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Håvard Hegre

Håvard Hegre

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Political Science
Sweden
2026

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Political Science

D-Index
39
Citations
18615
World Ranking
515
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Håvard Hegre is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to research within the social sciences. Their work focuses on areas including sociology, political science, global and planetary change, health professions, economics, and modeling and simulation.

The main fields of study for Hegre consist of social sciences, with a significant portion of publications in sociology and political science, as well as interdisciplinary studies involving global and planetary change and health-related topics.

Their research covers a variety of topics such as:

  • Health and Conflict Studies
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Energy and Environment Impacts

Hegre has published in several prominent venues, including:

  • Journal of Peace Research
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • International Interactions
  • International Journal of Forecasting
  • Sustainability

Among their recent published papers are:

  • "Synergies and Trade-Offs in Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals" (2020, Sustainability)
  • "Measuring the intensity of conflicts in conservation" (2021, Conservation Letters)
  • "The impacts of armed conflict on human development: A review of the literature" (2024, World Development)
  • "Can We Predict Armed Conflict? How the First 9 Years of Published Forecasts Stand Up to Reality" (2021, International Studies Quarterly)
  • "United they stand: Findings from an escalation prediction competition" (2022, International Interactions)

Frequent collaborators in Hegre's research include:

  • David Randahl
  • Paola Vesco
  • Maxine Leis
  • Michael P. Colaresi
  • Hannes Mueller

Best Publications

  • Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy

    Paul Collier;V. L. Elliott;Håvard Hegre;Anke Hoeffler

  • Toward a Democratic Civil Peace? Democracy, Political Change, and Civil War, 1816-1992

    Håvard Hegre;Tanja Ellingsen;Scott Gates;Petter Gleditsch

  • Sensitivity Analysis of Empirical Results on Civil War Onset

    Håvard Hegre;Nicholas Sambanis

  • Introducing ACLED: An Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset

    Clionadh Raleigh;Andrew Linke;Håvard Hegre;Joakim Karlsen

  • Institutional Inconsistency and Political Instability: Polity Duration, 1800–2000

    Scott Gates;Håvard Hegre;Mark P. Jones;Håvard Strand

  • Peace and Democracy Three Levels of Analysis

    Nils Petter Gleditsch;HÅvard Hegre

  • Trade does promote peace: New simultaneous estimates of the reciprocal effects of trade and conflict:

    Håvard Hegre;John R Oneal;Bruce Russett

  • Conflicts over shared rivers: Resource scarcity or fuzzy boundaries? *

    Nils Petter Gleditsch;Nils Petter Gleditsch;Kathryn Furlong;Håvard Hegre;Bethany Lacina

  • Development and the Liberal Peace: What Does it Take to be a Trading State?

    Havard Hegre

  • Shared rivers and interstate conflict

    Hans Petter Wollebæk Toset;Nils Petter Gleditsch;Håvard Hegre

  • Development Consequences of Armed Conflict

    Scott Gates;Håvard Hegre;Håvard Mokleiv Nygård;Håvard Strand

  • One effect to rule them all? A comment on climate and conflict

    H. Buhaug;H. Buhaug;J. Nordkvelle;T. Bernauer;T. Böhmelt

  • Population size, concentration, and civil war : a geographically disaggregated analysis

    Clionadh Raleigh;Havard Hegre

  • The Hazard of War: Reassessing the Evidence for the Democratic Peace

    Arvid Raknerud;HÃ¥vard Hegre

  • Democracy and armed conflict

    Håvard Hegre

  • The Duration and Termination of Civil War

    Håvard Hegre

  • Poverty and Civil War Events: A Disaggregated Study of Liberia

    Håvard Hegre;Gudrun Østby;Clionadh Raleigh

  • Predicting Armed Conflict, 2010–2050

    Håvard Hegre;Joakim Karlsen;Håvard Mokleiv Nygård;Håvard Strand

  • How the Wealth of Nations Conditions the Liberal Peace

    Michael Mousseau;Håvard Hegre;John R. O'neal

  • Evolution in Democracy-War Dynamics

    Sara McLaughlin Mitchell;Scott Gates;Håvard Hegre

  • Evaluating the Conflict-Reducing Effect of UN Peacekeeping Operations

    Håvard Hegre;Lisa Hultman;Håvard Mokleiv Nygård

Frequent Co-Authors

Nils Petter Gleditsch
Nils Petter Gleditsch Peace Research Institute
Clionadh Raleigh
Clionadh Raleigh University of Sussex
Scott Gates
Scott Gates Peace Research Institute
Halvard Buhaug
Halvard Buhaug Peace Research Institute
Lisa Hultman
Lisa Hultman Uppsala University
Erik Gartzke
Erik Gartzke University of California, San Diego
Nicholas Sambanis
Nicholas Sambanis Yale University
Jack Andrew Goldstone
Jack Andrew Goldstone George Mason University
Richard S. J. Tol
Richard S. J. Tol University of Sussex
Jürgen Scheffran
Jürgen Scheffran Universität Hamburg

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