Dr. Kristian Berg Harpviken is a sociologist and research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). He was the institute’s director from 2009 to 2017 and currently heads the PRIO Middle East Centre. Harpviken’s research interests include peace processes, peacebuilding, civil war dynamics, migration and transnational communities, and methodology in challenging contexts. Harpviken has been a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago and Georgetown University, and is an associate at the University of York, the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, and the Institute for National Security Studies Sri Lanka. Harpviken is known for his expertise on issues related to Afghanistan and the surrounding area, but has also worked in a number of other countries, including Angola, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Mozambique, Pakistan, South Africa, and Turkey. Harpviken is a frequent media commentator and lectures regularly to academic and general audiences. He is the author of Social Networks and Migration in Afghanistan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and (with Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh), A Rock Between Hard Places: Afghanistan as an Arena for Regional Insecurity (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2016). (Freely translated)
(2024) Ativismo anti-imigração e extrema-direita na Europa: entrevista com Kristian Berg Harpviken [Anti-immigration Activism and the Far-Right in EuropeAn Interview with Kristian Berg Harpviken], Tempo Social 35 (3): 215–226.