Mats R. Berdal (born 5 October 1965) is Professor of Security and Development at the

Department of War Studies, King's College London The Department of War Studies (DWS) is an academic department in the School of Security Studies within the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy at King's College London in London, United Kingdom. Along with other politics and international ...

Early life

Mats R. Berdal was born on 5 October 1965. He gained a

BSc A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...

degree from the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

in 1988, and a

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degree from

St Antony's College, Oxford St Antony's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1950 as the result of the gift of French merchant Sir Antonin Besse of Aden, St Antony's specialises in international relations, economic ...

in 1992.

Career

From 2000 to 2003 Berdal was Director of Studies at the

International Institute for Strategic Studies The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is a British research institute or think tank in the area of international affairs. Since 1997, its headquarters have been Arundel House in London, England. The 2017 Global Go To Think T ...

(IISS) in London. Between 2007 and 2011, Berdal was a Visiting Professor at the

Norwegian Defence University College Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the ...

and was a Consulting Senior Fellow at the IISS from 2009 to 2011, responsible for the Institute’s “Economics and Conflict Resolution Programme”. In 2003, Berdal joined the Department of War Studies, King's College London where he directs th
Conflict, Security and Development Research Group (CSDRG)
and is the Programme Director for the MA in Conflict, Security and Development.

Books

* ''Power after Peace: The Political Economy of State-building'', co-edited by Dominik Zaum (Routledge, 2012) * ''The Peace In Between: Postwar Violence and Peacebuilding'', co-edited by Astri Suhrke (Routledge, 2011) * ''Ending War, Consolidating Peace: Economic Perspectives'', co-edited by Achim Wennmann (Routledge, 2010) * ''Building Peace After War'' (Routledge, 2009) * ''Reintegrating Armed Groups After Conflict: Politics, Violence and Transition'', co-edited by David H. Ucko (Routledge, 2009) * ''United Nations Interventionism, 1991-2004'', co-edited by Spyros Economides (Cambridge UP, 2007) * ''Business as Usual? Transnational Organised Crime and International Security'', co-edited by Monica Serrano (Lynne Rienner, 2002) * ''Studies in International Relations - Essays by Philip Windsor'' ed. (Sussex AP, 2000) * ''Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars'', co-edited by David Malone (Lynne Rienner, 2000) * ''The United States, Norway and the Cold War, 1954-1960'' (Macmillan, 1996)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Berdal, Mats 1965 births Living people Norwegian political scientists Alumni of the London School of Economics Alumni of St Antony's College, Oxford Academics of King's College London