Nils Petter Gleditsch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nils Petter Gleditsch

Norwegian academic

Date of Birth: 17-Jul-1942

Place of Birth: Surrey, England, United Kingdom

Profession: professor, political scientist, sociologist

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Nils Petter Gleditsch (born 17 July 1942 in Sutton, Surrey, Great Britain) is a Norwegian sociologist and political scientist.
He is Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).
In 2009, Nils Petter Gleditsch was awarded the annual Award for Outstanding Research by the Research Council of Norway.
He won the Norwegian Sociological Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.In 1982 he was convicted in Norway of a violation of the national security paragraphs of the penal code, in the Wilkes/Gleditsch trial.
His prison sentence was suspended.