Matthias Basedau – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

Matthias Basedau left PRIO in 2014. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.

Matthias Basedau

Matthias Basedau

Interests and experience

Matthias studies the causes of intrastate conflict, in particular natural resources, ethnicity and religion. He also specializes in the analysis of political institutions and their potential to work on conflict.

Other fields of interest include electoral systems, political parties, and democratization as well as multi method designs and comparative area studies.

Topic
Forecasting

Topic
Governance

Prof. Dr. Matthias Basedau is a lead research fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg. He heads the research programme on "violence and security".

Read more about him on GIGA's website.

Projects

Jan 2012 – Dec 2016
Reassessing the Role of Democracy: Political Institutions and Armed Conflict (PIAC)

Latest publications

Håvard Hegre et al. (2019)
ViEWS: A political Violence Early-Warning System

Journal article in Journal of Peace Research

Matthias Basedau, Siri Aas Rustad & Elise Must (2018)
Do expectations on oil discoveries affect civil unrest? Micro-level evidence from Mali

Journal article in Cogent Social Sciences

Matthias Basedau (2016)
Ideen, Identitäten und Institutionen: Explikation eines multidimensionalen Religionsbegriffs in der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Journal article in Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (ZeFKo). Special volume: Religion in der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Johannes Vüllers, Birte Pfeiffer & Matthias Basedau (2015)
Measuring the Ambivalence of Religion: Introducing the Religion and Conflict in Developing Countries (RCDC) Dataset

Journal article in International Interactions

Matthias Basedau & Carlo Koos (2015)
When Do Religious Leaders Support Faith-Based Violence? Evidence from a Survey Poll in South Sudan

Journal article in Political Research Quarterly

Matthias Basedau et al. (2015)
Does discrimination breed grievances—and do grievances breed violence? New evidence from an analysis of religious minorities in developing countries

Journal article in Conflict Management and Peace Science

Matthias Basedau, Birte Pfeiffer & Johannes Vüllers (2014)
Bad Religion? Religion, Collective Action, and the Onset of Armed Conflict in Developing Countries

Journal article in Journal of Conflict Resolution

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