Prof. Nils Petter Gleditsch (Augsut 2013)
Nils Petter Gleditsch is a Research Professor at the Peace Research institute Oslo (PRIO); Associate editor, Journal of Peace Research; and Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He is the recipient of various awards and invited memberships. His primary research interests include the causes of war, environmental and geographic factors and conflict, and the democratic peace. Among his most frequently cited works we find the article “Armed conflict 1946-2001: A new dataset” (Journal of Peace Research, 2002) which presents the UCDP/PRIO dataset; “Toward a democratic civil peace? Democracy, political change, and civil war, 1816-1992” (American Political Science Review, 2001); “Monitoring trends in global combat: A new dataset of battle deaths” (Journal of Population, 2005); and “Climate change and conflict” (Political Geography, 2006), the introduction to a special issue on the potential for a climate-conflict link. In 2006, Nils Petter was listed by ISI Web of Knowledge as the seventh most-frequently cited author on ‘Armed conflict’ (Essential Science Indicators Special Topics, November 2006). In 2009, Nils Petter Gleditsch was awarded the annual Award for Outstanding Research by the Research Council of Norway.
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