Matthias Basedau was an External Associate at PRIO until 2014.
Matthias Basedau
Guest Researcher
Research Interests
Matthias studies the causes of intrastate conflict, in particular natural resources, ethnicity and religion. He also specializes in the analysis of political institutions and their potential to work on conflict.
Other fields of interest include electoral systems, political parties, and democratization as well as multi method designs and comparative area studies.
Prof. Dr. Matthias Basedau is a lead research fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg. He heads the research programme on "violence and security".
Read more about him on GIGA's website.
Latest publications
All publications
ViEWS: A political Violence Early-Warning System
Journal Article in Journal of Peace Research
Do expectations on oil discoveries affect civil unrest? Micro-level evidence from Mali
Journal Article in Cogent Social Sciences
Ideen, Identitäten und Institutionen: Explikation eines multidimensionalen Religionsbegriffs in der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
Journal Article in Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (ZeFKo). Special volume: Religion in der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
Measuring the Ambivalence of Religion: Introducing the Religion and Conflict in Developing Countries (RCDC) Dataset
Journal Article in International Interactions
Does discrimination breed grievances—and do grievances breed violence? New evidence from an analysis of religious minorities in developing countries
Journal Article in Conflict Management and Peace Science
When Do Religious Leaders Support Faith-Based Violence? Evidence from a Survey Poll in South Sudan
Journal Article in Political Research Quarterly
Bad Religion? Religion, Collective Action, and the Onset of Armed Conflict in Developing Countries
Journal Article in Journal of Conflict Resolution
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