Henrik Urdal

Henrik Urdal

Director

Email: urdal@prio.org

Mobile phone: +47 92 04 78 41

X: @h_urdal

Interests and experience

  • Demography and political violence
  • Climate change, environmental change and armed conflict
  • The politics of census-taking
  • Demographic consequences of armed conflict

Work positions
2017–
DirectorPeace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
2013–
Research ProfessorPeace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
2017
Research DirectorConditions of Violence and PeacePeace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
2011–2012
Research FellowBelfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
2010–2017
EditorJournal of Peace ResearchPeace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
2007–2013
Senior ResearcherCentre for the Study of Civil WarPeace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
2006–2010
Associate EditorJournal of Peace ResearchPeace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
2005–2006
Visiting ScholarEast-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
2002–2006
PhD Candidate and Research FellowCentre for the Study of Civil WarPeace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
1999
Investigations Assistant'Population Project', the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Office of the Prosecutor
Education
2007
PhD in Political Science University of Oslo
2002
Cand. Polit., Political Science University of Oslo
1995
Cand. mag. University of Oslo
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