Chelsea Johnson

Chelsea Johnson is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Liverpool. Her research expertise is in bargaining processes for conflict resolution and war-to-democracy transitions, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. Her work has previously been published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Perspectives on Politics, and Democratization.

She completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, in December 2015. She has since served as Fellow of Political Science in the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE), Fellow of Comparative Politics in the LSE's Government Department, and Postdoctoral Researcher on Democratisation and Emerging Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, a project funded by the Carnegie Endowment. She has extensive expertise in conflict resolution and democratisation in the African region, having spent years conducting field research in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.