How urbanization, demography, and physical factors condition dynamics of peace, conflict and development
How urbanization, demography, and physical factors condition dynamics of peace, conflict and development
Over half the world’s population now lives in cities, with this number to reach 70 percent by 2050. Moreover, climate change poses one of the greatest challenges of this century. Focusing on the city as a site, and urbanization, demographic and environmental change as processes, the Urbanization and Environment research group examines how spatial, demographic and physical factors condition human affairs, and their implications for peace and conflict dynamics.
The group takes a multi-disciplinary perspective, engaging researchers using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Researchers use disaggregated data and approaches to understand cross-scale dynamics of linkages between urbanization, demography, the environment and sociopolitical outcomes; and engage comparative approaches to understand the relevance of local factors and conditions.
Selected research themes include:
Research Professor Halvard Buhaug has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for the project "POLIMPACT: Enabling Politically Sensitive Climate Change Impact Assessments for the 21st Century".
Associate Professor at Uppsala University and PRIO associateNina von Uexkull has been awarded the prestigious Oscar Prizefor her work on security implications of climate change.
Yesterday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the second part of its Sixth Assessment Report.
Halvard Buhaug is a chapter lead author in the forthcoming IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.
In a new study published in Nature Communications,PRIO researchers use a machine-learning analysis framework to identify leadingpredictors of contemporary asylum migration to the European Union.
The Journal of PeaceResearch has just published a new special issue on ‘Security implicationsof climate change’ (January 2021), guest edited by Nina von Uexkull and HalvardBuhaug.
Kristian Hoelscher has been granted YRT funding from the Research Council of Norway for the three-year project Political Transformation in African Cities (PACE).
Congratulations to the team that has secured NORGLOBAL funding from the Research Council of Norway for the 3-year project Green Curses and Violent Conflicts: The Security Implications of Renewable Energy Sector Development in Africa.
Despite the magnitude of displacement, extant knowledge on how refugees affect host populations is derived almost exclusively from Western societies.
We congratulate Elisabeth Lio Rosvold on the successful defense of her PhD thesis today, 08 November 2019! Dr Rosvold’s thesis entitled ‘Coping with Calamity: Natural Disasters, Armed Conflict and Development Aid’ was defended at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Sociology and Political Science.
Journal Article in African Affairs
Journal Article in International Migration
PRIO Policy Brief by Halvard Buhaug, Cedric de Coning & Nina von Uexkull
Journal Article in Peacebuilding
Popular article in Global Observatory
Book chapter in What Do We Know about Civil War. Second Edition
Journal Article in Journal of Politics in Latin America
Popular article in 49security
Journal Article in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Journal Article in Climate Risk Management
Siri Aas Rustad
Research Director