Jason Miklian left PRIO in 2019. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
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Postdoctoral Fellow at SUM, University of Oslo
Jason Miklian (MSc, International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science) is a researcher at PRIO, exploring the arenas where conflict and commerce meet. Miklian’s research studies how demands for natural resources (such as iron, diamonds, and rare earth elements) and market access by consumer goods firms can influence how business, governance and violent conflict intersect in fragile countries and how these production chains are traced around the world.
Miklian's regional focus is on South Asian conflict resolution and regional security, with publications on media and foreign policy in Nepal, the Maoist insurgency in India, political ecologies of war and conflict diamonds in support. Miklian has conducted extensive fieldwork in South Asia since 2005, with over one dozen medium or long-term fieldwork visits to India on projects with international, national and local level project-based and institutional collaboration. Miklian is also a PhD candidate in Development Studies at the University of Life Sciences (Ås, Norway), and has written for or been cited in an expert capacity by The New York Times, the BBC, The Economist, Agence France-Presse, Foreign Policy, France 24, NRK (Norway), The Hindu (India) and National Public Radio (New York) among various media outlets.
Languages spoken: English, Hindi, Urdu
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Journal Article in Harvard Business Review
Journal Article in International Small Business Journal
Journal Article in Sustainability
Journal Article in Business and Politics
Edited Volume
Book Chapter in Business, Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development
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Journal Article in Sustainability
Book Chapter in Business, Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development
The P3A project will advance the understanding of how, and under what conditions, private sector development exacerbates or mitigates conflict in Africa.
This is one out of five PRIO projects that today have received funding from the Research Council of Norway.
Can Businesses Play a Role in Peace and Sustainable Development? Today a new edited volume is launched, debating this question in order to provide an essential guide for students, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners on the role of business in peace.
Angelika Rettberg, associate professor at the Political Science Department at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá – Colombia) and director of the M.A. Program on Peacebuilding has been appointed Global Fellow.
The Research School on Peace and Conflict invites applications for the PhD course Business for Peace: A New Dawn for International Peacebuilding?, to be held in Oslo on 8-10 March 2017.
The extended deadline for application is 3 February. There are few places left!
PRIO researchers write in The Guardian on the perceived dangers of humanitarian work following the Kunduz attack in Afghanistan.
A workshop on India’s Role in Global Nuclear Governance was co-organized by the Indian Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) and PRIO as a part the IDSA-PRIO cooperation on India in the World: Emerging Perspectives on Global Challenges, and its subproject on Nuclear Governance.
Jason Miklian successfully defended his PhD thesis at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences on Friday 27 June. His thesis is titled Mining, Displacement and Conflict in Maoist India.
The Research Council of Norway (RCN) funds two PRIO projects on the effects of aid: “Conflict of Interest? ‘Business For Peace’ as Development Aid in Volatile Environments” and “Aid in Crisis? Rights-Based Approaches and Humanitarian Outcomes”.
In April, 800 hundred million people began casting their ballots all across India in the largest election the world has ever seen. When we think of voting in India, we often picture a poor elderly villager showing a big ink-stained thumb and boasting a wide smile as proof of democracy in action. But elections in today's India mean big money, big ideas and a growing focus on big urban centers as the drivers of development that will continue to catapult it from a 20th century agrarian laggard to a 21st century global power.