in the success of power-sharing solutions and the patterns of rebel defection in settlements. Johnson completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley in December 2015 and has served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on a Carnegie-funded project focused on the democratization of emerging markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has extensive expertise in post-conflict democratization within the African region, having spent years conducting field research in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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