Dr. Xinyu Yuan

Forschungsgruppenleiterin // Senior Researcher

The light boat has already sailed past a thousand mountains

Xinyu Yuan ist Leiterin der Forschungsgruppe Friedenssicherung und Konfliktmanagement durch die Vereinten Nationen und Senior Researcher im Programmbereich Internationale Institutionen am PRIF. Ihre Forschungs­schwerpunkte sind Peacekeeping und Peace­building, Wandel der inter­nationalen Ordnung und Anfechtung von Normen, nicht-westliche Mächte und die transnationale Zivilgesellschaft.

Xinyu Yuan
yuan(at)prif.org

CV

| seit 2025
Leiterin der Forschungsgruppe Friedenssicherung und Konfliktmanagement durch die Vereinten Nationen am PRIF

| seit 2025
Forschungsassoziierung, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Genf (IHEID)

| 2025
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Universität Genf

| 2022–2025
Post-doctoral Researcher, Forschungsprojekt „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, Genf (IHEID)

| 2022–2024
Akademische Koordinatorin, Geneva Policy Outlook, gemeinsam gegründet vom Kanton Genf, der Fondation pour Genève und dem IHEID

| 2023
Empfängerin des Postdoc-Brückenstipendiums der European International Studies Association (EISA)

| 2022–2024
Visiting Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Master's Programme, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Genf (IHEID)

| 2022
Promotion in Internationalen Beziehungen und Politikwissenschaft, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Genf (IHEID)

| 2017–2022
Doktorandin, Department of International Relations and Political Science (IRPS), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Genf (IHEID)
Research Assistant, Global Governance Centre (GGC) / Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Genf (IHEID)

| 2017
M.A. in International Politics, School of Public Administration, Zhejiang University, China
Empfängerin des Zhejiang Government Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Students

| 2017
Empfängerin eines Gaststipendiums des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes (DAAD)

| 2016
Austauschstudentin, Universität Trient, Italien
Empfängerin eines Erasmus+-Mobilitätsstipendiums

Publikationen

  • 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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