Bethany Ann Lacina

Research Associate

Bethany Ann Lacina left PRIO in 2012. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.

Research Interests

Battle Deaths Dataset
Regime Type and Determinants of Battle Deaths in Conflicts
Population Pressure and Arable Land Scarcity

Background

Languages spoken:

English, Spanish

Working experience:

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC
2003-2004: Research Associate, PRIO
2004-2012: External Associate, PRIO
Current position: Associate Professor of Political Science, Rochester University

Education:

Bachelor of Arts, Yale University
Ph.D. in Political Science, Stanford University, 2011

PRIO Departments

Historical

PRIO Projects

Finished:

Shared River Basin Database
The Battle Deaths Dataset (project leader)

Events

21 - 22 Aug 2006 – Power-Sharing and Democratic Governance in Divided Societies
Wed, 11 May 2005 – Transitional Governance Workshop
Wed, 18 August 2004 – The Boundaries of Civil Wars
Tue, 18 November 2003 – Definitions of Civil War and the 'Terrorism-War Dichotmy'

PRIO started tracking events online in 2007. This listing is not complete. Past events may be mentioned in our news archive.

All Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Article

Lacina, Bethany Ann & Nils Petter Gleditsch (2013) The Waning of War is Real: A Response to Gohdes and Price, Journal of Conflict Resolution 57(6): 1109–1127.

Lacina, Bethany Ann; Nils Petter Gleditsch & Bruce M. Russett (2006) The Declining Risk of Death in Battle, International Studies Quarterly 50(3): 673–680.

Gleditsch, Nils Petter; Kathryn Furlong; Håvard Hegre; Bethany Ann Lacina & Taylor Owen (2006) Conflicts over Shared Rivers: Resource Wars or Fuzzy Boundaries?, Political Geography 25(4): 361–382.

Lacina, Bethany Ann (2006) Explaining the Severity of Civil War, Journal of Conflict Resolution 50(2): 276–289.

Gleditsch, Nils Petter; Håvard Hegre; Kathryn Furlong; Bethany Ann Lacina & Taylor Owen (2006) Conflict over Shared Rivers: Resource Scarcity or Fuzzy Boundaries, Political Geography 25(4): 361–382.

Lacina, Bethany Ann & Nils Petter Gleditsch (2005) Monitoring Trends in Global Combat: A New Dataset of Battle Deaths, European Journal of Population 21(2): 145–165.

Lacina, Bethany Ann (2004) From Side Show to Centre Stage: Civil Conflict after the Cold War, Security Dialogue 35(2): 191–205.

Book Chapter

Lacina, Bethany Ann; Magnus Öberg & Kristine Eck (2008) Civil Conflicts in the Contemporary World, in Resources, Governance and Civil Conflict. Abingdon: (23–42).

Lacina, Bethany Ann & Nils Petter Gleditsch (2006) Monitoring Trends in Global Combat: A New Dataset of Battle Deaths, in Brunborg, Helge; Ewa Tabeau; & Henrik Urdal, eds, The Demography of Armed Conflict. Berlin: Springer (145–165).

Conference Paper

Lacina, Bethany Ann; Nils Petter Gleditsch & Bruce M. Russett (2005) The Declining Risk of Death in Battle, presented at the Third General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, Budapest, 8–10 September.

Russett, Bruce M.; Nils Petter Gleditsch & Bethany Ann Lacina (2005) The Declining Risk of Death in Battle, presented at the 46th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Honolulu, HI, 1–5 March.

Russett, Bruce M.; Nils Petter Gleditsch & Bethany Ann Lacina (2005) The Declining Risk of Death in Battle, presented at The Third General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, Budapest, 8–10 September.

Owen, Taylor; Kathryn Furlong; Bethany Ann Lacina & Nils Petter Gleditsch (2004) Conflicts over Shared Rivers: Resource Wars or Fuzzy Boundaries?, presented at 45th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Montreal, 17–20 March.

Lacina, Bethany Ann (2004) Why Civil Wars Come in Different Sizes, presented at a workshop on 'Resources, Governance Structures, and Civil War', Uppsala, 13–18 April.

Owen, Taylor; Nils Petter Gleditsch; Kathryn Furlong & Bethany Ann Lacina (2004) Conflicts over Shared Rivers: Resource Wars or Fuzzy Boundaries?, presented at 45th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Montreal, 17–20 March.