Sara Hellmüller

  • New paper out on consent to mediation in internationalized civil wars (case study of UN mediation in Syria) in International Negotiation, Link.
  • I participated in a high-level panel on Syria at the EU Community of Practice on Peace Mediation 2021 event.
  • Bilal Salayme and I had the pleasure to engage in a conversation with UN Special Envoy for Syria, Geir O. Pedersen, on Multilateralism in the 21st century on the occasion of the International Day of Multilateralism, Link.

    • I was selected as a member of the Swiss Women in Peace Processes (SWiPP), a network of 15 selected women working on peace processes established by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. Media releases, Link 1 and Link 2.
    • I co-guest-edited a Special Issue on Norms in Mediation for the Swiss Political Science Review, Link.
    • I was Deputy Chair of Program for the Peace Studies Section at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conference in April 2021, Link.
    • New article out in the Swiss Political Science Review on “Meaning‐Making in Peace‐Making: The Inclusion Norm at the Interplay between the United Nations and Civil Society in the Syrian Peace Process”. In it, I explore how the meaning of the inclusion norm was shaped through the interaction between the UN and Syrian civil society actors. I thereby provide a novel framework to analyze norm change through inter-subjective meaning-making, Link. 
    • I was interviewed on UN Peace Missions by the Swiss National Radio station (SRF) for their program Echo der Zeit, Link.