Marko Lehti

I am a Research Director of Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI) and an academic director of MA programme in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research. 

PI of PROFI7 Sustainable Security Practices (SUPRA) at Faculty of Social Sciences as well as  Curriculum Reform to Promote Education for Peace in Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova (PeaceEdu) (ERASMUS-EDU-2023-CBHE-STRAND-2) and CEE Security Hub (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02)

Senior Research Fellow Marko Lehti is a Research Director of Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI) and an Academic Director of MA programme in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research. 

My research in the field of peace and conflict research focusses currently on peace mediation and peacebuilding, multilateralism and changing global order, the idea of Nordic peace, and agonistic peace. In my research, I have also dealt with transnational encounters, identifications as well as perceptions of Europe's imaginary dividing lines among others in the Baltic countries, the Nordics, Ukraine, the South Caucasus, and the Balkans.

• Politics of Memory and Conflict Transformation
• Peace Mediation
• Agonistic Peacebuilding
• Multilateralism and global ordering
• History of Peacemaking
• Ontological (In)security and Representations of Crises 

Selected articles:

“Agonistic Peacebuilding” in Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding, 2nd edition, ed. Roger Mac Ginty. London: Routledge 2025, pp. 138-149. 

“Normative Interventionism: Nordic Policies and Practices on ‘Women, Peace and Security Agenda’” in Nordic Peace in Question: A Region of and for Peace. Browning, Lehti & Strang (eds.), Nordic Studies in Global Context. Routledge 2024, pp. 123-148. 

“Suspending the Antagonism: Situated Agonistic Peace in a Border Bazaar”, (with Vadim Romashov), Third World Quarterly 2022),Third World Quarterly, 43:6, 1288-1306 https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.1962274

“Exploring the Potential of Cross-Regional Dialogue Platforms in Protracted Conflict Settings” (with Élise Féron, Vadim Romashov & Sebastian Relitz), Journal of Dialogue Studies, vol 9, 2021: 97-119.

“Burundi Women’s Grassroots Preventive Mediation” with Tarja Väyrynen & Élise Féron, Peace Review: Journal of Social Justice 2021, 32: 367-373. https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2020.1867354  

“Private peacemaking and dialogic approach to mediation”, in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies (PEPCS), eds. Oliver Richmond and Gëzim Visoka. Palgrave 2021 (online, print version 2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11795-5_53-1 

“’Koronakriisi’ ja liberaali järjestys: Uhka, sopeutuminen ja muutos” (Coronavirus Crisis” and the Liberal Order: Threat, Adaption and Change) (with Henna-Riikka Pennanen) Kosmopolis. Rauhan-, konfliktin- ja maailmanpolitiikan tutkimuksen aikakauslehti 2/2020: 29-50.

“Beyond Liberal Empire and Peace: Declining Hegemony of the West?” (with Henna-Rikka Pennanen), in Lehti, Pennanen & Jouhki (eds) Contestations of Liberal Order. The West in Crisis?, London: Palgrave 2020, pp. 17-59.

“Crises of the West: Liberal Identities and Ontological (In)Security” (with Henna-Riikka Pennanen), in Lehti, Pennanen & Jouhki (eds) Contestations of Liberal Order. The West in Crisis?, London: Palgrave 2020, pp. 61-97.

“The Quest for Solidarity and Tamed Nationalism: Envisioning Sustainable Peace in the Balkans”, Peace & Change. A Journal of Peace Research 39(1), 2014: 101-132.

Selected Books:

Christopher Browning, Marko Lehti & Johan Strang,   Nordic Peace in Question: A Region of and for Peace. Nordic Studies in Global Context. Routledge 2024.

Marko Lehti, The Era of Private Peacemakers. A New Dialogic Approach to Mediation (Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies, Palgrave, 2019)  

Marko Lehti, Henna-Riikka Pennanen & Jukka Jouhki (eds.) Contestations of Liberal Order. The West in Crisis? (edit with Henna-Riikka Pennanen & Jukka Jouhki), London: Palgrave 2020. Book contains three chapters written by Lehti, “Introduction” (with Pennanen & Jouhki), pp. 1-15; “Beyond Liberal Empire and Peace: Declining Hegemony of the West?” (with Pennanen), pp. 17-59; “Crises of the West: Liberal Identities and Ontological (In)Security” (with Pennanen), pp. 61-97. 

Tarja Väyrynen, Marko Lehti, Élise Féron & Sara Koopman. Inclusive Mediation and Conflict Prevention: The Finnish Model (together with Tarja Väyrynen, Marko Lehti,) Publication series of the Government’s analysis, assessment and research activities 16/2018.  

Marko Lehti. Nordic Approaches to Peace Mediation. Research, Practices and Policies, TAPRI Studies in Peace and Conflict research No. 101. Tampere: Tampere Peace Research Institute 2014  

Marko Lehti & Christopher Browining (eds.) The Struggle for the West. Divided and Contested Legacy of the West, London: Routledge 2010. 236 pp. (Including Browning & Lehti, “Introduction: new tensions in troubled partnership”, pp. 1-14; Browning & Lehti, “The West: Contested, Narrated and Clustered”, 15-32: Lehti, “American West vs. European West: A Struggle for Ownership and Legitimacy”, pp. 90-114.)