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Kristian Berg Harpviken

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Kristian Berg Harpviken has been director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo since 2009, having previously been deputy director and program leader for conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Harpviken is a sociologist with research interests in the dynamics of civil war (mobilization, conflict resolution, post-war reconstruction, and peacebuilding); migration and transnational communities; and methodology in difficult contexts. He has a particular interest in Afghanistan and its neighborhood. Harpviken has also been a research fellow at the University of Oslo and the University of York. He is the author of Social Networks and Migration in Wartime Afghanistan (2009), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Harpviken has a Ph.D. from the University of Oslo.
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