Dr Chelsea Johnson

Chelsea Johnson's research focuses on negotiated solutions to intra-state conflict in the developing world, with a focus on the design and implementation of power-sharing settlements and the participation of former rebels in post-conflict democracies. She has compiled original data on negotiated settlements, disaggregating the provisional content of power-sharing formulas among government-and-rebel dyads, and conducted extensive field research in Uganda, Cote d'Ivoire, and Democratic Republic of Congo. The findings from Dr Johnson's research shed new light on the causes of bargaining failures between governments and rebels and, as a result, effective policy toolkits for conflict resolution.
 
Dr. Johnson completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, in December 2015. She has since served as Fellow of Political Science in the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE), Fellow of Comparative Politics in the LSE's Government Department, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Democratisation and Emerging Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, a project funded by the Carnegie Endowment. She has also been named a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP).