Daeun Jung
PhD candidate
Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant
Research Assistant (WICID)
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Wednesday 15:00-16:00
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Profile
My first name is pronounced Dah-En. I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and International Studies. I have previously received an MSc in Comparative Politics and a BSc in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Before joining Warwick, I worked at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Policy Centre and an international parliamentary advocacy network. I also have years of teaching experience. I am currently working as a Research Assistant for the Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development (WICID).
Research
The working title of my doctoral thesis is Legitimation and the UN-AU Partnership in Contemporary Peacekeeping Operations. My research aims to understand how the institutional partnership between the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) operates as a (local) legitimation strategy in peacekeeping. In particular, it examines whether/how the headquarters level narrative of legitimation trickles down throughout the implementation stages of the partnership with an empirical focus on the case of the UN-AU Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). More broadly, I am interested in the workings of legitimation efforts and struggles within the contemporary global-regional peace and security structure.
My PhD project is co-supervised by Dr Jessica Di Salvatore and Dr Briony Jones. Professor Michael Saward was a temporary second supervisor for this project in 2022.
Areas of my research interest include:
- Peacekeeping/Peacebuilding
- Legitimacy and Legitimation
- Global/Regional governance
- Peace and security in Africa
- United Nations
- African Union
Teaching
2023/24 - PO231 International Security
2022/23 - PO131 World Politics
2021/22 - PO131 World Politics
Conference Presentations
- Legitimacy Crisis and the UN-AU Partnership in Contemporary Peacekeeping Operations. BISA Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group Conference, Open University, February 2023
- Sharing the Responsibility to Protect: Peacekeeping Partnership as the UN's Legitimation Strategy. BISA Intervention and Responsibility to Protect (IR2P) Working Group Annual Conference, University of Leeds, November 2022
- Legitimacy in Practice. (co-presented with Evelyn Strongylakou) PAIS Research Conference, University of Warwick, June 2022
Other Activities
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Research Assistant for the Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development (WICID)
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Co-Chair of the 2022-23 Critical International and Political Studies (CRIPS) graduate working group
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Co-Representative of PAIS Graduate Teaching Assistants