Lars-Erik Cederman

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Lars-Erik Cederman (2016)

Lars-Erik Cederman (born May 27, 1963 in Storfors ) is a Swedish - Swiss political scientist and professor at the chair for international conflict research at the ETH Zurich . His research focuses on inequality between ethnic groups and civil war , power sharing, state building and nationalism .

Career

Cederman received an M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Uppsala University in 1988 and an MA in International Relations from Geneva University Institute for International Studies and Development in 1990. In 1994 he received his PhD in Political Science from Michigan University . He then held positions at the University of Michigan, the University Institute for International Studies and Development in Geneva, the University of Oxford , the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Harvard University . In 2003 he became a professor at the ETH Zurich .

He was director of the Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) and co-founder of the ETH Risk Center and the Competence Center for Coping with Crises in Socio-Economic Systems . Cederman also led the European Network for Conflict Studies (ENCoRe), a Horizon 2020 program.

Awards

In 1998, Cederman received the prestigious Furniss Award for his monographs Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve . This book is based on his dissertation, for which he received the 1995 Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award from the University of Michigan. The book Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War , which Cederman published together with Kristian Skrede Gleditsch and Halvard Buhaug in 2013, won four prizes: the International Studies Association Best Book Award, the American Political Science Association Conflict Processes Best Book Award, and the Conflict Research Society Book of the Year Award (co-winners) and the Network of European Peace Scientists medal for best publication in peace research .

Cederman also received the Heinz Eulau Award twice for the best article in the American Political Science Review : 2011 for the article Horizontal Inequalities and Ethno-Nationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison and 2001 for the article Back to Kant: Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace as a Collective Learning Process .

The GROWup project, a database where the data generated by Cederman's research group can be downloaded, was honored with the J. David Singer Data Innovation Award 2015.

In 2018 Cederman received the Marcel Benoist Prize for his work on political peace building and the inclusion of ethnic minorities. In 2019, Lars-Erik Cederman was accepted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the Economics and Empirical Social Sciences section .

Third-party funding

Cederman is and was head of various research projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS). In 2018 he received an Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) for a research project on nationalist state building and conflict.

Data

Since 2003, Cederman and his research group have been collecting data on ethnic groups and their participation in conflict processes. This data is summarized in the Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) Dataset Family. The database contains all politically relevant ethnic groups and provides information about their access to state power in all countries of the world from 1946 to 2017. There is also information about settlement areas of these groups with digital maps, their involvement in conflicts, linguistic and religious divisions and refugee flows. All data is freely accessible via GROWup - Geographical Research On War, Unified Platform.

Works (selection)

  • Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1997.
  • Back to Kant: Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace as a Macrohistorical Learning Process. In: American Political Science Review. Vol. 95, No. 1, 2001, p. 15.
  • with Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Halvard Buhaug: Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2013.
  • with Nils B. Weidmann, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch: Horizontal Inequalities and Ethnonationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison. In: American Political Science Review. Vol. 105, No. 3, 2011, pp. 478-495.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS)
  2. ↑ ETH Risk Center
  3. ^ Mershon Center for International Security Studies
  4. ^ A b American Political Science Association: Conflict Processes Section Award Recipients. Retrieved November 1, 2018 .
  5. ^ American Political Science Association: Heinz I. Eulau Award Previous Recipients. Retrieved November 1, 2018 .
  6. ^ Swiss National Science Foundation: Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize is awarded to Lars-Erik Cederman. Retrieved September 3, 2018 .
  7. ^ Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) Dataset Family
  8. ↑ growup - Geographical Research On War, Unified Platform
personal data
SURNAME Cederman, Lars-Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-Swiss political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Storfors