On May 5, 2022 at 11:00 CET, the Department of Migration and Globalisation will host the Interdisciplinary Migration Research Seminar "Militant Mobilization and Exile: The Afghan case" online via Zoom.
Date:
- 05.05.2022 at 11:00 - 12:30 CET - Registration here
"Militant Mobilization and Exile: The Afghan case" (Dr. Kristian Berg Harpviken)
About the speaker
Dr. Kristian Berg Harpviken is a sociologist and a Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Harpviken's research interests include peace processes, peacebuilding, the dynamics of civil war, migration and transnational communities, and methodology in difficult contexts. Harpviken has been a visiting researcher at the Chicago University and Georgetown University, and he is an associate at the University of York, the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and the Institute for National Security Studies Sri Lanka. Harpviken is known for his competence on Afghanistan and the surrounding region, but has also worked in Angola, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Iran, Mozambique, and Pakistan. Harpviken is a frequently used media commentator, and lectures regularly to both academic and popular audiences. He is author of Social Networks and Migration in Afghanistan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and (with Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh), A Rock Between Hard Places: Afghanistan as an Arena for Regional Insecurity (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2016).
