Denne studiens hovedformål har vært å skape en dypere forståelse av hvorfor befolkningsrike land oftere opplever utbrudd av intern konflikt enn andre. Temaet er lite forsket på, selv om sammenhengen mellom konflikt og ...

Research findings on the relationship between climate and conflict are diverse and contested. Here we assess the current understanding of the relationship between climate and conflict, based on the structured judgments of ...

Earlier research that reports a correlational pattern between climate anomalies and violent conflict routinely refers to drought-induced agricultural shocks and adverse economic spillover effects as a key causal mechanism ...

Common political economy models point to rationalist motives for engaging in conflict but say little about how income shocks translate into collective violence in some cases but not in others. Grievance models, in contrast, ...

In the last decades, several corrupt, authoritarian, and autocratic regimes have fallen. New states and democracies have emerged by a variety of means. How a transition occurs have significant impact on the success or ...

Climate change is a major threat to sustained economic growth and wellbeing in the Global South. To what extent does official development assistance (ODA) strengthen recipient communities’ capacity to cope with climatic ...

Hvorfor er er noen valg gang på gang preget av vold og demonstrasjoner, mens andre går helt fredelig for seg? Denne oppgaven tar for seg forholdet mellom valg og sosial uro, og hvordan dette forholdet påvirkes av styresett ...

This article presents a new open source extension to the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) that allows researchers, for the first time, to explore and make use of subnational, geocoded data on major disasters triggered ...

Terrorisme er ikke et nytt fenomen i den moderne verden, men i løpet av de siste 15 årene har vi observert en betydelig økning i terrortrusselen, særlig fra høyreekstreme og islamistiske terrorgrupper. Årsakssammenhenger ...