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Mats Berdal

Senior Research Fellow (part-time)

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mats.berdal@nupi.no
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Summary

Mats Berdal is Professor of Security and Development in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, where he is also Director of the Conflict, Security and Development Research Programme (CSDRG). From 2000 to 2003 he was Director of Studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. He served as an Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian Defence University College from 2006 to 2019. From 2009 to 2011, he was a Consulting Senior Fellow at the IISS, responsible for the institute’s Economics and Conflict Resolution Programme. He is a member of the Academia Europaea and an Associate of LSE Ideas.

He works part-time in the Research Group on Security and Defence at NUPI.

Expertise

  • Security policy
  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • Fragile states

EDUCATION

1992 DPhil., International Relations, University of Oxford

1988 BSc (Econ.), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

WORK EXPERIENCE

1992-1997 Research Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

1997-2000 Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford.

2000-2003 Director of Studies, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

2003 - Professor, Department of War Studies, King’s College London

Aktivitet

Articles
Articles

Research group for Security and Defence

How can we best handle current and future wars and crises? What kind of threats are we likely to face in the years to come? Who are the future actors on the security policy arena? NUPI’s research on security and defence issues seeks to answer these questions.
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • NATO
  • Cyber
  • Intelligence
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Articles
Articles

Research group for Security and Defence

How can we best handle current and future wars and crises? What kind of threats are we likely to face in the years to come? Who are the future actors on the security policy arena? NUPI’s research on security and defence issues seeks to answer these questions.
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • NATO
  • Cyber
  • Intelligence
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