Taylor Owen was an External Associate at PRIO until 2004.
Taylor Owen
PhD student in Geography at University of Oxford
Research Interests
Human Security and Measurement. Using Geographic Information Systems to map and spatially analyse broadly defined human security data at the sub national level. Qualitative and quantitative issues in the measuremnt of complex systems including indicator selection, scale and statistical methods.
Humanitarian Intervention
Human Security and Definition. The theoretical defence of the concept in the literatures of political science and development studies.
News
Friday, 28 Jul 2006
Conflicts Over Shared Rivers
CSCW researchers Nils Petter Gleditsch, Kathryn Furlong, Håvard Hegre, Bethany Lacina & Taylor Owen have published an article in the July issue of Political Geography, an interdisciplinary journal for students of political studies with an interest in the geographical and spatial aspects of the discipline. The title of the article is 'Conflicts Over Shared Rivers: Resource Scarcity or Fuzzy Boundaries?'
Publisher information here.
Languages spoken:
English, French, Spanish
Working experience:
Research Assistant at the Center for the Study of Civil War at the International Peace Research Institute. Funded by the Young Canadian Leaders for a Sustainable Future program at the International Institute for Sustainable Development and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs.
Liu Institute for Global Issues. University of British Columbia. Recent projects have included a report on the long term consequences of the use of carpet bombing and landmines in Cambodia, work on the Non-State Actors and Armed Conflict Project, and the Conflict and Development Project.
Masters research based at the Cambodian Development Research Institute, funded by a Canadian International Development Agency Innovative Graduate Research Award
Coast Information Team. ‘Wellbeing Assessment’ of the B.C. Central Coast Region.
International Development Research Center (IDRC). Evaluation Unit Intern
Education:
Current: DPhil Candidate, Oxford University
Yale University (2004)
Post-Graduate Fellow, Yale Genocide Studies Program
University of British Columbia (2001-2003)
Master of Arts Degree: Geography Department and Liu Institute for Global Issues
Bishops University (1996-2000)
Bachelor of Arts Degree: Geography, Philosophy
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Latest publications
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The Culture of Water in the Indus Water Treaty
Conference Paper
A Semi-Parametric Spatial Regression Approach to Post-War Human Security: Cambodia, 2002–2004
Journal Article in Asian Journal of Criminology
Conflicts over Shared Rivers: Resource Wars or Fuzzy Boundaries?
Journal Article in Political Geography
Conflict over Shared Rivers: Resource Scarcity or Fuzzy Boundaries
Journal Article in Political Geography
Who Takes the Bullet? – The Impact of Small Arms Violence
Report - External Series
Toward Modeling Regionally Specific Human Security Using GIS: Case Study Cambodia
Journal Article in AMBIO Journal of the Human Environment
Editors’ Introduction: What is Human Security?
Journal Article in Security Dialogue
Human Security – Conflict, Critique and Concensus: Colloquium Remarks and a Proposal for a Threshold Based Definition
Journal Article in Security Dialogue
Challenges and opportunities for defining and measuring human security
Journal Article in Disarmament Forum
Using Geographic Information Systems to Measure Human Security in Cambodia
Report - External Series
Latest news
Conflicts Over Shared Rivers
CSCW researchers Nils Petter Gleditsch, Kathryn Furlong, Håvard Hegre, Bethany Lacina & Taylor Owen have published an article in the July issue of Political Geography, an interdisciplinary journal for students of political studies with an interest in the geographical and spatial aspects of the discipline. The title of the article is 'Conflicts Over Shared Rivers: Resource Scarcity or Fuzzy Boundaries?'
Publisher information here.
Launch of report on small arms
Norwegian Church Aid and the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) will launch the report: Who takes the bullet? – The impact of small arms violence.
