BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:38c76e1aaebae6bb459d486bac1a8ca1 CATEGORIES:Lecture / Reading / Talk CREATED:20211120T121115 SUMMARY:"Inequality and Conflict" - A Talk by Prof. Lars-Erik Cederman LOCATION:Chanakya 1 Lecture Theatre DESCRIPTION:Lars-Erik Cederman (born 1963) is a Political Scientist and Professor of In ternational Conflict Research at ETH Zurich. His main fields of research ar e ethnic inequality and conflict, power-sharing, state formation and nation alism.\n\nCederman received an M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from the Univer sity of Uppsala in 1988 and an M.A. in International Relationsfrom the Grad uate Institute of International Studies in Geneva in 1990, before obtaining his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 1994. He held academic positions at the University of Michigan, the Graduate Instit ute of International Studies in Geneva, the University of Oxford, UCLA, and  Harvard University. He became professor at ETH Zurich in 2003.\n\nHe was t he director of the Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS)]  and a co-founder of the ETH Risk Center and the Competence Center for “Copi ng with Crises in Socio-Economic Systems.” Cederman also led the European N etwork of Conflict Research (ENCoRe), a Horizon 2020 program that brought t ogether researchers and policy makers for the purpose of analysing and pred icting the outbreak and trajectories of conflict processes around the world .\n\nIn 1998, Cederman received the Edgar S. Furniss Award for his monograp h “Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Di ssolve”. Cederman was twice granted the Heinz Eulau Award for the best arti cle in the American Political Science Review in 2011 for the co-authored ar ticle “Horizontal Inequalities and Ethno-Nationalist Civil War: A Global Co mparison”, and in 2001 for the article “Back to Kant: Reinterpreting the De mocratic Peace as a Collective Learning Process.” \n\nThe GROWup Project,wh ich serves as the main outlet for data generated by Cederman's research gro up, was honoured as the “best data contribution to the study of any and all forms of political conflict” by the American Political Science Association , which awarded it with the J. David Singer Data Innovation Award in 2015\n \nIn 2018, Cederman was awarded the Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize for his work on political peace-building and the inclusion of ethnic minorities .\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Lars-Erik Cederman (born 1963) is a Political Scientist and Professor of International Conflict Research at ETH Zurich. His main fields of research are ethnic inequality and conflict, power-sharing, state formation and nat ionalism.

Cederman received an M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from the University of Uppsala in 1988 and an M.A. in International Relationsfr om the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva in 1990, befor e obtaining his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan  in 1994. He held academic positions at the University of Michigan, the Grad uate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, the University of Oxford , UCLA, and Harvard University. He became professor at ETH Zurich in 2003.< br />
He was the director of the Center for Comparative and Internatio nal Studies (CIS)] and a co-founder of the ETH Risk Center and the Competen ce Center for “Coping with Crises in Socio-Economic Systems.” Cederman also led the European Network of Conflict Research (ENCoRe), a Horizon 2020 pro gram that brought together researchers and policy makers for the purpose of analysing and predicting the outbreak and trajectories of conflict process es around the world.

In 1998, Cederman received the Edgar S. Fur niss Award for his monograph “Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve”. Cederman was twice granted the Heinz Eu lau Award for the best article in the American Political Science Review in 2011 for the co-authored article “Horizontal Inequalities and Ethno-Nationa list Civil War: A Global Comparison”, and in 2001 for the article “Back to Kant: Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace as a Collective Learning Process. ”

The GROWup Project,which serves as the main outlet for data g enerated by Cederman's research group, was honoured as the “best data contr ibution to the study of any and all forms of political conflict” by the Ame rican Political Science Association, which awarded it with the J. David Sin ger Data Innovation Award in 2015

In 2018, Cederman was awarded the Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize for his work on political peace-buil ding and the inclusion of ethnic minorities.

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