Jason Miklian

Research Interests

Jason Miklian (MSc, International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science) is a researcher at PRIO, exploring the arenas where conflict and commerce meet. Miklian’s research studies how demands for natural resources (such as iron, diamonds, and rare earth elements) and market access by consumer goods firms can influence how business, governance and violent conflict intersect in fragile countries and how these production chains are traced around the world.

Miklian's regional focus is on South Asian conflict resolution and regional security, with publications on media and foreign policy in Nepal, the Maoist insurgency in India, political ecologies of war and conflict diamonds in support. Miklian has conducted extensive fieldwork in South Asia since 2005, with over one dozen medium or long-term fieldwork visits to India on projects with international, national and local level project-based and institutional collaboration. Miklian is also a PhD candidate in Development Studies at the University of Life Sciences (Ås, Norway), and has written for or been cited in an expert capacity by The New York Times, the BBC, The Economist, Agence France-Presse, Foreign Policy, France 24, NRK (Norway), The Hindu (India) and National Public Radio (New York) among various media outlets.

Background

​​​Languages spoken: English, Hindi, Urdu

Research Groups

• Environment (2012-2015)
• Humanitarianism
• Media
• Business and Peace
• Urbanization and Environment

• Civilians in Conflict
• Violent Organizations
• Law and Ethics

PRIO Departments

• Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding (1994-2011)
• Social Dynamics (2012-2022)

PRIO Projects

• Working Through Violence; SMEs and the SDGs in Fragile Urban Spaces

• Analyzing Regional and National Energy Governance Structures (project leader)
• Climate Change and Water Security, Challenges on the Indian Sub-Continent
• Conflict Diamond Chain Tracing (project leader)
• Conflict of Interest? 'Business For Peace' as Development Aid in Volatile Environments (project leader)
• Engaging the Business Community as a New Peacebuilding Actor
• 'Green Mining': Displacement and the Maoist Conflict in India (project leader)
• India in the World: Emerging Perspectives on Global Challenges (INDWORLD)
• India's Maoist Insurgency: A Federal Problem with a Federal Solution? (project leader)
• India's Regional Relations: Aspirations, Priorities and Practices in a New International Order (project leader)
• Making Women Count for Peace: Gender, Empowerment and Conflict in South Asia
• Media, Democracy and Conflict: Exploring New 'CNN Effects'
• Payoff of Promises: Articulating, Negotiating, and Implementing Wealth-Sharing
• Peacebuilding, Diversity and Human Security (project leader)
• Security in South Asia: India's Emerging Role
• Urbanizing India (URBIN) – Urbanization, Exclusion and Climate Challenges
• Water Scarcity in Bangladesh and South Asia : Dynamics of Conflict and Cooperation

Events

• Fri, 17 November 2017 – India’s Climate Mitigation and Adaptation: Key Strategies
• Mon, 29 May 2017 – IDSA-PRIO Workshop 2017
• Mon, 15 May 2017 15:15-17:15 – The Future of Business and Peace: New Findings, New Trends
• Mon, 04 July 2016 – IDSA-PRIO Workshop 2016
• Wed, 04 May 2016 08:30-10:00 – The Potential and Perils of Quantum Leaps
• Wed, 30 Mar 2016 11:30-13:00 – India's Nuclear Behaviour - PRIO Seminar with Kanica Rakhra
• 27 - 28 Oct 2015 – IDSA-PRIO Workshop 2015
• Mon, 24 Nov 2014 13:00-15:00 – Peace and a New Constitution Matters for Every Nepali
• Sat, 08 November 2014 – International Conference on Gender, Empowerment and Conflict in South Asia
• Thu, 06 November 2014 – Gender, Empowerment and Conflict in South Asia
• Thu, 26 Jun 2014 10:00-12:00 – India's Foreign Policy Future
• Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:00-16:30 – Graphic Violence: Representing Conflict and Migration through Narrative, Photography and Comics
• Sat, 28 September 2013 – Kathmandu Workshop on Gender, Empowerment and Conflict
• Mon, 23 September 2013 – The Geopolitics of the Arctic
• Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:30-15:00 – The Art of Demobilisation – Nepal, a Success Story?
• Fri, 24 May 2013 10:30-12:00 – Conflict resolution in Kashmir and Northeast India: Do Women have a Voice?
• Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:00-12:00 – Shooting for a Century: The India-Pakistan Conundrum
• Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:00-16:00 – India and Pakistan: Reasons for Cautious Optimism
• 19 - 20 Nov 2012 – IDSA-PRIO Roundtable on Governance and Resource Use: The Case of the Arctic
• Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:00-11:00 – 24 Hour Media and War: 20 years of ‘the CNN Effect’
• Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:00-11:30 – Recent Political Developments in South Asia and the State of Democracy
• Fri, 03 August 2012 – Shillong Workshop on Gender, Empowerment and Conflict
• Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:00-16:00 – Geopolitical Implications of Climate Change
• Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:00-14:30 – A Dam-Building Race in Asia: How to Contain the Geopolitical Risks
• Mon, 07 May 2012 14:00-16:00 – India’s Great Leap Forward in Hydropower and the Specter of Maoism in the Eastern Himalayas
• Wed, 30 November 2011 – Transboundary Rivers: Multilateral Frameworks for Cooperation
• Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:00-14:30 – Afghanistan and Neighbouring Countries in Search of Stability
• Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:00-13:30 – A Complex Security Nexus: Water Stress, Security and Migration in South Asia
• 14 - 15 Jun 2011 – INDSEC Workshop
• Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:00-14:00 – Concept Workshop to launch joint project with BIPSS
• Mon, 22 November 2010 – Climate Change: Geopolitical and Security Implications
• Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:00-13:00 – Lunch Seminar with MajGen Munir, President, Bangladesh Institute of Peace Studies
• Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:00-14:00 – Drafting a New Constitution in Nepal
• Mon, 23 June 2008 – Africa's Role in Energy Security: Global Issues, Local Responses
• Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:00-13:30 – Seminar with Kanak Mani Dixit

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