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Curriculum Vitae for Kristian Skrede Gleditsch Current position/contact information: Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK, Tel: +44 1206 872517 , Email: ksg@essex.ac.uk, URI: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~ksg/ Education

• 1995-99. PhD in Political Science, University of Colorado, USA • 1991-93. Cand.Mag. degree, majoring in Social Science, University of Oslo, Norway

Employment

• 2005-present. Professor (2007-present), Reader (2005-7), Department of Government, University of Essex, UK • 2003-present. Research Associate, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway. • 2001-6. Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of California, San Diego, USA (tenured Dec. 2005) • 1999-2001. Lecturer in Social Science Methodology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK

Recent and significant publications

• 2017. “Predicting the Decline of Ethnic Conflict: Was Gurr Right, and for the Right Reasons?”, Journal of Peace Research 54(2): 262-274 (with L.-E. Cederman & J. Wucherpfennig).

• 2016. “Ethnic Inclusion, Democracy, and Terrorism”, Public Choice 169(3): 207-229 (with S. Polo). • 2016. “Oil Above Water: Economic Interdependence and Third Party Intervention”, Journal of Conflict

Resolution 60(7): 1251-1277 (with V. Bove & P. Sekeris). • 2016. “Twisting Arms and Sending Messages: Terrorist Tactics in Civil War”, Journal of Peace Research 53(6):

815-829 (with S. Polo). • 2015. “Roving and Stationary Bandits in African Civil Wars”, International Studies Quarterly 59(3):503–516

(with K.C. Beardsley & N. Lo). • 2014. “Square Pegs in Round Holes: Inequalities, Grievances, and Civil War”, International Studies Quarterly,

58(2): 418-431 (with H. Buhaug & L-E. Cederman). • 2013. Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (with H. Buhaug & L-E.

Cederman). • 2013. “Elections and Ethnic Civil War”, Comparative Political Studies 46(3): 387-417 (with L.-E. Cederman &

S. Hug). • 2013. “Fresh Carnations or all Thorn, no Rose? Non-violent Campaigns and Transitions in Autocracies”, Journal

of Peace Research 50(3): 385-400 (with M. Rivera Celestino). • 2013. “Forecasting is Difficult, Especially about the Future: Using Contentious Issues to Forecast Interstate

Disputes”, Journal of Peace Research 50(1): 17-31 (with M.D. Ward). • 2012. “Richardson in the Information Age: GIS and Spatial Data in International Studies”, Annual Reviews of

Political Science 15: 461–81 (with N. Weidmann). • 2012. “Ethnicity, the State, and the Duration of Civil Wars”, World Politics 64(1): 79-115 (with J.

Wucherpfennig, N. Metternich, & L.-E. Cederman). • 2011. “It’s the Local Economy, Stupid! Geographic Wealth Dispersion and Conflict Outbreak Location”, Journal

of Conflict Resolution 55(5): 814-840 (with H. Buhaug, H. Holtermann, G. Østby, and A.F. Tollefsen). • 2011. “Horizontal Inequalities and Ethno-nationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison”, American Political

Science Review 105(3): 457-477 (with L.E. Cederman and N.B. Weidmann). • 2011. “Explaining External Support for Insurgent Groups”, International Organization 65(4): 709–44 (with I.

Salehyan and D.E. Cunningham). • 2009. “Introduction to Special Issue on ‘Disaggregating Civil Wars’” (with L-E Cederman), Journal of Conflict

Resolution 53(4): 487-495 & “It Takes Two: A Dyadic Analysis of Civil War Duration and Outcome”, 570-597. • 2009. “Ethno-nationalist Triads: Assessing the Influence of Kin Groups on Civil Wars”, World Politics 61(3):

403-437 (with L-E. Cederman & L. Girardin). • 2008 “Contagion or Confusion? Why Conflicts Cluster in Space”, International Studies Quarterly 52(2): 215–233

(with H. Buhaug). • 2008. “Fighting at Home, Fighting Abroad: How Civil Wars Lead to International Disputes”, Journal of Conflict

Resolution 52 (4): 479-506 (with I. Salehyan & K. Schultz). • 2008. Spatial Regression Models. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage (with M.D. Ward). • 2007. “On the Frequency of Severe Terrorist Events”, Journal of Conflict Resolution 51(1): 1-31 (with A Clauset

& M. Young). • 2007. “Transnational Dimensions of Civil War”, Journal of Peace Research 44(3): 293-309. • 2006. “Diffusion and the International Context of Democratization”, International Organization 60(4): 911–933

(with M.D. Ward). • 2006. “Refugees and the Spread of Civil War”, International Organization 60(2):335-66 (with I. Salehyan).

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• 2006. “Space is More than Geography: Using Spatial Econometrics in the Study of Political Economy”, International Studies Quarterly 50(1):27-44 (with N.L. Beck & K.C. Beardsley).

• 2006. “Identity and Conflict: Ties that Bind and Differences that Divide”, European Journal of International Relations 12(1): 53–87 (with E.A. Gartzke).

• 2004. “Regime Type and Commitment: Why Democracies are Actually Less Reliable Allies”, American Journal of Political Science 48(3):775-795 (with E.A. Gartzke).

• 2004. “Conquest and Regime Change: An Evolutionary Model of the Spread of Democracy and Peace”, International Studies Quarterly 48(3):603-629 (with L.-E. Cederman).

• 2002. All International Politics is Local: The Diffusion of Conflict, Integration, and Democratization. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

• 1998. “Democratizing for Peace”, American Political Science Review 92(1):51-61 (with M.D. Ward).

Recent grants and major awards • 2015-20 Anneliese Maier Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, (award to promote the

internationalization of the humanities and social sciences in Germany, to collaborate with University of Konstanz) • 2014-15 Received 4 book awards for Inequality, Grievances and Civil War (American Political Science

Association Conflict Processes Section, Conflict Research Society, International Studies Association, and Network of European Peace Scientists)

• 2013-2018 European Research Council Starting Grant, 313373, “Conflict, Strategies, and Violence: An Actor-based Approach to Violent and Non-Violent Interactions”

• 2012 American Political Science Association's Heinz I. Eulau Award, for the best article published in the American Political Science Review (for L-E Cederman, N-B Weidmann & K.S. Gleditsch. “Horizontal Inequalities and Ethno-nationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison”, 2011, 105(3): 457-477)

• 2012-15. Research Council of Norway, “Effective Non-Violence? Political Protest Strategies and Political Outcomes” (213535/F10), awarded to Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), with E. Chenoweth, D.E. Cunningham, K. Cunningham, & S. Gates, PRIO

• 2007. Karl Deutsch Award, International Studies Association. • 2007-11. Outstanding Young Investigator award, Research Council of Norway, “Disaggregating the Study of Civil

War”, at the Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO • 2007-10. European Collaborative Research Project, “Disaggregating Civil War”, (ESRC RES-062-23-0259),with

L-E. Cederman, & S. Gates • 2000. Helen Dwight Reid dissertation award, American Political Science Association

Doctoral dissertations chaired or co-chaired

• Essex: Z. Bakaki (2014), T. Böhmelt (2010), M.B González (2015), K. Hinkkainen (2013), J. Kruger (2014), N. Metternich (2010), U. Pilster (2011), S. Polo (2015), M. Rivera (2013), A. Ruggeri (2011), K. Takacova (2017); C.M. Tang (2011) , S. Ziaja (2014); UCSD: K.C. Beardsley (2006), C. Hendrix (2008), I. Salehyan (2006), H.M. Smith (2007); Elsewhere: G. Clayton (Kent, 2013); M. Dahl (Norwegian University of Science and Technology 2017).

Recent invited Presentations

• University of Colorado (2017), University of St. Gallen (2016); King’s College London (2016), Heidelberg University (2016), University of Konstanz (2016), Nobel Institute Symposium, “The Causes of Peace” (2016), University of Geneva (2015), Hebrew University (2015), Warwick University (2015), Royal Holloway (2015); Duke University (2014); Princeton University (2014); University of Amsterdam (2014)

Recent professional Service

• American Political Science Association (APSA), council member (2017-2019) • Vice president, International Studies Association (ISA), 2014-15; Program co-chair 2011 annual meeting • Section chair, Conflict Processes Section, American Political Science Association (2015-17) • Editor Research & Politics (2015-); British Journal of Political Science (2010-3); current editorial board

memberships include British Journal of Political Science (2009-), Cooperation and Conflict (2001-); European Journal of International Relations (2010-), International Organization (2009-); Political Analysis (2008-present); World Politics (2014-)

• Director of Research, Department of Government, Essex (2014-; 2007-12, co-director 2006-7); University of Essex Research Strategy Committee (2007-10)

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