Rune Slettebak was an External Associate at PRIO until 2012.
Rune Slettebak
Associate researcher
Email: rune.slettebak@svt.ntnu.no
Research Interests
March-August 2008, Rune Slettebak worked as research assistant for the NISAT Project at PRIO.
He then left PRIO to start his PhD at NTNU, but remains an associate researcher at CSCW.
My research interests include:
- Insurgent logistical support structures – how insurgent organizations acquire, transfer and exchange funds, arms and other resources that are necessary to their operations, both within their 'home' countries and globally.
- The possible roles of diaspora communities in civil conflicts.
- Transnational aspects of civil war and the increased importance of non-state actors within the areas of domestic and international security.
- How climate changes can be expected to affect human security, both through the risk of conflict and other factors such as increased frequency of natural disasters, increased threats to food and energy security and spread of diseases.
- The role of identity and identity formation in conflict, religion and ethnicity in particular.
Latest publications
All publications
Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and Post-Disaster Unrest in India
Journal Article in India Review
Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and the Risk of Violent Conflict
PhD Thesis
Don’t Blame the Weather! Climate-Related Natural Disasters and Civil Conflict
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
Climate Change, Migration and Conflict
PhD Thesis
Latest news
Successful Doctoral Defense by Rune Slettebak
Rune Slettebak, a PhD candidate at NTNU and a research associate of CSCW/PRIO successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in Trondheim on 3 May. The title of the dissertation is 'Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and the Risk of Violent Conflict'.
This PhD project assesses the relation between natural disasters triggered by extreme weather events and the risk of violent conflict. Han Dorussen (University of Essex) and Espen Sjaastad (Norwegian University of Life Sciences) were the opponents at the dissertation defense, while Indra de Soysa and Henrik Urdal were PhD supervisors.
PRIO and NTNU ranked top institutions in IR
The two institutions, which have a long-standing institutional relationship, are placed amongst the world’s most influential institutions in a recently released paper which takes takes its cue from the citations and recitations of scholarly articles within International Relations (IR).
New Project on Security Implications of Climate Change Funded
The Research Council of Norway's NORKLIMA programme has decided to allocate 7.5 million NOK to support a three-year CSCW project on Security Implications of Climate Change. The project will be led by Halvard Buhaug and involves CSCW associates Henrik Urdal, Nils Petter Gleditsch, Indra de Soysa, and Gudrun Østby, as well as PhD candidates Rune Slettebak and Ole Magnus Theisen at NTNU, and Tor A. Benjaminsen and Gufu Oba at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, UMB.
