PhD
Research | Teaching | Publications | Other
Research Areas
The quality of governance and armed conflict, political institutions and armed conflict, democratization, state failure, natural resources and armed conflict, corruption, Nigeria, Africa.
Teaching
Peace, War and Democratisation(Master’s level); Causes of War (Master’s level); Causes of War (B-level); Conflict Analysis (A-level); advising of undergraduate theses (A - and C-level).
Publications
Dissertation:
Fjelde, Hanne (2009) Sins of Omission and Commission. The Quality of Governance and Civil Conflict. Dissertation, Report No. 88, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University.
Peer Reviewed Articles
Fjelde, Hanne. ‘Generals, Dictators and Kings: Authoritarian Regimes and Civil Conflict 1973 – 2004’ Conflict Management and Peace Science (TBA)
de Soysa, Indra & Hanne Fjelde. ‘Is the Hidden Hand an Iron Fist? Capitalism and Civil Conflict’ Journal of Peace Research (TBA)
Fjelde, Hanne, 2009. ‘Buying Peace? Oil, Corruption and Civil War, 1984- 99.’ Journal of Peace Research, 47(2): 199 – 218.
Fjelde, Hanne & Indra de Soysa, 2009. ‘Coercion, Co-optation, or Cooperation? State Capacity and the Risk of Civil War, 1961–2004.’ Conflict Management and Peace Science, 26(1): 5-25
Conference Papers
Fjelde, Hanne & Desirée Nilsson (2009) ’Rebel Against Rebel: Explaining Inter-group Violence’ Presented at Peace Science Society (International), 43rd North American Meeting, 20–22 November, Chapel Hill, NC
’Sub-National Determinants of Non-state Conflicts in Nigeria, 1991 – 2006’ Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, New York. 15-18 February, 2009
‘Is There an Autocratic Civil Peace? Authoritarian Regimes and Civil Conflict, 1973 - 2004.’ Paper presented to the European Consortium of Political Research, Turin, Italy, 12-15 September 2007, to the 41st Meeting of the Peace Science Society International, South Carolina, 2-4 November 2007, and to the 49th Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, USA 26-29 March, 2008.
‘Democracy Depraved. Corruption and Institutional Change 1985–2004.’ (With Håvard Hegre.) Paper presented to the 40th Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), Columbus, Ohio, 9 - 12 November 2006 and to the 48th Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, USA 28 Feb - 3 March, 2007.
‘Bullying or Buying? State Capacity and Civil War, 1961 – 1999.’ (With Indra de Soysa.) Paper presented to the 48th Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, USA 28 Feb-3 March, 2007 and to the Polarization and Conflict Summer Meeting, Gaillac, France, 8-10 June 2007.
‘Natural Resources, the Quality of Government and Civil Conflict.’ Paper presented to the 47th Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego USA, 22 -25 March 2006.
Book Chapters, Reports and Other Publications
Hegre, Håvard & Hanne Fjelde, 2009. ‘Post-conflict Democracy and Conflict Recurrence’ in Peace and Conflict, ed. J. Joseph Hewitt, Jonathan Wilkenfeld & Tedd Gurr. Paradigm Publishers.
Book Review, 2008: ‘High Stakes and Stakeholders: Oil Conflict and Security in Nigeria.’ by Kenneth Omeje, Journal of Peace Research, 45(4).
‘African Peace and Conflict Research 1997-2004.’ Report commissioned by the Swedish Development Agency, January 2005.
Annual Contribution to States in Armed Conflict, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, Published by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, and to the annual article in the Journal of Peace Research presenting new data from the Uppsala Conflict Database.
Other
Predoctoral Visiting Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Civil War, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo in May 2006 and August-September 2008.
Predoctoral Visiting Researcher at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, August 2007 – February 2008.
