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Henrik Urdal
Researcher at Peace Research Institute Oslo
Publications - 61
Citations - 3834
Henrik Urdal is an academic researcher from Peace Research Institute Oslo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Political violence. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 60 publications receiving 3304 citations. Previous affiliations of Henrik Urdal include World Bank & Harvard University.
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A Clash of Generations? Youth Bulges and Political Violence
TL;DR: This paper found that youth bulges are particularly associated with an increasing risk of internal armed conflict in starkly autocratic regimes, but a similar effect is also found for highly democratic countries.
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Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Armed Conflict
TL;DR: This article assess the impact of environment on internal armed conflict by using georeferenced (GIS) data and small geographical, rather than political, units of analysis, and find that the effects of political and economic factors far outweigh those between local level demographic/environmental factors and conflict.
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An urbanization bomb? Population growth and social disorder in cities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how population growth affects patterns of public unrest in urban centers within the context of crucial intervening factors like democracy, poverty, economic shocks, and ongoing civil conflict.
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People vs. Malthus: Population Pressure, Environmental Degradation, and Armed Conflict Revisited
TL;DR: In this paper, a quantitative cross-national time-series study covering the 1950-2000 period was conducted to investigate the risk of armed conflict in countries experiencing high rates of population growth, high rate of urbanization, or large refugee populations.
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One effect to rule them all? A comment on climate and conflict
Halvard Buhaug,Halvard Buhaug,Jonas Nordkvelle,Thomas Bernauer,Tobias Böhmelt,Michael Brzoska,Joshua W. Busby,Antonio Ciccone,Hanne Fjelde,Erik Gartzke,Erik Gartzke,Nils Petter Gleditsch,Nils Petter Gleditsch,Jack Andrew Goldstone,Jack Andrew Goldstone,Håvard Hegre,Håvard Hegre,Helge Holtermann,Vally Koubi,Vally Koubi,Jasmin S. A. Link,P.M. Link,Päivi Lujala,J. O′Loughlin,Clionadh Raleigh,Jürgen Scheffran,Janpeter Schilling,Janpeter Schilling,Todd G. Smith,Ole Magnus Theisen,Richard S.J. Tol,Richard S.J. Tol,Henrik Urdal,N. von Uexkull +33 more
TL;DR: A recent review article reported a remarkable convergence of scientific evidence for a link between climatic events and violent intergroup conflict, thus departing markedly from other contemporary assessments of the empirical literature.