- Ethics of international affairs
- Peacemaking
- Humanitarian action
- Security politics
- Digital technology
- Global governance
- International law
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 projects Red Lines and Grey Zones: exploring the ethics of humanitarian negotiations and 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:
2023-: Research Director, Dimensions of Security Department, PRIO.
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.
NCHS Paper
Journal Article in International Studies Perspectives
Popular article in PRIO Blog
Journal Article in European Security
PRIO Policy Brief by Jørgen Jensehaugen, Kristoffer Lidén & Isabel Bramsen
Popular article in Morgenbladet
Journal Article in Cooperation and Conflict
Book chapter in Border Control and New Technologies: Addressing Integrated Impact Assessment
Book chapter in Border Control and New Technologies: Addressing Integrated Impact Assessment
In the research project Red Lines and Grey Zones: Exploring the Ethics of Humanitarian Negotiation (RedLines) two papers and a new podcast episode have recently been published in collaboration with the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS).
A new podcast series on ethics in peace negotiations is now available on Spotify.
Kristoffer Lidén has been appointed as the new Research Director for the Dimensions of Security Department at PRIO.
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.
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, incollaboration with the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, hosted doctoralcandidates 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.