Publications

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

Palmiano Federer, Julia, Monica Giannone, Brian Mandell, and Elan Kogutt. (2025). “Why It Worked: Moving from Success to Effectiveness in Conflict Resolution and Peace Negotiations.” Negotiation Journal, 41: 251–273. DOI: 10.1162/ngtn_a_00018

Jones, Peter, Julia Palmiano Federer, Mariana Savka, Fernando Aguilar, and Laura O’Connor. (2025). “How It Helped: The Role of Track Two in Protracted, Asymmetric, and Ethnonational Conflicts.” Negotiation Journal, 41: 168–194. DOI: 10.1162/ngtn_a_00021

Palmiano Federer, Julia, Monica Giannone, and Brian Mandell. (2025). “Introduction to Special Issue: Why It Worked: Redefining “Success” in Conflict Resolution and Peace Negotiations.” Negotiation Journal, 41: 72–98. DOI: 10.1162/ngtn_e_00022 (Special Issue Introduction).

Palmiano Federer, Julia, and Andreas Hirblinger (2025). “Introducing Patchworked Peacemaking: Moving Beyond The Multitrack-Inclusion Nexus.” Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 19(2): 133-153. DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2024.2432814 (Special Issue Introduction).

Palmiano Federer, Julia. (2024). “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Peace? Making Visible Epistemic Exceptionalism in Peacebuilding Discourse.” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 53(1):113-135. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298241288493

Palmiano Federer, Julia. (2024). “Track Two Overloaded? Researching Track Two Dialogues as a Vehicle for Inclusive Peace.” International Negotiation, (published online ahead of print 2024). https://doi.org/10.1163/15718069-bja10101

Palmiano Federer, Julia. (2024). “Exclusionary Inclusion: The Unforeseen Consequences of Norm Promotion in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement Process.” Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 1–20. DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2024.2362000

Bharwani, Aleem, Van Dyke, Jessica, Santamaria-Plaza, Christina, Palmiano Federer, Julia, and Peter Jones. (2023). “Transforming Intractable Policy Conflicts: A Qualitative Study Examining the Novel Application of Facilitated Discourse (Track Two Diplomacy) to Community Water Fluoridation in Calgary, Canada.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20: 6402. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20146402.

Bharwani, Aleem, Palmiano Federer, Julia, and Latour, Jack. (2022). “Healing Dialogue: Can the Techniques and Practices of Track Two Diplomacy Play a Role in Resolving Public Health Conflicts?” International Journal, 77(2): 313–334. DOI: 10.1177/00207020221135364

Palmiano Federer, Julia. (2022). “The Politics of Proscription and Peacemaking: Theoretical and Practical Implications of Labelling Armed Groups as Terrorists and Extremists.” Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. 17(2): 207-213. DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2022.2107361

Palmiano Federer, Julia. (2021). “Towards a Normative Turn in Track Two Diplomacy? A Review of the Literature.” Negotiation Journal 37(4): 427-450. DOI: 10.1111/nejo.12376.

Pring, Jamie, and Julia Palmiano Federer. (2020). “The Normative Agency of Regional Organizations and Nongovernmental Organizations in International Peace Mediation,” Swiss Political Science Review, 26:4, 429-448. DOI: 10.1111/spsr.12426.

Kraus, Anne Isabel, Owen Frazer, Lars Kirchhoff, Tatiana Kyselova, Simon J.A. Mason and Julia Palmiano Federer. (2019). “Dilemmas and Trade-Offs in Peacemaking: A Framework for Navigating Difficult Decisions,” Politics and Governance, 7(4): 331-342. DOI: 10.17645/pag.v7i4.2234.

Palmiano Federer, Julia. (2019). “We Do Negotiate With Terrorists: Navigating Liberal And Illiberal Norms In Peace Mediation.” Critical Studies on Terrorism, 12(1): 19-39. DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2018.1472727.

MONOGRAPHS & EDITED VOLUMES

Palmiano Federer, Julia. (2024). NGOs Mediating Peace: Promoting Inclusion in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Negotiations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (Open Access).

Gamez, Samantha, and Julia Palmiano Federer (eds). (Forthcoming 2026). Apocalyptic Imaginaries and the Future of Peace. Berlin: Springer (Accepted for publication, in production).

Mesok, Elizabeth, and Julia Palmiano Federer. (Forthcoming 2027). War and Peace: A Critical Introduction (Textbook). London: Sage Publications (Contract signed).

Palmiano Federer, Julia, Lena Dedyukina, and Polly O. Walker. (2025). “The Politics of Knowledge, Positionality and Power: The ‘Inclusivity’ of Indigenous Women in Peacemaking in Turtle Island (North America). In The Production of Gendered Knowledge of War, Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren Selimovic (eds). Abingdon: Routledge.

Palmiano Federer, Julia. (2021). “Cowboy or Mavericks? The Normative Agency of NGO Mediators,” In: Rethinking Peace Mediation, Catherine Turner and Martin Wählisch (eds.), Bristol: Bristol University Press.

WORKING PAPERS

Palmiano Federer, Julia, Aye Myat Su Wai, Laura O’Connor, and Mariana Savka.

“Special Issue Introduction: Rebuilding Prospects for ‘Peace ’: Gender, Civil Society, and Informal Spaces in Post-Coup Myanmar.” (Accepted and Under Production at the Journal of Burma Studies).

Turner, Catherine, and Julia Palmiano Federer. “Peace Listening in Mozambique: The Maputo Accord and a Relational Theory of Mediation.” (Revise & Resubmit at the Review of International Studies).

Higgins Parker, Lorelei, and Julia Palmiano Federer. “Three Stories: Indigenous Feminisms as Self-Determination.” (Under Review at the Journal of Peace Education, Special Issue on Decolonizing Peace Education).

Bargués, Pol, Dana M. Landau, and Julia Palmiano Federer. “Dialogue after Peace? Women-led Dialogues in Post-Settlement Colombia, Kosovo, and the Philippines.”

Palmiano Federer, Julia, Sara Hellmüller, Simon Mason, Eemeli Isoaho, Andreas Wenger (eds). Process Design in Peace Mediation: Theory and Practice (Book Project).

POLICY PAPERS

Turner, Catherine, and Julia Palmiano Federer. (2024). Doing Things Differently: Mediating in Mozambique. Strategic Security Analysis. Geneva: Geneva Centre for Security Policy.

Palmiano Federer, Julia, and Lorelei Higgins Parker. (2024). The Power to Protect: Climate Change, Intersectional Environmentalism and the Leadership of Indigenous Women. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre.

Jones, Peter, Min Zaw Oo, and Palmiano Federer, Julia (2021). The Crisis in Myanmar: Are There Roles for Track Two Diplomacy? Ottawa: The Ottawa Dialogue. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20381/0by8-w058.

Palmiano Federer, Julia. (2021). Is There A New Track Two? Taking Stock of Unofficial Diplomacy and Peacemaking. Ottawa: The Ottawa Dialogue. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20381/Z5GA-KE94

Palmiano Federer, Julia, Julia Pickhardt, Philipp Lustenberger, Christian Altpeter, Katrina Abatis. (2020). Beyond the Tracks? Reflections on Multitrack Approaches to Peace Processes. Zurich: swisspeace, Folke Bernadotte Academy, Center for Security Studies ETH Zurich, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue.

Hellmüller, Sara, Julia Palmiano Federer, and Jamie Pring. (2017). Are Mediators Norm Entrepreneurs? Working Paper 2. Bern: swisspeace.

Fürgler, Danielle, Rachel Gasser, and Julia Palmiano Federer, eds. (2017). Perspectives on Myanmar’s Peace Process 2011-2015. Bern: swisspeace.

Palmiano Federer, Julia. (2016). On Gender: The Role of Norms in International Peace Mediation. swisspeace Essential. Bern: swisspeace.

Müehlenbeck, Allison and Julia Palmiano Federer. (2016). Women’s Inclusion in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement. Washington, DC: Institute for Inclusive Security.

Palmiano Federer, Julia. (2016). Teaching Package on Gender and Mediation. Rio de Janeiro: Global South Unit for Mediation.

Gasser, Rachel, and Julia Palmiano Federer. (2016). International Peace Mediation and Gender: Bridging the Divide. Brics Policy Unit Policy Brief. Rio de Janeiro: Global South Unit for Mediation.

Mason, Simon J.A., Rachel Gasser, Anna Hess, and Julia Palmiano Federer. (2015). Gender in Mediation: An Exercise Handbook for Trainers. CSS Mediation Resources. Zurich/Bern: Center for Security Studies ETH Zurich and swisspeace.

Hellmüller, Sara, Julia Palmiano Federer, and Mathias Zeller. (2015). The Role of Norms in International Peace Mediation. Bern: swisspeace and the Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre.

Hellmüller, Sara, Julia Palmiano Federer, and Matthias Siegfried. (2015). Norm-pushers or deal-brokers? Normative challenges of modern-day mediators. Geneva: The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue Oslo Forum Handbook.

Hansen, Julie, Isaac Khen, Julia Palmiano Federer, and Lar Say Wa. (2015). Why Gender Matters in Armed Conflict and Peace: Perspectives from Mon and Karen State. New York: UN Women.

Palmiano, Julia. (2014). Fighting Feminist Fatigue? Women and Peace Negotiations. Working Paper 2. Bern: swisspeace.

Alluri, Rina, Stefan Baechtold, Rachel Gasser, and Julia Palmiano. (2014). Working in and on Myanmar: Reflections on a ‘Light Footprint’ Approach. Working Paper 5. Bern: swisspeace.

Palmiano, Julia. (2010). Not Just Another Pretty Face: The Freedom Birds of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. University of British Columbia Journal of International Affairs. 2010.