Håvard Hegre
Researcher at Department of Peace and Conflict Research
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 23 72
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 964 62 00
- E-mail:
- Havard.Hegre@pcr.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Gamla Torget 3, 1tr
753 20 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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Research interests
From January 2017, I have been directing ViEWS - a project developing a political Violence Early-Warning System.
My other research projects are presented in my external webpage: http://havardhegre.net
- The relationships between development, democratization, and peace
- Forecasting armed conflict
- Economic consequences of armed conflict
- Measurement of democracy
- Climate change and armed conflict
See http://havardhegre.net, and ResearcherID for supplementary information.
Biography
Dag Hammarskjöld Professor of Peace and Conflict Research
Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Dr. philos in Political Science, University of Oslo (November 2004)
Member of Editorial Board of International Studies Review, Journal of Peace Research, Political Science Research and Methods, Research and Politics
Vice-President, International Studies Association (2018-19)

Publications
Recent publications
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The Underreported Death Toll of Wars: A Probabilistic Reassessment From a Survey with UCDP Coders
Part of Journal of Conflict Resolution, p. 1499-1521, 2026
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Introduction to peace and the sustainable development goals
Part of The Elgar Companion to Peace and the Sustainable Development Goals, p. 1-11, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026
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The Elgar Companion to Peace and the Sustainable Development Goals
Abbaye de Maredsous, 2026
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Revisiting "A Structural Theory of Imperialism"
Part of Journal of Global Security Studies, 2026
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Bin-Conditional Conformal Prediction of Fatalities from Armed Conflict
Part of Political Analysis, p. 96-108, 2026
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Articles in journal
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The Underreported Death Toll of Wars: A Probabilistic Reassessment From a Survey with UCDP Coders
Part of Journal of Conflict Resolution, p. 1499-1521, 2026
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Revisiting "A Structural Theory of Imperialism"
Part of Journal of Global Security Studies, 2026
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Bin-Conditional Conformal Prediction of Fatalities from Armed Conflict
Part of Political Analysis, p. 96-108, 2026
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Forecasting electoral violence
Part of International Journal of Forecasting, p. 602-615, 2026
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Part of Journal of Peace Research, p. 2070-2087, 2025
- DOI for The 2023/24 VIEWS Prediction challenge: Predicting the number of fatalities in armed conflict, with uncertainty
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Predicting armed conflict using protest data
Part of Journal of Peace Research, p. 3-20, 2025
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A review and comparison of conflict early warning systems
Part of International Journal of Forecasting, p. 96-112, 2024
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Early Warning and Predictive Analytic Systems in Conflict Contexts: Insights from the Field
Part of Civil Wars, p. 401-429, 2024
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The 'conflict trap' reduces economic growth in the shared socioeconomic pathways
Part of Environmental Research Letters, 2023
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United they stand: findings from an escalation prediction competition
Part of International Interactions, p. 860-896, 2022
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Lessons From an Escalation Prediction Competition
Part of International Interactions, p. 521-554, 2022
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Measuring the intensity of conflicts in conservation
Part of Conservation Letters, 2021
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Can We Predict Armed Conflict?: How the First 9 Years of Published Forecasts Stand Up to Reality
Part of International Studies Quarterly, p. 660-668, 2021
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ViEWS(2020): Revising and evaluating the ViEWS political Violence Early-Warning System
Part of Journal of Peace Research, p. 599-611, 2021
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The determinants of democracy: a sensitivity analysis
Part of Public Choice, p. 87-111, 2020
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Synergies and Trade-Offs in Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals
Part of Sustainability, 2020
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Introducing the UCDP Candidate Events Dataset
Part of Research & Politics, p. 1-8, 2020
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Civil Society and the Democratic Peace
Part of Journal of Conflict Resolution, p. 32-62, 2020
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ViEWS: A political violence early-warning system
Part of Journal of Peace Research, p. 155-174, 2019
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Evaluating the conflict-reducing effect of UN peacekeeping operations
Part of Journal of Politics, p. 215-232, 2019
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Evaluating the scope and intensity of the conflict trap: A dynamic simulation approach
Part of Journal of Peace Research, p. 243-261, 2017
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Introduction: Forecasting in peace research
Part of Journal of Peace Research, p. 113-124, 2017
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Forecasting civil conflict along the shared socioeconomic pathways
Part of Environmental Research Letters, 2016
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Democratization and civil conflict
Part of APSA-CD, p. 4-7, 2016
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Updated Data on Institutions and Elections 1960-2012: Presenting the IAEP dataset version 2.0
Part of Research & Politics, 2015
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Governance and Conflict Relapse
Part of Journal of Conflict Resolution, p. 984-1016, 2015
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One effect to rule them all?: A comment on climate and conflict
Part of Climatic Change, p. 391-397, 2014
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Political Corruption and Institutional Stability
Part of Studies in comparative international development, p. 267-299, 2014
Articles, review/survey
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The impacts of armed conflict on human development: A review of the literature
Part of World Development, 2025
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Part of Journal of Peace Research, p. 159-172, 2014
Chapters in book
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Introduction to peace and the sustainable development goals
Part of The Elgar Companion to Peace and the Sustainable Development Goals, p. 1-11, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026
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Global, state, and individual security in quantitative conflict research
Part of Transformations of Security Studies, p. 190-215, Routledge, 2016
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Regime Type and Political Transition in Civil War
Part of Routledge Handbook of Civil Wars, p. 145-156, Routledge, 2013
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Simulating the Effect of Peacekeeping Operations 2010-2035
Part of Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction, p. 325-332, Springer, 2011
Collections (editor)
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The Elgar Companion to Peace and the Sustainable Development Goals
Abbaye de Maredsous, 2026