Residence United Kingdom Role Professor Name Mats Berdal | Nationality Norwegian | |
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Discipline Strategic StudiesConflict Security and DevelopmentThe UN and International SecurityComparative Civil WarsCold War History Books Building Peace After War, Greed and grievance, The United States, Norway and the Cold War, 1954-60 People also search for David M. Malone, Spyros Economides, Astri Suhrke, Philip Windsor | ||
Institution King's College London |
War studies insights professor mats berdal on the un peacekeeping summit
Mats R. Berdal (born 5 October 1965) is Professor of Security and Development at the Department of War Studies, King's College London.
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- War studies insights professor mats berdal on the un peacekeeping summit
- The use of force in defence of human rights a conversation with professor mats berdal
- Early life
- Career
- Books
- References

The use of force in defence of human rights a conversation with professor mats berdal
Early life

Mats R. Berdal was born on 5 October 1965. He gained a BSc degree from the London School of Economics in 1988, and a DPhil degree from St Antony's College, Oxford in 1992.
Career

From 2000 to 2003 Berdal was Director of Studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. Between 2007 and 2011, Berdal was a Visiting Professor at the Norwegian Defence University College and was a Consulting Senior Fellow at the IISS from 2009 to 2011, responsible for the Institute’s “Economics and Conflict Resolution Programme”.

In 2003, Berdal joined the Department of War Studies, King's College London where he directs the Conflict, Security and Development Research Group (CSDRG) and is the Programme Director for the MA in Conflict, Security and Development.
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