abbey steele, ph.d.

I’m an associate professor in the department of political science at the University of Amsterdam, and convenor of the Amsterdam Conflict Research Network (ACoRN), a monthly seminar with colleagues from across the Netherlands and Europe. With Alessandro Nai, I am co-PI of the research priority area Conflict & Society at the UvA, and I am on the board of the Amsterdam Center for Conflict Studies, which I previously directed.  

In my research, I use comparative methods to study displacement during civil wars and responses to it by states and civilians, and political development and state building, primarily in Colombia. My first book, Democracy and Displacement in Colombia's Civil War, traces the impact of democratic reforms on the forms of violence armed actors used in the Colombian civil war, especially political cleansing.