Nina von Uexkull

Associate Senior Researcher

Additional position(s):
Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University

Email: nina.von_uexkull@pcr.uu.se
Website: katalog.uu.se

Nina von Uexkull is an External Associate at PRIO.

Background

Nina von Uexkull is Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and Associate Senior Researcher at PRIO. She holds a PhD in peace and conflict research from Uppsala University. Her current research concerns security implications of climate change as well as rural armed conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa, combining advanced statistical methods with surveys and field interviews.

Research Groups

Full member:

Associated member:

Urbanization and Environment

PRIO Departments

Current

Conflict Patterns and Environments

Historical

Conditions of Violence and Peace (2012-2022)

PRIO Projects

Ongoing:

Enabling Politically Sensitive Climate Change Impact Assessments for the 21st Century (POLIMPACT)

Finished:

Events

Wed, 05 Jun 2019 08:30-11:00 – Climate Change and Humanitarian Consequences

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Recent Publications

Hendrix, Cullen; Vally Koubi; Jan Selby; Ayesha Siddiqi & Nina von Uexkull (2023) Climate change and conflict, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. DOI: 10.1038/s43017-022-00382-w.

All Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Article

de Bruin, Sophie P.; Jannis M. Hoch; Nina von Uexkull; Halvard Buhaug; Jolle Demmers; Hans Visser & Niko Wanders (2022) Projecting long-term armed conflict risk: An underappreciated field of inquiry?, Global Environmental Change 72: 102423–.

Hoch, Jannis M.; Sophie P. de Bruin; Halvard Buhaug; Nina von Uexkull; Rens van Beek & Niko Wanders (2021) Projecting armed conflict risk in Africa towards 2050 along the SSP-RCP scenarios: a machine learning approach, Environmental Research Letters 16(12): 124068–.

Buhaug, Halvard; Mihai Croicu; Hanne Fjelde & Nina von Uexkull (2021) A Conditional Model of Local Income Shock and Civil Conflict, Journal of Politics 83(1): 354–366.

Vestby, Jonas; Halvard Buhaug & Nina von Uexkull (2021) Why do some poor countries see armed conflict while others do not? A dual sector approach, World Development 138: 105273–.

Buhaug, Halvard & Nina von Uexkull (2021) Vicious circles: Violence, vulnerability, and climate change, Annual Review of Environment and Resources 46: 545–568.

von Uexkull, Nina & Halvard Buhaug (2021) Security implications of climate change: A decade of scientific progress, Journal of Peace Research 58(1): 3–17.

Hegre, Håvard; Kristina Petrova & Nina von Uexkull (2020) Synergies and Trade-Offs in Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals, Sustainability 12(20): 8729–.

Mach, Katharine J.; W. Neil Adger; Halvard Buhaug; Marshall Burke; James Fearon; Christopher B. Field; Cullen Hendrix; Caroline M. Kraan; Jeac-Francois Maystadt; John O'Loughlin; Philip Roessler; Jürgen Scheffran; Kenneth Schultz & Nina von Uexkull (2020) Directions for Research on Climate and Conflict, Earth's Future. DOI: 10.1029/2020EF001532.

von Uexkull, Nina; Marco d'Errico & Julius Jackson (2020) Drought, Resilience, and Support for Violence: Household Survey Evidence from DR Congo, Journal of Conflict Resolution 64(10): 1994–2021.

Mach, Katharine J.; Caroline M. Kraan; W. Neil Adger; Halvard Buhaug; Marshall Burke; James Fearon; Christopher B. Field; Cullen Hendrix; Jeac-Francois Maystadt; John O'Loughlin; Philip Roessler; Jürgen Scheffran; Kenneth Schultz & Nina von Uexkull (2019) Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict, Nature 571: 193–197.

Hegre, Håvard; Marie Allansson; Matthias Basedau; Michael Colaresi; Mihai Croicu; Hanne Fjelde; Frederick Hoyles; Lisa Hultman; Stina Högbladh; Remco Jansen; Naima Mouhleb; Sayyed Auwn Muhammad; Desirée Nilsson; Håvard Mokleiv Nygård; Gudlaug Olafsdottir; Kristina Petrova; David Randahl; Espen Geelmuyden Rød; Gerald Schneider; Nina von Uexkull & Jonas Vestby (2019) ViEWS: A political Violence Early-Warning System, Journal of Peace Research 56(2): 155–174.

von Uexkull, Nina; Mihai Croicu; Hanne Fjelde & Halvard Buhaug (2016) Civil conflict sensitivity to growing season drought, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113(44): 12391–12396.

Buhaug, Halvard; Jonas Nordkvelle; Thomas Bernauer; Tobias Böhmelt; Michael Brzoska; Joshua W. Busby; Antonio Ciccone; Hanne Fjelde; Erik Gartzke; Nils Petter Gleditsch; Jack A. Goldstone; Håvard Hegre; Helge Holtermann; Vally Koubi; Jasmin S. A. Link; Peter Michael Link; Päivi Lujala; John O'Loughlin; Clionadh Raleigh; Jürgen Scheffran; Janpeter Schilling; Todd G. Smith; Ole Magnus Theisen; Richard S. J. Tol; Henrik Urdal & Nina von Uexkull (2014) One effect to rule them all? A comment on climate and conflict, Climatic Change 127(3): 391–397.

Non-refereed Journal Article

Hendrix, Cullen; Vally Koubi; Jan Selby; Ayesha Siddiqi & Nina von Uexkull (2023) Climate change and conflict, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. DOI: 10.1038/s43017-022-00382-w.