Halvard Buhaug
Research Professor
Additional positions:
Professor of Political Science, NTNU
News
Tuesday, 1 Mar 2022
Halvard Buhaug Contributes to the IPCC's Latest Climate Report
Yesterday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the second part of its Sixth Assessment Report. PRIO Research Professor Halvard Buhaug, who is a chapter lead author, presented findings at the Norwegian launch of the report.
Halvard Buhaug is Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO); Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU); and Associate Editor of Journal of Peace Research. He leads and has directed a number of research projects on security dimensions of climate change and geographic aspects of armed conflict, funded by the European Union, the World Bank, the US Department of Defense, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and the Research Council of Norway. Recent publications include the award-winning, co-authored Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War (Cambridge University Press 2013) and journal articles in, inter alia, Environmental Research Letters, Global Environmental Change, Journal of Politics, Nature, and PNAS. He is the recipient of the 2015 Karl Deutsch Award; former holder of an ERC Consolidator Grant; and chapter Lead Author in the UN IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.
For more information, visit my personal web page: www.hbuhaug.com
Projecting long-term armed conflict risk: An underappreciated field of inquiry?
Journal Article in Global Environmental Change
Projecting armed conflict risk in Africa towards 2050 along the SSP-RCP scenarios: a machine learning approach
Journal Article in Environmental Research Letters
A Conditional Model of Local Income Shock and Civil Conflict
Journal Article in Journal of Politics
Why do some poor countries see armed conflict while others do not? A dual sector approach
Journal Article in World Development
Vicious circles: Violence, vulnerability, and climate change
Journal Article in Annual Review of Environment and Resources
Group organization, elections and urban political mobilization in the developing world
Journal Article in Democratization
Climate mitigation policies and the potential pathways to conflict: Outlining a research agenda
Journal Article in WIREs Climate Change
De egentlige årsakene til konflikter tåkelegges
Popular Article in Morgenbladet
Climatic conditions are weak predictors of asylum migration
Journal Article in Nature Communications
Climate-conflict research: A decade of scientific progress
Popular Article in New Security Beat
Open Call for 2024 Special Issue of Journal of Peace Research
Every year, JPR publishes special issues on topics of high relevance to the field of peace research, and we are now soliciting proposals for the 2024 special issue. We welcome issues on topics that significantly advance the research frontier of the field, with a focus on causes and consequences of violence, conflict prevention and resolution, and nonviolent action.
Halvard Buhaug Contributes to the IPCC's Latest Climate Report
Yesterday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the second part of its Sixth Assessment Report. PRIO Research Professor Halvard Buhaug, who is a chapter lead author, presented findings at the Norwegian launch of the report.
Halvard Buhaug Contributes to IPCC Sixth Assessment Report
Halvard Buhaug is a chapter lead author in the forthcoming IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. The report will be launched Monday 28 February.
Call for Papers: 2022 IMISCOE Conference
We invite submissions of abstracts for a proposed session at the 19th IMISCOE Annual Conference in Oslo, on migrant-host interactions in the Global South.
Successful Doctoral Defence by Ida Rudolfsen
Today, 3 December 2021, Ida Rudolfsen has successfully defended her doctoral thesis at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. Her thesis is titled Fighting For Food? Investigating Food Insecurity as a
Source of Urban Unrest.
Congratulations to Ida!
What predicts asylum migration flows?
In a new study published in Nature Communications, PRIO researchers use a machine-learning analysis framework to identify leading predictors of contemporary asylum migration to the European Union. The study finds little evidence that climatic shocks or deteriorating economic conditions predict near-future arrivals of asylum seekers in Europe, contrasting commonly held notions of economy- and climate-driven asylum migrants. Instead, indicators capturing levels of political violence and violations of physical integrity rights in countries of origin are important predictors of asylum migration flows, suggesting that migrants are continuing to use the asylum system as intended – i.e., to seek international protection from a well-founded fear of persecution – despite the fact that most applicants ultimately are rejected refugee status. The article is a product of the ERC-funded CLIMSEC project and is published as open access.
Schutte, Sebastian; Jonas Vestby, Jørgen Carling &
Halvard Buhaug (2021) Climatic
conditions are weak predictors of asylum migration, Nature Communications 12:
2067.
New Geocoded Disaster Data Released
An article presenting a new global dataset of geocoded disaster locations has just been published in the Nature journal Scientific Data. The dataset, containing spatial geometry of nearly 40,000 unique locations of natural hazard-related disasters worldwide between 1960 and 2018, are posted in NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center's (SEDAC) data repository in collaboration with the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. These data allow users of the EM-DAT disater database for the first time to map and analyse disasters at subnational levels. The data collection was a central part of Elisabeth Lio Rosvold's now-concluded doctoral project and is a product of the CLIMSEC project.
Read the article (open access) here.
New special issue on climate change and conflict
The Journal of Peace
Research has just published a new special issue on ‘Security implications
of climate change’ (January 2021), guest edited by Nina von Uexkull and Halvard
Buhaug. The special issue contains 12 original research articles and viewpoint
essays, supplemented by an introductory
article by the guest editors that presents a review the state of the art.
This is the second time JPR dedicates a special issue to climate change
and conflict; the first
time was in 2012, edited by Nils Petter Gleditsch. The new issue represents
the most up-to-date collection of studies on the subject. Several articles,
including the introduction, are available as open access.
Read the special issue here.
PRIO's Youth & Peacebuilding Research
Next Tuesday December 8th at 14.00 CET (Oslo time) we will have the PRIO Annual Peace Address, this time with young peacebuilders Hajer Sharief and Ilwad Elman.
On this occasion we wanted to highlight projects and research that focus on youth activism. We're sharing our work on young engagement in political change, because social movements that turn into positive societal transformation are not only initiated by people in power, but very often are initiated or inspired by youth trying to improve their communities. Here are some of the projects showing the importance of youth in peacebuilding.
Open Position: Doctoral Researcher with the TRUST Project
Klima og sikkerhet: Hva gjør Norge?
Norway’s first 100 days on the UN Security Council: Living up to expectations?
The Environment – Reason for Optimism, or Reason to Panic?
Climate Change and Humanitarian Consequences
How Can Improved Food Security Alleviate Conflict?
JPR fyller 50
Third TAMNEAC Workshop on the Economic Analysis of Conflict
The Geopolitics of the Arctic
What do we know about Civil War?
Climate and Conflict: Past Evidence and Research Gaps
