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Nils Petter Gleditsch

Nils Petter Gleditsch

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Political Science
Norway
2026
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Law and Political Science
Norway
2022

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Political Science

D-Index
45
Citations
17538
World Ranking
327
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Nils Petter Gleditsch is affiliated with the Peace Research Institute in Norway and is active in the field of social sciences. Their research encompasses several subfields including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, general health professions, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and linguistics and language.

Their main topics of work cover a range of areas related to political and environmental issues:

  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Peacebuilding and International Security
  • Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East
  • Transboundary Water Resource Management
  • Health and Conflict Studies
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • International Relations and Foreign Policy

Gleditsch has contributed to multiple academic journals and publication venues, including:

  • Ethics & International Affairs
  • Journal of Peace Research
  • Political Science Today

Their recent papers include:

  • "This time is different! Or is it? NeoMalthusians and environmental optimists in the age of climate change" (2020) published in Journal of Peace Research
  • "Toward a Social-Democratic Peace?" (2020) published in Ethics & International Affairs

Gleditsch has collaborated frequently with several co-authors:

  • Marta Bivand Erdal
  • Stein Tønnesson
  • TORIL AALBERG

Best Publications

  • Armed Conflict 1946-2001: A New Dataset

    Nils Petter Gleditsch;Peter Wallensteen;Mikael Eriksson;Margareta Sollenberg

  • Monitoring Trends in Global Combat: A New Dataset of Battle Deaths

    Bethany Lacina;Bethany Lacina;Nils Petter Gleditsch;Nils Petter Gleditsch

  • Journal of Peace Research

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  • Armed Conflict and The Environment: A Critique of the Literature

    Nils Petter Gleditsch

  • A Diamond Curse? Civil War and a Lootable Resource

    Päivi Lujala;Nils Petter Gleditsch;Elisabeth Gilmore

  • Climate change and conflict

    Ragnhild Nordås;Nils Petter Gleditsch

  • Peace and Democracy Three Levels of Analysis

    Nils Petter Gleditsch;HÅvard Hegre

  • Whither the weather? Climate change and conflict

    Nils Petter Gleditsch

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

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

  • Shared rivers and interstate conflict

    Hans Petter Wollebæk Toset;Nils Petter Gleditsch;Håvard Hegre

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

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

  • Conflict Diamonds: A New Dataset

    Elisabeth Gilmore;Nils Petter Gleditsch;Päivi Lujala;Jan Ketil Rod

  • Democracy and Peace

    Nils Petter Gleditsch

  • Military Spending and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries

    Ådne Cappelen;Nils Petter Gleditsch;Olav Bjerkholt

  • Is climate change a driver of armed conflict

    Ole Magnus Theisen;Ole Magnus Theisen;Nils Petter Gleditsch;Nils Petter Gleditsch;Halvard Buhaug;Halvard Buhaug

  • Peace research – Just the study of war?:

    Nils Petter Gleditsch;Jonas Nordkvelle;Håvard Strand

  • Geography, democracy, and peace

    Nils Petter Gleditsch

  • Environmental Conflict: An Anthology

    Nils Petter Gleditsch;Paul F. Diehl

  • Globalization and Armed Conflict

    Gerald Schneider;Katherine Barbieri;Nils Petter Gleditsch

  • The Declining Risk of Death in Battle

    Bethany Lacina;Nils Petter Gleditsch;Bruce Russett

  • Why Is There So Much Conflict in the Middle East

    Mirjam E. Sørli;Nils Petter Gleditsch;Håvard Strand

  • Conflict and the environment

    Nils Petter Gleditsch

  • To Cultivate Peace: Agriculture in a World of Conflict

    Margareta Sollenberg;Indra de Soysa;Nils Petter Gleditsch;Michael Gibson

Frequent Co-Authors

Halvard Buhaug
Halvard Buhaug Peace Research Institute
Håvard Hegre
Håvard Hegre Uppsala University
Gerald Schneider
Gerald Schneider University of Konstanz
Erik Gartzke
Erik Gartzke University of California, San Diego
Richard S. J. Tol
Richard S. J. Tol University of Sussex
Jack Andrew Goldstone
Jack Andrew Goldstone George Mason University
Scott Gates
Scott Gates Peace Research Institute
Peter Wallensteen
Peter Wallensteen Uppsala University
Jürgen Scheffran
Jürgen Scheffran Universität Hamburg

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