Name Henrik Urdal | ||
PODCAST New Research on Demography and Conflict
Henrik Urdal (born 19 October 1972) is a political scientist and Research Professor as well as Research Director at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Urdal has been appointed the next Director of PRIO and he will start his four-year period in office 1 July 2017. Since October 2010, he has been the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Peace Research, the premier journal in the field, a position that he overtook from Nils Petter Gleditsch.
Contents
- PODCAST New Research on Demography and Conflict
- Research interests
- Education and work experience
- Dissemination
- References
Henrik Urdal will succeed Kristian Berg Harpviken as Director.
Research interests
Urdal's research interests include the relationship between demography, environment, and politics, particularly focusing on how population growth, "youth bulges", and climate change affect violent conflict.
Education and work experience
Since 2000, Urdal has been affiliated with PRIO, first as a student, then moving on to positions as researcher, senior researcher, Research Professor and Research Director. Urdal received his Research Professor competence in 2013. He obtained his PhD in political science from the University of Oslo in 2007, entitled Demography and Internal Armed Conflict. Urdal was a PRIO board member 2013-15.
Urdal is the Research Director at the Department on Conditions of Violence and Peace where he heads the Conflict Trend project. PRIO’s Conflict Trends project collaborates with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to answer questions relating to the causes, consequences and trends in conflict. He was a researcher with the Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) – one of the 13 original Norwegian Centres of Excellence – from the beginning in 2003 and throughout its 10 years of existence.
Urdal has held research fellowships at the Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University; 2011–12) and East West Center (Honolulu, Hawaii; 2005-2006).
He has previously worked for the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (1999).
Urdal has previously been Associate Editor (2006–10), Editorial Committee Member (2004–06), Book Review Editor (2004–05) for the Journal of Peace Research.
Henrik was the Secretary General of the Socialist Youth League (Sosialistisk Ungdom) of Norway (1996–98) and worked as a Research Assistant, at Statistics Norway, at the Division for Social and Demographic Research (1995).
Henrik was a board member of the Norwegian Demographic Society (2011–12),
Dissemination
Henrik Urdal holds policy relevant consultancies for various international and Norwegian organizations and institutions, such as the World Bank, UNESCO and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.