Email: kristoffer@prio.org
Mobile phone: (+47) 90 11 24 93
Kristoffer Lidén is a Senior researcher at PRIO and the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS). Holding a PhD in Philosophy and MA in Peace and Conflict Studies, his research centres on the ethics of international affairs, with a focus on the fields of peacemaking, humanitarian action, security and digital technologies.
Lidén heads the PRIO Research Group on Law and Ethics and currently leads the RCN funded project Red Lines and Grey Zones: exploring the ethics of humanitarian negotiations, and co-leads On Fair Terms: the ethics of peace negotiations and mediation. He has initiated, coordinated and worked on several NRC, Nordforsk and EU funded projects, including Liberal Peace and the Ethics of Peacebuilding; Protection of Civilians: from principle to practice; and CORE: Cultures of governance and conflict resolution in Europe and India. He was responsible for work packages on ethics, law and human rights in SOURCE: Virtual Centre of Excellence on Societal Security in Europe and NordSTEVA: Nordic Centre of Excellence on Security Technology and Societal Values. Lidén coordinated the UiO-NTNU-PRIO Research School on Peace and Conflict from its inception in 2011 until 2017.
Working Experience:
2014-: Senior Researcher, PRIO.
2019-21: Deputy Director, Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS)
2018: Acting Research Director, Dimensions of Security Department, PRIO.
2018: Acting Director, Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies.
2011-17: Coordinator, Research School on Peace and Conflict, PRIO.
2007-14: Researcher, PhD Candidate, PRIO.
2006-07: Coordinator and lecturer, Peace and Conflict Studies in Puducherry, India.
2006: Young Researcher at the Universities of Saarbrücken, Germany and Tilburg, Holland, as part of the EU funded project Applied Global Justice.
2004-05: MA stipend at PRIO.
2002-03: CO as research assistant at PRIO, Ethics, Norms and Identities programme.
Education:
2014: PhD in Philosophy, University of Oslo. Member of the Research School of The Ethics Programme, University of Oslo.
2006: European Research Training Network, Applied Global Justice, University of Saarbrücken, Germany, and University of Tilburg, Netherlands.
2005: MA in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Oslo. Philosophy specialisation.
2003: Major module in Philosophy, graduate level, University of Oslo. Thesis on 'Spinoza's Ethics of War and Peace.'
2002 Cand. mag. with the subjects Philosophy, Sociology and Anthropology at the universities of Oslo and Bergen.
Journal Article in International Studies Perspectives
Journal Article in European Security
PRIO Policy Brief
Journal Article in Cooperation and Conflict
Report - Other
Book Chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation
Book Chapter in Border Control and New Technologies: Addressing Integrated Impact Assessment
Book Chapter in Border Control and New Technologies: Addressing Integrated Impact Assessment
Popular Article in Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies Blog
Book Chapter in Humanitarianism: Keywords
Both the Ethics of Humanitarian Neutrality in Syria and the Red Lines for Humanitarian Aid in Afghanistan webinars were recorded and can be streamed via the seminar webpages.
More than 40 peace practitioners, researchers and representatives from international organizations came together on 2 November 2022 in Geneva to discuss how various ethics perspectives could help in the planning, implemention, and evaluation of digital peacebuilding interventions.
The PRIO project “On Fair Terms: The Ethics of Peace Negotiations and Mediation” (FAIR) organized a workshop in Cyprus in partnership with the PRIO Cyprus Centre, PRIO Middle East Centre, and the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security, 19-21 October.
The PRIO Research School on Peace and Conflict, in
collaboration with the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, hosted doctoral
candidates at the PhD-level course.
A collaborative project in which PRIO participates has been awarded a large grant from the European Union's Horizon Europe programme.
The Red Lines and Grey Zones project has been officially launched with a kick-off meeting on the 1st of March. Please find an introduction to the project presented by Kristoffer Lidén above.
Hosted by the International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA), the Conference on Humanitarian Studies was held at Sciences Po, Paris between 3-5 November 2021, with the theme ‘New realities of politics and humanitarianism: between solidarity and abandonment’.
The schedule featured a number of NCHS members, representing a number of PRIO projects including Do No Harm: Ethical Humanitarian Innovation and Digital Bodies led by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik.
Recordings of the sessions available from the below links:
Roundtable 10: The Ethics of Humanitarian Technology: Looking Back &Taking Stock
On 9-10 September 2021, around 20 researchers met for a hybrid online-offline workshop to share their research on specific cases of ethical issues in peace negotiations and mediation. The workshop was part of the PRIO project 'On Fair Terms: The Ethics of Peace Negotiations and Mediation' (FAIR) and included both PRIO researchers and researchers from across the world.
The project "Red Lines and Grey Zones: Exploring the Ethics of Humanitarian Negotiation" has received funding from the Research Council of Norway. Starting from consultations with humanitarian practitioners, the project will map problems related to the ethics of negotiation and cross examine these challenges through cases from Syria, Bangladesh, Colombia, Nepal, the Mediterranean and the UN Security Council.
How to better understand the relationship between individual duties and collective action in response to large-scale societal challenges.