Henrikas Bartusevičius
Senior Researcher
Email: henrikas@prio.org
Website: henrikasbartusevicius.com/
Research Interests
- Psychology of political violence
- Individual-level analysis of political violence
- Evolutionary theory
Henrikas is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant project Adapted to War (AWAR).
Working Experience:
2021- present: Senior Researcher, Peace Research Institute Oslo
2015-2019: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
2014-2015: Senior Research Officer/Postdoc, Conflict, Strategies, and Violence. Principal investigator: Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Department of Government, University of Essex, European Research Council 313373
2014: Postdoc, Democratic Deepening and Regression (DEDERE). Principal Investigator: Svend-Erik Skaaning, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, the Danish Council for Independent Research-Sapere Aude
2013-2014: Research assistant. Democratic Deepening and Regression (DEDERE). Principal Investigator: Svend-Erik Skaaning, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, the Danish Council for Independent Research-Sapere Aude
2010-2013: PhD candidate, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
Education:
2010-2013 (awarded Jan. 2014): PhD, Political Science, Aarhus University
2008-2010: MA, War and Peace Studies, Vilnius University
2004-2008: BA, Modern History, Vilnius University
Resisting Changes That Make Things Worse: Decremental—Not Relative—Deprivation Motivates Political Violence
Journal Article in Journal of Conflict Resolution
Physical strength predicts political violence
Journal Article in Evolution and Human Behavior
The psychological burden of the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with anti-systemic attitudes and political violence
Journal Article in Psychological Science
First comes the river, then comes the conflict? A qualitative comparative analysis of flood-related political unrest
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
Dominance-Driven Autocratic Political Orientations Predict Political Violence in Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) and Non-WEIRD Samples
Journal Article in Psychological Science
A Two-Stage Approach to Civil Conflict: Contested Incompatibilities and Armed Violence
Journal Article in International Organization
Call for Applications: PostDoc Position at PRIO
PRIO invites applications for a 1.5-year, full-time Postdoc position within the project Adapted to War (AWAR), funded by the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant).
Burden of Pandemic May Motivate Violent Protest and Antigovernment Sentiment
The sometimes-violent antigovernment demonstrations that erupted during 2020 and 2021 were fueled in part by the spread of extremist ideologies, conspiratorial thinking, and political polarization. New research published in the journal Psychological Science also puts some of the blame for civil unrest and political violence on the psychological burden of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Call for Applications: Postdoc Position with Project AWAR
PRIO invites applications for a Postdoc Position.
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.
Strong PRIO Performance in ERC Projects
This week we have received wonderful news from the European Research Council (ERC). No less than two brand new 5-year research projects will be conducted at PRIO with Starting Grants from this funder: Marta Bivand Erdal will lead the project "Migration rhythms in trajectories of upward social mobility in Asia", and Henrikas Bartusevičius will lead "Adapted to War".
We are also very happy to see that the University of Oslo (Faculty of Law) will host Mareile Kaufmann's new ERC Starting Grant Project The changing relationships between digital technologies, DNA and evidence. Kaufmann was a doctoral student at PRIO and maintains a secondary researcher position at the institute.
Henrikas Bartusevičius Awarded ERC Starting Grant
