Ingrid Samset
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. I. Samset
- Telephone
- 070 8009500
- i.samset@luc.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3846-3807
Dr. Ingrid Samset is an Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Leiden University College researching conflict dynamics, transitional justice, colonial legacies, and the cognitive impacts of working with AI. She currently serves as LUC’s AI and Education Policy Advisor and a Leiden Teachers’ Academy Fellow leading initiatives on pedagogical AI integration.
Biography
Ingrid Samset is an Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Leiden University College. Her work focuses on conflict processes, transitional justice, colonial legacies and how working with AI impacts on how we think and learn. Trained in political science, Dr. Samset has experience from commissioned and applied research in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, having served as a consultant on peace-building and development aid evaluations.
At Leiden University, Dr. Samset gained the Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) in 2022 and is currently serving on the SKO Selection Committee. Her interest in integrating didactical AI tools in teaching and learning draws on 12 years of experience teaching in higher education and her service as LUC’s Thesis Coordinator from 2022-25. Dr. Samset is currently a Fellow with the Leiden Teachers’ Academy, leading a project on how curated AI tools can support personalised learning pathways. She is also serving as the AI and Education Policy Advisor at LUC, working with the College Board and wider community to shape how AI tools and agents can be leveraged for teaching and learning.
Courses
- Transitional Justice
- The Lusophone South Atlantic
- Postcolonial World
- Regional Trends: African History and Politics
- Academic Writing
Assistant Professor
- Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs
- Leiden University College
- World Politics
- Samset I. (2022), The struggle to remember: Rhodes must fall in South Africa. In: Rauschenbach M., Viebach J. & Parmentier S. (Eds.), Localising memory in transitional justice: the dynamics and informal practices of memorialisation after mass violence and dictatorship. London: Routledge. 151-176.
- Samset I. (2020), Review Essay: Towards Decolonial Justice, International Journal of Transitional Justice 14(3): 596-607.
- Suhrke A., Wimpelmann T. & Samset I. (2017), Violent conflict and intervention. In: Suhrke A., Wimpelmann T. & Samset I. (Eds.), Politics in the Developing World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Samset I. (2017) Review Essay on The Distinction of Peace: A Social Analysis of Peacebuilding. Review of: Goetze Catherine (2017), The Distinction of Peace: A Social Analysis of Peacebuilding. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan (32).
- Samset I. (2015) Todd Cleveland, Stones of Contention: a history of Africa's diamonds. Athens OH: Ohio University Press in association with the Ohio University Center for International Studies (pb US$26.95 – 978 0 8214 2100 0). 2014, 240 pp. Review of: Cleveland T. (2015), Stones of Contention: A History of Africa's Diamonds. Africa 85(4): 724-725.
- Samset I. (2014), "For the guarantee of law and order": The armed forces and public security in Brazil no. 2014: 11. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute.
- Samset I. (2012), Sexual violence: The case of Eastern Congo. In: Suhrke A. & Berdal M. (Eds.), The Peace in Between: Post-War Violence and Peacebuilding. Abingdon: Routledge. 229-247.
- Samset I. (2011), Building a Repressive Peace: The Case of Post-Genocide Rwanda, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 5(3): 265-283.
- Samset I. (2010), UN Peacekeeping in the Congo: When is the Job Done? no. Policy Brief no. 6, 2010. Oslo: Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre.
- Petersen S., Samset I. & Wang V. (2009), Foreign Aid to Transitional Justice: The Cases of Rwanda and Guatemala. In: Ambos K., Large J. & Wierda M. (Eds.), Building a Future on Peace and Justice: Studies on Transitional Justice, Peace and Development. Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer. 439-468.
- Samset I. (2009), Natural Resource Wealth, Conflict, and Peacebuilding. New York: Program on States and Security, City University of New York.
- Suhrke A. & Samset I. (2007), What's in a Figure? Estimating Recurrence of Civil War, International peacekeeping 14(2): 195-203.
- Samset I. (2007), A Promising Experience: Building Peace Through Community Development, Lines 6(3): 1-4.
- Samset I. (2004), Whose Mission? Limits and Potentials of the SLMM, Lines 3(2): .
- Samset I. (2002), Conflict of interests or interests in conflict? Diamonds & war in the DRC, Review of African Political Economy 29(93/94): 463-480.