Currently Peter Wallensteen is Senior Professor, Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, since August 1, 2012, and Richard G. Starmann Sr. Research Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA, as of January 1, 2019
– and serves as a member of the Institute’s Advisory Board. He is also Senior Research Fellow, The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Uppsala, since 2015.
He is appointed as Chair of the committee that awards the annual Holmdahl Prize on Human Rights by Uppsala University and as member of the Advisory Board of the Folke Bernadotte Academy by the Swedish Government.
Since 1968 Peter Wallensteen is married to Lena Wallensteen, Program Director, The Diplomatic Forum, Uppsala University and former Director of International Education at the Swedish Agency for International Technical and Economic Cooperation, BITS, and the National Agency for Higher Education. They have two children and six grandchildren.