BJÖRN BRENNER - POLITICS ON THE BANKS OF THE JORDAN

“Sjöofficer från Viken är fredsmäklare i Syrien”, Byaluren, 2019:1. Fakta Björn Brenner Född: 3 maj 1979, uppväxt i VikenYrke: FN-diplomat och Syrienexpert, Kommendörkapten i flottanUtbildning: Svensk och fransk marinofficersexamen, doktor i MellanösternstudierSpråk: Svenska, engelska, franska, ryska och arabiskaSidouppdrag: Ledamot av Kungl Örlogsmannasällskapet Intervju av Ea Althin Fölsch “Jag träffar Björn över en kopp kaffe på Öresunds konditori. Read More

Dr Björn Brenner serves as the Principal Military Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria. Björn’s work on Syria as a scholar of Middle Eastern studies spans a decade – and began in 2009 as a student at Damascus University. Prior to joining the United Nations, Björn was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Read More

GAZA UNDER HAMAS receives UK-based book prize THE MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES BOOK PRIZESPONSORED BY THE BRITISH-KUWAIT FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY Dr Björn Brenner, a UN advisor and post-doctoral fellow at the Swedish Defence University, was named Runner Up to the 2018 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize, the most prestigious UK-based book award in the field of Middle Read More

Swedish Middle East scholar turns UN diplomat Dr Björn Brenner has joined the United Nations to serve as the Military Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria. Before the conflict started, Bjorn studied in Syria staying in Damascus, Aleppo and Raqqa for long periods of time. When the war started, Bjorn’s research focus changed Read More

Commentary on Swedish Radio following Abbas’s speech: “Palestinas flagga hissas och Abbas tal i FN” Intervju i P3 Nyheter, 1 oktober 2015. After weeks of rumours of ‘dropping a bombshell’ in his UN speech, Abbas addressed the General Assembly on 30 September. As it showed, at the day of delivery, the promised ‘bomb’ had transformed Read More

In today’s edition of the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet I discuss the protests and violence currently taking place in Israel and the Palestinian territories. In international media, one of the biggest questions surrounding this latest wave of violence has been whether what we now see unfolding is the beginning of a third intifada. In the Read More

The ruling by a Swedish prosecutor not to press charges against a man waving an IS flag in a Facebook post has drawn international media attention. A 23-year-old man from southern Sweden posted a picture on Facebook of himself posing with an IS flag. The posting was reported to the police and investigated by Swedish Read More

In 2015, Björn joined the French Institute for Middle East Studies in Amman as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. In addition to his ongoing research on Israeli and Palestinian politics, the year in Jordan will include field research for a new research project, titled ‘Peacemaking Politics: Sulha and the negotiation of justice in Gaza and the Read More

EU blinded by its idealism – Has Palestine become a European project?   OPED IN HAARETZ BY BJÖRN BRENNER Today’s Haaretz features an article by Björn Brenner about European perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the EU’s unwillingness to revise its policy goal of a two-state solution: “Is Europe more desperate for a Palestinian state Read More

OPED IN HAARETZ BY BJÖRN BRENNER Summary: After several years of internal deliberations, hundreds of thousands of Hamas members have agreed on substantial revisions to their organisation’s 30-year-old founding document. The new text excludes anti-Semitic language and embraces a Palestinian state on pre-1967 lines. For Hamas, this amounts to nothing less than a departure from Read More