Dr. Ingrid Samset

Biography

Dr Ingrid Samset is a political scientist with more than ten years of experience from research and consultancies on peace and conflict dynamics. She works as a Lecturer in Peace and Development Studies at the University of Limerick, where she also serves as the Associate Director of UL's Centre for Peace and Development Studies. Prior to joining UL Samset worked as a researcher and postdoctoral researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. She holds a PhD in comparative politics from the University of Bergen.

Samset's research addresses questions related to transitions from armed conflict and authoritarian rule, with a focus on peacebuilding and statebuilding, transitional justice and civil-military relations. Regionally her expertise is on Central and Southern Africa as well as Brazil. Samset has published articles and book chapters on peacebuilding, civil war recurrence, natural resource wealth and conflict and on aid to transitional justice and judicial reform. In her doctoral research she analysed why countries that have had a civil war see different levels of violence in the aftermath, focusing on Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Methodologically Samset is trained in the case study and comparative methods and she has broad experience from qualitative research in conflict contexts, gained through academic studies as well as participation in a number of aid evaluations.