Political Instability and Armed Conflicts

Research group

Political Instability and Armed Conflicts


About the research group

About the research group

The Department of Sociology and Political Science has an internationally recognized research community on armed and unarmed forms of conflict and processes of institutional change, especially democratization. The research community has long had close cooperation with PRIO – The Peace Research Institute in Oslo

The research group consists of more than 20 Faculty, Postdoctoral Researchers, PhDs, MA students, and Researchers working on a variety of topics from climate and conflict to women's participation in violent and nonviolent forms of dissent, historical influences on democratization, the drivers of political trust during and after violent conflict, and the economics of conflict and war, among many others. Check out our individual profiles (to the right) for more information. 

Our core institution is the fortnightly Violence Instability and Peace research seminar series. Over the 2019-2023 period, we have welcomed more than 30 guest speakers to the seminar series, along with regular presentations from our members. We aim, through the seminar series, to provide a forum for the presentation of ongoing research work and an environment for open, inclusive, and constructive feedback and discussion for researchers from M.A students to Faculty members and external guests.

Our research projects are supported by numerous external grants, including funding from the European Research Council for the LEGACIES project and CLIMSEC, from the Norwegian Research Council for the Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns project and the TRUST and CAVE projects. Our work has also received support from the United States Institute of Peace, the National Science Foundation in the United States, and we gratefully acknowledge funding from the Department and Faculty at NTNU to support postdoctoral researchers, PhD projects, and our VIP seminar series.  
 

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