Publications

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

Palmiano Federer, Julia, Aye Myat Su Wai, Laura O’Connor, and Mariana Savka.(2025). “Special Issue Introduction: Rebuilding Prospects for ‘Peace ’: Gender, Civil Society, and Informal Spaces in Post-Coup Myanmar.” Journal of Burma Studies, 29(2): https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979882. (Special Issue Introduction: Guest Editor)

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; Guest Editor).

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, Guest Editor).

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.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

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

Higgins Parker, Lorelei, and Julia Palmiano Federer. “Three Stories: Indigenous Feminisms as Self-Determination.” (Under Review with 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.” (Under Review with the Review of International Studies).

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.