Magnus Öberg
Universitetslektor i freds- och konfliktforskning vid Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning
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- 018-471 27 87
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- 070-167 90 86
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- Magnus.Oberg@pcr.uu.se
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- Gamla Torget 3, 1tr
753 20 Uppsala - Postadress:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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Kort presentation
My research interests include the causes and consequences of civil war, including the psychology of grievances, escalation processes, forced migration, and traumatization and social preferences. My research has appeared in e.g. Journal of Peace Research, European Journal of International Relations, and Conflict Management and Peace Science.
Forskning
Uppsala Conflict Data Program
The Moral Psychology of Grievances in Intrastate Conflict
The purpose of this project is to use recent advances in research on moral psychology to better specify the conditions in society that generate grievances sufficiently strong to risk armed conflict. It focuses specifically on the role of three previously overlooked moral dimensions that figure prominently in nationalist, religious and authoritarian mobilization.
Moral emotions rest on six foundations: care, fairness, liberty, loyalty, authority and sanctity – each can generate grievances. Yet research on grievances and conflict focus almost exclusively on the three former moral dimensions. We have some knowledge of why people are motivated to fight suffering (care), inequality (fairness), and oppression (liberty), but little knowledge of how grievances based on loyalty, authority and sanctity/purity affect conflict. This gap in our knowledge is on exactly the issues that figure most prominently in the narratives of nationalist, jihadist and authoritarian movements.
The first contribution of the project is to develop a better understanding of these neglected dimensions. The second contribution is to model how moral values condition the effects of social, political and economic factors on intrastate conflict. The thrid is to model how major societal transitions generates conflict over the moral order itself.
The Project is funded by the Swedish Research Council grant #2018-02108
Publikationer
Urval av publikationer
- Organized violence, 1989-2018 and peace agreements (2019)
- Understanding Peace Research (2011)
- Managing Intrastate Low-intensity Armed Conflict 1993-2004 (2009)
- Are ‘New Wars’ More Atrocious? (2009)
- Resource, governance and civil conflict (2008)
- Time to Go? (2006)
Senaste publikationer
- Organized violence 1989-2022, and the return of conflict between states (2023)
- Organized violence 1989-2021 and drone warfare (2022)
- War exposure, altruism and the recalibration of welfare tradeoffs towards threatening social categories (2021)
- Organized violence 1989-2020, with a special emphasis on Syria (2021)
- Organized violence, 1989-2019 (2020)
Alla publikationer
Artiklar
- Organized violence 1989-2022, and the return of conflict between states (2023)
- Organized violence 1989-2021 and drone warfare (2022)
- War exposure, altruism and the recalibration of welfare tradeoffs towards threatening social categories (2021)
- Organized violence 1989-2020, with a special emphasis on Syria (2021)
- Organized violence, 1989-2019 (2020)
- Organized violence, 1989-2018 and peace agreements (2019)
- Managing Intrastate Low-intensity Armed Conflict 1993-2004 (2009)
- Are ‘New Wars’ More Atrocious? (2009)
- Early conflict prevention in ethnic conflicts, 1990-1998 (2009)
- The Threat of Violence and Forced Migration (2007)
- Time to Go? (2006)
Böcker
- Understanding Peace Research (2011)
- Resource, governance and civil conflict (2008)
- The Onset of Ethnic War as a Bargaining Process (2002)
Kapitel
- Doing Empirical Peace Research (2011)
- Improving Information Gathering and Evaluation (2011)
- Gathering conflict information using news resources (2011)
- Conclusions (2008)
- Introduction (2008)
- Teaching Conflict Analysis: Suggestions on the Use of Media as a Resource for Conflict Analysis (2003)
- O ensino da análise de conflictos: Sugestões sobre a utilizacão dos media como recurso para a análise de conflitos (2003)
- La cooperación y el manejo del conflicto en las sociedades masivas (2001)
Konferenser
- Challenges from within (2011)
- Third Party Mediated Talks in Intrastate Low-Intensity Conflicts (2010)
- Quality of Government and Civil War (2010)
- Conflict Prevention in Ethnic Conflicts, 1990-1998 (2006)
- Nothing New Under the Sun (2006)
- Conflict Prevention in ethnic Conflicts 1990-1998. Paper presented at the 46th Annual International Studies Association Convention, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 1-5, 2005. (2005)
- Quality of Government and Civil War (2005)
- Intensity, Scope, and Duration (2003)
- Signaling and Self-Selection (2003)
- Challenges to State Authority (2002)
- Ethnic Challenges to State Authority 1990-1998 (2001)
- Why Rebel? (2000)
- Explaining Interethnic Cooperation (1998)
- Modeling Interethnic Relations (1998)