Marco Nilsson

Assistant Professor of Political Science
Department of Natural and Social Sciences , School of Education and Communication
Associate Professor of Political Science
Research Leader of SUS - Sustainable Societies
Presentation

Research

Marco Nilsson leads the research environment Sustainable Societies (SUS) at the School of Education and Communication. His research addresses issues of social movements and violent conflicts in international politics. He has conducted research on, for example, Swedish jihadists and interstate wars, but also on Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and labor market integration of refugees in Sweden. He currently conducts research on Islamic organizations in Sweden and, with financing from The Swedish Center for Preventing Violent Extremism, on protective factors against radicalization. He has written more than 30 scientific articles and four books. The lates one, Jihadism in Scandinavia (2022), summarizes several years of fieldwork with active and former jihadists.

Biography

Marco Nilsson is an Associate Professor of political science at the School of Education and Communication. From 2010 to 2014 he was employed as a senior lecturer of political science at the University of Gothenburg. Nilsson received his Ph.D. degree in political science at the University of Gothenburg in 2010 and before that he received MA degrees in political science both from Duke University (2005) and Purdue University (2002).