Kristian Berg Harpviken

Kristian Berg Harpviken is the Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. He is the former Director at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Dr Harpviken has devoted his entire career to the study of peace and conflict, and his research interests include peace processes, peacebuilding, the dynamics of civil war, regional security, as well as migration and transnationalism.
Dr Harpviken is also well known for his competence on Afghanistan and the surrounding region, and he has conducted fieldwork in Angola, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Mozambique, and Pakistan.  In addition to his scholarly articles and book chapters, Harpviken is also author of Social Networks and Migration in Afghanistan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and (with Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh), A Rock Between Hard Places: Afghanistan as an Arena for Regional Insecurity (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2016).