Nina von Uexkull
Researcher at Department of Peace and Conflict Research
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- +46 73 469 73 12
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- nina.von_uexkull@pcr.uu.se
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- Gamla Torget 3, 1tr
753 20 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Nina von Uexkull is Professor of International Politics at University of Konstanz in Germany and also is affiliated with the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. Her main research areas are the impacts of climate change on armed conflict and human security. She currently leads a VR-funded research project on climate change mitigation and protest and was awarded the 2022 Oscar Prize by Uppsala University.
Keywords
- climate change
- sub-saharan africa
- armed conflict
- natural hazards
- rural development
- climate policy
- food security

Publications
Selection of publications
Climate, flood, and attitudes toward violence: micro-level evidence from Karamoja, Uganda
Part of Regional Environmental Change, 2023
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Part of Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, p. 144-148, 2023
Humanitarian need drives multilateral disaster aid
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021
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A conditional model of local income shock and civil conflict
Part of Journal of Politics, p. 354-366, 2021
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Drought, Resilience, and Support for Violence: Household Survey Evidence from DR Congo
Part of Journal of Conflict Resolution, p. 1994-2021, 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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Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict
Part of Nature, p. 193-197, 2019
Climate Shocks and Humanitarian Crises: Which Countries Are Most at Risk?
Part of Foreign Affairs, 2018
Civil conflict sensitivity to growing-season drought
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 12391-12396, 2016
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Recent publications
The impacts of armed conflict on human development: A review of the literature
Part of World Development, 2025
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Part of Ambio, 2024
UN peacekeeping presence and local food security outcomes
Part of Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2024
Fueling protest?: Climate change mitigation, fuel prices and protest onset
Part of World Development, 2024
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Climate, flood, and attitudes toward violence: micro-level evidence from Karamoja, Uganda
Part of Regional Environmental Change, 2023
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All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Ambio, 2024
UN peacekeeping presence and local food security outcomes
Part of Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2024
Fueling protest?: Climate change mitigation, fuel prices and protest onset
Part of World Development, 2024
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Climate, flood, and attitudes toward violence: micro-level evidence from Karamoja, Uganda
Part of Regional Environmental Change, 2023
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Part of Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, p. 144-148, 2023
The Future of Environmental Peace and Conflict Research
Part of Environmental Politics, p. 1077-1103, 2023
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Projecting long-term armed conflict risk: An underappreciated field of inquiry?
Part of Global Environmental Change, 2022
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Disaster risk reduction and the limits of truisms: Improving the knowledge and practice interface
Part of International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2022
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Humanitarian need drives multilateral disaster aid
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021
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Security implications of climate change: A decade of scientific progress
Part of Journal of Peace Research, p. 3-17, 2021
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Part of Environmental Research Letters, 2021
- DOI for Projecting armed conflict risk in Africa towards 2050 along the SSP-RCP scenarios: a machine learning approach
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Why do some poor countries see armed conflict while others do not?: A dual sector approach
Part of World Development, 2021
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A conditional model of local income shock and civil conflict
Part of Journal of Politics, p. 354-366, 2021
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The need to integrate flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies
Part of Water Security, 2020
Synergies and Trade-Offs in Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals
Part of Sustainability, 2020
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Drought, Resilience, and Support for Violence: Household Survey Evidence from DR Congo
Part of Journal of Conflict Resolution, p. 1994-2021, 2020
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Directions for Research on Climate and Conflict
Part of Earth's Future, 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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Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict
Part of Nature, p. 193-197, 2019
Climate Shocks and Humanitarian Crises: Which Countries Are Most at Risk?
Part of Foreign Affairs, 2018
Issues and Actors in African Nonstate Conflicts: A New Data Set
Part of International Interactions, p. 953-968, 2018
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Civil conflict sensitivity to growing-season drought
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 12391-12396, 2016
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One effect to rule them all?: A comment on climate and conflict
Part of Climatic Change, p. 391-397, 2014
Sustained drought, vulnerability and civil conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
Part of Political Geography, p. 16-26, 2014
Climate triggers: Rainfall anomalies, vulnerability and communal conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
Part of Political Geography, p. 444-453, 2012
Articles, review/survey
The impacts of armed conflict on human development: A review of the literature
Part of World Development, 2025
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Chapters in book
Part of Conflict-Sensitive Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa, p. 161-176, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2014