publications

book

Danielak, S. (2026). Peace Infrastructures: How UN Peace Operations Build Roads, Bridges, and Solar Farms in the Pursuit of Sustainability. Cambridge: MIT Press.

peer-reviewed articles

Danielak, S. (2025). Post-military futures: Plans and failure of the peace operations’ infrastructure handover in Darfur. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

Danielak, S. (2023). Peacekeeping’s conflict urbanism: A decade of urban change in Mali. Peacebuilding.

Brennan, M.E. and Danielak, S. (2022). Too small to count? The cumulative impacts and policy implications of small disasters in the Sahel. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 68.

Danielak, S. (2021). The Infrastructure of Peace: Civil-Military Urban Planning in Mali. International Peacekeeping.

Danielak, S. (2020). Risk, vulnerability and pragmatic inevitability: The conflict-disaster nexus in urban governance in Johannesburg. Disasters.

Danielak, S. (2019). Conflict Urbanism: Reflections on the Role of Conflict and Peacebuilding in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg. Peacebuilding 8(4), 447-459. DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2019.1634867.

Danielak, S. (2019). Navigating Urban Encounters: An Infrastructural Perspective on Violence in Johannesburg’s Taxi Industry. [Special issue: The Spatiality of Post-War Violence] Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal 4(2-3), 137-157.

Danielak, S. (2019). Einwanderungsland? Germany’s Asylum Dilemma in Policy and Design. Journal of International Migration and Integration 20(1): 1-13. DOI: 10.1007/s12134-018-0585-x.

Danielak, S. (2017). Wall of Projections, Openings of Imagination: Creating and Effacing Memory along the Cypriot Buffer Zone. OBL/QUE – Journal on Critical Conservation, Vol 2.

book chapters

Danielak, S. (forthcoming). Tying humanitarian relief to peacebuilding: UN peace operations’ response to disaster. In: Ozerdem, A., Handbook on Humanitarian Crises. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Danielak, S. (forthcoming). Chapters “Cities”, “Infrastructure”, and “United Nations Department of Peace Operation” in Essential Concepts of Environmental Peacebuilding: An A to Z Guide, eds. Carl Bruch, Richard Matthew, Larry Swatuk, Rachel Weaver, and Erika Weinthal, Routledge.

Danielak, S. (2020). Navigating Urban Encounters: An Infrastructural Perspective on Violence in Johannesburg’s  Taxi Industry. In: E. Elfversson, I. Gusic, and K. Höglund, Spatiality of Violence in Post-War Cities, London; New York: Routledge.

Danielak, S. (2015). Border Management in post-crisis Mali. Challenges and Opportunities for Peacebuilding and Development. In: S. Brüne, H.-G. Ehrhart, H.-G. Justenhoven, Frankreich, Deutschland und die EU in Mali. Chancen, Risiken, Herausforderungen. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag.

Danielak, S. (March 2013). External Aid Incorporated? Infrastructures for Peace and the Challenge of Coordination in Kyrgyzstan. Berghof Handbook Dialogue Series, No. 10, Berlin: Berghof Foundation.