Andreas Forø Tollefsen has successfully defended his doctoral thesis today, 4 November, at the University of Oslo. His thesis is titled Local Dynamics of Civil War. Congratulations!

His trial lecture: "Why do people take up arms against their governments?"

Committee

  • Dr. Anja Shortland, King's College London, UK
  • Associate Professor Alex Braithwaite, The University of Arizona, USA
  • Professor Terje Wessel, Department of Sociology and Human Geography at UiO

Leader of defense

  • Professor David Jordhus-Lier, Department of Sociology and Human Geography at UiO

Supervisors

  • Håvard Strand, Department of Political Science, UiO & PRIO
  • Kristian Stokke, Department of Sociology and Human Geography at UiO
  • Halvard Buhaug, PRIO

You can read more about the defense and the thesis here [in Norwegian]