Peer-Reviewed Articles
2025
Hellmüller, Sara; Fanny Badache; Corinne Bara; et al., “Rethinking UN Peace and Security Engagements in a Changing World” forthcoming in International Affairs.
Salaymeh, Bilal; Sara Hellmüller, Fanny Badache, 2025, “Following a Middle Way: How Rising Powers Navigate Sovereignty Debates in Peacebuilding”, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 69 (2).
Hellmüller, Sara; Bilal Salaymeh, 2025, “Warmakers as Peacemakers: Transactionalism in the Political Marketplace of Peace Processes”, Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 46 (2), pp. 312-342.
Hellmüller, Sara; Fanny Badache, 2025, “Children of their time: The impact of world politics on United Nations peace operations”, Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 46 (2), pp. 177-196.
2024
Hellmüller, Sara, 2024, “Broadening Perspectives on Inclusive Peacemaking: The Case of the UN Mediation in Syria”, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 45 (5), pp. 963-980.
2023
Duursma, Allard; Corinne Bara; Nina Wilén; Sara Hellmüller; John Karlsrud; Kseniya Oksamytna; Janek Bruker; Susanna Campbell; Salvator Cusimano; Marco Donati; Han Dorussen; Dirk Druet; Valentin Geier; Marine Epiney; Linnéa Gelot; Dennis Gyllensporre; Annick Hiensch; Lisa Hultman; Charles T. Hunt; Rajkumar Cheney Krishnan; Patryk I. Labuda; Sascha Langenbach; Annika Hilding Norberg; Alexandra Novosseloff; Daniel Oriesek; Emily Paddon Rhoads; Francesco Re; Jenna Russo; Melanie Sauter; Hannah Smidt; Ueli Staeger; Andreas Wenger, 2023, “UN Peacekeeping at 75: Achievements, Challenges, and Prospects”, International Peacekeeping, Vol. 30 (4), pp. 415-476.
Hellmüller, Sara, 2023, “Knowledge Production on Mediation: Practice-Oriented, but not Practice-Relevant?”, International Affairs, Vol. 99 (5), pp. 1847-1866.
Hellmüller, Sara; Laurent Goetschel; Kristoffer Lidén, 2023, “Knowledge Production on Peace: Actors, Hierarchies, and Policy Relevance”, International Affairs, Vol. 99 (5), pp. 1839-1846.
Hellmüller, Sara; Xiang-Yun Rosalind Tan; Corinne Bara, 2023, “What is in a Mandate: Introducing the UN Peace Mission Mandates Dataset”, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 68 (1), pp. 166-192.
Hellmüller, Sara; Bilal Salaymeh, 2023, “Multiparty Mediation in a Changing World: The Emergence and Impact of Parallel Processes to UN Peacemaking in Syria and Libya”, International Journal of Conflict Management. Vol. 35 (1), pp. 129-149.
Hellmüller, Sara; Marie Lobjoy; Xiang-Yun Rosalind Tan, 2023, “Beyond Generations: An Alternative Approach to Categorizing Peace Missions”, Global Governance, Vol. 28 (4), pp. 509-533.
2022
Badache, Fanny; Sara Hellmüller; Bilal Salaymeh, 2022, “Conflict-Management or Conflict-Resolution: How Do Major Powers Conceive the Role of the United Nations“, in Peacebuilding Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 43 (4), pp. 547-571.
Hellmüller, Sara, 2022, “Peacemaking in a Shifting World Order: A Macro-Level Analysis of UN Mediation in Syria”, Review of International Studies, Vol 48 (3), pp. 543-559.
Hellmüller, Sara; Martin Wählisch, 2022, “Reflecting about the Past, Present and Future of UN Mediation”, International Negotiation, Vol. 27 (1), pp. 1-9.
2021
Hellmüller, Sara, 2021, “A Trans-Scalar Approach to Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice: Insights from the Democratic Republic of Congo”, Cooperation and Conflict, Vol. 57 (4), pp. 415-432.
Hellmüller, Sara, 2021, “The Challenge of Forging Consent to UN Mediation in Internationalized Civil Wars: The Case of Syria”, International Negotiation, Vol. 27 (1), pp. 103-130.
Hellmüller, Sara, 2021, “Normen in der Mediation: Analyse und Ausblick”, Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Vol. 10 (1), pp. 77-81.
2020
Hellmüller, Sara; Jamie Pring; Oliver Richmond, 2020, “How Norms Matter in Mediation: An Introduction”, Swiss Political Science Review, Vol. 26 (4), pp. 345-363.
Hellmüller, Sara, 2020, “Meaning-Making in Peace-Making: The Inclusion Norm at the Interplay between the United Nations and Civil Society in the Syrian Peace Process”, Swiss Political Science Review, Vol. 26 (4), pp. 407-428.
2019
Goetschel, Laurent; Sara Hellmüller, 2019, “Friedens- und Konfliktforschung in der Schweiz: ein facettenreiches Patchwork”, Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Vol. 8 (1), pp. 79-98.
Hellmüller, Sara, 2019, “A ‘Global and Inclusive Agreement’? Participation of Armed Actors in the Inter-Congolese Dialogue and its Impact on Local Violence”, International Negotiation, Vol. 24 (1), pp. 38-60.
2014
Hellmüller, Sara; Corinne von Burg; Mathias Zeller, 2014, “Kann Mediation schaden? Konfliktsensitivität in internationalen Friedensverhandlungen”, Konfliktdynamik, Vol. 3 (4), pp. 2-11.
Hellmüller, Sara, 2014, “A Story of Mutual Adaptation? The Interaction between Local and International Peacebuilding Actors in Ituri”, Peacebuilding, Vol. 2 (2), pp. 188-201.
Hellmüller, Sara, 2014, “Explaining the Congo Wars”, book review of “Congo” by Thomas Turner, The Political Quarterly, Vol. 85 (1), pp. 93-95.
2013
Hellmüller, Sara, 2013, “The Power of Perceptions: Localizing International Peacebuilding Approaches”, International Peacekeeping, Vol. 20 (2), pp. 221-234.
2012
Hellmüller, Sara, 2012, “The Ambiguities of Local Ownership: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo”, African Security, Vol. 5 (3-4), pp. 236-254.
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