Nils Weidmann

Senior Researcher

Nils Weidmann left PRIO in 2012. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.

Background

I am a Marie Curie Post-doctoral Fellow at the CSCW. More information about my research and publications is available on my website.

PRIO Projects

Finished:

Reassessing the Role of Democracy: Political Institutions and Armed Conflict (PIAC)

Events

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:00-16:00 – GROW-Net Workshop
Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:00-17:00 – Facts and Myths about Civil Wars
Thu, 16 October 2008 – Transnationalism, Mechanisms and Civil War

PRIO started tracking events online in 2007. This listing is not complete. Past events may be mentioned in our news archive.

Publications

The following publications are specific to the Centre for the Study of Civil War. A more complete list may be available at www.prio.org.

All Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Article

Weidmann, Nils & Kristian Skrede Gleditsch (2012) Richardson in the Information Age: Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Data in International Studies, Annual Review of Political Science 15(1): 461–481.

Wucherpfenning, Julian; Andreas Wimmer; Nils Weidmann; Luc Girardin & Lars-Erik Cederman (2011) Politically Relevant Ethnic Groups across Space and Time: Introducing the GeoEPR Dataset, Conflict Management and Peace Science 28(5): 423–437.

Weidmann, Nils (2011) Violence “from above” or “from below”? The Role of Ethnicity in Bosnia’s Civil War, Journal of Politics 73(4): 1178–1190.

Johnson, Dominic D.P.; Lars-Erik Cederman & Nils Weidmann (2011) Fortune Favours the Bold: An Agent-Based Model Reveals Adaptive Advantages of Overconfidence in War, PLoS ONE 6(6).

Schutte, Sebastian & Nils Weidmann (2011) Diffusion Patterns of Violence in Civil Wars, Political Geography 30(3): 143–152.

Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede & Nils Weidmann (2010) Mapping and Measuring Country Shapes: The cshapes Package, R Journal 2(1): 18–24.

Weidmann, Nils & Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham (2010) Shared Space: Ethnic Groups, State Accommodation, and Localized Conflict, International Studies Quarterly 54(4): 1035–1054.

Weidmann, Nils & Michael D. Ward (2010) Predicting Conflict in Space and Time, Journal of Conflict Resolution 54(6): 883–901.

Rød, Jan Ketil; Lars-Erik Cederman & Nils Weidmann (2010) Representing Ethnic Groups in Space: A New Dataset, Journal of Peace Research 47(4): 491–499.

Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede; Doreen Kuse & Nils Weidmann (2010) The Geography of the International System: The CShapes Dataset, International Interactions 36(1): 86–106.

Conference Paper

Weidmann, Nils; Lars-Erik Cederman & Jan Ketil Rød (2007) Geo-Referencing of Ethnic Groups: Creating a New Dataset, presented at the 48th Annual Metting of the International Studies Association, Chicago, IL, 28 February–3 March.

Weidmann, Nils; Jan Ketil Rød & Lars-Erik Cederman (2006) Geo-Referencing of Ethnic Groups: Creating a New Dataset, presented at the Oslo GROW-net Workshop, Oslo, 10–11 February.