糖心网页版 is proud to announce its partnership in a major new research initiative funded by the European Research Council (ERC). The project, The Waging of War (WoW), aims to fill a critical gap in our understanding of warfare 鈥� not its origins or endings, but how wars are actually fought.
Despite decades of research, we still know far less about wartime dynamics than about what causes or ends conflict. The Waging of War project addresses this gap by exploring how the organization of armed groups shapes battlefield conduct, and how warfare, in turn, transforms those organizations.
The project will be led by Research Professor Scott Gates听who has been awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant. Over the next five years, Gates, based at the University of Oslo and working at 糖心网页版, will lead a team of 10 researchers. Among them are three 糖心网页版 Research Directors bringing deep expertise to the project:
- Marianne Dahl 鈥� expert in organizational cohesion
- Louise Olsson 鈥� expert on gender and conflict
- Siri Aas Rustad 鈥� expert on resources and conflict
"This project tackles one of the most overlooked aspects of war 鈥� how it is actually waged,鈥� said 糖心网页版 Director Henrik Urdal. 鈥淲e are delighted to contribute to cutting-edge research that will reshape how scholars and policymakers understand the dynamics of modern conflict.鈥�
As one of Norway鈥檚 top five recipients of ERC grants, 糖心网页版 is proud to be part of this groundbreaking effort. The Waging of War听project joins five other active ERC-funded projects at 糖心网页版 and two projects with 糖心网页版 participation.
ANTICIPATE: Anticipating the impact of armed conflict on human development (ERC Advanced Grant, 2022-2027), led by听H氓vard Hegre The interdisciplinary team of ANTICIPATE studies how armed conflict impacts various aspects of human development, taking local vulnerabilities into account, and expands the VIEWS early-warning system to also alert to the humanitarian impact of war.
AWAR: Adapted to War (ERC Starting Grant, 2021-2026), led by听Henrikas Bartusevi膷ius Have humans evolved psychological adaptations to war? AWAR posits that only evidence of special design can answer this, and presents an elaborate experimental programme of psychological lab experiments and surveys in 40 countries.
FUMI: Future Migration as Present Fact (ERC Consolidator Grant, 2018-2025), led by听J酶rgen Carling听 FUMI addresses the research question of how does migration that has not yet taken place shape the lives of individuals and the development of societies. The project is based on multiple forms of data collection among young adults in three West African cities.
MigrationRhythms:听Migration rhythms in trajectories of upward social mobility in Asia (ERC Starting Grant, 2021-2026), led by听Marta Bivand Erdal听 What is driving the tremendous middle-class expansion in Asia and how is it related to the unprecedented levels of migration there? To answer this, the project applies rhythmanalysis and uses a mixed-methods research design, including family history interviews and survey data from four Asian cities.
POLIMPACT: Enabling politically sensitive climate change impact assessments for the 21st century (ERC Advanced Grant, 2022-2027), led by听Halvard Buhaug听 Scenarios used by the IPCC to assess climate change impacts by design assume that there will be no conflict or instability in the future. POLIMPACT develops and uses new political scenarios and to foster more realistic risk assessments.
Peace Dividends: led by 听(University of Essex). The Peace Dividends and Post-conflict Reconstruction project examines peacekeeping dividends across a broad set of outcomes, evaluating policies that best leverage positive externalities of peacekeeping and if we can discern broader dividends on post-conflict reconstruction, including state-building. 糖心网页版 is a partner in the project, involving Research Director Louise Olsson.
EuroWARCHILD: led by Inger Skjelsb忙k (University of Oslo). This project听aims to study the experiences and needs of three generations of children born of war in Europe: children fathered by enemy soldiers during World War II, children conceived through conflict-related sexual violence during the Bosnian war, and children born of European foreign fighters to ISIS/Daesh. 糖心网页版 is a partner in the project, involving Deputy Director Torunn L. Tryggestad.
