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Kristoffer Lidén
Researcher, Research School Coordinator
Email: kristoffer@prio.no
Work Phone:(+47) 22 54 77 37
Mobile Phone:(+47) 90 11 24 93
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Research Interest
  • The ethics of international peacebuilding operations, seen from the perspective of social and political philosophy.
  • Governance and conflict management in Europe and India.
  • Humanitarian governance: emerging forms, changing contexts and ethics.
  • Ethics of Security and Counterterrorism
  • The social philosophy and ethics of global peacebuilding.  

 

General Research Interests:

  • the philosophy of global politics
  • the ethics of peacebuilding 
  • humanitarianism
  • security theory, European security politics
  • the epistemology, ontology and genealogy of ethics
  • peace and conflict studies
  • social philosophy
  • the political ethics of Spinoza, Kant and Hegel
  • the ethics of war and peace
  • the politics of conflict resolution
  • politics in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • the conflicts in Bosnia, Sri Lanka and the Sudan
  • post-colonial India

 

Working Experience:

2011--: Coordinator, Research School in Peace and Conflict, PRIO
2007--: Researcher, PhD Candidate, PRIO and University of Oslo. Member of the Reserach School of The Ethics Programme, University of Oslo.
2006: Coordinator and lecturer, Peace and Conflict Studies in Puducherry, India.
2006: Young Researcher at the Universities of Saarbrücken, Germany and Tilburg, Holland as part of the EU funded project Applied Global Justice.
2006: Part-time intern position with the Security programme at PRIO.
2004-05: MA stipend at PRIO
2002-03: CO as research assistant at PRIO, Ethics, Norms and Identities programme

Education:

2007-: PhD Candidate in Philosophy, PRIO and University of Oslo
2006: European Research Training Network, Applied Global Justice, University of Saarbrücken, Germany, and University of Tilburg, Netherlands.
2003-05: Master's Programme in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Oslo.
2002-2003 'Spinoza's Ethics of War and Peace.' Major module in Philosophy, graduate level, University of Oslo.
1998-2002 Cand. mag. with the subjects Philosophy, Sociology and Anthropology at the universities of Oslo and Bergen.

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Peer-reviewed-Journal-Article

Miklian, Jason;Lidén, Kristoffer; & Kolås, Åshild (2011) The Perils of ‘Going Local’: Liberal Peace-building Agendas in Nepal , Conflict, Security & Development 11(3): 285–308.
Lidén, Kristoffer (2009) Building Peace between Global and Local Politics: On the Cosmopolitical Ethics of Liberal Peacebuilding , International Peacekeeping 16(5): 616–634.

Book Chapter

Jacobsen, Elida Kristine Undrum; & Lidén, Kristoffer(2012) Theoretical Challenges for Assessing Socio-Cultural Sensitivity in Governance and Conflict Resolution [15 May] Norms and Premises of Peace Governance. Socio-Cultural Commonalities and Differences In Europe and India. : Berghof Foundation(25–30).
Liden, Kristoffer(2011) Peace, Self-Governance and International Engagement: From Neo-Colonial to Post-Colonial Peacebuilding Rethinking the Liberal Peace: External Models and Local Alternatives. : (57–74).

Non-refereed_Journal_Article

Lidén, Kristoffer (2010) Revision or Revolution? At the Crossroads of Peacebuilding Theory , NOREF Book Review 1–3.
Lidén, Kristoffer;MacGinty, Roger; & Richmond, Oliver P. (2009) Introduction: Beyond Northern Epistemologies of Peace: Peacebuilding Reconstructed? , International Peacekeeping 16(5): 587–598.

Popular Article

Lidén, Kristoffer (2009) The Problem of Culture, Forum For Peacebuilding Ethics, 1 November.
Lidén, Kristoffer (2008) En rettferdig kosmopolitikk [A Just Cosmopolitanism], Ny Tid, 17 October.

Master Thesis

Lidén, Kristoffer (2006) Whose Peace? Which Peace? On the Political Architecture of Liberal PeacebuildingUniversity of Oslo, .

Conference Paper

Jacobsen, Elida Kristine Undrum; & Lidén, Kristoffer 2011 Theoretical Challenges for Assessing Socio-Cultural Sensitivity in Conflict Governance, presented at CORE, , .
Lidén, Kristoffer 2010 Global Peace by Analogy: Introduction, presented at Global Peace by Analogy, , 19 November.
Lidén, Kristoffer 2010 In Love with a Lie? Peacebuilding Ethics and the Political Premises of Reforming the International Peacebuilding Regime, presented at Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, , 19 February.
Lidén, Kristoffer 2009 Sovereignty and the Ethics of Liberal Peacebuilding, presented at Liberal Peace and the Ethics of Peacebuilding: Themes, , 9 November.
Lidén, Kristoffer 2009 Peace, Self-Governance and International Engagement: A Postcolonial Ethic of Liberal Peacebuilding, presented at 50th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, , 15–18 February.
Lidén, Kristoffer 2009 Can Sovereignty be Built through Intervention? A Post-Westphalian Sovereignty Principle for Global Governance, presented at 50th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, , 15–18 February.
Lidén, Kristoffer 2008 Introduction on the Ethics of Liberal Peacebuilding, presented at The Ethics of Liberal Peacebuilding and the Cyprus peace process, , 12 November.
Lidén, Kristoffer 2008 Postcolonialism and the Ethics of Liberal Peacebuilding, presented at Liberal Peace and the Ethics of Peacebuilding: Cases, , 21/11/2008.
Lidén, Kristoffer 2008 A Postcolonial Ethic of Liberal Peacebuilding , presented at Liberal Peace: Value-Based External Models and Local Alternatives in Peacebuilding, , 16–17 June 2008.
Lidén, Kristoffer 2008 Peacebuilding and the social ontology of global politics, presented at Thinking With(Out) Borders: International Political Theory in the 21st Century, , 12–13 June 2008.
Lidén, Kristoffer 2007 The Ethics of Peacebuilding, presented at AJEI workshop on Conflict, Negotiation, Cooperation, , 1 March.

Report Other

Jumbert, Maria Gabrielsen; & Lidén, Kristoffer (2012) International survey of relevant national, EU and intergovernmental security policies13.1. : Protection of European Borders and Seas Through the Intelligent Use of Surveillance (PERSEUS).