J. Peter Burgess left PRIO in 2015. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.

J. Peter Burgess

J. Peter Burgess

Interests and experience

• The ethical implications of security and insecurity
• Non-conventional security threats and the new cultural of insecurity
• The social determination of risk
• Revising NATO's strategic concept
• Philosophy of value
• Europe as moral community
• The Globalisation of European security identity

  1. Peter Burgess is the Series Editor for the PRIO New Security Studies.

Languages spoken:

English, Norwegian, French, German, Italian, Dutch

Working experience:

• 2001 - 2015: Research Professor, PRIO

• 2004 - 2011: Programme Leader, Security Programme, PRIO
• 2001 - 2013: Editor, Security Dialogue
• 2007- Adjunct Professor, Risk psychology, University of Trondheim.
• 2006-2007 Guest Professor, Institut d'études politiques de Paris
• 2004 Professor, cultural studies and philosophy, Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo
• 2000-2001 Associate Professor, Cultural History, Volda College
• 1998-2001 Senior Researcher, PRIO (20%)
• 1999-2000 Jean Monnet Fellow, Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI, Florence
• 1998-1999 Jean Monnet Fellow, Dept. of History & Civilisation, EUI, Florence
• 1997-1998 Research Fellow, Volda College

Education:

• Ph.D., Universite Francois Rabelais de Tours (2010)

• D.E.A., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1991)

• City University of New York (1989)

• M.Phil. Columbia University (1989)

• Freie Universität, Berlin (1987-88)

• Université de Paris VII (1986-87)

• M.A., University of Chicago (1986)

• B.A., University of Iowa (1984)

• B.S., University of Colorado (1983)

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