Rickard Söder is a Research Assistant with the SIPRI Climate Change and Risk Programme, primarily working within the Mistra Geopolitics Project.
Prior to joining SIPRI, Rickard wrote his graduate thesis about securitization of climate change and subsequent consequences for national security agencies. His specific fields of interest are the Anthropocene and critical security studies. Previously, Rickard helped the Uppsala Conflict Data Programme to map how conflict data is used in contemporary research. Additionally, he was an editor of Pax et Bellum Journal, a student-run academic journal in the field of Peace and Conflict Research.
Anthropocene, security studies, critical security studies
BA of Social Science in Peace and Conflict Studies – Uppsala University; MA of Social Science in Peace and Conflict Studies – Uppsala University