Ole Magnus Theisen was an External Associate at PRIO until 2018.
Ole Magnus Theisen
Assistant Professor in Political Science at NTNU
Research Interests
Resource scarcities and violent conflict, conflict escalation processes; surveys in conflict areas.
Languages spoken:
Norwegian (bokmål), English
Education:
Master in Political Science NTNU 2006
PhD in Political Science NTNU 2012
Latest publications
All publications
Insights into the quantification and reporting of model-related uncertainty across different disciplines
Journal Article in iScience
Societal drought vulnerability and the Syrian climate-conflict nexus are better explained by agriculture than meteorology
Journal Article in Communications Earth & Environment
Ethno-political favoritism in maternal health care service delivery: Micro-level evidence from sub-Saharan Africa, 1981–2014
Journal Article in International Area Studies Review
Climate Change and Violence: Insights from Political Science
Journal Article in Current Climate Change Reports
Climate Change and Armed Conflict: Reviewing the Evidence
Book Chapter in States and Peoples in Conflict
All about water and land? Resource-related conflicts in East and West Africa revisited
Journal Article in Geojournal
Violence against civilians 1900-87: Regime type, climate change and the severity of democide
Conference Paper
Climate variability, food production shocks, and violent conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
Journal Article in Environmental Research Letters
One effect to rule them all? A comment on climate and conflict
Journal Article in Climatic Change
Is climate change a driver of armed conflict?
Journal Article in Climatic Change
Latest news
Workshop on Climate Change and Security
On 27-28 September
2018, the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and PRIO
co-hosted a joint Workshop on Climate Change and Security in Uppsala. The
workshop brought together an international group of twenty scholars and experts
to discuss ongoing and emergent research on a variety of topics related to
climate change and security. The discussions highlighted a variety of topics
including the consequences of resource scarcity, extreme weather events, food
price shocks, land use competition, demographic pressure, and environmental
migration. The program included presentations on 14 projects as well as a public
keynote lecture by Professor W. Neil Adger on sustainable urbanization.
The
workshop was co-organized by Nina von Uexkull and Halvard Buhaug and sponsored
by the PRIO-based research project Climate Variability and
Security Threats (CLIMSEC), funded by the European Research
Council, and the Uppsala-based project on Climate
Change, Food Insecurity and Violent Conflict, funded by the
Swedish Research Council, SIDA, and FORMAS.
Successful Doctoral Defence by Hanne Seter
Hanne Seter successfully defended her doctoral thesis today, 21 April, at the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technolog (NTNU). The title of the thesis is “Climate variability and conflict”
Elgar Handbook of Civil War and Fragile States
A new edited volume on civil war and fragile states has just been published by Edward Elgar. The book contains no less than four PRIO articles:
- Håvard Hegre & Helge Holtermann: Poverty and conflict
- Ole Magnus Theisen, Nils Petter Gleditsch & Halvard Buhaug: Climate change and armed conflict
- Henrik Urdal: Demography and armed conflict
- Nils Metternich, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Han Dorussen & Andrea Ruggeri: International dimensions of armed conflict
Successful Doctoral Dissertation Defence by Ole Magnus Theisen
Ole Magnus Theisen successfully defended his thesis at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) on Friday 16 November. His work is titled: Renewable resource scarcity, natural disasters, and the possibility of collective violence.
He has been a student with the Department of Sociology and Political Science at NTNU, and attached to the 'Environmental Factors in Civil War' Working Group at PRIO's Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW).
The evaluation committee:
Karen Witsenburg, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Thomas Bernauer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Scott Gates, PRIO/NTNU
His supervisors are both at CSCW:
Nils Petter Gleditsch
Halvard Buhaug
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.
