Taylor Owen left PRIO in 2004. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
Taylor Owen is an External Associate at PRIO.
Research Interests
Human Security and Measurement. Using Geographic Information Systems to map and spatially analyse broadly defined human security data at the sub national level. Qualitative and quantitative issues in the measuremnt of complex systems including indicator selection, scale and statistical methods.
Humanitarian Intervention
Human Security and Definition. The theoretical defence of the concept in the literatures of political science and development studies.
Background
Languages spoken:
English, French, Spanish
Working experience:
Research Assistant at the Center for the Study of Civil War at the International Peace Research Institute. Funded by the Young Canadian Leaders for a Sustainable Future program at the International Institute for Sustainable Development and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs.
Liu Institute for Global Issues. University of British Columbia. Recent projects have included a report on the long term consequences of the use of carpet bombing and landmines in Cambodia, work on the Non-State Actors and Armed Conflict Project, and the Conflict and Development Project.
Masters research based at the Cambodian Development Research Institute, funded by a Canadian International Development Agency Innovative Graduate Research Award
Coast Information Team. ‘Wellbeing Assessment’ of the B.C. Central Coast Region.
International Development Research Center (IDRC). Evaluation Unit Intern
Education:
Current: DPhil Candidate, Oxford University
Yale University (2004)
Post-Graduate Fellow, Yale Genocide Studies Program
University of British Columbia (2001-2003)
Master of Arts Degree: Geography Department and Liu Institute for Global Issues
Bishops University (1996-2000)
Bachelor of Arts Degree: Geography, Philosophy
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
Owen, Taylor; Håvard Rue & Aldo Benini (2008) A Semi-Parametric Spatial Regression Approach to Post-War Human Security: Cambodia, 2002–2004, Asian Journal of Criminology 3(2): 139–158.
Owen, Taylor; Kathryn Furlong; Bethany Ann Lacina; Håvard Hegre & Nils Petter Gleditsch (2006) Conflicts over Shared Rivers: Resource Wars or Fuzzy Boundaries?, Political Geography 25(4): 361–382.
Slaymaker, Owen & Taylor Owen (2005) Toward Modeling Regionally Specific Human Security Using GIS: Case Study Cambodia, AMBIO Journal of the Human Environment 34(6): 445–449.
Owen, Taylor (2004) Human Security – Conflict, Critique and Concensus: Colloquium Remarks and a Proposal for a Threshold Based Definition, Security Dialogue 35(3): 373–389.
Non-refereed Journal Article
Owen, Taylor (2004) Challenges and opportunities for defining and measuring human security, Disarmament Forum 3: 15–24.
Owen, Taylor (2003) Measuring Human Security: Overcoming the Paradox, Human Security Bulletin 2(3).
Owen, Taylor (2003) Measuring Human Security: Overcoming the Paradox, Human Security Bulletin 2(3).
Owen, Taylor (2003) Security Mapping: A New View of Cambodian Insecurity, Cambodian Development Review 7(2): 9–16.