Sven Tägil, born 1930. Historian, professor of Empirical Conflict Research at the Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences and at the University of Lund, Sweden. Has published inter alia,"Studying Boundary Conflicts" (editor and co-author, 1977), "Regions in Upheaval" (editor and co-author, 1984), "Ethnicity and Nationbuilding in the Nordic World" (editor and co-author, 1995), "Aschehoug's Verdenshistorie/Bra Böckers Världshistoria" (1982 ff)/"Memoires du Monde" (1996), co-editor and co-author.