Dr. Xinyu Yuan
The light boat has already sailed past a thousand mountains
Xinyu Yuan is the Head of Research Group Peacekeeping and Conflict Management through the United Nations and Senior Research at the Research Department International Institutions at PRIF. Her research focuses on peacekeeping and peacebuilding, international order transformation and norm contestation, non-Western powers, and transnational civil society.
CV
| since 2025
Head of PRIF's Research Group Peacekeeping and Conflict Management through the United Nations
| since 2025
Research Association, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (IHEID)
| 2025
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Geneva
| 2022–2025
Post-doctoral Researcher, Research Project “Peace by Other Means: Alternative Practices of Building Peace a Changing Global Order”, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (IHEID)
| 2022–2024
Academic Coordinator, Geneva Policy Outlook, co-founded by Geneva Canton, Fondation pour Genève, and IHEID
| 2023
Recipient of European International Studies Association (EISA) Post-doc Bridge Grant
| 2022–2024
Visiting Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Master's Programme, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (IHEID)
| 2022
Doctorate in International Relations and Political Science, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (IHEID)
| 2017–2022
PhD student, Department of International Relations and Political Science (IRPS), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (IHEID)
Research Assistant, Global Governance Centre (GGC) / Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (IHEID)
| 2017
M.A. in International Politics, School of Public Administration, Zhejiang University, China
Recipient of the Zhejiang Government Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Students
| 2017
Recipient of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Visiting Grant
| 2016
Exchange Student, Trento University, Italy
Recipient of Erasmus + Mobility Grant
Publications
- Rethinking UN Peace and Security Engagements in a Changing World
| 2025
Hellmüller, Sara; Badache, Fanny; Bara, Corinne; Caplan, Richard; de Coning, Cedric; Danso, Ferdinand Kwaku; Donati, Marco; Duursma, Allard; Felicio, Tânia; Fraihat, Ibrahim; Fung, Courtney J; Herz, Monica; Hilding Norberg, Annika; Iji, Tetsuro; Peter, Mateja; Pinaud, Margaux; Reefke, Lisa; Salaymeh, Bilal; Stepanova, Ekaterina; Stoller, Maximilian; Sulaymanov, Shuhrat; Williams, Stephanie; Yuan, Xinyu (2025): Rethinking UN Peace and Security Engagements in a Changing World, International Affairs. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaf190 - The Peacebuilders Playground: Peacebuilding Practices in Timor-Leste
| 2025
Berutti, Emilian ; Yuan, Xinyu (2025): The Peacebuilders Playground: Peacebuilding Practices in Timor-Leste, International Peacekeeping, 1–28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2025.2524403 - (Re)Setting the boundaries of peacebuilding in a changing global order
| 2025
Kobayashi, Kazushige; Krause, Keith; Yuan, Xinyu (2025): (Re)Setting the boundaries of peacebuilding in a changing global order, Contemporary Security Policy, 46: 2, 226–252. DOI: 10.1080/13523260.2025.2466287 - Pathways to socialisation: China, Russia, and competitive norm socialisation in a changing global order
| 2022
Kobayashi, Kazushige; Krause, Keith; Yuan, Xinyu (2022): Pathways to socialisation: China, Russia, and competitive norm socialisation in a changing global order, Review of International Studies, 48: 3, 560–582. DOI: 10.1017/S0260210522000146 - The Chinese approach to peacebuilding: contesting liberal peace?
| 2022
Yuan, Xinyu (2022): The Chinese approach to peacebuilding: contesting liberal peace?, Third World Quarterly, 43: 7, 1798–1816. DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2022.2074389 - Norm Contestation and Normative Transformation in Global Peacebuilding Order(s): The Cases of China, Japan, and Russia
| 2021
Jütersonke, Oliver; Kobayashi, Kazushige; Krause, Keith; Yuan, Xinyu (2021): Norm Contestation and Normative Transformation in Global Peacebuilding Order(s): The Cases of China, Japan, and Russia, International Studies Quarterly, 65: 4, 944–959. DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqab060 - Chinese pathways to peacebuilding: from historical legacies to contemporary practices
| 2020
Yuan, Xinyu (2020): Chinese pathways to peacebuilding: from historical legacies to contemporary practices, Pathways to Peace and Security, 26–45. DOI: 10.20542/2307-1494-2020-1-26-45
- Chinese Conceptions of Peace – Historical foundations and implications for contemporary conflict agency
| 2025
Abb, Pascal; Yuan, Xinyu; (2025): Chinese Conceptions of Peace – Historical foundations and implications for contemporary conflict agency, FriEnt Report, Bonn: FriEnt – Working Group on Peace and Development.
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