Deminer in Afghanistan. Photo: Antonio De Lauri

Conflict

We study the effects of conflict and war on different social groups, vulnerabilities, and human mobility.

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Projects

Current projects

Apr 2021 - Mar 2026

War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience (WARFUN)

Jan 2021 - Dec 2024

Cabo Delgado: Conflict, Resilience and Reconstruction

Sep 2019 - Aug 2024

Transoceanic Fishers: Multiple mobilities in and out of the South China Sea

Researchers

Edyta Roszko

Research Professor, Principal Investigator: TransOcean (ERC Starting Grant)

Torunn Wimpelmann

Research Director

Publications

Newspaper Op-Ed | May 2023

Generalenes pengestrømmer må kveles

Liv Tønnessen

CMI Brief | May 2023

Poorly designed youth employment programmes will boost the insurgency in Mozambique

Aslak Orre, Salvador Forquilha

Book | Mar 2023

Palestina. Fakta på bakken

Kjersti G. Berg

Report in External Series | Mar 2023

Is there legal pluralism in Afghanistan? Notes on injustice and access to justice

Antonio De Lauri

Report in External Series | Jan 2023

COAR Strategic Plan 2023-2027

Arne Strand

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2022

Seksualisert vold som maktmiddel i Haiti

Marianne Tøraasen, Johan Hindahl

Journal Article | 2022

Humanitarian diplomacy as Turkey’s national role conception and performance: evidence from Somalia and Afghanistan

Meliha Benli Altunisik

SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN AND BLACK SEA STUDIES

Journal Article | 2022

Forging the Juba Peace Agreement: the role of national, regional and international actors

Munzoul Assal

African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review

Journal Article | 2022

Tokens of Peace? Women's Representation in the Juba Peace Process

Reem Abbas and Liv Tønnessen

African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review

Journal Article | 2022

Commentary on Alpa Shah's "Why I Write? In a Climate against Intellectual Dissidence"

Antonio De Lauri

Current Anthropology

Blog post | 2022

War, corruption, and reconstruction: protecting Ukraine’s ancient forests

Sophie Lemaître

Book Chapter | 2022

Divine Intervention: Invoking God in Peace Agreements

Robert Forster; Christine Bell

Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace

Blog post | 2022

Myten om den anstendige krigen

Antonio De Lauri,Heidi Mogstad

Blog post | 2022

The Idea of a Clean and Efficient War Is a Dangerous Lie

Antonio De Lauri

Blog post | 2022

Militarisation, racism and Russophobia: What the war in Ukraine produces and reveals

Antonio De Lauri,Iva Jelusic,Heidi Mogstad,Eva Johais

Book Chapter | 2021

Public Anthropology in the Digital Era

Antonio De Lauri, Kristin Sandvik

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology

Journal Article | 2021

Patterns of conflict-related trauma exposure and their relation to psychopathology: A person-centered analysis in a population-based sample from eastern DRC

Lars Dumke, Roos van der Haer, Carlo Koos, Tobias Hecker

Social Science & Medicine - Mental Health

CMI Report | 2021

Urban Displacement in Lebanon: Syrians in Tripoli

Robert Forster, Abdalkarim Fares Abdalkader

Blog post | 2021

The Lion’s War: Life Histories, Forgotten Art and Alternative Geographies. An Interview with Paolo Israel

Carmeliza Rosario

Blog post | 2021

Another war in the Horn? Rising tension at the Ethiopia-Sudan border

Lovise Aalen

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About

Our researchers investigate the dynamics and impact of conflicts using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Drawing mostly from anthropology, political science, economics, and history, we conduct long-term fieldwork research, surveys, and randomized controlled trials as well as evaluations and commissioned work.

Our research and evaluation expertise:

War and soldiering
Armed groups and insurgencies
Sexual violence in conflict
Conflict and minorities
Humanitarian-military interventions
Post-war reconstruction and state-building

Our researchers work in several geographical regions including the Middle East, Central and South Asia, South-East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Europe. We collaborate with selected partners and our work is characterized by in-depth country expertise.